Example sentences of "[adv] give [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet as the responsibilities of public life invade Hal 's apprenticeship to pleasure , the distinction — prose with Falstaff/verse without him — breaks down , as we see when he addresses his fat friend in verse to urge him to the wars ( III.iii.199ff. ) , a change of tone so marked that Shakespeare makes Falstaff reply in a couplet — as Milton Crane noted , Falstaff is only given verse for mockery . |
| 2 | Even then the provisions under the Act were fairly limited : the penal laws were not repealed , but Protestant Dissenters were merely given immunity from prosecution if they held their own religious services , provided their meeting-houses were licensed and the doors were left open when they met . |
| 3 | The section is intended to give the police power to impose conditions on ‘ coercive ’ marches which will not necessarily give rise to disorder ; a National Front march through a predominantly Asian district may well prompt many of the citizens simply to board up their properties and remain indoors . |
| 4 | The discovery of it outside the groups identified as apparent risks can only give cause for concern . |
| 5 | On another occasion , I would want to argue that , despite the problems , comparisons with the English system can only give ground for encouragement and that we should be thinking of extending the Scottish system beyond the age of 16 to include offenders under 21 . |
| 6 | The insults or stresses which cause the imbalances and so give rise to disease can be of two types : |
| 7 | The best that could be achieved in western Europe was a dispersed defensive strategy which would bog down an offensive , in case of war , and so give time for negotiation . |
| 8 | But in the lives of many people today love and marriage , though ideals , swiftly give way to conflict , strain , unhappiness and divorce . |
| 9 | Raft , n , an improvised float of planks fastened together to give support on water . |
| 10 | Li also pointedly gave support to leftist agricultural policies reportedly opposed by Deng , endorsing collective service networks and ideological education campaigns in rural areas . |
| 11 | Greek civilization not only gave rise to philosophy but it also produced , in the fifth century BC , the first real historians . |
| 12 | The Chancellor of the Exchequer was a little more friendly since he ‘ would rather give money for Education than throw it down the sink with Sir William Beveridge ’ . |
| 13 | The organiser , too , is a woman … though she 'd rather give pride of place at the air display to another female — Sally B , a B-17 bomber , star of the film Memphis Belle . |
| 14 | She 's just given birth to daughter Rosie . |
| 15 | The shamed Roman Catholic cleric wrote a heart-rending letter to the parents of his mistress , teacher Monika Kocanek , who had just given birth to baby Jennifer . |
| 16 | While there is no way of knowing whether these rates of erosion are typical or atypical of Andean regions in general , the data nevertheless give cause for concern and emphasise the role of soil erosion as a major agent of environmental change . |
| 17 | The rewards and their distribution become a part of the social order and thus give rise to stratification ( Davis and Moore . |
| 18 | There are a number of aspects about this privatisation which are already giving cause for alarm . |
| 19 | Steam power finally gave way to electricity by the mid-1950s and in 1977 , the mill was completely gutted and re-equipped with modern machinery , much of it made locally by Simon-Barron of Gloucester . |
| 20 | This just gives time for production and dispatch to members giving them at least a clear month before the next event . |
| 21 | Loathsome as he now is , he becomes still more so as he hypocritically professes to Cornwall his filial embarrassment : ‘ How , my lord , I may be censured , that nature thus gives way to loyalty , something fears me to think of … . |
| 22 | Then Mr Neal read from Romans 12 : ‘ Avenge not yourselves , but rather give place unto wrath … vengeance is mine : I will repay saith the Lord ’ . |
| 23 | The Phoenicians , and in particular the Carthaginians , are still given pride of place in our handbooks for their institutions and their colonization because the Greeks recognized themselves in such things . |
| 24 | In the 1980s payments of this kind , and for related royalties and patents , have come to equal about 40 per cent of the income in dividends which accrues to foreign investors and they are usually given priority in payment over dividends . |
| 25 | ( 4 ) Cinema has always given primacy of place to images . |
| 26 | power considerations will usually give way to efficiency — at least in profit-making enterprises , if observations are taken at sufficiently long intervals [ … |
| 27 | Fourth , ‘ theories which assert that all inequality is morally wrong ’ : resources are allocated by comparison across individual lives at any given moment ; for example most people would unequivocally give priority for treatment to those in the most pain . |
| 28 | Brentford manager Phil Holder said : ‘ Joe is a very whole-hearted player who will always give value for money . |
| 29 | The four other defendants are still to give evidence At hearing |
| 30 | The Herbarium photocopier was still giving cause for concern in respect of a lack of information and instruction on its use . |