Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] give to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The entire box office receipts were normally given to the lucky artiste . |
| 2 | Additional responsibilities were also given to the two other ministers of state : Maneka Gandhi was given the portfolio of Programme Implementation and M. G. K. Menon given Human Resource Development . |
| 3 | Five seats were also given to the Ittehad-i-Islami , a Saudi-backed fundamentalist Wahhabi Sunni group led by Abdur Rab Rasool Sayyaf , whose fighters had been involved in fierce street battles with Wahdat in Kabul on June 2-6 . |
| 4 | His financial skills were freely given to the work of the church and the warmth of his welcome to visitors and his genuine interest in people made him a host of friends . |
| 5 | The Cutty Sark was eventually given to the Cutty Sark Society in 1953 and she was restored to look just as she did during her sailing days . |
| 6 | Although the seventeenth century saw the beginning of the end of magic in western society , some credence was still given to the supposed therapeutic properties of certain precious substances . |
| 7 | There a single-party State was able to enforce decisions although , even as the use of Russian spread , equal attention was also given to the development of local languages . |
| 8 | Financial support was also given to the Royal Academy of Music 's ‘ Communication through Music ’ course on which students at the Academy perform in hospitals , hospices and homes for the elderly , thereby gaining a deeper awareness of the therapeutic and rehabilitative powers of music . |
| 9 | The idea was originally given to the composer 's sometime partner , Tim Rice , pre-Evita ; he and Lloyd Webber made an early , unsuccessful stab at it . |
| 10 | In the stations themselves greater attention was now given to the problems of circulation , the control , movement , and organization of great numbers of people . |
| 11 | Consideration was then given to the requirements of the formal systems model , eg the relationships between the system components ( taken in this case to be information flows ) , the resources needed for the system to operate , and how the system would be regulated and controlled . |
| 12 | Another great painting , ‘ La Femme au Chapeau ’ of 1905 , was recently given to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art with other pictures by Matisse , but the bequest prohibited this picture from travelling . |