Example sentences of "[adv] give a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evans sees it as an adaptation of the Egyptian dog-ape , possibly developing from the monkey frescoes in the Knossos Labyrinth ; the monkey was not native to Crete and the animal may have been taken for a monster and so given an impulse to the creation of other monsters . |
| 2 | Goma appealed to the man who denounced the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 to stand up and be counted , and so give an example to his fellow citizens to persuade them to overcome their reticence about signing the Charter : |
| 3 | He was called in to give a boost to the campaign to get more pupils to have lunch at school … and as Mike Rowbottom found out , he seems to have enjoyed it . |
| 4 | She 's only to give an envelope to Louise . |
| 5 | Why is it that so many people who are kind enough to give a home to an abandoned dog , then resent advice on how best to integrate this traumatised pooch into the family ? |
| 6 | This naturally gives an advantage to the institutions ' closest advisers : American investment banks . |
| 7 | The fall in Third World export prices has thus given a boost to the Gross National Product ( GNP ) of the rich countries , to the tune of something like $100 billion a year . |
| 8 | It was true : she had not given a thought to Gazzer . |
| 9 | ‘ Love apples , ’ she had said to Mark , and the words ‘ love apple ’ had somehow given a name to the district , strange and different as it was from the rest of the parish which lay over the other side of the main road , far from the railway line . |
| 10 | The words of the statute , as they stand , do not give an answer to the question before the judge ; and the question is therefore legislative rather than interpretative . |
| 11 | If a husband and wife can only tell each other how uncomfortable they feel about the change , and how odd it makes them feel , not endlessly or every day , but just to give a place to the fact , then they have a good chance of staying on a fairly positive course . |
| 12 | Mike Wearing senior warden of the Queen Elizabeth Country Park , is soon to give a talk to the group . |
| 13 | Joanna Baker , the Festival 's director of marketing and public affairs , spoke to a number of design houses before finally giving a brief to the Edinburgh firm of McIlroy Coates . |
| 14 | What is said above gives a background to what follows . |
| 15 | I got married twenty three years ago in China , well , we just invite er , invited er our friends , and er former school mates to ma , to my home and we did n't make any vow , er we just gave a banquet to the friends , and er , in China people now can get married in many ways and er some foreigners have come to China to get married in a traditional Chinese way , and they have to er , carry their bride in a sedan chair . |
| 16 | Lil and I would always give a home to John 's wife and child . ’ |
| 17 | After years of hardly giving a thought to their pension , panic suddenly sets in as they consider the prospect of no longer drawing a regular salary . |
| 18 | They were both silent as they drove home , and when they passed Monument Hill Jack hardly gave a thought to the Worm or Jonathan Ram , or anything else Jamie Shepherd had told him . |
| 19 | It seems odd , but I was enjoying myself so much that I hardly gave a thought to the fact that we were alone , miles away from anyone , and that the average man in such a situation … |
| 20 | Monod , by his collaboration with Coque , at least left a name in the automotive industry , but who today ever gives a thought to Le Chassis , without whose basic contribution to the theory of tetracyclic separation that industry would never have got off the ground ? |
| 21 | He once gave a demonstration to the trainees , picking on a virgin client whom a good trainee had been unable to open up . |
| 22 | ( So committed has Kandel been to reductionism as philosophy as well as methodology that he once gave a talk to an audience of psychiatrists with the theme of ‘ Psychotherapy and the single synapse ’ . ) |
| 23 | Glamorgan have also given a trial to Stewart Taylor , 20 , a left-arm spinner from Dublin who has played for Irish Schools . |
| 24 | The sovereign people had given de Gaulle a vote of confidence , but they had also given a mandate to parties which opposed him . |
| 25 | It has also given a commitment to ‘ investigate and develop appropriate child care options according to local needs ’ , including the possibility of secured places at local nurseries . |
| 26 | Apparently , if a baby kicks and is repeatedly given a response to that kick by touch , it can become highly responsive when it enters the world . |
| 27 | " I shall also give a warning to those present , to the effect that , in my view , nothing could be worse for the treatment of cholera than the warm baths , mustard-plasters and compresses recommended by Dr Dunstaple , which can only further reduce the water content of the blood No medicine could be more dangerous in cholera collapse than opium , and calomel in the form of a pill is utterly useless . " |
| 28 | If a critic has a very decided political or religious point of view , this can override other considerations in judgements about art ; the viewpoint may also give a bias to the description or interpretation made . |
| 29 | It would also give an advantage to non-EC purchasers of European heritage . |
| 30 | IBOA has totally rejected this arrogant attempt by the Banks to undermine the settlement proposals and members in all Banks should clearly give a message to their Management , that this development is totally unacceptable . |