Example sentences of "give [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Even when people could give money to relatives , it has never been obvious that they should do so , whatever other circumstances obtain .
2 The press agent succeeded by having Rockefeller give money to charity .
3 I 'm backing Back To The Planet because when you play their tapes on your Walkman it makes you give money to tramps .
4 The threat of cuts in Bonn 's support of Berlin gives Kewenig extra power to be selective , which accords well with his own views : ‘ I want to discriminate and give money to people who do something ’ .
5 Well I think an awful lot of people think of Oxfam and think of the shops , er and the shops have been terribly important to us for such a long time , but we 've found a few years ago that er people who , er were asked said that they would give money to Oxfam , but that they were n't necessarily always asked .
6 IT IS shameful that some people are saying Britain should not give sanctuary to refugees from the civil war in Yugoslavia .
7 Although mayonnaise can give spice to sandwiches , pancake fillings , dips , jacket potato toppings as well as salads , dieters usually resist as just one tablespoon ( 15g ) of ordinary mayonnaise contains 108 calories .
8 For all people , that they may give glory to God for the gifts of speech , hearing and sight which make communication possible , and for the audiovisual media which nourish these gifts in new and marvellous ways .
9 Furthermore , confidence in the exchange value of the dollar was essential since it provided the bulk of the reserve assets in the system : any devaluation of the dollar would give rise to fears that it might be devalued again , and hence there would be a reluctance to hold dollars as a reserve currency .
10 Again in Johnston v Chamberlain ( 1933 ) 17 TC 706 , the taxpayer sought to argue that a payment from a discretionary trust could not give rise to income tax liability on the beneficiary as it was " only when the trustees choose to exercise their discretion by making the payment that the sum gets to the children at all " .
11 The agreement will usually contain provisions requiring the acquirer to notify any events which may give rise to claims as soon as possible and to allow the seller to investigate and perhaps handle any third party claim .
12 As Fig. 24 illustrates , the basic pattern can give rise to others by changes in the phase difference between the stepping sequences of right and left sides .
13 While generally a very fair summation of the draft ( though , of course , some interpretations could give rise to discussion ) , the description of Article 11 is , I fear , a very serious misunderstanding of the draft Convention which could give rise to unfortunate and unnecessary misapprehensions .
14 While this may be a means of sharing responsibilities and caring , it may also give rise to tensions in overcrowded households .
15 However , producing this model alongside another may give rise to benefits — perhaps they have common components , or common design and marketing costs , in which case there are shareable inputs .
16 In other cases quite different processes can give rise to topography superficially resembling true karst , an example being the creation of ‘ underground drainage ’ through the formation of lava tunnels in volcanic terrains .
17 Precipitation on the surrounding mountains may give rise to streams which quickly disappear where they reach the basin , as in the Taklamakan desert of the Tarim basin ( Stein , I933 ) The basin often consists of gentle slopes of graded sediments derived from the surrounding mountains leading to a central saline lake or swamp .
18 This argument is supported by the report of Spigelmann suggesting that exposure of the foregut to bile may give rise to DNA adducts .
19 For asymmetric tops , which have three different moments of inertia , there is no symmetry element of order greater than two , and up to three different symmetry species of vibration may give rise to IR bands .
20 Most sets of values would give rise to universes that , although they might be very beautiful , would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty .
21 In some kinds of rock , such as granite , the creation of steep , bare rock faces can lead to significant lateral expansion into the valley side as well as vertical dilation and this may give rise to exfoliation domes ( Fig. 6.21 ) .
22 Decisions that fall outside the parameters of ‘ ordinary ’ unreasonableness may give rise to liability , but those indicating a lesser degree of ineptitude will be categorised as merely imprudent , or as involving an error of judgment , and will , accordingly , be safe from attack .
23 It must be stressed that although a natural condition can not give rise to liability under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher it may still constitute a nuisance for which an occupier may be liable if he has knowledge or means of knowledge of its existence and if it is reasonable to require him to take the necessary steps to abate it .
24 Most of this legislation is of a ‘ regulatory ’ nature and does not give rise to liability in damages .
25 If so , it is perhaps surprising that a threat of a mere breach of contract should give rise to liability .
26 ( a ) The Criminal Law Revision Committee 's Eighth Report , Theft and Related Offences , Cmnd 2977 , 1966 , 41 , on which the 1968 Act was based , envisaged that some fact situations would give rise to liability under both ss.1 and 15 .
27 A failure to carry out necessary work would give rise to liability .
28 A failure to warn that a product is not suitable for a particular purpose may give rise to liability : e.g. that fireworks are not suitable for indoor use .
29 The latter form of interference may give rise to liability in nuisance .
30 However , firms already have to face uncertainty in the context of UCTA and the criteria used to assess whether a duty of care which would give rise to liability in tort is owed .
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