Example sentences of "[adv] give to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The materials used , for example , merit attention rarely given to paintings in the West whose science is intended to create an illusion . |
| 2 | ‘ In the administration of government in this country the functions which are given to ministers ( and constitutionally properly given to ministers because they are constitutionally responsible ) are functions so multifarious that no minister could ever personally attend to them . |
| 3 | This is regarded as a really good job showing that there are no real job opportunities for blacks as jobs are really only given to whites because of the racial prejudice in Maycomb . |
| 4 | There is no natural landing place , the seas are fierce , and permission to land is only given to groups who are have a suitable boat , and who are well provisioned , capable , and with a proven interest in an outdoor topic . |
| 5 | Individuals usually more widely scattered over shore than Golden Plovers , and less given to manoeuvres in close flocks . |
| 6 | Less given to aerobatics than Bar-tailed Godwit . |
| 7 | He would now and then play the most egregious fool in his carriage and was so much given to jesters , players and childish sports , to make himself merry , that anybody who saw his gravity on the one part and his folly and lightness on the other , would surely say that there were two distinct persons in him . |
| 8 | He was also much given to quotations and he quoted now . |
| 9 | I had wondered once whether that was the reason my father had married her , but that was before I had learned that men are not much given to acts of altruism , and certainly not in sexual matters . |
| 10 | Much given to allusions and cryptic references , all made , for good measure , in a Macedonian dialect . ’ |
| 11 | He was much given to questions and hilarity . |
| 12 | A broken man , pale and much given to outbursts of weeping , a man trembling on the threshold of self-murder . |
| 13 | Greater weight is generally given to propositions which have stood the test of time . |
| 14 | But the reality is that the court has not given to doctors any right that they did not previously have : it has merely declined to deprive them of a power which it is for them alone to exercise . |
| 15 | Elevenses were not given to clerks then . |
| 16 | Riddell , who was a modest man , not given to cakes or ale , had , despite his shrill protests , suffered the same fate . |
| 17 | He could imagine its reception in England , particularly from Clarissa , who was intrinsically a very sensible girl , not given to ideas of fantasy . |
| 18 | HAVE noticed that any old grandad who can prop himself up on a spade can dig better than I can , and it does seem that although women have virtues not given to men , men also have their gifts . |
| 19 | Had it been a ploy it would have been a rewarding one , but Vanessa was not given to ploys . |
| 20 | This is an extra allowance , worth £1,720 a year at current rates , specially given to widows to assist them over the first difficult period . |
| 21 | I would humbly propose that the contemporary artist be laid to rest along with his works : a royal burial of the kind once given to emperors in eastern lands , whose slaves and worldly possessions accompanied them on their final journey into the unknown . |
| 22 | The dose of 25 µg thrice daily is slightly lower than that usually given to patients with the dumping syndrome , or neuroendocrine tumours . |
| 23 | Most attention is usually given to correlations of the same component of velocity at points separated in a direction either parallel to that velocity component ( Fig. 19.4(b) ) or perpendicular to it ( Fig. 19.4(c) ) . |
| 24 | Some priority is usually given to MdBs seeking reelection . |
| 25 | Visitors were expected to pay in advance but credit was always given to favourites like Modigliani and Leon Trotsky the Russian revolutionary . |
| 26 | She is sorely missed for the loyal support she always gave to Classes and Events and the Kent Team is not quite the same without her … but our loss is the West Country 's gain and we hope to meet up with Janet at the Easter Course in Bath . |
| 27 | Questionnaires were also given to students to allow individual opinions to be expressed outside of the group discussions . |
| 28 | Courses are also given to students reading for the degree in Human Sciences , and for a number of postgraduate degrees in area studies . |
| 29 | The task of converting less familiar fractions to decimals with the aid of a calculator was also given to pupils . |
| 30 | Consideration was also given to ways of ensuring that the archaeological and historical interests of the Park are fully safeguarded . |