Example sentences of "[conj] given to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have a special request please advise your Travel Agent at the time of booking and ensure this is either correctly noted by the Agent on our computerised Reservations system or given to our Telephone Reservations department as appropriate . |
| 2 | Their functions were either devolved to the districts or given to ad hoc joint boards . |
| 3 | This letter stated that the weapons were " contemplated to be used by the Antiguan Forces " and that they would " not be passed , sold , or given to any third party " . |
| 4 | It is sufficient to say that in broad definition the former term applies to the language used up to the twelfth century , and the latter that given to the language between the twelfth and the fifteenth , when Modern English started to emerge . |
| 5 | In a similar fashion , all the representative bodies of the police — ACPO , the Superintendents ' Association , and the Police Federation — were outraged at the creation of the Crown Prosecution Service in the Prosecution of Offences Act in the mid-1980s ; for one area of police power in the courts had been removed at one fell swoop and given to another arm of the executive . |
| 6 | An 84 acre commercial conifer woodland near Exmoor has been bought by Paul McCartney and given to the League Against Cruel Sports as a sanctuary against hunting . |
| 7 | That the boy was just simple and given to playing stupid jokes . |
| 8 | And the time is long past when the question of who deserves what was taken out of the hands of politicians and time-serving bureaucrats and given to a genuinely independent and truly meritorious body which might set about trying to put honour back into the honours system . |
| 9 | The Sunday Telegraph was allowed to read and take notes from a copy of the report , which was taken to Lusaka , the Zambian capital , and given to Oliver Tambo , then president-in-exile of the ANC . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , not … wrong , exactly , ’ Mrs Dooley lowered her voice and adopted a conspiratorial air , not easy for someone as broad as she was tall , and given to smiles more often than frowns . |
| 11 | When I look back , I 'm inclined to think that we were both , in some ways , a couple of prigs , and given to spiritual pride ! |
| 12 | Backless Hill , to the north of the loch , was the eighteenth-century lair of a Caithness ‘ Robin Hood ’ , said to have robbed the rich and given to the poor . |
| 13 | They Kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians ’ . |
| 14 | Ferry himself would probably tell you that in it 's search for perfection , the motor industry has taken from the driver and given to the machine . |
| 15 | The areas of the five Saxon burhs were reorganised into Norman landships , the rapes , and given to the more powerful and trusty lay barons . |
| 16 | This original small port and fishing village had been down on the marshes adjoining the Rother , not far from Rye , and given to Fécamp Abbey by Cnut . |
| 17 | In fact 41-year-old Hesketh was arrogant , self-important and given to ‘ infantile tantrums and eye-popping rudeness ’ . |
| 18 | The whole lot is then regurgitated and given to mugs to drink . |
| 19 | So Mains did gain the reputation of being some rather grim eminence locked in his southern castle and given to humourless comment about the rugby matters of the day . |
| 20 | It was an Oriental table , donated by her mother who was an actress of the old school and given to lavishness of gesture . |
| 21 | He is sullen and morose , and given to bouts of screaming rage during which no one can reason with him . |
| 22 | This report should be clipped to the form NEWOED1 and given to the lexicographers . |
| 23 | As he says , quoting from Freud 's Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis , If we started life as " a chaos , a cauldron full of seething excitations " , with " no organization " and given to satisfying our wishes by hallucination , it is hard to imagine how we could begin to experience the external world in such a way as to learn adaptation from it . |
| 24 | The difficulty came when one imagined these numbers written on the spine of a book , or on the can of a filmstrip or an audio-cassette , and given to an untrained person to shelve or file in a sequence . |
| 25 | There is some evidence that an officer of the county court has said that a committal order on Form N111 ( not Form N79 ) was signed and given to the police officers escorting Mr. Butler to prison . |
| 26 | In Elizabethan days , rosemary shoots were tied with coloured ribbon , tipped with gold and given to guests at weddings to symbolize love and faithfulness , and on New Year 's Day it was a gift for guests , together with an orange stuck with cloves . |
| 27 | I wanted to say , as I believed , that the consul was an English person of good sense with a proper grasp of facts , but I was too well brought up to state unequivocally that all foreigners , including Nour , were superstitious and given to exaggeration and unnecessary alarms . |
| 28 | Edward was not fond of Sandra ; she was a prissy little girl , always fastidiously turned out and given to exclamations of disgust and revulsion . |
| 29 | In his will , made as a parishioner of St Olave Jewry , London , dated 7 January , and proved 28 February 1633 , he made monetary bequests to his four daughters and two sons , allowed the use of his professional papers to his apprentices , and gave a two-volume book of statutes to ‘ my noble friend Sir William Paddy [ q.v. ] … to be by him put and given to the library of St John 's College in Oxford ’ . |
| 30 | Friars Craig in Derwentwater was purchased by public subscription and given to the National Trust in his memory in 1922 . |