Example sentences of "[verb] to give [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effective teacher needs to give thought to the abilities pupils will require in order to be successful historians themselves . |
| 2 | The head needs to give priority to the close analysis of practice , exploring the different kinds of learning going on in classrooms , reflecting it back to staff , assessing , estimating , reflecting and asking others to do the same . |
| 3 | A small amount of Italian may be included to give bulk in the first year . |
| 4 | That was why the Congress of People 's Deputies was being recommended to give priority to the government 's report on the economy . |
| 5 | She walked behind the main counter to the flap that could be lifted to give access to the shop itself and , leaning on her forearms , looked down on to her weekly customers and asked , ‘ Well then , what is it to be ? ’ |
| 6 | The buying of a teapot was part of the Burton ritual that helped to give variety to the East Anglian 's stay in the Midlands . |
| 7 | Discover the wonderful Ionian Islands on one of our flotillas tailored to give confidence to the inexperienced and freedom to the expert . |
| 8 | Designed to give practice in the main functional patterns used in writing the most common forms of business letters . |
| 9 | As a result , the 1974 Housing Act introduced Housing Action Areas ( HAAs ) , designed to give priority to the improvement of areas for which GIAs are not relevant , where poor physical condition of housing is combined with social stress and deprivation . |
| 10 | Given that revolutionary literature is designed to give pre-eminence to the construction of a new culture , a new man , a new reading public , drawn primarily from the working class , there arises an obvious clash of interests between the revolutionary writer and the bourgeois reading public . |
| 11 | Two-thirds of the Congress seats were filled by direct popular vote from 750 single-member constituencies organized to include roughly equal numbers of voters and another 750 constituencies designed to give representation to the majority of the Soviet Union 's recognized ethnic groups ; the remaining 750 seats were reserved for members of approved social organizations ( in future elections there will be no reserved seats ) . |
| 12 | Thus prima facie the words of exclusion clauses will be given their literal meaning ; the court will strive to give effect to the words used , and , where lists are used , the drafter must bear in mind the rules expressio unius est exclusio alterius and that general words in a list will be interpreted ejusdem generis with the specific words . |
| 13 | When she starts to give birth to the older litter , the upheaval of delivery may lead to the younger litter being ejected as well . |
| 14 | Make sure you are motivated : Many women who want home births have had unsatisfactory births in hospitals and now want to give birth in the dignity of their own home . |
| 15 | Sometimes it can be shown that the tissue not only looks homogeneous , but actually is so , because , if the tissue is cut in half , each half will regulate to give rise to the same pattern as would otherwise have been produced by the whole . |
| 16 | He resolutely refuses to give way to the temptation to blame the local inhabitants for their problems . |
| 17 | However , by the time the CPAG came to give evidence to the Select Committee it had taken on board the idea of women 's financial dependency in marriage and had carried out a survey to discover the extent of mothers ' dependence on family allowance for their own and their children 's survival , irrespective of the level of their husbands ' earnings . |
| 18 | The elder child may be made to give way to the demands of the younger one in order to keep the peace . |
| 19 | When gastrulation is completed , the cells can be divided into a small number of classes according to their future fate : they may be ‘ ectodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to the outer layers of the skin , hair , the lens of the eye , and so on ) , ‘ endodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to the lining of the gut ) , ‘ mesodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to muscle , bone , blood-vessels , and many other structures ) , or , finally , they may be destined to give rise to the brain and nervous system . |
| 20 | When gastrulation is completed , the cells can be divided into a small number of classes according to their future fate : they may be ‘ ectodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to the outer layers of the skin , hair , the lens of the eye , and so on ) , ‘ endodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to the lining of the gut ) , ‘ mesodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to muscle , bone , blood-vessels , and many other structures ) , or , finally , they may be destined to give rise to the brain and nervous system . |
| 21 | When gastrulation is completed , the cells can be divided into a small number of classes according to their future fate : they may be ‘ ectodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to the outer layers of the skin , hair , the lens of the eye , and so on ) , ‘ endodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to the lining of the gut ) , ‘ mesodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to muscle , bone , blood-vessels , and many other structures ) , or , finally , they may be destined to give rise to the brain and nervous system . |
| 22 | The individual is never informed of what it is he ( sic ) is alleged to have done to give rise to the suspicion ; nor , indeed , is it necessary that he be convicted of any offence . |
| 23 | Newtonian physics at one time seemed to give support to the idea that the universe was ordered and mechanistic and , therefore , divinely made ; Darwinism challenged many of the basic tenets of Christianity , thereby setting science and religion in opposition and creating an important set of dualities — rationality/irrationality , reason/faith — through which we have come to construct science . |
| 24 | It was also , we think , common ground and is certainly correct that , against this background , any ambiguity in the Act should be resolved in favour of consistency between the Act and the Convention , the presumption being that the legislature was seeking to give effect to the principles of the Convention and would not lightly legislate inconsistently with the United Kingdom 's treaty obligations thereunder : see Garland v. British Rail Engineering Ltd. [ 1983 ] 2 A.C. 751 , 771 . |
| 25 | No bush grows to give shelter from the scouring wind ; no speck of green relieves the black surface of the empty ash plains . |
| 26 | ‘ We hope the Government will agree to an amicable settlement but it will mean a big climbdown for them because we 're not going to give way on the principle , ’ Mr Neil said . |
| 27 | I 'm not going to give money for the AOL ! |
| 28 | ... 21 AT London Scottish the role of providing rugby opportunities to Scots in London is still important , but in times of league realism , racial purity has had to give way to the expediency of also running a successful 1st XV . |
| 29 | Yet it is these very passive , dependent wishes for the omnipotent , omniscient and omnipresent parent which seem to give rise to the conflicts which are central to paranoia . |
| 30 | It is quite possible that the legislation enacted to give effect to the decision ( the Interception of Communications Act 1985 ) will be the subject of another application under the Convention . |