Example sentences of "[pron] [is] give to " in BNC.

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1 Nothing exemplifies the spirit of the family more than musar : instruction ( as moral training ) which is given to Jewish children .
2 ‘ Be always ready , according to your power to relieve the poor and help the distressed … ’ is a quote from The Rules for the Conduct of Life , a copy of which is given to all new Freemen — or perhaps it should now be Freepersons .
3 We are not talking here about natural feelings , but a depth of desire which is given to us by God .
4 The first is that welfare is a characteristic of an individual ; it is not something which is given to it by somebody else .
5 Whether or not a policy exists , social services staff have a legal duty to keep confidential all information which is given to them .
6 Is the support which is given to the son-in-law ‘ really ’ being given to the daughter by proxy ?
7 Christology gives a male human being a status which is given to no woman .
8 ‘ If , therefore , for any unhappy reason , counsel for the defence is unable to accept the assumption which stems from the fact that a particular statement has not been made available to him by the prosecution , it would become counsel 's duty to invite the judge to exercise the discretionary power which is given to him by the proviso to section 18 of the Evidence Law , ( c. 118 [ J. ] ) , by examining the statement himself and directing that it be used in such manner as the justice of the case demands .
9 It requires , in all but the most self-evident cases , the recognition that the content which is given to concepts such as proportionality will be dependent upon the identification of the particular political theory which is said to warrant the conclusion which is being drawn .
10 Only then is it awarded the ‘ Lur ’ mark which is given to the highest quality Danish products .
11 1 The prominence , expressed by means of stress or intonation , which is given to a syllable .
12 One is for Flowers for the Altar , one for St. Anthony which is given to the poor who come looking for help at various times of the day and night , and the third is for Sending a Sick Child to Lourdes , the cost of which is approximately £350 .
13 The obligation does not extend , however , to cover all information which is given to or required by the employee while in his employment , and in particular may not cover information which is only " confidential " in the sense that an unauthorised disclosure of such information to a third party while the employment subsisted would be a clear breach of the duty of good faith .
14 The raiders made off with twenty thousand pounds worth of 22 carat gold jewellry , which is given to Indian women as a dowry .
15 Since sentencing is a matter of societal process and since we engage in an adversarial system , a right of appeal which is given to one side should not be denied to the other .
16 There is no equivalent to the invalid care allowance which is given to the person who cares for an elderly person .
17 Certainly it appears so to Mario who 's given to saying things such as ‘ Yeah , I had a couple of years back then with Ferrari …
18 ‘ I do n't think I have ever been so frightened in my life , ’ said Terrie ( who is given to a little hyperbole at times ) .
19 It 's a shame that someone as obviously capable of expressing himself as you is given to such bursts of undisguised racism and ignorance .
20 So much of you is given to ordinary people , suppressed , in ordinary life .
21 The higher the tax rate the more incentive there is to give to charity .
22 We believe a cup of coffee leaves a nicer taste in your mouth when it 's given to you by name .
23 It 's given to people in the last years of this century who will make a difference to the plant in the next century .
24 The lower the tax rate the more costly it is to give to charity compared to ordinary spending .
25 When Malcolm James 's book Born of the Desert — the reminiscences of a doctor with the 1st S.A.S. in the Western Desert — appeared in 1945 , a reviewer wrote : ‘ All men have conscience , but it is given to only a few to have the selflessness to stride out into battle and , by themselves undertaking the combat that has to be done by someone , to satisfy its insistence … ’
26 Rye must be soaked in hot water to destroy an anti-growth hormone in the seed coat before it is given to livestock , but triticale kernels can be fed directly to livestock with no harmful side-effects .
27 When the selected material is brought to the sacrificial enclosure in a ceremonial procession , a consecrated ‘ pot ’ or ‘ puma-kumbha ’ is installed and the stone or wood is subjected to set rituals before it is given to the sculptor .
28 It is given to the first child , through no fault of its own , to disrupt what has been an exclusive , reciprocal relationship as no subsequent child has power to do .
29 He was the first gold medal winner ( 1902 ) of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy , his obituary in Nature noting : ‘ It is given to few men to discover a process which has had such a far-reaching effect in almost every branch of civilised life . ’
30 Labour would face strong pressure from the Unionists to give Northern Ireland what it is giving to Scotland , where there is also a separatist minority .
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