Example sentences of "give too [det] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's therefore to give too much credit to Wilko on their developement although their play did improve greatly under his guidance . |
| 2 | If I sometimes recognized this , I blamed my Aunt Lilian who had brought me up to give too much importance to careers and causes and things of the mind , simply because she had never known , herself , any of the pleasures of the body , and had , as a result , made me feel guilty now . |
| 3 | The first split occurred as early as 1948 when Yugoslavia was denounced by the Soviet Union and its allies for supposedly giving too much favour to peasants at the expense of the working class and for exercising party authority in an insufficiently decisive manner . |
| 4 | SIR — Stephen Fry gives too much credit to P. G. Wodehouse , for it was W. S. Gilbert who , in 1881 , created the Duke of Dunstable — a gallant officer of the 35th Dragoon Guards who sacrificed himself in marriage to the Lady Jane to compensate for her misfortune in being distinctly plain . |
| 5 | HSE 's director-general , , said : ‘ Law that is fussy or demands unnecessary detail is ineffective and also gives too many opportunities to consultants and others to exaggerate what it requires so as to get themselves business — quite a problem at present . ’ |
| 6 | On June 10 US District Judge Edward N. Cahn ruled that the use of nomination by party officials , rather than a primary , deprived voters of their right to participate " at all stages of the electoral process " and gave too much control to party activists . |
| 7 | ‘ Regrettably , our ancestors of some thirty-five centuries back do n't seem to have given too much thought to posterity , by which I mean they left no records to satisfy their descendants ’ intellectual curiosity . |