Example sentences of "[adj] give [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be upbuilding to others in the congregation to hear one another give thanks to God . |
| 2 | Confectionery , food and soft drinks manufacturer Cadbury Schweppes — ranked 60 in The Times 1000 and with nearly 27500 employees — was also prepared to give credit to headhunters . |
| 3 | We had not been prepared to give way to health unions with much public support . |
| 4 | Mr Radoman Bozovic , Prime Minister , said : ‘ We are not prepared to give way to pressures contrary to Serbian dignity and to our economic sovereignty . ’ |
| 5 | To do that , they 're even prepared to give money to Moslems . ’ |
| 6 | We need someone who enjoys working with figures and accounts , is prepared to give time to Executive and Finance meetings , and can liaise with the Society 's Officers . |
| 7 | Objectively , it is quicker to give commands to Okapi , but there is a stage in the search procedure ( the merge ) which is sometimes faster on LIBERTAS . |
| 8 | HSE inspectors in the Chelmsford and Norwich offices were always willing to give advice to contractors in the prevention of falls from heights . |
| 9 | This gave rise to speculation that Suchard planned to use these funds to launch another takeover bid , possibly for Cadbury Schweppes . |
| 10 | There were those who considered it to be a purely defensive step , and this gave rise to rumour . |
| 11 | This gave rise to War Communism . |
| 12 | This gives rise to difficulties in serving an abatement or prohibition notice , as it is not possible to specify any works to abate the odour , and yet a notice which merely requires the recipient to take steps to abate the odour , is unlikely to achieve the desired effect . |
| 13 | This gives rise to litters in which there are some stumpies ( with no tails at all ) , some rumpy-risers ( with a knob of a tail ) , some stumpies or stubbies ( with very short tails ) and some longies ( with almost full-length tails ) . |
| 14 | Half of the time this gives rise to tritium and a proton , and ( almost ) the rest of the time gives helium-3 and a neutron . |
| 15 | As the Spring of 1963 gave way to Summer , one priority became uppermost in Whitaker 's mind — to get one script of each type of Doctor Who story together as soon as possible . |
| 16 | Normally a modest stream , it occasionally becomes a torrent after a downpour and , when held up by a high tide-can give rise to flooding in the lower part of the town as , spectacularly , in 1914 and 1935 . |
| 17 | ‘ I should be glad to give evidence to Lord Justice Scott 's inquiry . ’ |
| 18 | Paragraph ( b ) , however , is likely to give rise to difficulty with its concept of ‘ abnormal ’ characteristics , if only because it may be so difficult to determine the ‘ normal ’ characteristics of a species . |
| 19 | Equipment should not be installed if it is likely to give rise to legionnaire 's disease . |
| 20 | Solid manure stores , carefully sited and tended , are less likely to give rise to nuisance problems than is liquid storage in the form of a slurry . |
| 21 | When advising insurers of circumstances likely to give rise to claims , also advise your accountant . |
| 22 | Such changes are likely to give rise to changes in living standards and to household working behaviour . |
| 23 | The test will check that there are no sharp edges or projections arising from damage or excessive corrosion likely to give rise to injury . |
| 24 | The espousal of informalism as the answer to critiques of the effectiveness of judicial methods of handling family disputes is likely to give rise to disappointment . |
| 25 | Initially , the isolation is likely to make the horse overtly anxious ; but as time passes , its restlessness is likely to give way to depression . |
| 26 | Terry Long was always a welcome visitor to Selhurst Park , but it was an enormous pleasure to everyone connected with Crystal Palace when he agreed to make a public return here in October 1984 to give recognition to Jim Cannon , who is the one man to have played more games for us than Terry himself did . |
| 27 | The emergence of the Data Protection Act 1984 gave rise to controversy and one complaint has been the burden that it may cause for small business computer users . |
| 28 | The precise criteria and procedures whereby schools were included in the project are discussed at length elsewhere in this report , but we may note that a set of guidelines for school participation was drawn up and developed by the Project Coordinating Team ( see Appendix 3 ) and that these gave direction to schools as they established library committees and developed their plans . |
| 29 | The Washington Post of Nov. 21 gave prominence to Rafsanjani 's declarations and reported that " India announced this week that it will not sell a nuclear reactor to Iran , largely because of mounting international pressure " . |
| 30 | The early strains used were not highly active against some major lepidopterous pests , but the discovery of the HD1 strain in 1969 gave rise to products with a broad activity spectrum against many pest species and , until very recently , this has been the basis of all commercial products for caterpillar control . |