Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] to give " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are added here to give brightness and to enhance the contrast with the horns . |
| 2 | Indeed when in Opposition amendments had been moved unsuccessfully to give greater effect to reparation during the passage of the Criminal Justice Bill in 1966/7 . |
| 3 | The pavements had been cobbled here to give it a quaint feel , and coach-loads of tourists were shuffling along with cameras dangling and guides chivvying . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've been brought here to give a full account of Captain Meredith 's dealings . |
| 6 | The drawing suggests how resources are linked together to give the over-all thrust of the plan . |
| 7 | The following shows how chord shapes can be varied considerably to give a more fruitful harmonic language . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Flip charts can be used either to give information , to describe a sequence of events , or to ask more searching questions for discussion later . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This traditional-style comfort room shows how plains , patterns and stripes can be used together to give a lived-in look . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The latter does not like what he sees : ‘ ‘ Young men ought to be brought here to give them a horror of debauchery' ’ exclaimed the worthy man , bursting with disgust . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They have the additional advantage of giving the information in electrical form , which can be processed electronically to give quantities such as intensities , correlations , and spectra . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A broad central strip of flat ceiling existing above the classrooms to give a maximum headroom of only 4.3m ( 14ft ) which could not be divided horizontally to give two storeys of habitable room-height . |
| 19 | No scheme will be worth much if farmers are allowed merely to give over their least productive land . |
| 20 | This time , each sheet had been folded twice to give four leaves ( eight pages ) in a gathering , and the book is therefore a quarto ( 4to ) . |
| 21 | The 1975 Act had been accepted in the Court of Appeal as having been passed mainly to give effect to the Hague Convention , but that purpose nowhere appears in the text of the Act which was also designed to replace earlier United Kingdom legislation , notably the Foreign Tribunals Evidence Act 1856 in which the phrase ‘ civil or commercial matter ’ was used in a context wholly divorced from any international convention and which formed part of the law of many Commonwealth ( and common law ) countries . |
| 22 | The grants applied to houses both for letting and selling , and the local authorities were empowered also to give help to private builders . |
| 23 | National Certificate modules replaced a system based on subjects , often externally examined , which were clustered together to give courses which had names indicating the area of study , for example the Scottish National Certificate in Business Studies . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Cameron — you are required below to give evidence before the Lord Advocate 's officers . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The speed judgment task was included simply to give subjects a task comparable to that used in Study 2 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Urgent or not , Sladen was experienced enough to give them thirty seconds of plati-tudes while they kicked their briefcases under the table , tugged at their waistcoats — both MI6 men wore them even on a hot June day — and shuffled their papers , although few of them were prepared to put much paperwork on view . |
| 30 | I was determined never to give in . |