Example sentences of "[noun pl] to give [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In particular they need to be reminded of that combination of unashamed materialism and gnarled , disbelieving scepticism about the power of political parties to give effect to Utopia which is characteristic of a certain type of Conservatism .
2 Twenty phone lines have been set up in Aberconwy council 's offices to give advice to victims .
3 However , it is obviously as much a waste of funds to give money to privatisation of the coal industry as it was to give money for the poll tax .
4 The Finnish government is to appeal to other Western countries to give aid to East European countries in the form of technical , industrial and scientific expertise rather than direct financial help .
5 Second , it introduced the practice of Interim Development Control by enabling authorities to give consent to development in advance of the preparation of a scheme .
6 Erm Mr Donson seemed to accept that it was er right for local planning authorities through their district wide open plans to give effect to policies in P P G seven for protecting the countryside for its own sake and he er mentioned landscape policies and then development minutes amongst other things .
7 How can he explain the position in Surrey and in St. Albans , where consultants are being placed under pressure by managers to give priority to GP fund holders because they bring extra money ?
8 The most important of these constitutional factors , but not the only one , was the difference between the genitals of boys and girls , and the capacity , only visible later in adult life , of females to give birth to children .
9 Nosebridge had eight tenants who were also moved ; Conegarry also contained eight tenants ; Benveridle also contained seven tenants , and four farmers got notice to quit Kilbranan and three to quit Dranich ; in other words no less than 44 or 45 had to leave their holdings to give scope to Webster and sheep . "
10 The British ambassador at Constantinople , meanwhile , was pro-Turkish to the point of ignoring instructions from London which told him to advise the Turks to give ground to Russia .
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