Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The codes used are summarised in Fig 11.13 ; internal in this instance referred to any activity within the EPH system model , and external to those of the wider system of interest or surrounding environment , eg the Department headquarters , Area Offices etc . |
| 2 | The presidents agreed on a number of points relating to the 10-year-old civil war in El Salvador and the sanctuary given to Nicaraguan contra rebels in Honduras . |
| 3 | On May 16 the Appeal Court halved the five-year prison sentence given to former Guinness chairman Ernest Saunders in August 1990 for " massive fraud " in connection with the Distillers Company takeover bid [ see p. 37662 ] . |
| 4 | IF so many countries can pledge troops to help relieve the crisis in Somalia , why is Britain 's support limited to two planes ? |
| 5 | At Durham Priory , for example , less than half of the income assigned to each office in the monastery was devoted to the activity for which the office had been created ; the rest was absorbed in management costs ( 209 , p.255 ) . |
| 6 | Individuals are not accorded the protection given to third States to treaties of having to assent in writing to the imposition of burdens upon them . |
| 7 | In our patients , those with proven neural and muscular pathology conformed to these patterns of motor activity . |
| 8 | Support given to young people from Lothian for national arts courses |
| 9 | Groups are capable of great creativity , as in language and folksong , and even in the stimulus and support given to individual writers and thinkers . |
| 10 | Thirdly , it seems that both groups of critics would want to see greater support given to natural families , in general , to help them to care for their children more effectively and to prevent the need for substitute care arising . |
| 11 | Todd linked family structure to ideology and politics , and indeed sought to account both for types of regime and for the electoral support given to particular types of party by an area 's dominant family structure . |
| 12 | Lothian Region support given to National Festivals & Companies , leading to workshops and visits to schools by major companies |
| 13 | Although the accident estimate could logically be independent of the actual exemplar of the junction that a subject was shown it is clear that it is in fact strongly related to the risk rating given to particular exemplars . |
| 14 | Even if there were some unique experience given to all observers in perception , there still remain some major objections to the inductivist assumption concerning observations . |
| 15 | As far as the central grant is concerned , it has developed a technique that enables it to cut the money given to some authorities which it considers to be over-spenders by an amount equal to or more than any expenditure increase . |
| 16 | However , because it groups entries alphabtically according to the areas of responsibility given to particular topic editors , it can be slightly confusing . |
| 17 | Government grant is distributed through a mechanism which is now called the standard spending assessment , an awful word , or phrase , but it is absolutely vital , and if you look at the standard spending assessment given to this county the government is saying we ought to be able to provide all the services for a total cost of eight hundred and seventy nine pounds per charge payer . |
| 18 | The buffer conditions were then modified for enzymatic digestion , nuclease added to all reactions except the control , and the digestions allowed to proceed in a final volume of 25 µl . |
| 19 | Nor is the general difficulty confined to final stop deletion . |
| 20 | Unions in Japan have had a major influence on the way the labour market is structured , but this reflects principally the fact that union membership is in large part confined to regular workers in large firms . |
| 21 | Changes in the aid given to poor petitioners in 1914 , together with the effects of World War I , produced an increase in the divorce rate after 1918 , but it was not until 1946 that legal aid became freely available and therefore not until 1951 that divorce petitions began to come from a cross section of the population . |
| 22 | True , there was Crown prince Tupouto'a waiting in the wings , but he spent little time in Tonga and had a reputation as a playboy — a Farouk-like figure given to white suits and expensive lady friends . |
| 23 | In the Champion Hurdle , William Hill cut Flown to 9-2 favourite from 5-1 , pushing out Coulton to 11-2 . |
| 24 | Any cell exposed to this situation experiences a powerful rise in its energy level . |
| 25 | Indeed a major element of constitutional law concerns ways and means of preventing the abuse of the force given to lawful authorities for the purpose of enforcing the law . |
| 26 | This has the effect of increasing the relative weight given to nearer cash flows and hence of reducing duration . |
| 27 | The order or weight given to one requirement over another will prejudice the solution . |
| 28 | They certainly provide no good evidence for reducing the weight given to standardised mortality ratios in the formula and there is no justification for encouraging the use of the national formula for subregional allocation . |
| 29 | The most interesting aspect of the trace representation is the use of excitatory and inhibitory links to control dynamically the relative weight given to different kinds of evidence . |
| 30 | Rodin in his will indeed bequeathed to the French nation the right to make bronze casts from his plaster models , a right that a National Assembly vote limited to 12 casts per model . |