Example sentences of "[noun sg] given [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The victory of Roman imperialism can in its turn be described as the result of four factors : the new direction given by Rome to the social — that is the military — forces of old Italy ; the utter inability of any Hellenistic army to match the Romans in the field ; the painful erosion of Celtic civilization and its appendages which went on for centuries and ultimately enabled the Romans to control the resources of western Europe from the Atlantic to the Danubian regions ; and finally the cooperation of Greek intellectuals with Italian politicians and writers in creating a new bilingual culture which gave sense to life under Roman rule . |
| 2 | would not be applicable in the law of suretyship generally and is an implicit recognition of the special protection given by equity to married women who provide security in support of their husband 's debts . |
| 3 | The support given by knitters to the events which are organised is very good . |
| 4 | In advancing legal arguments and in taking direct political action those active in the peace movement can be reinforced by the knowledge that the hesitant political support given by others to the policies of nuclear deterrence is underpinned only by the belief that their leaders genuinely desire peace and disarmament . |
| 5 | The ULS measured the financial support given by MAFF to individual farms in its 12 study areas against the degree of natural handicap established by their own Hills and Uplands land classification . |
| 6 | The political and military support given by Egypt to the United States-led coalition in the Gulf war was regarded as an important factor in the Paris Club debt relief , which supplemented write-offs of Egyptian debt by the United States and the Gulf Co-operation Council countries in October 1990 [ see p. 37795 ] . |
| 7 | It requires support given by governments to be directed less at propping up declining industries , and more at helping the unemployed to rejoin the workforce . |
| 8 | the coverage given by expansion to the 1st level ( definition ) ; |
| 9 | ’ 1st Level ’ refers to the coverage given by expansion to the first level , expressed as a percentage ( as described above ) . |
| 10 | ’ 2nd Level ’ refers to the coverage given by expansion to the second level , also expressed as a percentage . |
| 11 | Brucan 's additional claim that public opinion was being formed by a one-time Ceausescu collaborator was taken to be a reference to one of the NSF 's most public critics , Octavian Paler , editor of the newspaper Romania Libera , who had published an interview given by Brucan to the Independent which quoted him as saying that only intellectuals were fit to run the country . |
| 12 | In relation to child care , for example , she documents how assistance given by mothers to daughters typically is more extensive than between sisters . |
| 13 | It is not , perhaps , surprising that the solution of the Conservative lawyers in their pamphlet , Rough Justice , to the same problem of unmet legal need was the introduction of subsidies for practitioners operating privately in deprived areas and an extension of the assistance given by lawyers to voluntary advice agencies . |
| 14 | ( End of Persian control : Thuc. i. 110 , help given without reprisals to Athenian refugees from Egypt ; end of monarchy : Σ Pind . |
| 15 | Yet the past five-ten years have been remarkable for the amount of attention given in America to such principles . |
| 16 | Indeed , a major theme which emerged at this time was the lack of attention given by employers to the age structure of their work-forces and the consequent lack of encouragement to older people to see themselves as potentially economically viable . |
| 17 | The single most important reason for taking a temporary job given by respondents to the LFS was that a permanent job was not available [ see Table 2.10 ] . |
| 18 | The bow was the pre-eminent weapon given by Jibrail to Adam in Paradise . |
| 19 | The formal title given to back to nursing courses is ‘ return to practice programme ’ or ‘ re-entry programme ’ as advised by the UKCC . |
| 20 | One may tentatively suggest that at least one English fabliau version of the tale given by Chaucer to the Shipman stood between a French source and Chaucer . |
| 21 | This DC is the authority given by LIFESPAN to the user to allow him to update the new package . |
| 22 | honourable friends join me in condemning the non-sensible advice given by liberty to truanting school children that they should defy police and is n't it absolutely typical that the party opposite tend to support them . |
| 23 | Chatto has been researching the amount of space given by newspapers to its paperback originals , which it introduced last year . |
| 24 | ( A fragment of the manuscript of A Portrait of the Artist given by Joyce to Harriet Weaver . ) |
| 25 | ‘ unless a defendant is assured that information given in response to an order for disclosure can not and thus will not be used as evidence at his trial for the offences charged , he may well be entitled to refuse to supply the information on the ground that it would tend to incriminate him . |
| 26 | Consequently , it was possible for them ( but not for Christians , because they rejected pantheism ) to speak of a world-soul that could measure time , and this was , in fact , the answer given by Plotinus to Aristotle 's question . |
| 27 | This death of Solomon reissues would be understandable if it were not for treatment given by EMI to other pianists . |
| 28 | In particular , free from the risk of takeover or bankruptcy , staff were able to pursue their own working practices ; thus ‘ for the government , the power given by unions to public ownership is part of the problem of nationalization ’ ( Kay et al . , |
| 29 | She will also want to welcome the fact given in answer to the hon. Member for Peckham ( Ms. Harman ) that the percentage improvement among the poorest groups — what the sociologists call groups 4 and 5 — has been greater than that among the higher groups , so the gap is therefore narrowing . |