Example sentences of "[was/were] give [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The request was politely refused , although we were given directions to the Avila headquarters . |
| 2 | Friends of Allonby and Bere Forest were given byes to the semi finals . |
| 3 | The effects of this delegation were to give confidence to the Polytechnic 's internal processes of review and validation and to create a body of case law about their achievement in time for the revalidation of the Course in 1984–85 . |
| 4 | The sounds of the day were giving way to the sounds ofthe night . |
| 5 | They were giving guns to the witdoeke and the witdoeke were shooting . ’ |
| 6 | Far more seismic events were giving shocks to the Communist world . |
| 7 | In 1604 he complained that courtiers and officials in the House were giving information to the king about its proceedings , and he endeavoured to revive the unrepentant Apology of the Commons . |
| 8 | ITN was given access to the camps seven days ago after the leader of the Bosnian Serbs , Radovan Karadjic , challenged journalists to see for themselves that prisoners were well treated . |
| 9 | Another study of a mass murderer is The Killer Department ( Orion , April , £15.99 ) by Robert Cullen , who was given access to the police files on Russian psychopath Andrei Chikatilo , also the subject of Hunting the Devil : The Search for the Russian Ripper ( HarperCollins , £14.99 ) by Richard Lourie . |
| 10 | The intention behind the reforms was made clear in the famous words : ‘ [ the conception of the juvenile ] as primarily a little wage-earner , was to give way to the conception of him ‘ as primarily the workman and citizen in training ’ . |
| 11 | Later Miss Francis of Maidstone was to give evidence to the jury . |
| 12 | Its main purpose was to give legitimacy to the nine-year-old Crown Prince and thereby to prevent other claims to the Bhutanese throne . |
| 13 | He had no interest in the architecture of what was then merely a rather dull manor house , but kept on improving the estate , which was to give pleasure to the Welch family until the Second World War . |
| 14 | The disappearance of the rhynchosaurs , like the decline of the synapsid dicynodonts before them , seems to be associated with a decline of their food-plant ; this time , of the seed fern Dicroidium , which was giving way to the worldwide spread of the conifers . |
| 15 | Even in the army , the old stranglehold of reactionary officers was giving way to the increasing professionalism of soldiers drawn from varied social backgrounds . |
| 16 | But going gently was difficult , to say the least , for his active mind was giving way to the essential basic desire for a man to possess the woman he loved and who loved him , and his kisses and caresses grew more and more urgent . |
| 17 | It was also announced yesterday that Britain was giving £500,000 to the Urban Foundation in South Africa , a private group backed by South African businesses , to help finance homes for low-income black families . |
| 18 | The next stage was to carry out a proper evaluation of the message , in an attempt to determine what was giving rise to the ambiguity ( i.e. , what was missing from the message ) . |
| 19 | But even The Times was giving space to the possible consequences of a royal divorce . |
| 20 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State alluded to the problem when he was giving evidence to the Select Committee . |
| 21 | He was giving evidence to the Welsh Affairs Committee of MPs in the Commons on the role of the authority . |