Example sentences of "[adv] give a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If God can not be identified with man as a product of evolution , and thereby given a credible definition , then any effort to create a new and successful conception of God will founder on the same rocks of contention that have wrecked every religion that was ever believed in . |
| 2 | By a resolution passed by 305 votes to 36 , with 41 abstentions , Gorbachev was effectively given a free hand to dictate the process of economic reform by decree , to manage the state budget , and also to supervise law and order . |
| 3 | However , although it was not unusual for preachers to criticize social abuses and injustice , this was not necessarily given a revolutionary tone ( 230 , pp.291 , 296 ) , and the significant point about Ball was that he adapted a traditional idea to revolutionary ends . |
| 4 | Although his jarred shoulder is improving , and he has been named in the side for Saturday , he is still only given a 50–50 chance of playing . |
| 5 | Blacker Miller , still then Foreign Minister [ see above ] , was invited to address the meeting formally ( whereas San Román was only given a private hearing ) , and described the outcome as " adequate " . |
| 6 | I was only given a few days ' notice . |
| 7 | This book is intended as a concise account of the principles of peptide chemistry for upper-level undergraduates studying chemistry and biochemistry and the author has obviously given a great deal of thought to the needs of his readers . |
| 8 | Perhaps , when he 'd dropped her , he 'd better give a little thought to damage limitation and the covering of his tracks . |
| 9 | This table can only give a general feel of the capacity of the corpus to cover the transitions likely to arise in unseen text . |
| 10 | I assume you are using a proper aquarium sea salt mix , as other salts , while providing the correct specific gravity ( 1.002 ) , will only give a neutral pH , whereas you need 7.6–8.0 . |
| 11 | This chapter can only give a broad outline of BM and further reading is certainly justified at this stage . |
| 12 | Secondly , any subset of a lexicon , whether from a dictionary or word list , can only give a partial , and perhaps unrepresentative , view of language . |
| 13 | Had n't she had enough of men for the moment , without being stupid enough to allow herself the folly of being attracted to a man who could n't basically give a damn whether she existed or not ? |
| 14 | They are the people who will benefit the most , if they will tolerate it ; so give a diuretic and add a beta blocker if you feel it is indicated . |
| 15 | Nor does a patient who refuses consent in some circumstances necessarily give a true refusal of consent to treatment in any quite different circumstances which may arise : an example is to be found in Werth v. Taylor ( 1991 ) 475 N.W.2d 426 . |
| 16 | Louisa had been skidding unsteadily about the ice for the best part of an hour when a carriage came round the rear drive of the Hall and , after a moment 's debate , Edwin Frere sprang down to give a helping hand to his well-muffled wife . |
| 17 | Hood : the hood is big but closes down well when the drawcord is pulled in to give a comfortable fit around the head . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll send me husband , then , ’ she said , huffily , and went out vanquished , pausing only to give a good hard scratch to her left calf . |
| 19 | That was prepared merely to give a general picture of the Business in order to help potential Purchasers decide whether or not they wished to enter into more detailed negotiations to acquire the Business . |
| 20 | In writing an auto-biography or the story of my life , or the intimate journals or diary of myself , it would be well perhaps to give a few details concerning my birth ; a date or two might add a little dignity also . |
| 21 | It 's small enough to carry on the hill , but the historical introductions get together to give a good potted history of the Golden Age of Alpinism . |
| 22 | It all ties together to give a simple scheme of explanation . |
| 23 | However , the departmental system of budgeting contains no mechanism to identify those individual parts , nor any mechanism to bring them together to give a total for orthopaedic surgery . |
| 24 | How these claims and dependencies are reconciled , how the views of the different disciplines fit consistently together to give a total picture of the one world of experience is a problem both vast and baffling . |
| 25 | The answer to these doubts is that not one of these three measures is adequate on its own , and that all three should be taken together to give a proper guide to costs . |
| 26 | This traditional-style comfort room shows how plains , patterns and stripes can be used together to give a lived-in look . |
| 27 | This coming and going of black and white was just fast enough to give a faint , flickering image of Lucy 's delightful nakedness and all of a sudden gave Fleury an idea . |
| 28 | Once you have mastered touch legering you will always be grateful you took the time and trouble to learn , for you will meet situations where , because of this experience , you are the only person catching fish on certain days when the fish are not biting boldly enough to give a good visual indication . |
| 29 | She managed to open her eyes even wider ; wide enough to give a suicidal Spaniel decent competition . |
| 30 | This sets up a desirable chain of movements so giving a correct position at the top of the backswing which allows the player to swing the clubhead back to the ball on the right path , that is , from inside-to-straight , or as a theory has it , from in-to-out . |