Example sentences of "[vb pp] give [det] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | With voting legally compulsory , 67.2 per cent of the Buenos Aires province 's electorate ( of over 7,500,000 people ) rejected a joint Peronist and Radical Party ( UCR ) package of 98 amendments to the province 's constitution , designed to give more autonomy to local councils ; 32.8 per cent voted in favour of the changes . |
| 2 | The geomorphologists of France and England , closely attached to the schools and departments of Geography , have also tended to give much attention to descriptive , deductive studies of landform development and to regional geomorphological treatments … |
| 3 | Bishop Gray , with the Bishop of Chester , the Rt Rev Michael Baughen , and the Rev Dr John Newton , had jointly made efforts to bring the extra funding that was needed to give some hope to Cammell Laird . |
| 4 | The E flat clarinet is sometimes used to give more power to the high woodwind registers occupied by flutes . |
| 5 | This may be thought to give some substance to the notion of representation , which otherwise remains remarkably vague and undemanding in the Burkean version . |
| 6 | " You 've got to give these things to her . |
| 7 | Left : The chest of the Marbled Hatchetfish is adapted to give enough power to the large pectoral fins to allow the fish to leap and glide out of and across the surface of the water , to escape from danger . |
| 8 | Jack had refused to give any meat to Piggy — |
| 9 | If this happened , sales staff would be encouraged to give more attention to tailoring insurance savings plans to the long-term needs of the customer . |
| 10 | The agreement was carefully worded to give some satisfaction to both parties . |
| 11 | The House of Lords held that this was manslaughter if there was an obvious and serious risk of causing physical injury to some other person , and D had either failed to give any thought to this risk or , having recognised the risk , nonetheless went on to take it . |
| 12 | In the leading case of Lawrence ( 1981 ) it was held that reckless driving consists of driving which creates an obvious and serious risk of causing physical injury to some other person who might be happening to use the road or of doing substantial damage to property , and that the fault element is that the driver either failed to give any thought to the possibility of such a risk or , having recognized the existence of a risk , went on to take it . |
| 13 | For one thing , Caldwell deals with cases where D has either recognized the risk or has failed to give any thought to it , whereas Morgan applies only where D has formed a distinct belief that the victim is consenting , a situation not explicitly covered by Caldwell . |
| 14 | There are arguments here , as there are in relation to mistake , that the law should impose a duty on men to consider consent , and therefore should treat them as reckless if they have failed to give any thought to the matter . |
| 15 | The unusual size was chosen to give more space to the visuals and to stand out from the standard A4 size so common in offices . |