Example sentences of "it is [adv] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | To break this is to break the code , so it is rarely given . |
| 2 | One of the things that makes war so fascinating to its students and so frustrating to its participants is that in a moment of supreme crisis it is rarely given for one side , obsessed by its own difficulties , to see just how bad things are in the enemy camp . |
| 3 | As long as the bird 's eye is visible , it is automatically giving the cat a ‘ stare ’ that inhibits its attacking lunge . |
| 4 | Parsley needs far more root-room than it is usually given ; the main or tap root is rather like a small carrot , and this should be allowed for . |
| 5 | RE is on a much stronger wicket than it is usually given credit for , provided it is open in character . |
| 6 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 7 | If there is an address , it is often given by a layman , who commends what we did in life and skims discreetly over the question of survival , if any . |
| 8 | It is often given solo passages to play , and its tone is so intrinsically striking that entirely unaccompanied phrases are not infrequently allotted to it . |
| 9 | This is a rather unsatisfactory situation , but fortunately the treatment for Candida infestation ( described below ) is fairly innocuous , so it does not matter too much if it is sometimes given unnecessarily . |
| 10 | This is important , because it is sometimes given as an objection to attitude theories that they can not make sense of subordinate ethical clauses . |
| 11 | But one is almost totally dependent on the biographical sources for such humanizing detail ; and if it is sometimes given amongst the flood of factual information , often it is not , and one is left to speculate . |
| 12 | It was the first work on which he collaborated-and collaborated happily-with Nicholas Georgiadis but it is now given in the heavy scarlet , black and gold designs which Georgiadis substituted in 1980 . |
| 13 | Similarly : ( 10 ) I only offered her legal advice will , under one natural interpretation , refer to advice on legal matters ; and it will continue to do so even if in some rare case it is given under circumstances that mean it is offered illegally itself , for example if it makes use of secret information stolen from a government which prohibits unauthorized possession or transmission of secret government information ; on the other hand , as a phrase of English , it can perfectly well bear the other interpretation under which it means advice which is itself legal , in the sense that it is legally given , in which case it may concern any subject under the sun . |