Example sentences of "to give [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , the average is usually a time average ; one observes and averages the velocity at a point over a period long enough for separate measurements to give effectively the same result . |
| 2 | Er but usually you 'd have to give perhaps a drink of erm er water just , just warm water . |
| 3 | The implication of this perspective is that it is possible to give only a limited and provisional legitimacy to strategic nuclear weapons deployed as a second-strike ‘ deterrent ’ threat . |
| 4 | The map is intended to give only a generalised indication of where exploration might best be directed . |
| 5 | In the key province of Ontario — which contained one-third of the country 's population — the majority in favour was so tiny as to give only a Pyrrhic victory to the supporters of the accord . |
| 6 | There is room here to give only the briefest account of the different kinds of vertebrates . |
| 7 | Nor had she ever seen such a dress on anyone over the age of thirty , but seeing it , she had to admit that it did not even look bizarre : it was a pale purple smock , waistless and bustless , with long , much-buttoned sleeves , and yet it managed to give only the faintest , most delicate air of Bohemia . |
| 8 | The enabling statute always , explicitly or implicitly , states , if X 1 , X 2 , X 3 exist you may or shall do Y. Yet , if X 1 , X 2 , and X 3 , and all the elements constituting them , were always held to be jurisdictional in a legal sense , the dividing line between review and appeal would be emasculated : the tribunal would have power to give only the right answer , this meaning the answer which accords with the view of the reviewing court . |
| 9 | He said that these visits had given him " the opportunity to give personally an explanation of the political background " to the dispute with Tito . |
| 10 | The alternative way of pricing the TB is to substitute this yield into the present value formula ( 4.7 ) to give exactly the same issue price ( 97.51 ) as that using the discount rate formula ( 4.9 ) . |
| 11 | Because of this , people speak of cats GROWLING , SNARLING , GURGLING , WAILING and HOWLING , to give just a few of the names that have been attached to this belligerent kind of sound production . |
| 12 | They include , to give just a few examples , realizing that they have re-read the same page of a book three times without taking any of it in ; nearly getting knocked over crossing the road ; yelling ‘ Tie ! ’ at a pupil they do n't know ; noticing that they are both reading a magazine and watching the television while having their evening meal ; spotting the line of empty wine bottles that has accrued since the weekend . |
| 13 | It was an art to give just the right amount and that it would n't break . |
| 14 | After a goalless first leg we lost 2–0 at Elland Road and I handled on the line to give away a penalty . |
| 15 | To mark the video rental release on September 30 of Warren Beatty 's Oscar-winning gangster movie Bugsy , we 've linked with 20.20 Vision to give away a fabulous holiday in the States and £6,000 worth of videos . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It 's such a great book we decided to give away a copy to every new subscriber to Outdoor Action . |
| 18 | THE HOUSE OF LOVE have rescheduled their one-off London date originally postponed from September and plan to give away a limited-edition single featuring a previously unreleased ten-minute track at the show . |
| 19 | The only bloodshed came when Leroy Rosenior chopped down Steve White in the box to give away a penalty , which Paul Bodin slammed home for his 8th goal of the season . |
| 20 | Mr Murray now wants to give away the Smugglers ' Kitchen so that he can channel his efforts into another property — the Dartmoor Inn at Bovey Tracey , also in Devon . |
| 21 | ‘ You do n't expect me to give away the tricks of the trade , do you ? ’ snapped Casey Kucharyk , who was to win Amateur Class II ( up to 5ft 9in ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | To celebrate the release of Marty 's new album , Jackson have asked us to give away the new ‘ Marty Friedman ’ Signature model , which is so new that even we have n't seen it yet . |
| 24 | If you saw the other films , you wo n't need a gay activist to give away the ending , although the spin on the story here is that the hero is a male cop ( Douglas ) , as opposed to the female lawyers and FBI agents of the earlier movies . |
| 25 | The loved one is an ice-cool blonde genius murder suspect ( Stone ) , and the finale is n't quite as cut-and-dried as expected , which gives protestors a problem : in order to give away the ending , they 'll have to understand it first . |
| 26 | After all that had happened she was still unable to betray Peter — in fact , it was because of all that had happened that she felt she could n't be the one to give away the details of his difficulties , especially not to Marc , now that she knew how things stood between them both . |
| 27 | The mother sometimes finds it very difficult to give away an almost impossible to keep child and the child , when grown up , may think about why their mother gave them away . |
| 28 | Full employment would never have occupied the attention of the government to the extent it did had there not been pressure to give both a commitment and some explanation of how it would be honoured . |
| 29 | In an NHS clinic this may be only ten to fifteen minutes , but the average practitioner seeing a patient privately likes to give about an hour to the first interview , so that a good idea of as many facets of the patient as possible can be ascertained . |
| 30 | Rather than pursuing the discussion at an abstract level , it seems sensible to give here a brief synopsis of a selection of French fabliaux which can be regarded as highly typical of the genre , and which represent a range of subtypes within the genre : tales of sensual appetite or greed , adultery and fornication , sexual naivety and sexual fetishism ; a tale of robbers , the macabre joke of the corpse that apparently either can not or will not lie still , and a lavatorial tale of turds . |