Example sentences of "be to give [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | LORD Walker , Lord Williams and Lord Donoughue are to give evidence about the Maxwell scandal to a Commons inquiry . |
| 2 | It was not made public because that would have been to give warning to the culprit . ’ |
| 3 | The effects of this delegation were to give confidence to the Polytechnic 's internal processes of review and validation and to create a body of case law about their achievement in time for the revalidation of the Course in 1984–85 . |
| 4 | The former Attorney General , Sir Patrick Mayhew , is to give evidence to the inquiry into the arms-to-Iraq affair . |
| 5 | The principal objective of the system of supervision with the Appointed Actuary is to give emphasis to the importance of providing fair value for consumers of life assurance products and ensuring their security , rather than to provide protection for the insurance company . |
| 6 | In local government , where approximately 3,000 solicitors work , their role is to give advice on the services provided by the local authority . |
| 7 | What is proposed is to give effect to the privilege by removing the ground for apprehending danger . |
| 8 | The object of the system is to give effect to the expressed preferences of voters in terms of their personal representatives in the Convention ( or any analogous body ) , and the detailed rules for the conduct of a count are carefully drawn to ensure this result . |
| 9 | The intention behind the reforms was made clear in the famous words : ‘ [ the conception of the juvenile ] as primarily a little wage-earner , was to give way to the conception of him ‘ as primarily the workman and citizen in training ’ . |
| 10 | Later Miss Francis of Maidstone was to give evidence to the jury . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Its main purpose was to give legitimacy to the nine-year-old Crown Prince and thereby to prevent other claims to the Bhutanese throne . |
| 13 | In the end , the compromise was to give permission for the new blocks of apartments , but to require that the remains of the grottoes be restored as a feature in the new development . |
| 14 | His latest coup was to give permission for the coronation of the kabaka ( king ) of Buganda , the ancient kingdom that lies within Uganda , to go ahead this July . |
| 15 | He had no interest in the architecture of what was then merely a rather dull manor house , but kept on improving the estate , which was to give pleasure to the Welch family until the Second World War . |