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

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1 Colonies have always given scope to adventurers from the metropolis who have enjoyed irresponsible power over the natives , whether as administrators , police officials , soldiers , traders , or settlers ( even if these were of the peasant class ) .
2 But in the same way that real poverty has always given birth to real revolution , this feigned poverty of the adventurous would breed a false-bottomed , jerry-built revolution in which the adventurers would continue their make-believe and be followed by the rock-concert lumpen , tired of their own voyeurism . ’
3 But Dad had always given responsibility to Charles , shared his worries and fears with Charles … well , that was fine , as long as she was allowed her fair say as well .
4 ‘ The people of the Cévennes have always given refuge to the oppressed . ’
5 But then it is only a presumption ; and , as such , it must always give way to the language used if it is clear , and also to all counter presumptions which may legitimately be had in view in determining , on ordinary principles , the true meaning and intent of the legislation .
6 I will always give way to the hon. Gentleman .
7 Another problem is that if you 're trying to deal with other manufacturers in the way that we do , where we have this extremely close relationship and they are very reliant on our forward forecasts of volume , they feel if you have your own manufacturing plant that you would always give preference to it in bad times and the other suppliers would be the people to suffer if sales declined .
8 He says that people will nearly always give money to a cripple .
9 But I always give credit to the audience .
10 There are numerous experiments in which the cells of the four-to eight-cell stage embryo are rearranged and recombined , always giving rise to normal development .
11 She was always giving orders to Kamala , who had to obey .
12 One can say ( he held ) that it is absolutely true that a certain characteristic always gives rise to the property of prima facie obligatoriness .
13 We can not do that , however , without challenging an economic orthodoxy of which the Tories are the natural custodians — that always gives priority to the short-term interests of the minority who hold and deal in assets , as opposed to those who live and work ( or want to work ) .
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