Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] to give [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Local authorities are to be given the leading role in the organisation of community care , but the decision to give them this responsibility was taken with the greatest possible reluctance and only after every other possibility had been explored . |
2 | ‘ Do you disapprove of us , my angel ? ’ she asked , exalted by wine and overbearing , and took him down to the kitchen to give him some of the leftover chicken . |
3 | A new Quality Performance system was set up for the person rowing the boat to give him more incentive to work harder and become a key performer . |
4 | People , of course , have the capacity to give their own meanings to their and other people 's actions . |
5 | An unexpected message of good luck from Phillip Schofield , star of the London production , spurred on the cast to give their all . |
6 | ‘ Yes , ’ I said , looking round for the waitress to give us more coffee , ‘ I still hate vomit . |
7 | He also uses personification rather a lot throughout the novel to give us more of an idea of what he was experiencing . |
8 | We would love to put out title on the line , if the IRB had the guts and the vision to give us that chance . |
9 | Apart from the very great difficulty of establishing how a couple manage their finances ( in effect one would have to take their word for it ) and the strong incentive they would have to arrange their affairs so as to safeguard the woman 's claim to benefit , the fact that she is receiving benefit may itself make it unnecessary for the man to give her more than is required for his own keep . |
10 | I would need another 40 yards off the tee to give myself any sort of chance . |
11 | But as you said if it is your responsibility you 'll have to do it all yourself , there are lots of resources and lots of other people who can actually help you out who have the knowledge and you can use because you can use it as a development tool ca n't you for some of your members of the section to give them some training expertise . |
12 | Now is the time to give it those tools . |
13 | Henry was so infuriated by the childlike look of loss on his face he had half a mind to give him some . |
14 | It 's very hard to explain , but these people are all on the extreme left and were seeking a poet to give them some sort of standing . |
15 | I must say it 's a pleasure to give you that |
16 | But the way he did it was with the same connections he defied , and to get into serious racing in his early days , he got a bank to give him credit and a sponsor to give him some backing : though he had n't , of his own , a sou in the world . |
17 | I thought when I first came here that I hated what she was trying to do to me and then I came to see that the clothes , the manners , the society , all those things were part of a process , a process to give me enough confidence to do what I liked , not to live in eternal dread of insignificance and error . |
18 | So that each member of staff got a chance to give her own opinion , the staff were interviewed individually . |
19 | She saw no reason to give him any information he did not already have . |
20 | I guess if they are reasonable there is no reason to give them any shit . |
21 | Against the background that people expected support for an elderly person to be reciprocated in some fairly immediate way , the pressure to exclude older people from the labour market was accompanied by a pressure to give them some independent means of support which would prevent their having to rely on their children or other relatives . |
22 | He will see that a number of general practitioner practices have become fundholders , that a local NHS trust has already reduced waiting lists by 1,200 in the last year , and that a district authority is about to merge with a neighbour to give itself more clout . |
23 | I I have only one point I would like to raise , Mrs , and this is whether or not er you are in a position to give me any comments er in relation to the er colony of Great Crested Newts in this pond . |
24 | When we have resolved the matter we shall be in a position to give them all the reassurance they can ask . |
25 | In this regard , the teacher will know the pupils who need more help , and , as in all classes , will be in a position to give them any extra help needed in order to achieve the learning outcomes . |
26 | If it be a duty imposed by law upon a party regularly subpoenaed to attend from time to time to give his evidence then a promise to give him any remuneration for loss of time incurred in such attendance is a promise without consideration . |
27 | They 've got sort of mind you they have their own training sort of regime as well , which in some ways is , means it 's quite good experience because it is structured in , in a , in a way to give you some training , whereas of course if you just go in to do a job then erm how much sort of training you get varies a bit . |
28 | , our Sports Council Liaison Officer , has asked us to co-operate with a survey to give her some ammunition to fight on behalf of all the Movement & Dance organisations . |
29 | You may wish for a partner to give you all that , but what are you prepared to give of yourself ? |
30 | They were well aware that before the English visit , and in an attempt to give himself some room for manoeuvre , Napoleon III had wooed the Tsar . |