Example sentences of "give [adv] the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christopher Taylor has given perhaps the best example of this in a study of settlements in the Nene Valley . |
| 2 | I found the book to be very readable , with each subject being given just the right amount of coverage , considering the intended readership . |
| 3 | To start with , imagine you are given just the physical outline of adults of several species . |
| 4 | Zuccarelli Labs also says that the patent does not give away the real secret of the invention . |
| 5 | Even if — which in some cases is a big ‘ if ’ — the patent system does not give away the vital clue to an innovative product of process , innovating enterprises now increasingly prefer to keep their knowledge to themselves in order to preserve their options on when , where and how to market it . |
| 6 | Equations ( 6.9 ) and ( 6.15 ) will give exactly the same value for the share price . |
| 7 | and we will not give up the good things in life for Greenpeace and for a clean environment |
| 8 | For them , classic clothes no longer have to be fussy or stuffy — an increasing number of British men want classic style , but wo n't give up the comfortable feel of the designer clothes they got used to in the Eighties . |
| 9 | If they succeed , they will give up the last vestiges of the party state and refute the criticisms that they are only interested in the power and money accumulated by the Communists over the past 40 years , without accepting any blame for their actions . |
| 10 | Such knowledge will be the basis of the advice we give in the next chapter for promoting adjustment after a time-zone transition . |
| 11 | I recently had news of the Mandarin Oriental Hotels Group , who give perhaps the best service to customers of any hotel group in the world . |
| 12 | Here we give only the first part of Ohmann 's illustration : [ 8 ] the desk and the shelf above it on which rested the ledgers in which McCaslin recorded the slow outward trickle of food and supplies and equipment which returned each fall as cotton made and ginned and sold … |
| 13 | Secondly , the white paper and the working documents that supplemented it give only the barest outline of the market framework and leave several key issues unresolved . |
| 14 | There they give just the same protection to their new owners as they did to the jellyfish that developed them . |
| 15 | Why did those ancient replicators give up the cavalier freedom of the primeval soup and take to swarming in huge colonies ? |
| 16 | We give here the main reasons for doubting the validity of Urquhart 's population dose estimates , and for rejecting the conclusions of the accompanying contribution ‘ Looking for an increase in deaths from cancer ’ ( pB74 ) . |
| 17 | Band cramps may do , but will not , in my experience , give quite the same pull to a joint . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've put it on the back burner , but have never given up the long-term goal of going round the world by sailboat . |
| 19 | There are occasional strips of terraced houses , whose occupants seem to have given up the unequal struggle against the noise and pollution of the ring road , and retreated to their back rooms , for the frontages are peeling and dilapidated and the curtains sag in the windows with a permanently drawn look . |
| 20 | He has not given up the running battle between them over the question of form , which started out with his victory on accommodation . |
| 21 | Given also the considerable reliance of the Council and its committees and boards on the officers to prepare discussion papers , and the contributions of the officers to conferences and elsewhere , these meetings served both as a staff development exercise and as a forum in which ideas and formulations could be clarified . |
| 22 | There is room here to give only the briefest account of the different kinds of vertebrates . |
| 23 | His injuries forced him to give up the coveted mount on Cool Ground . |
| 24 | I was surrounded by a crowd of shouting , gesticulating Malts , who pulled at my parachute , lifted my head and drove me so furious that I had to give up the dying idea in order to concentrate completely on kicking every Malt who came within range . |
| 25 | Despite talk of ‘ peaceful coexistence ’ with the West after Stalin , Russian leaders never intended to give up the ideological struggle with capitalism . |
| 26 | ‘ Because I 've decided to give up the artificial fiction of being myself for the genuine , satisfying falseness of being somebody else . |
| 27 | The conclusion must be that neither side of industry was prepared to give up the old ways of doing things to achieve full employment . |
| 28 | Of course we have had to give up the strict ordering of the series in horizontal segments , but the |
| 29 | However I had to learn to delegate responsibility and realize that in climbing the executive ladder one had to give up the basic satisfaction of creative production . |
| 30 | However , doubt arose over whether Kazakhstan was prepared to give up the nuclear weapons on its territory , as it had earlier stated and as Yeltsin was assuring it would . |