Example sentences of "[modal v] give [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Given the difficulty of constructing international institutions ex nihilo I believe that this means British socialists must give more serious attention to the opportunities at EEC level .
2 The management executive must give more thought to the development of improved methods of applying Read codes and the budgetary implications of this .
3 The Hon. Gentleman must give more careful thought to the detail of what he describes as the " opting-out schemes " .
4 The urchin simply said he had a message which he must give only to you . ’
5 But the declaration spoke of ‘ taking into account current economic and social conditions ’ , a clause that should give both the president and the government free rein .
6 If people give you things , they should give freely , extracting nothing in return .
7 Yet there were also incentives for Louis IX to come to terms : Joinville reports that Louis replied to his critics , who asked why he should give away ‘ so great a part of your land , that you and your ancestors have conquered , and which has been forfeited ’ , that he had given Henry , Aquitaine , Gascony and the three dioceses ‘ to create affection between my children and his , who are cousins-germain' .
8 And if ion-winds can also be detected from the stars , their vastly greater distances should give even higher magnifications .
9 We recommend that future project initiatives of this kind should give much more thought to the structures and procedures , both within project schools and at the level of overall planning and coordination which are required to ensure that initiatives are not confined to a particular time period or grant , and that the inservice implications of good practice resulting from the project are capitalised upon .
10 The idea is that the court should give only very cursory consideration to the applicant 's case at the leave stage , and that leave proceedings should not be used as a surrogate for a full hearing in order to test the strengths and weaknesses of the parties ' respective cases as an aid to settlement out-of-court .
11 Rich should give more to the arts , Palumbo says
12 It went on to make two historic recommendations : that the Institution should give more overt support to the Society of Surveying Technicians , formed in 1970 by the General Council of the RICS , pointing out that the notion that the profession needed persons with technical qualification to ‘ come in at the bottom ’ and stay there was insensitive to human aspirations and naïve in its recognition of the Society 's worth ; and that practitioners should henceforth be required to undertake structured Continuing Professional Development ( CPD ) — a courageous and necessary proposal ( see below ) .
13 This should give more accurate results , particularly with convenience food .
14 Historians who hypothesise large-scale sea-borne slave-trading in this period should give more thought to logistics .
15 As a general rule data users should give as much information as possible to data subjects about what they propose to do with the data and must on no account mislead them .
16 I think you should give as much thought to choosing waterproof trousers as you do to choosing a waterproof top .
17 Nothing is worse than walking in wet trousers for long periods of time , so the overtrousers you select should give as good a service as your jacket .
18 Let's give as good as we get .
19 I may give away everything I have , and even give up my body to be burned — but if I have no love this does me no good .
20 bee-keeper may give away a hive , and later the recipient will find a way of unobtrusively repaying the kindness either with an appropriate gift or with some worthwhile service .
21 Professional : The family member may give progressively less attention to his or her own work because of the problems at home and may even change employment in order to have more time or opportunity to supervise the worsening chaos at home .
22 Coins may also be acquired from various sources ; local finds or gifts of collectors may give very different pictures .
23 Evelyn would have been shocked to hear anyone else say the same , but she had washed her hands of Rose Williams , and a mixture of tiredness and terror that Jackie might give away their secrets made her callous .
24 But her acknowledgement of her feelings for him was still new , and even while wanting to be with him she felt nervous , terrified that by some small look or too-ready smile she might give away her feelings — that she did n't want to say that goodbye — and that to do so would break her heart .
25 We felt , however , that coronal imaging might give more detailed information regarding the anatomical detail of the antropyloric region and therefore attempted to image in the coronal plane using reorientation of the nuclear magnetic resonance signals by signal processing methods .
26 Hope was trembling and afraid that he might give too much away .
27 We 'll give away one of these cameras and rolls of film EVERY WEEK to the reader who sends the best fun picture .
28 We 'll give away one of these cameras and rolls of film every week for the best fun colour picture .
29 On my daughter 's wedding day ten thousand pounds I 'll give away .
30 no it was five , he said he 'll give about five hundred and
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