Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to give [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fish must have come forward to give the line some slack . |
| 2 | Every one of the Pack was firmly resolved never to give the new farmer cause for taking away their wonderful meeting-place from them . |
| 3 | The following shows how chord shapes can be varied considerably to give a more fruitful harmonic language . |
| 4 | That was prepared merely to give a general picture of the Business in order to help potential Purchasers decide whether or not they wished to enter into more detailed negotiations to acquire the Business . |
| 5 | Thus , by selecting the right ‘ task ’ , we have constrained a system we know , because we designed it that way , to be organized redundantly to give a double dissociation . |
| 6 | This traditional-style comfort room shows how plains , patterns and stripes can be used together to give a lived-in look . |
| 7 | It may be used just to give the researcher a feel for what is being studied ; as a resource to back up or complement evidence produced from other sources ; or as evidence in itself , as the topic of the research . |
| 8 | Both the border and the single motifs can also be used upside-down to give a solid edge at the bottom and an irregular edge at the top . |
| 9 | The drawing suggests how resources are linked together to give the over-all thrust of the plan . |
| 10 | In the extreme case of abundant sediment and weak marine action , the levees on either side of the distributaries may be prolonged seawards to give a digitate delta , for example the Mississippi . |
| 11 | This year September and 12 , have been set aside to give the public a chance to visit important buildings that are usually private , and take part in guided tours , exhibitions and demonstrations throughout the province . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've been brought here to give a full account of Captain Meredith 's dealings . |
| 13 | Moments earlier a well-wisher in the crowd had stepped forward to give the Queen Mum a bottle of her favourite tipple — gin . |
| 14 | The answer to these doubts is that not one of these three measures is adequate on its own , and that all three should be taken together to give a proper guide to costs . |
| 15 | It is meant primarily to give a final reminder that English spoken at something like full conversational speed is very different from the slow , careful pronunciation of the early Tape Units . |
| 16 | They may be planned deliberately to give the undergraduate a good general education , for example by sampling or balancing a number of types of knowledge , or they may he planned in terms of an applied , problem focus such as environmental control , or a broad theme such as modern urban society , or in terms of some concept of individual development . |
| 17 | These three publications , and their extracts , have been chosen deliberately to give a flavour of the planning viewpoint of the time , from very different perspectives . |
| 18 | In these conditions , too , the mount required either to give a force mobility or to approach a battlefield could be of inferior breed , and consequently cheaper , than a cavalry horse capable of carrying a fully armoured knight , in addition to its own armour . |