Example sentences of "to give some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began again to give some fight , so acquiescent , afraid till then ; a new hot rage and hatred . |
| 2 | I also think that apart from the corporate plan , the strategy and the mission statement , you really do need to give some vision about the future of your company and a vision in which those working with you can share . |
| 3 | The results from Wimpey Asphalt Hong Kong , Springfield Disposal and Overseas Contracting — all of which exceeded their budgets — served to give some respectability to the overall figures of Wimpey Minerals UK . |
| 4 | I was there to give some talks on motivation and slimming and had a stand displaying my books . |
| 5 | Finally , even Time magazine had to give some credence to the arrival of this remarkable undercurrent in the motivation of young people , but preferred to blame London influences rather than American . |
| 6 | Prime Minister Harold Wilson appeared to give some credence to this view in 1966 when he said in the House of Commons that it was the duty of the government to consult with the Trades Union Congress and the Confederation of British Industry . |
| 7 | The best way to make these somewhat abstract concepts of satisfaction and dissatisfaction more concrete is to give some illustrations from the interviews . |
| 8 | Wycliffe walked on towards the town , but he avoided the waterfront and returned instead by the main street , which was narrow enough to give some shelter from the gale . |
| 9 | Fortunately an adept four-minute tyre change and an elastic band — to give some resilience to full throttle — meant we only lost three minutes on that section . |
| 10 | Sometimes , earthworks of ridge and furrow or narrow early enclosed strips remain to give some clue to the course , but elsewhere the boundary itself must be the clue to the former existence of such an arrangement . |
| 11 | This may be thought to give some substance to the notion of representation , which otherwise remains remarkably vague and undemanding in the Burkean version . |
| 12 | In order to give some structure to the discussion , each of the major social services will be examined under three headings : access , i.e. geographical distribution of social services ; use , i.e. the extent to which different groups make use of services ; and outcome , i.e. the benefit derived from the use of services . |
| 13 | Would it be helpful to give some order of magnitude here , James ? |
| 14 | Marie concentrated hard , trying to find the right words to give some shape and order to the confusion in her head . |
| 15 | Why d' ya decided to give some contact . |
| 16 | Various reports during February attempted to give some assessment of the damage sustained in Iraq as a result of the UN embargo [ see pp. 37639-40 ; 37695 ; 37871 ] and the air war . |
| 17 | The Chairmaster , grave , imposing , and bald as a biscuit , apart from the red wig , adhering by a miracle to his left ear , was attempting to give some kind of order to the proceedings . |
| 18 | She 'd sit in her dressing-gown by the window and try to listen for the electric trams on the distant street , anything to give some kind of shape or structure to her day , but the noise made even this impossible . |
| 19 | With the object of literary studies circumscribed on the basis of differentiation and not on that of inherent qualities , it becomes possible both to establish the notion of literariness , and to give some kind of scientific status to the study of literature . |
| 20 | He had probably come to the same conclusion and if she tried to give some kind of explanation he would raise his eyebrows and look at her in astonishment , and she would feel utterly foolish . |
| 21 | In return for recognising the legality of the police practice of detaining suspects after arrest , but before charge , the Act attempts to give some protection to the suspect by imposing time limits on the period of detention , by introducing a system of review to ensure that detention remains necessary and by introducing a series of statutory rights supervised by the custody officer , and a Code of Practice on Detention and Questioning . |
| 22 | Silk curtains should therefore be lined to give some protection . |
| 23 | I hope that we will be able to give some protection to people like James , people who are in a very weak position . |
| 24 | Assuming that the system was properly balanced before , each of the original radiators has to give some flow up to the new one . |
| 25 | These are some of the questions and comments I 've heard recently and I thought it was time to give some answers . |
| 26 | In spite of efforts to give some semblance of fair treatment to the ordinary sailor ( the most notable was the passage of Grenville 's Navy Act in 1758 ) no radical improvement in the methods or rate of payment was made until after the mutinies of 1797 . |
| 27 | Merrell use a hollow chamber topped with an EVA plug under the heel to give some shock absorbency and enhance foot stability . |
| 28 | The system has been flexible and robust enough to respond to changing conditions and circumstances , and there has been sufficient political and institutional stability with regard to attitudes towards , and assumptions about , planning during much of the period to give some measure of consistency to public policies and programmes . |
| 29 | Now , I 'm no ‘ Greenie ’ but Recycling is something I feel quite strongly about , and here I hope to give some pros and cons about Recycling , and also give some information about the actual processes . |
| 30 | Therefore if the council is going to give some money , you would prefer it to give less rather than more . |