Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] were given to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Meyer remained Minister of Communications , his responsibilities for Defence were given to a Gene Louw , hitherto Home Affairs Minister , who was also named as Minister of Public Works . |
| 2 | A third of all prescriptions for cimetidine were given to patients with unproven peptic ulceration , and furthermore , half of these had used the drug for more than five years . |
| 3 | In 1391 the castle of St Briavels and the Forest of Dean were given to Thomas , Duke of Gloucester to hold in tail male , and in 1398 the forest of Rutland to Edward , Duke of Albermarle : by 1405 the Somerset forests of Neroche , Exmoor , Mendip and the park of North Petherton had been granted away to the Earl of March . |
| 4 | Rumoured to have been locked in the safe at KISS FM when a couple of acetates were given to the station in advance of release , this is an ultra-obvious semi-Italio belter which should keep floors jumping . |
| 5 | New powers for speedy land assembly , for plan making and the control of development were given to local authorities , consummated subsequently in the Town and Country Planning Act . |
| 6 | Following an intensive campaign by the World Health Organization , when mass injections of penicillin were given to everyone at risk , this form of syphilis has been eradicated in Yugoslavia . |
| 7 | Shopping vouchers of £50 were given to their mothers . |
| 8 | Further formal controls over clinicians were given to managers , but in addition the impersonal incentives of the market would , it was hoped , make doctors more cost-conscious and efficient . |
| 9 | Since it preferred to sulk in its residences in the Faubourg Saint-Germain , it was inevitable that the posts at court were given to descendants of the Imperial nobility , either civil or military . |