Example sentences of "give [det] [adj] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that is very very hot and will give some nasty burns to people 's hands . |
| 2 | This hint of a potential for goodness in the hero helps give some human credibility to Helena 's otherwise folkloric determination to re-entrap him via the bed trick . |
| 3 | These phrases are often embellished in the text with modifiers and slight variations ( often , usually , also , mainly ) which give some extra information to readers of the dictionary . |
| 4 | The French Embassy in Britain has generously offered to give some financial assistance to French course participants . |
| 5 | Adoption was intended to create new family relationships not change those which already existed and joint custody was introduced as an alternative and to give some legal recognition to step-parents . |
| 6 | He accepts Terentia 's choice of Polonius : ‘ Her Inclination my Consent has joined / To give this beauteous Blessing to Polonius ’ [ ML , 2 , 135 ] . |
| 7 | Many executives are much too busy to give any in-depth thought to profit-making . |
| 8 | I do not think that we can turn back the tide of secularisation altogether in the area of dying , but we can call a halt to it by giving some serious thought to practices within our society and churches . |
| 9 | The Conservative governments of the 1980s saw school admissions as a key area in which to put into practice some of the New Right ideas about introducing free market principles into the education system , whilst at the same time deriving political capital from giving some legal recognition to parents ' ‘ moral right ’ to choose how their children are educated . |
| 10 | On a Creagan a'Choire Etchachan , a line spotted in the summer beside scabbard and crossing Sheath , therefore called Switchblade ( V ) , gave another long day to John Lyall and me . |
| 11 | Though Rivers gave some slight encouragement to Eliot in suggesting that even in our own society , religious changes have unforeseen and far-reaching effects parallel to those caused by the abolition of head-hunting in Melanesia , Eliot 's linking of ‘ cannibal isle ’ and that ‘ slick place ’ London goes directly against the main thrust of the book which stresses ‘ the almost immeasurable difference between Melanesian and European cultures , and the sharpness of the line which still divides them where they come in contact ’ . |