Example sentences of "to give [noun sg] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Issued to 144 Squadron ( becoming ‘ PL-K ’ ) at Leuchars , the unit trained-up and ferried out to Vaenga I in the USSR to give support to the convoy lifeline around the top of Norway . |
| 2 | For public health doctors to withdraw from or refuse to give support to the task at this critical moment would greatly endanger the specialty , as people without the necessary combination of medical and public health skills would attempt the job . |
| 3 | So you 're going to fold this around the elbow to give support to the arm and in this one you 're gon na fold first of all forward and then back , can you see that little neat envelope ? |
| 4 | Newtonian physics at one time seemed to give support to the idea that the universe was ordered and mechanistic and , therefore , divinely made ; Darwinism challenged many of the basic tenets of Christianity , thereby setting science and religion in opposition and creating an important set of dualities — rationality/irrationality , reason/faith — through which we have come to construct science . |
| 5 | We continue to give support to the United Nations Secretary-General 's efforts to promote a comprehensive , just and lasting settlement . |
| 6 | The Community Support Anti-waste Scheme ( CSAWS ) was set up in 1976 with the following aims : to promote the recycling of materials ; to give support to the government 's anti-waste programme ; to provide employment for a cross section of the community ; and to stimulate industrial , community and charitable organisations to participate in the collection and recycling of waste materials . |
| 7 | Given employers ' lack of knowledge about qualifications and the relatively arbitrary way in which they use them , it is difficult to give credence to the widespread notion that they are dissatisfied with the educational levels of young workers . |
| 8 | Does not the Secretary of State understand that it is precisely because the TGWU is so committed to effective training and the future expansion of British industry that it is not prepared to give credence to the Government 's sham arrangements ? |
| 9 | No , no , no , I see that , I have erm , Soviet was an ex-commons before , and I know , follow the Soviet history , so in a sense , I think is a very important to give protection to the population , to , to , er to the Russian population , the Polish population and the Baltic . |
| 10 | We aim to continue to expand the magazine , provide more opportunities to our members , continue to give exposure to the work of women artists and to lobby at every opportunity to enable equality to exist within all the professional levels of the art world today . |
| 11 | The GLC also agreed to give funding to the Gay London Policing group ( GALOP ) , a monitoring project , in keeping with their overall concern about police accountability ; and to the September In The Pink Festival , in keeping with their policy of generating cheap , enjoyable cultural activities . |
| 12 | It is not to be wondered at if , when a request is made of one person , another is obliged by a trust : for if the following is written in a will ‘ I ask you , Titius , having received a hundred to manumit that slave ’ or ‘ to give something to Sempronius ’ , certainly it is not adequately expressed , but a trust must all the same be understood to be charged on the heir to pay the money to Titius : and so Titius himself will sue the heir , and will be compelled to give freedom to the slave or to Sempronius what he was asked to . |
| 13 | Sometimes it can be shown that the tissue not only looks homogeneous , but actually is so , because , if the tissue is cut in half , each half will regulate to give rise to the same pattern as would otherwise have been produced by the whole . |
| 14 | When gastrulation is completed , the cells can be divided into a small number of classes according to their future fate : they may be ‘ ectodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to the outer layers of the skin , hair , the lens of the eye , and so on ) , ‘ endodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to the lining of the gut ) , ‘ mesodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to muscle , bone , blood-vessels , and many other structures ) , or , finally , they may be destined to give rise to the brain and nervous system . |
| 15 | When gastrulation is completed , the cells can be divided into a small number of classes according to their future fate : they may be ‘ ectodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to the outer layers of the skin , hair , the lens of the eye , and so on ) , ‘ endodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to the lining of the gut ) , ‘ mesodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to muscle , bone , blood-vessels , and many other structures ) , or , finally , they may be destined to give rise to the brain and nervous system . |
| 16 | When gastrulation is completed , the cells can be divided into a small number of classes according to their future fate : they may be ‘ ectodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to the outer layers of the skin , hair , the lens of the eye , and so on ) , ‘ endodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to the lining of the gut ) , ‘ mesodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to muscle , bone , blood-vessels , and many other structures ) , or , finally , they may be destined to give rise to the brain and nervous system . |
| 17 | The larva moults to give rise to the four-legged nymph , which , after five more days , becomes the adult mite . |
| 18 | The individual is never informed of what it is he ( sic ) is alleged to have done to give rise to the suspicion ; nor , indeed , is it necessary that he be convicted of any offence . |
| 19 | To be mutually consistent the constrained demand for goods must ration firms in a manner that restricts their demand for labour to give rise to the initial constrained demand for goods . |
| 20 | said ’ … in modern times very little is needed to give rise to the inference that property in specific goods is to pass only on delivery or payment . ’ |
| 21 | Yet it is these very passive , dependent wishes for the omnipotent , omniscient and omnipresent parent which seem to give rise to the conflicts which are central to paranoia . |
| 22 | The reason for this is clear in Collins MR 's judgment where it was said that , in the case of a purchase of goods capable of a multitude of purposes , in order to invoke the implied condition , it was necessary to show that the goods were sold with reference to a particular purpose : … in order to give rise to the implication of a warranty , it is necessary to show that , though the article sold was capable of general use for many purposes , in the particular case it was sold with reference to a particular purpose . |
| 23 | Generally , these policies were successful in preventing heavy unemployment like that experienced in the 1930s , but unfortunately they tended to give rise to the phenomenon known as ‘ stop-go ’ . |
| 24 | We would like the Herald & Post to give coverage to the Commuter Challenge , and to invite one of your staff to participate if they so wish . |
| 25 | It is noticeable that managements are more willing to give responsibility to the project leader than they are to delegate commensurate authority . |
| 26 | The first has to do with the tension between the need to have clear guidelines and objectives to give direction to the project , and the need to permit room for flexibility and discretion . |
| 27 | Kyaw Nyein went along as an Adviser , and Rance also wanted Thakin Nu to go : he was , he told London , ‘ The most important member of AFPFL Working Committee excluding Aung San ’ ( 29 December ) , but he remained behind to give direction to the League while the others were in London . |
| 28 | At the same time , the top management might find the organisation so large and complex , and changes in policy and procedures so difficult and time-consuming to implement , that they also feel unable to give direction to the organisation . |
| 29 | One example of their work : Bernard Flanagan was asked to give direction to the works stores . |
| 30 | I have little doubt that the alteration was the composer 's own — particularly since the trill added to the piano part in the answering phrase ( it has no parallel in the violin part of the Septet ) serves to give variety to the ‘ echo ’ , as a substitute for the change from major to minor . |