Example sentences of "[noun sg] to give the [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | At such points , quotation and a slightly closer narrative attempt to give the reader some idea of the reality behind the colourless abstractions of ‘ England ’ , ‘ Germany ’ or ‘ Russia ’ . |
2 | Communications company and networker Relcom expects the Sequent machine to give the node four times the power . |
3 | The UK government has announced a plan to give the public freer access to environmental information , in line with a 1990 EC directive on the subject . |
4 | The banker then designs a security to give the investor that exposure . |
5 | And there 's enough psychological insight to give the characters three dimensions . |
6 | The success of the policing operation during the miners ' strike was not due to new laws passed by Parliament to give the authorities greater powers . |
7 | This was improved on later versions by deleting the windscreen wiper , heightening the front screen and fitting a ‘ bubble ’ canopy to give the pilot extra head room . |
8 | Things may change after April 2nd , when retail prices are to rise by 60% , though most workers are too afraid of plunging the country into chaos to give the miners whole-hearted support by staging their own strikes . |
9 | Particularly away to Stuttgart when Leeds were desperate for someone to hold onto the ball to give the defence some respite . |
10 | It must be Government policy to give the lifer some dignity . |
11 | If he does not have authority to give the staff financial rewards or the possibility of developing themselves , they may go to their functional managers in order to satisfy their economic and professional ambitions . |
12 | The states would always be under an obligation to give the judiciary all-embracing powers . |
13 | She was moved by his address : not so much by the declaration of the reformed and Catholic nature of the Church of England , nor by his condemnation of racialism , nor by his challenge to the State to give the Church more liberty to follow its vocation in worship ; but by his gratitude at the growing longing within the Church for a deeper life of prayer . |
14 | In the meantime he said college bosses were waiting to hear if a parliamentary bill to give the college self-governing status would be scuppered by an early election . |
15 | It was the same sort of hysteria after the Hungerford massacre which persuaded a weak and inexperienced Home Secretary to give the police unfettered discretion to bully , terrorise and generally make a nuisance of themselves among law-abiding sportsmen . |
16 | Rule 5 – 17 requires a firm to give the SFA seven business days ' notice before commencing making unsolicited calls on private investors in respect of , inter alia , futures and options funds . |
17 | His last years saw in Maupeou 's attack on the parlements a real effort to give the monarchy more freedom of action , and in the radical fiscal expedients of the Abbé Terray ( Controller-General , 1770–74 ) a partially successful attempt to ease its financial position . |
18 | We must change our political system to give the citizen more power and the government less ; our economic system to confer power on consumers and to provide employees with a share in the wealth they create ; our public services to guarantee choice and dignity to each of us ; and our education system to equip us better for the modern world . |
19 | Meanwhile MPs and councillors from Gloucestershire have asked the Local Government Minister to give the county enough money to prevent it having to make cuts . |
20 | On Nov. 28 the FIS 's consultative council announced that it had postponed a decision on participation in the election " in order to give the regime another opportunity to spell out its intention to clear the political atmosphere " . |
21 | We have also included the observations of a leading pub designer in order to give the report more breadth . |
22 | If the plaintiff is going to seek additional damages for loss of earning capacity this , too , must be specifically pleaded in order to give the defendant proper notice ( Chan Wai Tong v Li Ping Sum [ 1985 ] 2 WLR 396 ) . |
23 | The Department of Industry provides CAD information centres up and down the country to give the tyro some help . |
24 | Not only that , it made me wonder if it was not time to give the game another chance . |
25 | Love also revealed that it had been decided not to include Iain Philip and Alastair Storie , as they had been playing overseas and it was a better option to give the others some match practice . |