Example sentences of "[vb mod] give [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Already exhausted from her night 's activities , she was also acutely aware that she must give no sign of tiredness for fear of arousing suspicion .
2 If a defendant wishes payment under the counterclaim to be made other than at his address for service or to his solicitor he must give an address for payment " with appropriate reference details " .
3 It must give an address for service ( Ord 9 , r 19 ) .
4 The minimum length of notice an employer must give an employee under Section 49 of the Employment Protection Act 1978 is one week when the employee has been employed between one month and two years .
5 God , he thought , I really must give the beer at lunch a miss .
6 With projects that are more than ten years old you should give a lot of thought to the problems involved , and then decide to build something from the current issue of Everyday Electronics instead !
7 Later this year , however , there should be a new run at energies up to 43 GeV ; this should give a difference in asymmetry of about 3.5 per cent , which if there will be observable .
8 Only an expert may give an opinion in evidence , although a witness as to fact , who is also an expert in the relevant field , may be asked to express an opinion .
9 I lit another cigarette from the stub of the first ( unheard-of for me ) — not because I wanted it but because I felt it might give an illusion of poise to walk into the Presence with a cigarette dangling carelessly from my lips .
10 Voorhies ( 1969 ) suggested that much of this difference is due to body size differences and that differences in sorting of bone by ease of transportation might give an indication of distance travelled .
11 I 'll get de credit an I 'll give de cash to charity
12 Christian preachers attempted , without much success , to persuade their congregations to fast while inebriated pagans feasted and to give alms to the very poor who could give no present in return . )
13 Hence , in some measure , if not crises then problems were wished for because their solution could give a sense of purpose .
14 If that were to be fully reflected in a lower real exchange rate ( the nominal rate adjusted to take account of changes in UK output prices relative to those elsewhere ) , competitiveness would improve significantly and could give a boost to growth .
15 Translated into seats , the result of the Norris poll shows that the Tories will be unopposed in the Commons throughout the next Parliament with a working majority of 650 , though psephologists may quibble about the low sample size — 30 — which could give a margin of error of about minus 60 per cent .
16 DEADLY sharks could give a lifeline to cancer victims .
17 It was argued that a solicitor affected by this could be represented by another solicitor after exchange of contract , so that that other solicitor could give the report on title to the lender and receive the mortgage advance .
18 They said they 'd give a lot of help .
19 ‘ I 'd give a bag of gold , ’ Benjamin murmured , ‘ to know what has taken Santerre to Glastonbury .
20 Writers with a preference for market over regulatory solutions ( whom we will refer to generically as ‘ market theorists ’ ) insist that management and shareholder interests are adequately aligned by market forces , and therefore that the lack of shareholder participation in the internal processes of control need give no cause for concern , and certainly does not indicate the necessity for any kind of external intervention .
21 The sores are usually relatively painless , and this procedure , like the urethral investigation , need give no cause for alarm .
22 He had smiled then and said that despite my generosity he would give no cause for jealousy .
23 The duties of class leaders ( women as well as men in 1847 ) were to ‘ ask each member in turn to speak of their experience in the Christian life , after which he ( she ) would give a word of encouragement , advice or reproof , as was necessary . ’
24 I asked myself what chance was there … within the next year or two of that feeling being so changed that the country would give a mandate for rearmament ?
25 On the basis of the MAFF-DoE memo this would seem likely to include the farming and fertiliser industries , and would give the Ministry of Agriculture almost total control over the policy .
26 A few minor inconsistencies and divergences would give the appearance of verisimilitude .
27 Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed .
28 Could one have a series of daguerrotypes which would give the impression of movement ?
29 He , therefore , could not afford to support illegal methods , which would give the opposition in parliament and the middle class , in general , genuine grounds for opposing him .
30 To promote goodwill TODAY will give a bottle of champagne to the three most uplifting and inspiring ‘ Best of 1992 ’ lists .
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