Example sentences of "to give [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Polluted water often smells , and a serious and persistent pollution may turn a stream anaerobic , causing it to give off hydrogen sulphide , with its familiar odour of rotten eggs . |
| 2 | Fresh flowers are fine for scenting the air but their life is finite , and to preserve their perfume , it was found that a mixture of flower petals , collected when they were at exactly the right stage in their development , then carefully dried or part-dried , and mixed with an ingredient which " fixed " the perfume , such as orris root ( Iris gennanica florentina ) would continue to give off fragrance for months and even years . |
| 3 | Now er in the last sentence you 've got five marks to give for spelling and punctuation . |
| 4 | The casing is much wider than it needs to be , I suppose bigger looks better , and although the top is made of a substantial plastic the base is n't and tends to give under pressure . |
| 5 | In other words , support for the education policies of the church were the quid the Irish party had to give in order to obtain the quo of the bishops ' endorsement of the party as the genuine political representatives of the Irish people or nation . |
| 6 | It was therefore important for him to be well informed about events in his own country and in the political world generally ; and ambassadors sometimes asked in their despatches for news which they could trade with their colleagues from other states since , as one of them told the French foreign minister in 1674 , " You know that in [ diplomacy ] as in other ordinary transactions it is necessary to give in order to receive " . |
| 7 | If we take a knife to the Bible and cut out the bits which the modern world can not understand we compromise the message which Christianity has to give to society . |
| 8 | The higher the tax rate the more incentive there is to give to charity . |
| 9 | The lower the tax rate the more costly it is to give to charity compared to ordinary spending . |
| 10 | ‘ I want to give to charity , but I 'm torn between helping someone ‘ on my own doorstep ’ or in the Third World ’ . |
| 11 | Since nineteen seventy nine we have done much to extend and improve the tax incentives available in order to encourage individual and corporate donors to give to charity . |
| 12 | ‘ For its devotees communism has the value of a religion , insofar as it is felt to provide a complete explanation of reality and of man as part of reality , and at the same time to give to life , as religion does , a sense of purpose . ’ |
| 13 | During Mark 's absence in Spain , ‘ the mole ’ Fred Klepner had spent countless hours going over the Ten Year Business plan which was to be the subject of the presentation Mark was to give to Nate Cocello at the next Planning Committee meeting . |
| 14 | Just as journal serialization affected the chapter formation and the structure of the nineteenth-century novelistic , so also the expectation of the break , mediated by the specific form of attention which audiences are believed to give to television , produces a mutation within the novelistic towards segmented narration . |
| 15 | She felt she had something to give to college life |
| 16 | Supermarkets and libraries too are usually willing to give over part of their foyer for a limited time for exhibitions of children 's work . |
| 17 | Whether HMIs or local inspectors are involved , the school still has to give over control of the evaluation to outsiders ; it may only be willing to do this if teachers are assured of the kind of fairness discussed above . |
| 18 | Another limitation placed upon the scheme is the amount of advice which a solicitor is permitted to give without reference to the Area Director . |
| 19 | When correcting a question , it is not satisfactory to give without comment , a mark such as 10/20 ; this only irritates the student and leaves him/her to guess the reason for the loss of marks from the printed solutions ; and often the guess will be incorrect . |
| 20 | Whichever side of the transaction you represent , as soon as you 've dispatched or received replies to requisitions ( you ca n't do so before , because you wo n't know what the other side wants or is able to give on completion ) , complete the three agendas " before completion " , " completion " and " after completion " . |
| 21 | In 1919 he joined the staff of the London Homoeopathic Hospital as pathologist and bacteriologist , and found that he could use the homoeopathic method of potentization to prepare his vaccines which he was then able to give by mouth instead of by injection . |