Example sentences of "the [noun sg] give to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this context the panel have been instructed to consider each individual regional station 's commitment to Irish music and the exposure given to new , untried bands . |
| 2 | The presidents agreed on a number of points relating to the 10-year-old civil war in El Salvador and the sanctuary given to Nicaraguan contra rebels in Honduras . |
| 3 | They certainly provide no good evidence for reducing the weight given to standardised mortality ratios in the formula and there is no justification for encouraging the use of the national formula for subregional allocation . |
| 4 | Changes in the aid given to poor petitioners in 1914 , together with the effects of World War I , produced an increase in the divorce rate after 1918 , but it was not until 1946 that legal aid became freely available and therefore not until 1951 that divorce petitions began to come from a cross section of the population . |
| 5 | Indeed a major element of constitutional law concerns ways and means of preventing the abuse of the force given to lawful authorities for the purpose of enforcing the law . |
| 6 | Mannheim recognized that the prominence given to generational differences , and the likelihood that organized generational groups would be formed , depended upon many other social conditions . |
| 7 | The extent of circulation and the prominence given to defamatory remarks are factors which will influence the final award : a libel in the national press comes more expensive than the same libel in a small local newspaper . |
| 8 | In the name of tidiness and uniformity , the Criminal Law Revision Committee is proposing to introduce defences which can only undermine the protection which the law gives to under-age girls . |
| 9 | It has obliged local authorities to sell off council houses and has reduced the importance given to municipal housing . |
| 10 | Though most usually the name given to kindly domestic spirits , there are a few exceptions . |
| 11 | This is the name given to integrated computer hardware and software which allows for the easy production in the office of complex and elaborate documents and reports . |
| 12 | That is the name given to hedgehog-shaped pencil holders made by Barlaston First School pupils . |
| 13 | ‘ Munchausen 's syndrome ’ is the name given to attention-seeking patients who feign illness or deliberately fabricate symptoms . |
| 14 | In America , public affairs is the name given to public relations dealing with the public life of the nation . |
| 15 | According to a CCETSW report , Sexuality , Young People and Care , the need for SSDs to develop ‘ positive contexts for training , policy and development ’ is essential in the light of HIV and heterosexism — the name given to oppressive attitudes which see heterosexuality as the most valid form of sexual expression . |
| 16 | This is the name given to rapid loss of the TL signal from that part of the glow curve normally thought to be stable . |
| 17 | Much of this was then recycled to MPs through careful abridgement of the evidence given to parliamentary committees . |
| 18 | It is in the aggregate that the damage may assume serious proportions , hence the emphasis given to preventive work in compliance systems . |
| 19 | I have never had any qualms about refusing to fund a cause I do not support , but am glad to have the chance to give to good causes I might otherwise have missed . |
| 20 | Johnson , ( 1985 , pp. 428 , 432 ) feels ‘ that the priority given to effective and efficient management by the civil service will endure ’ ; and Greenaway ( 1987 , p. 53 ) sees it as ‘ inconceivable … that recent developments in these areas will simply be reversed following a change of Government ’ . |
| 21 | Romania 's once-thriving agriculture sector , collectivized under the Communist regime , had been starved of resources for development , because of the priority given to large-scale industrialization : Iliescu revealed that official agricultural production statistics had been grossly exaggerated . |
| 22 | We have already seen how authority within companies is deemed legitimate when it is based on educational achievement and length of service ; attitudes towards public sector bureaucrats who occupy high office are likewise framed by the priority given to individual merit displayed by educational status . |
| 23 | In so far as this book is a plea for some measure of reform in the priority given to sexual considerations in social work cases , public attitudes must be seen as creating obstacles . |
| 24 | Examples would be recruitment strategies ( for example , the priority given to local mature entries ) , aspects of teaching methods ( for example , the development of distance learning ) , or response to local or national surveys ( for example , of courses likely to meet training needs ) . |
| 25 | PICK a good story and just tell it , ’ is the advice given to aspiring scientists by Dr Edward O. Wilson . |
| 26 | The leaflet given to Labour activists mentions none of these things , concentrating on how many ordinary people go to arts events . |
| 27 | The preference given to hereditary nobles , and the free exercise of patronage , retarded the establishment of administrative ability as the major criterion for promotion . |
| 28 | As the record shows , the preference given to large companies and the support they receive from their bankers has led to rapid growth in output with consequent effects on the profits of banks and their leading customers . |
| 29 | So the message given to young people is on the whole negative : science and technology often create more problems than they solve . |
| 30 | Nurses at the Radcliffe Infirmary , Oxford use aromatherapy to enhance the care given to elderly patients . |