Example sentences of "[noun sg] to give [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The practical reason why it is wise in the long term to give much more careful thought to river and wetland management is that drainage can contain , profoundly , the seeds of its own destruction . |
| 2 | But Dawn Run was not a horse to give in meekly , and as the four came round into the straight she stuck resolutely to her guns . |
| 3 | Timber framework is constructed on top of existing roof to give as much fall as possible . |
| 4 | As Pacey said of Dudek — he could never say it of Layton ! — ‘ ( his strength ) lies in his serious attempt to give as purely as possible the experience which is pure and isolated in his own mind , ’ a view which is offended by the notion of ‘ popular culture ’ and the torch-carrying it requires . |
| 5 | The error messages in the process log attempt to give as much information about the cause and source of an error as possible . |
| 6 | Its footnote status in relation to Crime and Punishment constitutes , I admit , a funny sort of belonging , as does the obstructive force of Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov upon Dostoevsky 's attempt to give decisively new shape to the Great Sinner of his notebooks and letters and fondest creative hopes . |
| 7 | Deep in his heart he knew he just did n't have the nerve to give up everything — his home , his family , his fortune — to return to a country he thought he loved . |
| 8 | They come in six colours and normally cost £2.99 each — but we 've got 200 in Plum Velvet to give away . |
| 9 | A Director will cast this type of actress because he knows that is the kind of personality he wants brought out in this character , and he can rely on that actress to give just such a performance . |
| 10 | After we have chosen the appropriate remedy to give in LM form , the first choice , after the potency , is how much of the granule is the patient to take i.e. the dose , how often it is to be repeated and for how many days are they to be on that particular potency . |
| 11 | Resistance to uncomfortable news , for example a recommendation to give up one 's own home , is as strongly present as in earlier life . |
| 12 | He became so desperate at one stage that it crossed his mind to give up the game altogether . |
| 13 | were reluctantly constrained to order the defendant to give up possession of 336 , Stocksfield Road to the plaintiffs because of the earlier decision of the Court of Appeal ( Kerr and Woolf L.JJ. ) in South Northamptonshire District Council v. |
| 14 | An early Tender may also be useful in forcing the inexperienced pursuer 's agent to give rather more consideration to quantification of the claim than has been done previously . |
| 15 | Get your team around the table and agree a plan of action to give even more attention to detail . |
| 16 | At one stage two large windows were let into the wall each side of the rose window to give more light , but these were removed when the cathedral was restored in the early part of this century as they were not in keeping with the original design . |
| 17 | Herr Kohl acknowledged that the far Right was gaining support from people opposed to the EC 's Maastricht agreement , which they saw as an anti-nationalist pact to give up the Deutschemark . |
| 18 | Seeing his broad back and shoulders , the proud carriage of his dark head , she felt an overwhelming longing to give in to her clamouring body . |
| 19 | There was some activity , and the fires were clearly being stoked up with fresh wood to give more light ; and lit lamps were moving here and there . |
| 20 | He is said by reliable sources to be negotiating with both the US and Iran for compensation to give up the business , playing one nation off against the other . |
| 21 | We have two signed hardback copies from Hodder & Stoughton of A Time To Dance to give away . |
| 22 | Even if we have few possessions or little wealth to give away , may we seek out opportunities to give of our time , our skills and our concern to those who need us . |
| 23 | We 'll be serving Corbieres full-bodied red and dry white wine from Languedoc in France , and we have a Krups Espresso/Cappuccino machine to give away , along with a month 's free supply of Lavazza coffee . |
| 24 | Amusing myself with such trivial thoughts , I waited for the rain to give up . |
| 25 | Swan had made half-a-million by the time he was thirty , he had chaired the Planning Committee of the Arden District Council for the past ten years , and he was not the sort to give in easily . |
| 26 | Franco knew well what the Allied game was , but , in view of Axis reluctance to give generously , he had little alternative but to play it . |
| 27 | ‘ The most significant factor about the baby-boomers has been their reluctance to give up their youthfulness . |
| 28 | Reluctance to give up the breast or bottle |
| 29 | Newly independent Ukraine is angering the West by its reluctance to give up nuclear weapons . |
| 30 | Previously active in the southern department of Cauca , it became the fourth guerrilla group to give up the armed struggle following the example of the M-19 [ see p. 37311 ] , the People 's Liberation Army ( EPL ) and the Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) [ see p. 38094 ] , each of which had returned to mainstream politics . |