Example sentences of "to give [indef pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look at all this new technology there is around now , and then tell me we ca n't afford to give everyone a proper home . |
| 2 | There is no limit to how far ahead you can book nor , often , on length of stay , although popular hostels may impose restrictions to give everyone a fair chance . |
| 3 | It was a great way to start any round and the bright sunshine and colourfully dressed spectators lining the fairways and ringing the greens combined to give everyone a lift — Jack included . |
| 4 | This year we have added a special category for best new garden under three years old to give everyone an equal chance . |
| 5 | They wanted to give everyone an equal opportunity at the beginning of their lives , in health and in education . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're unbeaten in eight games but we have n't been able to win them and the players were saying beforehand that we were going to give someone a good hiding . |
| 7 | But a crucial element of meaning can not be construed in this way , namely , the negative , scolding aspect ; because of this , the expression to give someone a piece of one 's mind must be considered semi-opaque — and , by the same token , only semi-translucent . |
| 8 | And similarly of course when you want to lie or to mislead — to give someone a false belief — what you 'll say is not necessarily something you disbelieve , but rather something you believe you disbelieve . |
| 9 | She managed to manoeuvre into the remaining space and got out to give somebody a piece of her mind . |
| 10 | Mum wants a pair of trousers for going out with , you know well she 's got plenty but like I say it 's but then you get I 'll no it 's not very personal to give somebody a voucher though is it ? |
| 11 | No way do I wish to be seen as a killjoy , I , I like a drink myself , I would always happy to give somebody a drink , but it 's the over indulgence which worries us . |
| 12 | A glance at the careers of nine of the ten Muftis who held the office between 988/1580 and 1031/1622 and whose teaching careers fall in the latter half of the sixteenth century , after the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , will give an idea of the teaching background apparently considered essential to give one a chance of eventual appointment to what had by then become the highest learned office : all nine men taught at the Sahn and subsequently at one of the 60-akce medreses built prior to the building of the Suleymaniye medreses , for example , the Sehzade medrese ; two of the nine then went directly to their first mevleviyet ( early on in the period , in 1566 and 1573 ) , while six taught at one of the Suleymaniye medreses and one at the medrese of the mother of Murad III in Uskudar ( the Atik Valide medrese ) , newer than Suleyman 's medreses , before being appointed to their first mevleviyet . |
| 13 | And I think one might go on to argue that far from saving labour it creates it — that its function is to give one the task of understanding it . |
| 14 | More portraits , if possible duller still , and lightened by a couple of horrendous still-lifes , dead hares and poultry , staring eyes and blood congealing from beaks and nostrils ; just the thing to give one an appetite for meals . |
| 15 | This weather 's enough to give anybody a cold eye is n't it ? |
| 16 | It is enough to give anybody the World Cup willies . |
| 17 | Stanley Baldwin had argued in 1923 that it was not ‘ wise , as some suggest , to give everybody a secondary education . |
| 18 | There 's actually been a gig pulled to give everybody a day off to recover . |
| 19 | The idea was to give everybody a reasonable chance of answering some questions , not merely by general railway knowledge , but by dint of having supported Society events . |
| 20 | The B B C have got to give everybody a fair crack of the whip . |
| 21 | Just leave it to me said Mr Grover I think between us and with the help of some of our friends in the market we shall be able to give everybody a Christmas to remember . |
| 22 | It has to bring everybody to know God , and to give everybody the chance of the everlasting happiness with God that we call heaven . |
| 23 | They think this will make tham a lot better off ; a little perhaps , but a lot ? ) is enough to give anyone a sick headache . |
| 24 | But though it 's guaranteed to give anyone a hangover , I 've nae heard of any islanders getting fighting mad on the stuff . ’ |
| 25 | She just did n't want to give anyone the chance to put her down . |