Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] do [adv] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel of course did n't give in to blackmail . |
| 2 | The member of parliament did not give up his efforts to find a place for the young officer , but the close connection between parliamentary politics and placement was made abundantly clear by Scott 's insistence to his correspondent that the young man 's father , a Dundee councillor , would first have to make clear ‘ whether he is to be friendly ’ to the politician . |
| 3 | Then your client 's transaction will take priority over any other event ( such as the bankruptcy of the seller ) or transaction ( such as a mortgage of the property ) of which the official certificate of search did not give you notice . |
| 4 | After all , becoming a provisional member of Equity does n't give them work , it merely gives them the opportunity to work in the career for which they have trained . |
| 5 | Evidence from the first and second waves of reform does not give great comfort to reformers . |
| 6 | It may be that the correct account of knowledge does unfortunately give the sceptic the opening he is looking for . |
| 7 | Planck used the idea of quanta to explain why a red-hot piece of metal does n't give off an infinite amount of heat ; but he regarded quanta simply as a theoretical trick , one that did n't correspond to anything in physical reality . |
| 8 | Held , dismissing the appeals , that , prior to the enactment of the Congenital Disabilities ( Civil Liability ) Act 1976 , at common law a breach of the duty of care did not give rise to a cause of action in negligence until the plaintiff suffered an injury ; that , although a foetus did not enjoy an independent legal personality , by the time that the plaintiffs were born in 1967 the common law recognised that a child born with a deformity because of a negligent act occurring during the mother 's pregnancy had a cause of action ; and that , therefore , the plaintiffs had a cause of action against the defendant health authorities for any negligent act prior to their birth which caused them to be born with deformities ( post , pp. 654H , 656D–F , 660E — 661D ) . |
| 9 | A patient who consents , even in the widest terms , to a dental operation under anaesthetic does not give a true consent to the amputation of a leg . |
| 10 | The failure of the 12 to act in concert does not give much ground for optimism . |
| 11 | ‘ Contrary to certain appearances , or at any rate to my expectations , Marx 's methodological reflections in Capital do not give us a developed concept , nor even an explicit concept of the object of Marxist Philosophy . |
| 12 | Critics also considered that the emphasis on efficiency did not give sufficient importance to the quality of health care provided . |