Example sentences of "is given to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In considering this question , Rhodes relates it specifically to the case of the UK : ‘ prominence is given to manufacturing only because Britain , as most other advanced countries , has relied heavily on manufacturing activities as a source of net exports and employment ’ ( 1986 , p. 139 ) . |
| 2 | That , she tells me , is because the training is given to school leavers . |
| 3 | In this chapter , less emphasis is given to child than to infant mortality and , also , to morbidity , partly because the influence of biological factors becomes considerably weaker during childhood and , partly because the number of observed deaths decreases by age so rapidly that inferences drawn from survey statistics become less significant and the mortality figures more erratic due to increasing sampling errors . |
| 4 | Importance is given to teeth-grinding , interpreted in a negative way , together with speaking , groaning or snoring while dreaming . |
| 5 | The IBA must ensure that a sufficient amount of time in the programmes is given to news and news features and that all news given in the programmes … is presented with due accuracy and impartiality . |
| 6 | Permission to prospect for oil and gas in blocks of the seabed in UK waters is given to oil companies that bid under an annual licensing round to the Government . |
| 7 | At that point special protection is given to business tenants under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 and Part II of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 as amended by part I of the Law of property Act 1969 . |
| 8 | The chapter on pain assessment , for example , concentrates mainly on the physical aspects of care , detailing much of the doctor 's role as it exists in this country , and only one page is given to health assessment — arguably the most important area for nurses in the UK . |
| 9 | In the UK , a good deal of space is given to book reviews in the ‘ serious ’ daily and Sunday newspapers and in weeklies such as Spectator and New statesman . |
| 10 | Action will be taken to ensure that the widest possible publicity is given to seat belt legislation . |
| 11 | Much credit for this transformation is given to team manager Barry Perkins , a genial and bespectacled Cockney who commutes each week between Richmond and the smoke . |
| 12 | In another sense , however , they are part of the same package for they are part of government attempts to bring employment and labour together irrespective of whether the aid is given to industry or to labour . |
| 13 | The NCLE survey discussed earlier in this volume suggests that little prominence is given to linguistics topics such as ‘ Description of Language ’ , ‘ Language Variation ’ and ‘ Language and Disadvantage ’ , with only four or five of the 21 institutions reporting these in their courses . |