Example sentences of "[was/were] given to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are a few works which I would have loved to have borrowed but which were simply too fragile to travel , and there were works which were prohibited by reasons of the terms under which they were given to a particular collection , the Barnes Foundation , for example . |
| 2 | Evaluation by pre-structured interviews Pre-structured telephone interviews were given to a random sample of students who had taken part in the undergraduate course in information retrieval . |
| 3 | The movies were ‘ for the millions ’ but they were given to the millions by showmen . |
| 4 | Strange twists were given to the normal body of human nature , revealing that such freak developments are potentially in all of us all the time . |
| 5 | Some , mainly those of war time subjects and taken in the 30 's and 40's were given to the National Portrait Gallery , but the best were retained by the V. and A. |
| 6 | No details were given to the National Union or to the constituencies involved , so much hard work had to be done and much recrimination endured before the party could settle down to the campaign . |
| 7 | The elections were conducted under a new electoral law passed by the NUP-controlled Assembly in October 1989 , under which additional seats were given to the larger parties , thus allowing them to gain the maximum number of seats with the minimum of votes . |
| 8 | Cabinet posts were given to the centre-right Haitian Christian Democratic Party ( PDCH ) and the right-wing Mobilization for National Development ( MDN ) party , as well as to Panpra , to strengthen Bazin 's claim that he headed a genuine coalition government . |
| 9 | Like Leonard , they were given to the literary life . |
| 10 | In the six largest industrial conurbations outside London , the metropolitan counties , education and social welfare were given to the second-tier authorities : elsewhere , in the more rural shire counties , the provision of education and welfare services was allocated to the counties . |
| 11 | TIPS on how to get the best all year round use from small greenhouses were given to the large audience attending a Bramshott , Liphook and District Horticultural Society evening . |
| 12 | Martin Burns of the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers ' Union alleged that catering facilities were being run down and warned that jobs would be lost if the in-house contract was given to a private firm . |
| 13 | A National Salvation Front ( NSF ) took power , its Council , represented by an Executive Bureau , assuming legislative authority , while executive responsibility was given to a new provisional Council of Ministers . |
| 14 | In a referendum on Aug. 19 popular approval was given to a new constitution drafted by the National Forum , a multiparty conference dominated by the opposition Comité des forces vives formed in mid-1991 . |
| 15 | But — and here 's the point — second billing was given to a young Austrian lad of 17 who had just won the title of Junior Mr Universe . |
| 16 | The Andrew Williamson Trust Lecture was given to a packed house by Sir Edward Heath , and the Robbins Lecture was given by Professor Sir Frederick Holliday , a former Deputy and Acting Principal of the University . |
| 17 | In addition to the emergency grants to individuals and small teams , the foundation has also given $500,000 to the Komarov Botanical Institute in St Petersburg for the preservation of one of the world 's largest herbaria , Some $80,000 was awarded to a popular science magazine Chemistry and Life and $4,000 was given to a special high school in Moscow that maintains high standards for teaching physics and mathematics . |
| 18 | Here again the central place was given to the Labour Party . |
| 19 | In order to make sure the dialogue had the authentic American tone , Mortimer had two American actors read it aloud and make comments before the script was given to the two leads . |
| 20 | Enthusiasts were less surprised that much of that investment went sour through design faults and technical failures , and grieved that so little thought was given to the simple , old fashioned matter of looking out , the deprivation of forward and backward view that had encouraged so much travel on the first generation of multiple units allegedly being due to the unions not liking the public seeing their men at work . |
| 21 | Perhaps the food was given to the poor . |
| 22 | 1 November ( All Saints ' Day ) is Pão-por-Deus ( ‘ Bread for God ’ ) when traditionally bread was given to the poor in the city to obtain a blessing on the souls of the departed . |
| 23 | No account of the situation beyond the bare notice of dissolution was given to the Chief Registrar and Wilson carefully abstained from registering his new organization in order to avoid the obligation of revealing financial and membership information which might be exploited by his opponents . |
| 24 | Similarly , the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science considered that if legal protection was given to the married woman 's earnings , she and her family would benefit : ‘ is it likely that a wife and mother will be less solicitous for the well-being … of her household ? |
| 25 | Edrophonium was given to the first 21 patients referred with non-cardiac chest pain . |
| 26 | And also I think because a lot of publicity erm was given to the actual arrest figures , and to the fact that they did n't come from the local area . |
| 27 | No major concessions were made ; in particular , no ground was given to the Liberal demand for proportional representation to give minor parties a more enhanced position in the country . |
| 28 | A big wad was given to the young man for him to rub on the affected area and Boltwood gave the rest of it to me . |
| 29 | Presumably that was why permission was given to the young lady to pose suggestively within the club 's portals . ’ |
| 30 | The Gulf crisis was well into the war phase before much thought was given to the postwar Middle East settlement . |