Example sentences of "[prep] give any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I will risk it , not because I want to give the fish a chance ; I do not believe in giving any fish a chance , I go to the races when I want to gamble . |
| 2 | As an alternative subjects were instructed to wait until the end of a film before giving any description . |
| 3 | Whilst the purchaser may wish to elicit the vendors ' considered expectations before giving any indication , it is doubtful that much progress will be made in satisfying the above objectives without the purchaser giving a suitably caveated valuation range or at least an indication of the band of earnings multiples/net asset premiums it may be prepared to apply . |
| 4 | The board demolished a partly built house , without giving any opportunity to the builder to be heard in opposition to the demolition . |
| 5 | For each thin section , the scientist makes a decision on what he regards as its significant features ( such as size or shape of particular mineral inclusions ) and then scores each feature , for each thin section , on a simple scale from one to five , without giving any thought at this stage to similarities and differences . |
| 6 | If the decision applies in this context , then a defendant will be guilty of rape if he has sexual intercourse with a non-consenting woman without giving any thought to the possibility that she might not be consenting even though the risk of this was obvious . |
| 7 | For example , if an Insured left an item such as an expensive camera on view in his car without giving any thought to its safety or concealment perhaps on the basis that it was insured anyway that would be indicative of an unnecessary risk where no real precautions had been taken . |
| 8 | Again it is possible to make categorical assertions in English without giving any indication of the evidence that one has for making them or of one 's attitude towards what one is saying : there are languages that can not do this . ’ |
| 9 | The whole subject was brought to a sudden climax when Hilbert in 1888 showed that for a form of any degree in any number of variables a finite " basis " always exists — and this without giving any indication of how to find such a set in any particular instance ! |
| 10 | Receivers however always want to sell without giving any warranties and indemnities because their own knowledge of the business is limited and they do not want any continuing involvement with the buyer . |
| 11 | But while the woman , 46-year-old Margaret Presley , of Portsmouth , Hants , was rushed inside — drip-ping with blood from serious head injuries and a broken shoulder — the man drove off without giving any details . |
| 12 | The judge , therefore , sets up a legal scale for weighing the relative importance of solely medical criteria , without giving any justification for his choice , without advancing sound non-medical criteria , and despite the fact that expert opinion would have him avoid such an inflexible position . |
| 13 | For in his analyses of the classes of capitalism he resorts to purposive terminology , without giving any hint of how this is to be understood except in an everyday , voluntarist manner . |