Example sentences of "given to the [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ITV had assumed ever since the third channel was given to the BBC after Pilkington ( as BBC2 ) , that the fourth channel would come to ITV , on the principle of ‘ fair-dos ’ and to preserve the balance of the duopoly . |
| 2 | He dismissed the sums of money paid to Inkatha as " insignificant " compared with the " vast sums of money " given to the ANC by foreign organizations and governments . |
| 3 | In 1203–4 , 1205 and 1242 these concessions were rewarded by the financial and military support given to the Plantagenets by Bordeaux and other towns against both Castilian and French attacks on the duchy . |
| 4 | The current exhibition is ‘ Hogarth and Piranesi : engravings and etchings ’ ( until 7 June ) which includes more than thirty engravings by Hogarth given to the Courtauld by Sir Robert Witt in 1933 and fourteen Piranesi etchings from the First Edition of the ‘ Carceri ’ series bequeathed to the Courtauld by Count Antoine Seilern in 1978 . |
| 5 | The text is divided into three parts , corresponding with the tri-partite formation of the collection : drawings assembled by Duke Albert von Sachsen-Teschen ( 1738–1822 ) , founder of the Albertina ; those purchased after his death ; and a group of drawings by the British artist Frank Brangwyn , given to the Albertina by Brangwyn in 1914 . |