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

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1 It was the discovery by Dr Alice Stewart , for example , that the radiation from hospital X-rays given to pregnant women could increase the risk of leukaemia in their babies which contributed to severe limits being placed on their usage .
2 Now all of this may well have made no difference to the final result ; the courts reading of the facts may have led them to the same conclusion whatever the meanings given to reasonable and unreasonable .
3 Mannheim compared the meanings given to social being to the givenness of language and it is difficult to imagine the individual ‘ affiliating ’ to their first language , exactly because of its givenness to the individual as part of social being .
4 Conventionality and Contrast together allow speakers to be consistent from one occasion to the next in their uses of the conventional meanings assigned to linguistic forms , and to maintain the same form-meaning pairings over time .
5 Indirectly , the titles given to various types imply that distinctions were considered possible .
6 those not based on formal membership or any sustained collective public manifestation , but in which there is conscious association or group identification , either informally or occasionally manifested , or at times limited to immediate working or more general relations .
7 The fact is that there is no privilege for confidences given to hon. Members .
8 It remains true that all of the major parameters of Course regulations and management remain today as they were established by David Mobbs ; all that has changed is the values given to certain parts of the equation .
9 A specially commissioned painting by railway artist Simon Bowditch will be unveiled for the first time during the day , and limited edition copies given to local dignitaries .
10 Clifford Allen , who since 1934 had built up an all-Party group of experts committed to collective security and domestic reform , resisted pressures to take up the cause of the People 's Front , and , instead , devoted the last year of his life to actively assisting Chamberlain 's diplomacy .
11 Nor were such views confined to prejudiced and exasperated Englishmen : performances like Medellin ( March 1809 ) , Ocaña ( September 1809 ) , astonished the French .
12 There may be a need to consider changes to the general practitioner 's contract to encourage research , such as relaxing the regulations of hours committed to patient services and creating a practice development allowance to encourage practices to work with commissioning authorities to adopt and evaluate health gain strategies .
13 First , the types of manufacturing activities attracted to rural regions have included many enterprises that specialize in the routine semi-skilled and unskilled parts of production , often employing females .
14 In contrast , lamina propria mononuclear cells from all groups responded to CaI stimulation , the increase in PAF activity being similar among them and significantly greater when compared with that of unstimulated cells .
15 On their last two visits to Edinburgh , I have seen English supporters exposed to extreme intimidation and provocation .
16 More importantly , when credit is tight they find available funds rationed to large borrowers .
17 Heads responded to advisory views of good practice in different ways , ranging from unthinking conformity to outright rejection .
18 But hosiery companies are fighting back this Christmas with some flamboyant stockings and tights designed to liven up the festive party season .
19 Ill-behaved boys are denied privileges granted to well-conducted boys . "
20 Privileges granted to senior party members had been removed in June 1990 and its state subsidy removed in July .
21 Yemen 's close military and economic links with Iraq , and its ambivalent attitude at the outset of the crisis , led to a serious deterioration in its relations with neighbouring Saudi Arabia , which in September abolished privileges granted to Yemeni workers [ see p. 37794 ] .
22 Capital expenditure was switched to current accounts , and parking meters and town halls leased to private companies .
23 However , unpaid arrears owed to international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , the World Bank , and the Inter-American Development Bank ( IDB ) remained a serious problem , total arrears increasing from $11,000 million to $30,000 million in 1990 , of which nearly one-quarter was accounted for by Brazil , the region 's largest foreign debtor [ for April 1991 renegotiation of Brazil 's foreign debt see p. 38143 ] .
24 On Sept. 9 an official from the French Ministry of Economy and Finance announced that France would help Congo to pay off debt arrears owed to international financial institutions in order to enable the resumption of co-operation between Congo and these bodies .
25 Yarmouth corporation argued that Norwich Cathedral should be pulled down and its stone used for the construction of a workhouse , and in 1657 it was proposed that Rochester Cathedral should be sold and the proceeds used to pay the arrears owed to disabled sailors .
26 In construct theory , constructs are identified by means of the labels applied to opposing poles .
27 One system that gives rise to exponentially weighted moving averages is constructed so that greatest weight is given to the most recent observation , the weights applied to previous observations diminishing period by period by a constant factor , a .
28 The heavy black lines represent the boundaries of the separate allotments made to private owners by the enclosure commissioners .
29 These entries related to royal debts assigned to Elijah by way of compensation for debts pardoned by the Crown in favour of the abbey of Stratford , and the alterations allegedly had the effect of enriching Elijah at the Crown 's expense .
30 Many issues brought up in sessions related to general school policies and practices .
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