Example sentences of "[adv] give [noun] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a strong belief that radio should not merely give prominence to the national leadership but also take measures to reduce foreign influence and content in its programmes . |
| 2 | In fact , the text can only give bones to the story . |
| 3 | Yet literature can only give access to the values entertained by the members of literate communities and in these only for persons able to apprehend what they read . |
| 4 | It means little for this child to perform with the greatest precision the most difficult pieces , with hands that can hardly stretch a sixth ; but what is really incredible is to see him improvise for an hour on end and in doing so give rein to the inspiration of his genius and to a mass of enchanting ideas … |
| 5 | In normal or right sexuality , argues Scruton , we not only give recognition to the other 's person in and through our desire tor him or her , we also accord them accountability and care in the process . |
| 6 | Overall , the objective is not only to give prominence to the life and work of a highly original and much underrated communist intellectual and novelist , but also to scrutinise the example of Nizan as a guiding principle for action in the present . |
| 7 | Instead of banning corporal punishment outright , however , it sought merely to give effect to the Court 's ruling . |
| 8 | He 'd once thought of asking one of the Venetz sisters out , but they were pretty well inseparable ; a turndown did n't worry him so much as the prospect of being accepted by one and so giving offence to the other . |
| 9 | It is the notion of a norm that perhaps gives rise to the central representation problem . |
| 10 | The attempt of the Communist Party to implement Comintern decisions naturally gave rise to the most widely publicized of the movements for some kind of co-operation on the Left . |
| 11 | The growth of domestic demand was also boosted by the connection of many new consumers : the Boards naturally gave priority to the new estates and ‘ pre-fabs ’ of the postwar housing drive which urgently needed to have electricity connected . |
| 12 | It is the reasonable foreseeability of harm arising from one 's conduct which in many types of cases not only gives rise to the duty of care to avoid inflicting such harm , but also provides the test for determining whether a person injured by the careless conduct of another falls within the class of persons to whom a duty of care is owed . |
| 13 | Recognizing that in this instance her son would use any means to persuade her to change her mind , Elizabeth Woodville none the less gave thought to the suggestion . |
| 14 | First , the committees necessarily gave attention to the physical environment and organisation of the library buildings , to the space , equipment , and people already available inside and outside the school . |
| 15 | But the mass media do not single-handedly give shape to the contours of the political system . |
| 16 | I will gladly give credit to the unstinting support that the staff of the national health service give to the principles of the NHS . |
| 17 | If I am not held up too much , I will gladly give way to the hon. Gentleman . |
| 18 | But a minister has not given evidence to the committee ‘ in living memory ’ . |
| 19 | For the parent , the same phrase means the inverse : I have not given birth to the monster which my upbringing and socialisation led me to believe I 'd had , but to a normal member of the human species as I now define it . |
| 20 | You 've already given notice to the work-force , though you have n't paid them their dues . |
| 21 | The European Commission had already given ground to the UK in November 1989 , by modifying its insistence that securities businesses should hold capital equivalent to 20 per cent of outstanding exposure , demanding instead a level of 8 per cent . |
| 22 | If cells from the region of the early embryo that will normally give rise to the eye are grafted into the region that will form the gut the cells do not form an eye any more but just part of the gut . |
| 23 | The court should thus give effect to the rules wherever possible , while at the same time seeking to avoid legalistic interpretation , particularly if this produces arbitrary or irrational results . |
| 24 | The guardian must continue to perform his other duties but can not give instructions to the child 's solicitor . |
| 25 | That paragraph does not give rise to the inference that an appropriation of property is not theft when there is a ‘ consent ’ — if it can be rightly so described — which is founded upon the dishonesty of the defendant . |
| 26 | Why his Lordship should have concluded that the facts did not give rise to the issue is unclear , but subsequent events have shown that the decision has been of much greater importance for the scope of the right of public meeting than his Lordship imagined it would be . |
| 27 | In particular , it has been asked whether there are political mechanisms , other than dictatorship , that , without restricting the nature of the preferences of voters and the choices that they can make , do not give rise to the non-existence problem . |
| 28 | So that 's all got to happen and can we expect that the improvements that have been made now to the syst to the management of this process will not give rise to the same delays that occurred in getting this system flight safe . |
| 29 | I can not give credence to the 17 per cent . |
| 30 | I shall not give way to the hon. Gentleman at the moment ; not in this speech . |