Example sentences of "[noun sg] was given to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1946 general effect was given to the recommendations of the Beveridge Report , Aneurin Bevan tamed the recalcitrant self-interest of the doctors , and the main outlines of the Welfare State were definitively drawn . |
| 2 | Although compensation was given to the deportees for possessions stolen from them during the journey , no compensation was offered to the schoolchildren who were forced by internment to leave school or job training to which , in most cases , they were unable to return . |
| 3 | Labour 's weak bargaining position , combined with the speed with which new industrial centres such as the Donets basin of the Ukraine were developed and older cities such as St Petersburg expanded , ensured that little attention was given to the needs of the work-force . |
| 4 | Similar , though slightly more muted , approval was given to the propositions on Christian education , discussed from 17 to 19 November , and on the latter date the Council turned its attention briefly to recommendations to simplify marriage legislation and end discrimination against non-Catholic partners in mixed marriages . |
| 5 | The Defence Secretary , Dick Cheney , said yesterday that no formal pledge was given to the rebels but US troops were moved into place on both roads on Tuesday morning , ready to intervene if Washington decided that they should . |
| 6 | Tremendous publicity was given to the circumstances in which this movie had been made and to the way in which the director had shot some forty reels ; ‘ the eight-hour day for movie fans has not yet dawned ’ was the thankful comment of Robert Sherwood , but few critics doubted that the film conveyed much of the anger , ugliness , and brutality of the novel . |
| 7 | The Crown 's powers of inclosure were greatly limited , and statutory definition was given to the commoners ' rights , which they could freely exercise under the supervision of the verderers : the Court of Verderers was reconstituted for this purpose . |
| 8 | In the meantime consideration was given to the problems of control , particularly given the length of Italy 's seaboard . |
| 9 | ( b ) Holding outsalaried partners In the United Bank of Kuwait case no particular consideration was given to the consequences of the undertaking having been given by a salaried partner . |
| 10 | Little thought was given to the conditions in which people who had no desire to leave the country of their birth had to live . |
| 11 | While this form of reassurance was given to the residents , Michael Killeen of the IDA attacked the local community activists , claiming that the opposition to Raybestos and Schering Plough was causing ‘ incalculable damage ’ to the IDA 's attempts to promote Ireland as a location for industrial development abroad . |
| 12 | That privilege was given to the women a year ago after one of their colleagues Anna McGurk was murdered in the more remote Castlemeads car park . |
| 13 | The American government incidentally gained not only from a deliberate blurring of history but also from a welcome excuse to refuse to pay war reparations to Vietnam whilst any credence was given to the allegations that prisoners still remained . |
| 14 | Final impetus was given to the talks by the presence of President Alfredo Cristiani in New York on Dec. 28-31 at the personal invitation of Pérez de Cuéllar , who gave assurances that the FMLN had given " confidential promises " regarding the peace process . |