Example sentences of "to give [art] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 In August 1988 both sides had agreed in principle to a UN peace plan calling for a ceasefire and exchange of prisoners and to a referendum designed to give the inhabitants of the territory ( administered as a Spanish colony until 1976 ) a choice between independence or integration into Morocco .
2 In the last few days they have behaved impeccably and had tried to get FIDE to give the rights to the new organisation . ’
3 The aim of the pub is to give the residents of the homes and the villagers of Tarrington and surrounding hamlets somewhere to meet and enjoy themselves .
4 Many of the actions were symbolically linked with older rituals , often used in the past to give the demands of the participants an acceptable face .
5 With the new season now on top of us , it might be appropriate to expand on the new laws and to try to give the intentions behind the changes in certain areas .
6 What the proposed Bill actually did , in fact , was to give the representatives of the law far greater scope for intervention in the conduct of homosexuals than in the case of other sexual activities .
7 It would save money simply to give the pits to the miners for a nominal sum , say £1 .
8 The difficulty is that , in order to give the results of the tests any meaning , we would then have to show other — less or more complex — skylines to the babies , and see how they reacted to those .
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