Example sentences of "[prep] be give to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not presents , not for themselves , it was the sensation of being given to , she was homesick for that . |
| 2 | The task of seeing that the Act is complied with is given to local weights and measures authorities , i. e. local trading standards or consumer protection departments . |
| 3 | In spelling out its arguments for the proposed pattern , the Council was once again reinterpreting the balance that had been at the centre of its concerns from the beginning : there was nothing in the Charter and Statutes ‘ which prevented greater recognition from being given to an institution 's own internal procedures where these could be shown to be rigorous and effective . |
| 4 | A silver-gilt sweet-meat dish made in Hamburg in 1610 and originally owned by Christian IV of Denmark before being given to the Tsar should realise SF300–450,000 ( £115–175,000 ; $200–300,000 ) . |
| 5 | One member of his family could come and visit him that afternoon and yes , we would be allowed to bring food , which would be examined before being given to the prisoner . |
| 6 | To the question , therefore , which ought to hold the first rank , Raphael or Michelangelo , it must be answered , that if it is to be given to him who possessed a greater combination of the higher qualities of the art than any other man , there is no doubt but Raphael is the first . |
| 7 | Careful thought had to be given to assembly and I found that the easiest way was to join all the inner to the outer legs first , making eight rectangular frames . |
| 8 | Similar considerations have to be given to ballets on a theme and to ballets that interpret music where the composer 's own structure should inspire the design ( see page 41 ) . |
| 9 | Nevertheless much more attention has to be given to the ports de bras of all types of character in such ballets because these supply the words not spoken in dance . |
| 10 | The new row follows talks last week at which Mr Clarke said that the ‘ firm ’ drug budgets to be given to regional health authorities and family practitioner committees would not operate , as the BMA feared , as cash limits . |
| 11 | That would involve monitoring the ‘ indicative ’ budgets which are to be given to GPs to ensure that there is no wasteful or excessive prescribing . |
| 12 | They involve the authority to be given to the unsubstantiated evidence of a woman in a rape case and the question of her character , real or assumed . |
| 13 | But weight had to be given to the fact that this was a working wife with a recognised expertise in the managing of hotels . |
| 14 | In other words , they 're taking a lot of the task that used to be given to manufacturers away from them and so manufacturers today are not by and large so concerned with manufacturing brands which are their own and will sit on retailers ' shelves as with providing a product for a retailer who wants to construct his own brand . |
| 15 | I applaud and support the efforts by Bill Bates , food safety consultant at Control UK , in his attempts to get an arbitration board set up , but have reservations about the priority likely to be given to this by food minister , David Maclean . |
| 16 | ‘ Joining the ERM is not a prize to be given to our partners when they come up to scratch , but a benefit to ourselves if only we would take it , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Later , in the Court of Appeal , Lord Donaldson , Master of the Rolls , refused a stay in the order pending an appeal , but agreed to allow the notes to be given to the court in a sealed envelope , to be returned unopened if the appeal succeeded . |
| 18 | One would ‘ ring-fence ’ or protect the grants to be given to local authorities so they could not be used for other purposes ; the other would give elderly and disabled people in local authority residential homes the same social security rights as those in private or voluntary sector homes . |
| 19 | The report is expected to be given to the Transport Secretary , Mr Cecil Parkinson , in February after BR has assessed the scale and effect of the changes demanded by Sir Anthony Hidden 's inquiry into the Clapham disaster last December , in which 35 people died . |
| 20 | The DTI could have responded by saying that the absence of the monitoring return was a serious matter , that it would allow a short extension , but that ‘ consideration would need to be given to revoking the licence if a satisfactory and duly verified monitoring return were not received by the specified date . ’ |
| 21 | In the Sandys doctrine their roles were reversed : primacy was to be given to the nuclear weapon , and conventional forces were to be reduced to a supporting role . |
| 22 | In weapon procurement the highest priority was to be given to : |
| 23 | And because you have to be bursting with energy and health to do the top jobs , they have to be given to younger men . |
| 24 | Later in his article , he pinpoints ‘ the necessity of writing long letters daily ’ to Helen as the beginning of his departure from nature descriptions — initially written as talks to be given to the Young People 's Guild at the Unitarian chapel — or his dignified school essays . |
| 25 | When he comes , his father must formally ask him who he is ( the blessing has to be given to the right person ) . |
| 26 | How often do we see a scene on television where , when some help is about to be given to a seriously ill person , the family members present are asked to wait outside . |
| 27 | After all they had been force-fed about the godliness of the Khomeini regime , here was Reagan as a ‘ man of God ’ ( North 's words ) who had gone away for a ‘ whole weekend ’ to pray about the Frankfurt meeting and had come up all by himself with an inscription for a Bible to be given to the Iranians . |
| 28 | The charges and exchange rates should be visible from outside the bureau and then detailed in a receipt to be given to the customer after the transaction . |
| 29 | The increase in the population of Chiswick caused thought to be given to the need for another Anglican Parish Church situated in the Turnham Green area , so Sir Gilbert Scott , R.A. was commissioned to design an appropriate church to be built on land granted by the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul 's Cathedral , as Lord of the Manor of Little Sutton . |
| 30 | An information sheet for patients is printed overleaf and a possible list of instructions to be given to patients using 100 or 150ml stock bottles is included . |