Example sentences of "[noun sg] to give [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sets one hesitating between general admiration and the attempt to give point to frontality or some such term : anything to obtain leverage on a narrative mode which sweeps up event and idea , fictional past and stream-ofconsciousness present , into a single impulse of this immediacy and power . |
| 2 | A blind sculptor has returned to his former college to give advice to students with impaired sight . |
| 3 | It is still standard practice to give priority to boys ' education , particularly in families where economic resources are scarce , and illiteracy among women is 10% higher than for men.5 Girls are more likely to suffer from non-attendance , their drop-out rate is higher and they remain the low achievers . |
| 4 | The essential defining characteristic of this relation is its capacity to give rise to pleonasm . |
| 5 | The GLC was not , in fact , the first council to give support to lesbian and gay projects . |
| 6 | Thus the warming and the movement of water help to give rise to climate , which is immensely complex ; and the day-to-day fluctuations which are known as ‘ weather ’ are extraordinarily difficult to predict in detail , more than a few hours ahead . |
| 7 | There may be a Crossroads Care Attendant scheme in your area , which can provide regular help to give relief to carers . |
| 8 | Now the county 's Police Federation has set up a helpline to give advice to officers facing complaints . |
| 9 | Piper Alpha is significant tonight , but the Herald of Free Enterprise and the King 's Cross disasters can be attributed , to a considerable extent , to the Government 's failure to give priority to safety . |
| 10 | I encourage cyclists to respect the fact that on all legal access routes there 's a need to give way to walkers — but I 'll be the first to admit that this does n't happen all the time . |
| 11 | However , there are other desires which do correspond to truly human values : the desire for friendship ( because as human beings we were made for relationships ) , or the desire to give happiness to others ( because our human nature makes us aware of the needs of others ) . |
| 12 | Despite her occasional lapses into the royal ‘ we ’ and her desire to give comfort to victims of disaster , she is not monarch , head of state , nor dictator . |
| 13 | This is said to exist where a company has a number of large shareholders who engage in limited co-operation to protect their common interests , but are insufficiently cohesive and lack the necessary co-ordination to give rise to majority or minority control . |
| 14 | In her situation , as a menial , she would n't have much opportunity to give pain to others . ’ |
| 15 | The European nations were far too absorbed in their own conflict to give heed to China 's concerns . |
| 16 | To have the character to give sanction to grammar — phew ! |
| 17 | Use Campbell 's Condensed Cream of Tomato soup to give richness to chilli or curry sauce , or as a base for a quick pizza topping , for instance with some herbs , mushrooms , peppers and salami . |
| 18 | CHILDREN 'S CHARTER TO GIVE VOICE TO YOUNG |
| 19 | Or is its main role to give stability to society ? |
| 20 | Is there any sense of duty to give support to relatives in the outer circle of effective kin ? |
| 21 | Wrap-around enclosures made from conservation boxboard to give protection to items awaiting treatment are also made in the Perspex Workshop . |
| 22 | ‘ All the same , ’ he said , when the spring buds burst on the seven trees that grew in Mafeking Street , along which Wendy had once half-run , half-walked , on her way to give birth to Apricot , ‘ it would be nice to be somewhere different , just for a time , just for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 23 | My brother Brian and I watched the Shoan armies as they went north to give battle to Negus Mikael and his Wollo hordes . |
| 24 | My vision is of a team pulling together with a common aim and purpose to give glory to God and see His Kingdom extended in our part of the South Side of Glasgow . |
| 25 | I believed I could use that electricity to give life to things that were dead . |
| 26 | The concept was artificial , being devised in order to give immunity to professionals with more than one client , and incomprehensible . |
| 27 | Paragraphs ( a ) and ( b ) give power to the court to make orders of rectification in order to give effect to property rights which have been established in an action or which are clear . |
| 28 | The ability to give direction to people is necessary not just at the top of an organisation . |
| 29 | Can anyone wonder that disbelief and despondency settled upon many schools in time to give way to anger and protest at the possibility of carrying out tasks that has been imposed on them under impossible conditions . |