Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Support given to young people from Lothian for national arts courses
3 Groups are capable of great creativity , as in language and folksong , and even in the stimulus and support given to individual writers and thinkers .
4 Thirdly , it seems that both groups of critics would want to see greater support given to natural families , in general , to help them to care for their children more effectively and to prevent the need for substitute care arising .
5 Todd linked family structure to ideology and politics , and indeed sought to account both for types of regime and for the electoral support given to particular types of party by an area 's dominant family structure .
6 Lothian Region support given to National Festivals & Companies , leading to workshops and visits to schools by major companies
7 Although the accident estimate could logically be independent of the actual exemplar of the junction that a subject was shown it is clear that it is in fact strongly related to the risk rating given to particular exemplars .
8 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 .
9 However , because it groups entries alphabtically according to the areas of responsibility given to particular topic editors , it can be slightly confusing .
10 Canal building responded to regional economic needs , above all for the carriage of coal .
11 Nor is the general difficulty confined to final stop deletion .
12 Unions in Japan have had a major influence on the way the labour market is structured , but this reflects principally the fact that union membership is in large part confined to regular workers in large firms .
13 Between 1927 and 1933 Nizan was clearly in a contradictory situation : at one level committed to sectarian communist ideology , at another level implicated in bourgeois careerism .
14 In his view , then , the functionalist approach to inequality is nothing else than an ideology designed to legitimate this same inequality .
15 A final point is that , experimentally , L3 of some strains of A. caninum exposed to chilling before oral administration have been shown to remain in arrested development in the intestinal mucosa for weeks or months .
16 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 .
17 True , there was Crown prince Tupouto'a waiting in the wings , but he spent little time in Tonga and had a reputation as a playboy — a Farouk-like figure given to white suits and expensive lady friends .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Clanchy shows that , between 1066 and 1307 in England , the criteria for validation of land rights and other significant social facts , and the relative weight given to written and oral criteria in such validation changed as a direct result of political pressures ( 1979 ) .
21 The most interesting aspect of the trace representation is the use of excitatory and inhibitory links to control dynamically the relative weight given to different kinds of evidence .
22 The final barrier to its operation came after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union , when the North-Rhine Westphalia administration responded to intensified local concern by refusing to grant it the required license to operate .
23 Historians may point to the downfall of Lloyd George in 1922 and Churchill in 1945 ; the achievements were recognized but declined in importance as the electorate responded to new issues .
24 To loud Conservative cheers , he demanded a serious study of the constitutional and economic consequences of monetary union , adding that it should not be a study confined to European central bank governors .
25 To loud Conservative cheers , he demanded a serious study of the constitutional and economic consequences of monetary union , adding that it should not be a study confined to European central bank governors .
26 She does not deny the philosophical impetus toward a Horatian retirement , but suggests that garden retreats often had less to do with spiritual delights than with ‘ the bodily and social pleasures of a fashionable men 's club transposed to rural surroundings …
27 The dun 's handler plucked a tail feather and held the down at the quill-end against a neck wound to staunch the blood .
28 The programme thus expresses the reality that we are citizens of one world and are members of a world association committed to international solidarity and regional diversity .
29 In a review of 39 studies which used the ITPA or one of its subtests as a criterion for language improvement , Hammill and Larsen ( 1974 ) found little evidence to support the view that the psycholinguistic constructs measured by the ITPA responded to existing training methods .
30 The clash has erupted over whether the center should muddy its hands with research related to nuclear armaments .
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