Example sentences of "give [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I continued to work in the bank and give private lessons at weekends .
2 claimants ' knowledge of their rights of review and the procedures was limited , and most authorities give little information and publicity about this ;
3 There are those who give little of the much which they have — and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gift unwholesome .
4 In this , legislative controls on cosmetics give little help .
5 The indices for rarer species , and the nocturnal ones such as owls , have been omitted from the tables because the figures give little useful information compared to those in the general records of the Society .
6 Some through passage takes place in spring , between March and early May , and in autumn up to the end of November , but recent records give little idea of the scale of these movements .
7 We have dwelt too long among the great ; for all these cities , vital as their history was for the future , give little help in explaining the extraordinary prosperity of the smaller cities — though the precocious growth of Pisa may have helped its Tuscan neighbours .
8 Hence , their files give little indication of misdemeanours , which take up whole pages when girls were involved .
9 Perhaps conflict between parents and foster parents , or religious dilemma ( coming from an orthodox background , Salomon described himself as ‘ only liberal ’ ) , contributed — the records give little indication .
10 I give little coverage to the associated subject of the setting up of the model .
11 Unfortunately , theological colleges give little specialist training in the area of new church planting or moribund church rejuvenation .
12 Give little Laura my love . ’
13 For example , Ambrose , Harper and Pemberton 's ( 1983 ) small study of men after divorce found that just over half their sample relied on parents and/or siblings for support , but they give little detail about the type of support offered and it may well have been practical as much as emotional .
14 The chroniclers report the campaigns in muted terms , and give little impression of a will to war amongst either the nobility or the community generally .
15 In their terms , however , all of these exceptions turn on legal concepts ( ultra vires , misfeasance/nonfeasance , special damage ) which are difficult to define and apply and which , on their own , give little help in predicting whether or not a judicial remedy will be available .
16 The plate commentaries are brief and give little uniform information ; but for the plates alone this is a welcome revision .
17 They give little thought to , what they have to do in a day and how long each task may take .
18 And yet most people give little thought to their use of the spoken word .
19 Many vote for the same party every time they vote , and probably give little attention to the personalities or policies of specific candidates .
20 However , they give little information about the obstetric features of their cases , which might be quite important since matching is essential with such small numbers — for example , were the babies predominantly born during preterm labour or were they delivered electively for some obstetric complication ?
21 The officials and experts all spread their arms helplessly , and give little laughs .
22 Expect little and pressurised in personal of life , and give little .
23 Some of the finest melodies give little hint of the harmonies that go with them .
24 Little help for either view may be found in the accounts of the life of Fahreddin Acemi in the early sources , however , for particularly in regard to the critical period after the death of Molla Fenari they give little information .
25 A local newspaper has suggested that Indonesians tend to waver between extremes of toleration and banning , but give little thought to the middle ground — restricting becaks to well-defined areas of the city under supervision and control .
26 The relevant legislation ( Schedule 1 , Part 2 , Trade Union and Labour Relations Act , 1974 ) and the provisions of the Code of Practice give little guidance to tribunals as to how they should approach the problem of dismissal following on a conviction , and it is to be questioned whether firm guidelines would be beneficial .
27 They give little attention not only to how it is understood and experienced but also to the relations between bureaucracies and elected politicians .
28 Robert Lowe , one of the bitterest opponents of the 1867 Act , warned : " Once give working men the votes , and the machinery is ready to launch those votes in one compact mass upon the institutions and property of this country . "
29 Qureshi and Simon 's ( 1987 ) work , on exchanges of assistance between elderly people and their kin , and Wilson 's ( 1987 ) findings on grandparents ' support for their grandchildren , both show that women as well as men give economic support to younger generations , but there are some gender differences in the type of support given .
30 Most textbooks give greatest weight to the family of theories based on an organic ‘ primeval soup ’ .
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