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

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1 But in an election that , as Vernon Bogdanor wrote in the Independent on Sunday , ‘ enables the elector to give expression to those hopes and fears no opinion poll can be sensitive enough to register and reflects the way the nation perceives itself ’ , he embodied exactly those things that the constituency that Labour was trying to woo back — the new working class — is trying its damnedest to escape from .
2 Women , especially married women , have increasingly desired to return to work and remain there by having a break to give birth .
3 Paul Thompson rounded off the scoring after the break to give Shields three valuable points .
4 ‘ They take any handicapped person — mentally or physically , either long term , or short term to give carers a break . ’
5 ANDERS Limpar believes Graham Taylor should go for Alan Shearer and Ian Wright as the attacking force to give England renewed life after Gary Lineker .
6 The Ingledew mansion was going up across the creek on the other side , above the grove where the saman stood and facing west ; Tom had sited his Great House further up the slope , by a magnificent specimen of an Indian fig tree with aerial roots falling like stilts and snaking over the ground below , and had designed a belvedere in the roof to give views to the four quarters .
7 Fontaine had made known his intention to give evidence to the new National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation , which had been set up by the government on April 25 to investigate human right violations under the Pinochet regime .
8 Thereunder in the county court , Ord 20 , r 15 enables notice to be given of intention to give evidence at the trial pursuant to s 2 of the Act whensoever , for reasons to be given in the notice , a witness can not be called : see Ord 20 , rr 14 – 24 and notes thereunder in The County Court Practice .
9 To be mutually consistent the constrained demand for goods must ration firms in a manner that restricts their demand for labour to give rise to the initial constrained demand for goods .
10 Among these , according to Fedor Polenov , Head of the Russian Delegation and Chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet Commission for Culture , is the intention on the German side to give Russia a number of works from the Bremen Collection for Russian museums , and also to give financial and technical aid for the restoration of the Novgorod Museum and Park , and to help in making up the museums collection which was destroyed during the war .
11 Lutyens 's handling of space was a notable feature of his work , and the main hall of the Dolls ' House , rising through three floors with lobbies on either side to give access to the main apartments , is particularly successful in this respect .
12 A shadow programme to give people an idea what they 'd earn on commission is in effect meantime .
13 Are you planning a follow-up to today 's programme to give Calder a chance to respond to any letters that come in ?
14 Botanical description was detailed , but there was no attempt to give instruction on cultivation or propagation .
15 They turn Miller 's ( 1969 ) plea for psychologists to give psychology away , into an attempt to give psychology away to all women .
16 There must also be an attempt to give students insight into perceptions of school held by children and their parents .
17 In this way the attempt to give depth to BOP and create a strategic aspect totally fails .
18 It sets one hesitating between general admiration and the attempt to give point to frontality or some such term : anything to obtain leverage on a narrative mode which sweeps up event and idea , fictional past and stream-ofconsciousness present , into a single impulse of this immediacy and power .
19 For even though some attempt to give status to the ‘ community or home beat officer ’ has been made following Lord Scarman 's ( 1981 ) report on the Brixton riots which gave something of a ‘ slap on the wrist ’ to the service , the deference accorded to specialist posting or to detective work remains untouched .
20 If this was his attempt to give Chloe a radical new dynamism , it was all too laboured to succeed .
21 A good illustration of this was the vain attempt to give priority to the " Cinderella " services such as mental illness and mental handicap throughout the 1960s and 1970s .
22 Here they rely on the principles in the ticket cases which require a reasonable attempt to give notice to a party of the existence of terms and conditions by which it is intended to bind him .
23 When family members , or other people close to the sufferer attempt to give feedback it may be resented and resisted by the reactivated denial system and lead to the opposite of the desired effect .
24 The same tube may also , of course , be extended without pressurization to give Young 's modulus simply : it may also be twisted by terminal couples to give an independent measure of the compliance J(t) .
25 The woven fibres reduce torque to give stability and good balance .
26 The Prince of Wales visits Castlebrae High tomorrow to see how more than £1.2 million of Urban Aid cash is being used to create a World of Work complex to give pupils a taste of what ‘ real ’ jobs are like .
27 ( 4 ) The limiting words ‘ in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown ’ leave the court free to order a witness to give evidence notwithstanding that at the relevant time he was an officer or servant of the Crown , if the matters in respect of which he is to give evidence did not come to his notice in that capacity , for example , the civil servant who , when on holiday or at home , happens to witness a road traffic accident .
28 Thus , the best way of proving anything that the other side will not agree to is to be prepared to call the witness to give evidence about it at trial .
29 A knowledge of the working of a solicitor 's office , particularly er o of those departments handling non-contentious business , can not be automatically imputed to the judge or to council and he may as well make it is not uncommon for an expert witness to give evidence of what he would have done in a particular situation after consideration and er I resign on that because in my submission er the issues in this case are clearly issues of mixed fact and law and my Lord it is seen from the report handed up that there is particularly in relation to the erm financial aspect of the case , reference to a provision within a professional conduct of solicitors guide as to what the nature of the er duties of the solicitor in the situation is .
30 The only witness to give evidence at today 's inquest at Cheltenham County Court was 23 year old , Jason Rigglesford from Stroud .
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