Example sentences of "[conj] give [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Buckley LJ in the Court of Appeal provided some useful guidance as to precisely what rights or powers the individual must have before he can be said to have transferred or given the opportunity to another person so that the other person can make the gain . |
| 2 | The things in the ‘ outside world ’ which we use to embody or give a shape to our feelings are our metaphors . |
| 3 | The big problem with this latter group is to find some sort of unifying factor that will make sense or give a theme to a miscellany of oddments that are less than distinguished . |
| 4 | This might include offering a verbal report to a staff meeting or circulating a short written report , asking pupils to identify any pieces of information they would like brought back from the secondment , or giving a talk to a tutor group . |
| 5 | They did not understand , or gave no thought to , the ethnic , national and ideological conflicts that their arrangements would create within Germany , nor the internal and external targets Germany would come to identify as the causes of its misfortune . |
| 6 | rejected the allegation that the wife 's agreement to the opening of the account had been procured by undue influence on the part of her husband , but dealt with ‘ the suggestion that the bank are disentitled to enforce the mandate because they sent or gave the document to Mr. Shephard and did not themselves obtain the defendant 's signature ’ by holding [ 1988 ] 3 All E.R. |
| 7 | But he did it with a warming smile and a ready assumption of her allegiance and willingness , more as if he had asked a small current courtesy of his wife than given an order to a servant . |
| 8 | I do not think that the hon. Member for Edinburgh , Central , his hon. Friends or the majority of my hon. Friends would say that the Government were wrong , rather than giving no status to people who have been in this country for a number of years , to have given them exceptional leave to remain . |
| 9 | Edward Miall argued in the 1840s that giving the vote to the working class would give them that sense of citizen responsibility which they were said to lack , and that as a result the middle class would be able to " lead them almost whithersoever they please . " |
| 10 | Our Verdict : We especially liked the facial saunas , a relaxing treatment that gave a lift to tired skin . |
| 11 | Last month George Soros bought a 10% stake at $19.50 a share , a deal that gave a boost to the price of gold . |
| 12 | SOUNDS : Sadly missed rock 'n' roll weekly that gave a start to half NME 's current glitterati . |
| 13 | Even in the Lockerbie disaster , where a plane exploded in mid-air , and many bodies could only be pieced together in fragments , relatives came from the other side of the world searching for something , anything that gave a focus to their grief and over which they could weep . |
| 14 | The Oxford goal that gave a leg-up to Swindon . |
| 15 | Regina della Scala , who built the church that gave the name to La Scala and was the wife of Bernabo , is also buried here . |
| 16 | They provide a breadth of experience and a presence that gives a service to pupils throughout the school . |
| 17 | Between stops we can try and find out why their debut LP , ‘ Eva Luna ’ , is such a welcome anachronism that gives a shock to the nerve-centres of the techno ‘ n ’ grunge consensus , why rhythm is omnipotent once again and why they 've finally broken the apathetic silence by taking us all to task with some bold statements on matters of importance , instead of indistinct paeans to various objects of desire . |
| 18 | Saxton , from Oxford , insisted he had used the drug for his asthma and given a dose to Welshman Davies when he complained of a ‘ tight ’ chest . |
| 19 | Ill health and bereavement are the most common needs for which the charity gives assistance — for example , it has recently helped a member whose career was terminated by multiple sclerosis to buy an electric wheelchair , and given a loan to a member 's widow reliant on state benefits to enable her to pay off the disputed partnership settlement debts accrued when her husband died . |
| 20 | A GROWING demand for slate roofs has breathed new life into traditional slate quarrying in north Wales and given a fillip to villages that for centuries have relied on the industry for jobs . |
| 21 | Fowler was taken into the kitchen and given a chair to one side of the cooking range while Jordan sat opposite him . |
| 22 | Edmondson , meanwhile , has bought himself an adjustable music stool with some of his £100 , and given the rest to charity . |
| 23 | ‘ I am delighted that Britain has come into line with all other major Western democracies and given the vote to its citizens who live and work abroad , ’ Sir James said . |
| 24 | It transpired that the previous day he had been in Liverpool and given an interview to the Daily Telegraph which had been interpreted to mean that we were about to call in the troops . |
| 25 | It 's to do with the Government housing policy at national level , but there are certain things we can do , and I remember about two and a half years ago I arranged for a group of people to come and give a seminar to the Housing Committee . |
| 26 | An give de power to police . |
| 27 | I took Tim to the match one Easter Monday they played Luton in league match , and Ted played , the old Ipswich player , and we go absolutely , it rained , hailed , blew , and we got home soaked to the skin you know , and er it seems to make you feel better if they win you know , but if you sort of put up with those sort of things and they , they lose it 's makes you feel right down in the dumps , but when they get promoted like they did last time it 's remarkable , it 's been remarked about this aspect , that people in local industry seem to work harder , and it seems to be a boost in general local traders make shop window displays and it seems to be a boost to the town in general and give a lift to the town if you like |
| 28 | JANUARY ‘ 89 saw the beginning of transformation at the Wallingford maltings with the launch of a massive £4 million investment programme to modernise the existing plant and give a boost to production . |
| 29 | It 's all here , so why not spend that holiday at home this year and give a boost to our much needed travel industry and tourism industry in this country ? |
| 30 | Where the detective short story had as its object the displaying of an act of detection , the crime short story or suspense short story has as its object to put a person or persons into danger and give a revelation to one or more people , be they the perpetrator of a crime , its victim or simply a witness . |