Example sentences of "[was/were] given [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | the bank were prepared to pay for the business to be purchase only on condition that the home , that the family home was then sold and the proceeds were given straight to the bank , so with that eighty thousand pounds of equity in the property and the purchase fund for the business was about twenty five thousand pounds . |
| 2 | Apart from the system of Speenhamland , which was judged a disastrous failure in Britain , little thought was given again to the idea until the turn of this century when proposals for family allowances were being seriously discussed by a variety of left-wing political and feminist groups . |
| 3 | In 1681 , the Burgh of Selkirk , having chosen Sir Patrick Murray , who did not reside in that burgh , to be their commissioner to Parliament , a charge was given both to the burgh and to Sir Patrick for payment of the penalty imposed by the of Convention . |
| 4 | The building was given over to the university in 1810 , and the commode entered the Clanwilliam collection in 1831 . |
| 5 | Ironically , during the war years , the pitch was in better condition than it had ever been , as it was given over to the growing of carrots and potatoes . |
| 6 | So much of the station was given over to the passengers , who by 1863 numbered 2.1 million annually , that a special parcels depot was built next to the station proper in 1889 . |
| 7 | The front part of the house , being somewhat darkened by evergreens , was given over to the Staff Common Room , with the classrooms of the senior forms on the first floor . |
| 8 | Much of the speech was given over to the already familiar complaints about " destructive and separatist tendencies " and about " ferocious " attempts to discredit the central government , and to exhortations to political forces to unite behind perestroika . |
| 9 | The concentration was given instead to the trees and their mildewed trunks which imparted a solemnity and independence that , otherwise , was too shaded to be noticed . |
| 10 | The preoccupied merchant , whose attention is totally bound up with his commercial affairs and who consequently neglects his wife , is a stock figure of fabliau-type narrative ( compare , for instance , La Bourgoise d'Orliens , Le Cuvier , " The bathtub " , or L'Enfant qui fu remis au soleil , " The child who was given back to the sun " ) . |