Example sentences of "[det] [vb pp] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term ‘ annunciation ‘ ( announcement ) is that given to the message presented by the angel Gabriel to the Blessed Virgin Mary that she would in due time be delivered of the Son of God , and the festival commemorating this — Lady Day — has the date 25 March . |
| 2 | The party 's total vote was just half that given to the Communists in a similar number of boroughs . |
| 3 | It is significant that they were known as Tarianas , a title closely resembling that given to the tribes of Turania in Turkistan who were associated with the Serpent , the Taryans . |
| 4 | Shapton Limited and Lombard Holdings Limited have each disclosed to the Company a notifiable interest in accordance with the Companies Act 1990 derived from their respective shares registered in the name of Shuttleway . |
| 5 | Some of these visitors strolled along the promenade ; a few penetrated to the beach ; none ventured on to the cliffs . |
| 6 | I mean if the evaluation suggests that something or other needs changing , then you want people to be already so interested in the evaluation and perhaps looking for useful things to come out of it , that they are already half committed to the changes . |
| 7 | Being black has always been in my subconscious , but I 've tried never to let this come to the fore . |
| 8 | He had brought out his lists , four sheets , and had got them half fixed to the door when Allan knocked him aside and tore them down and then spent an hour , with James 's help , going down the names and telling the young men to their faces whether or not they were listed . |
| 9 | Has this led to the existence of " overseas dialects " of the Caribbean Creoles , in the same way that migration has led to the American , Canadian , Australian and other overseas dialects of English ? |
| 10 | As they were phased out of first line units Londons went mostly to 4 Coastal Operational Training Unit , but a few passed to the Flying-Boat Training Squadron ( FBTS ) at Stranraer . |
| 11 | The governor , who had only half listened to the senators response , failed to notice the barb in the remark . |
| 12 | the main explanation why so long to reply is very much geared to the fact that we are in the hands of the Electricity Board for everything below the junction box on the street lighted column , if the bolt is in the cable , or a cable junction or in a circuit we are in the hands in another organization totally , who will have their own timescales and priority to responses . |
| 13 | Now the one thing that I think is important is that one can not look at the problems of any given society in the world in isolation from the rest of the world as a whole , and in particular , in the case of underdeveloped countries , their problems are very much linked to the situations that take place in the developed countries . |
| 14 | In the two branches studied , these tended to the left of the Party . |
| 15 | I would also be interested to know what other paths they had walked and what their perceptions were of these compared to the Staffordshire Way . |
| 16 | He recognised the vigour that these imparted to the works of Rubens and Veronese . |
| 17 | Some might say that compared to the prices paid for works of art £180,000 is a modest sum for a unique creature — the oldest reptile on earth . |
| 18 | What do you think of that compared to the numbers ? |
| 19 | Perhaps we ought to have a service at the Minster , or er something to you know , er remember the service of many given to the parish council over a hundred years , and er and it 's something simple , and I think it would be quite nice to er to do something like that . |
| 20 | From 1917 onwards , many referred to the need for proportional representation and some charged the Labour Party with fomenting class warfare through its parliamentary and municipal campaigns . |
| 21 | There was no consideration at all given to the possibility of disincentives operating in the informal social context , and a total neglect of social and economic incentives of all kinds . |
| 22 | Tactical ideas and formations , set-piece plays , team weaknesses are all exposed to the globe beforehand thanks to satellite television and video cassettes , leaving little room for surprises . |
| 23 | The latter were all addressed to the pope or to foreign prelates . |
| 24 | It is not surprising that there were many attracted to the idea that scientific knowledge was the only true kind , or at least that reasoning like that used in the sciences could solve all human problems . |
| 25 | The armadillos are all confined to the Americas . |
| 26 | Other factors included wages , rents and the uniform business rate , which all added to the company 's overheads , and the recession in the retail trade , which forced the company to slash prices to generate demand . |
| 27 | Nor have many responded to the offer of the new British National ( Overseas ) passport which was introduced to overcome problems of national status derived from China 's insistence that all ‘ Chinese compatriots ’ in Hong Kong are Chinese nationals . |
| 28 | Indeed , many warmed to the food theme , spotting the patio tomato ‘ totem ’ in another container and the pale terracotta bowls of pungent curry plant , variegated sage and thyme as well as fennel , rosemary and silver thyme in the borders . |
| 29 | Income will start to rise as a result of this additional spending , but leakages will rise also because taxation , saving , and imports are all related to the level of national income . |
| 30 | Dave Ashton and David Field in their book Young Workers ( 1976 ) constructed a model by which school careers and labour market destinations were all related to the occupation of the young person 's father . |