Example sentences of "be to give [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NAPALM DEATH , who are about to commence their ‘ Campaign For Musical Destruction ’ tour , are to give away a free EP with their ‘ Utopia Banished ’ album , set for May 18 release through Earache Records . |
| 2 | And it says that prospective Depo patients need more detailed information of the drug 's method of action and side-effects if they are to give truly informed consent . |
| 3 | When Ven drew up outside her hotel , Fabia went on to realise just how kind he had been to give up so much of his time . |
| 4 | The answer here must be to give up smoking — as soon as you do , you begin to reduce the risk of a heart attack . |
| 5 | Assuming that you have retrieved your ferrets , reluctant though you may be to give up there is wisdom in recognising that you have reached the stage where the expenditure of more time and effort can not be justified . |
| 6 | And the last thing in the world you 'd want would be to give up this opportunity Monsieur Verveine has given you . |
| 7 | The rumour was that they were to give up the siege and have their contracts revoked before Christmas . |
| 8 | For as well as suggesting that if we were to give up the view that most actions are autonomous we should have to give up a great deal else as well , it asserts that this transformation of our attitudes is actually beyond us . |
| 9 | A further portion of the $1,300 million pool was to be provided by the 200 former Drexel employees who were to give up $300 million-worth of partnership interests in return for immunity against future legal action . |
| 10 | These cogitations are worth quoting in full , as they so accurately reflect , albeit in a more lucid form than that usually encountered , the thinking of those who in the next few decades were to give away the empire in the belief that they were acting to preserve it . |
| 11 | Well anyway , if you were to give well I 'd give anything |
| 12 | To Roth , they 're a game of wits : the object being to give away as little as possible . |
| 13 | The ignorant response to this is to give up in despair , and to slump back agnostically into the comfortable armchair . |
| 14 | There is nowhere to run to … it is your first night , Englishman , you have to learn of a new world , you have to be patient if it is to give up to you its secrets . |
| 15 | ‘ The idea is to give up the day job and retreat to darkest Suffolk , ’ he said wistfully . |
| 16 | The logical response is to give up , but there 's more at stake than logic . |
| 17 | To give up hope is to give up life before it is taken away . |
| 18 | The trick is to give away what you reasonably can , to put straight into the waste-paper basket everything which it is not absolutely necessary to do anything about , or which it is now too late to do anything about , and then to begin to nibble away at the rest . |
| 19 | The organisation is to give out 100,000 anti-informer leaflets in nationalist areas of Northern Ireland warning people to stay away from the RUC stating such a move , ‘ could save a life , including your own ’ . |
| 20 | Part of the alleged unfairness is that some plaintiffs in the United States courts will be denied the extensive discovery available to plaintiffs generally ; but that is to give absolutely no weight to the specifically international aspects present in particular cases . |
| 21 | Of course , the best way of getting these goodies is to give unreservedly . |
| 22 | Well actually this is a matter for the police authorities and despite the fact that the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan had said this is a centralising measure and er and a number of other Noble Lords have , have said er s similar things , what my Right Honourable Friend is trying to do is to give down to local authorities more power , more responsibility and not to keep that r responsibility to himself . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps the only way to end this is to give in to it , ’ Travis offered , unconscious of the fact that his thumb began to caress her skin . |
| 24 | The role of the doctor is to give as accurate and helpful information as is possible to enable the patient to come to a decision . |
| 25 | This , again , is to give too much weight to later legends which attribute Rosamund 's death to the fury of a jealous Queen who , according to one version , tore the King 's mistress 's eyes out or , according to another , gave her a choice between poison and the knife . |
| 26 | ‘ He says eggs are nature 's to give away , like water . |
| 27 | As time went on , however , its curative uses were regarded with more and more suspicion , not assisted by tales such as that of Svengali which helped to convince an already uncertain public that to submit to hypnosis was to give up all free will and to place one 's mind in the power of another . |
| 28 | Then she heard Christ speaking to her , saying that she would have victory over all her enemies , and that she was to give up the hair-cloth that she wore and her continual saying of the Rosary , but must stop eating meat . |
| 29 | On the way back from York , they finally resolved their marital problems ; he was to make no sexual demands , she was to give up her Friday fasts and pay his debts before starting on her pilgrimage to the Holy Land . |
| 30 | As is well known , Tolkien 's grand design , or desire , was to give back to his own country the legends that had been taken from it in the Dark Ages after the Conquest , when elves and woodwoses and sigelhearwan too had all been forced into oblivion . |