Example sentences of "give [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christopher Taylor has given perhaps the best example of this in a study of settlements in the Nene Valley . |
| 2 | The older ones are given perhaps the only education they 'll ever receive . |
| 3 | I found the book to be very readable , with each subject being given just the right amount of coverage , considering the intended readership . |
| 4 | In sardonic undertones , the guide- lines suggest ‘ the part-timer is unlikely to be happy given just the undesirable work that no one else wants to do ’ and ‘ should not be made to feel obliged to work extra hours . ’ |
| 5 | To start with , imagine you are given just the physical outline of adults of several species . |
| 6 | They will give in the confident expectation that their gift will be well received . |
| 7 | Zuccarelli Labs also says that the patent does not give away the real secret of the invention . |
| 8 | Even if — which in some cases is a big ‘ if ’ — the patent system does not give away the vital clue to an innovative product of process , innovating enterprises now increasingly prefer to keep their knowledge to themselves in order to preserve their options on when , where and how to market it . |
| 9 | All too easily they feared , a recce might leave traces of the visit which , even if the lone navigator was not captured , could give away the intended landing point for an assault force . |
| 10 | Equations ( 6.9 ) and ( 6.15 ) will give exactly the same value for the share price . |
| 11 | This would give double the required output voltage which could easily cause damage to the power supply components and beyond . |
| 12 | It very nearly made me give up the entire project . |
| 13 | Should I give up the unequal struggle and wait until I reached the age of 16 ? |
| 14 | After years of regular waxing , the hair follicles may give up the unequal struggle and not grow back . |
| 15 | For them , classic clothes no longer have to be fussy or stuffy — an increasing number of British men want classic style , but wo n't give up the comfortable feel of the designer clothes they got used to in the Eighties . |
| 16 | For all their talk about the wisdom of the marketplace , the Thatcher government could not give up the paternalistic idea that they had to regulate the independent television companies , with the continuation of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the guise of an Independent Television Commission . |
| 17 | came from the hospital to do her midwifery and there was a boy in Wrexham Hospital he 'd give up the permanent job to go to The Yale |
| 18 | Look just packet of crisps you 'd give out the whole packet . |
| 19 | If members allowances are a hundred and eighty thousand this year which is somewhere around there , Mr may correct me but I think I 'm not too far out , we 've already upped those this year to a hundred and eighty- nine , so next year there 'll be a hundred and seventy-one and the thirteen thousand cost of this will reduce it to a hundred and fifty-eight I actually do n't think that is possible , we ca n't afford it within the terms of of the present set up , unless someone 's going to dramatically reduce the length and the number of meetings in this council , which I think is highly unlikely , I think we 've got to set a good example to our employees , I think that this would give completely the wrong message . |
| 20 | For external comparison , we give in the right hand column of the table , a comparable figure ( where available ) derived from a fairly representative sample of modern English . |
| 21 | Such knowledge will be the basis of the advice we give in the next chapter for promoting adjustment after a time-zone transition . |
| 22 | I recently had news of the Mandarin Oriental Hotels Group , who give perhaps the best service to customers of any hotel group in the world . |
| 23 | Here we give only the first part of Ohmann 's illustration : [ 8 ] the desk and the shelf above it on which rested the ledgers in which McCaslin recorded the slow outward trickle of food and supplies and equipment which returned each fall as cotton made and ginned and sold … |
| 24 | Secondly , the white paper and the working documents that supplemented it give only the barest outline of the market framework and leave several key issues unresolved . |
| 25 | If they all give exactly the same answer , you can be pretty sure they have communicated with each other . |
| 26 | There they give just the same protection to their new owners as they did to the jellyfish that developed them . |
| 27 | The interlopers soon give up the unequal contest . |
| 28 | Why did those ancient replicators give up the cavalier freedom of the primeval soup and take to swarming in huge colonies ? |
| 29 | You know in the paper when they give out the other week |
| 30 | But he continued : ‘ Although we represent the Israeli point of view , we give out the whole picture . |