Example sentences of "[adv] to give [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They only to give well it |
| 2 | You have only to give in a few times ( out of many when you stick to your planned ignoring ) to lose the battle . |
| 3 | Parents often stand out against troublesome behaviour for some time , only to give in eventually . |
| 4 | We 'll have to carry on with the Week of the Lion tour if only to give there good people something to do . |
| 5 | No scheme will be worth much if farmers are allowed merely to give over their least productive land . |
| 6 | We must persuade industry not merely to give away their tax- deductible loot as a sop to worthy environmental causes and charities but actually to find ways of integrating environmental capital into their accounts , as part of their business — a kind of natural account — a problem we are researching at the moment . |
| 7 | An agreement is needed , not merely to give up an amount of liberty , but to put it into the hands of some sovereign power . |
| 8 | More are likely to be ill informed , to take little interest in politics , and perhaps to give rather less thought to the casting of a vote than to the marking of a pools coupon . |
| 9 | Levi was interested in action , purpose , work , and capable of them : and the capacity may have been formed in contention with a desire to withdraw and perhaps to give up . |
| 10 | It would be so easy just to give up for a while . |
| 11 | Relearning is a longer , gradual process with ups and downs and it is too easy just to give up . |
| 12 | She had n't got this far nor worked this hard just to give up at the thought of some sort of opposition . |
| 13 | She was soon to give up her own acting career — which she never took seriously — to — spoil him ? |
| 14 | As Charles II 's reign progressed , they were gradually to give up their earlier hopes of remodelling the established church into a closer conformity to European Protestantism , and to lend their support instead to the nonconformist struggle for the right to worship outside its boundaries . |
| 15 | Erm the why should a parent , looking at this pretty critically why should a parent want an older child , like to give up something to a younger one ? |
| 16 | Maidstone 's offer of a full-time job was n't good enough to persuade Still to give up his post as a textile manager . |
| 17 | THE parents of the two-year-old hooked on smoking vowed yesterday to give up the habit . |
| 18 | There 's something that just wo n't allow us ever to give up . ’ |
| 19 | Ted Walker astonishes with his honesty , and this autobiography bubbles with sane optimism , a refusal ever to give in to the temptations of self-pity . |
| 20 | Therefore it does not seem to be necessary to encourage people who suffer from Chemical Dependency also to give up cigarette smoking ( except on grounds of general health ) for fear that it will spark off the compulsion to return to use of the original addictive drug of choice . |
| 21 | Sufferers from Chemical Dependency say " I have tried repeatedly to give up but I find that I can not . |
| 22 | It has been our practise for some time now to give out names addresses and telephone numbers of local teachers to any one making enquiries at promotional events . |
| 23 | Will departments want to introduce hierarchical structures into their records storage solely to give tomorrow 's historians their bearings ? |
| 24 | There is room here to give only the briefest account of the different kinds of vertebrates . |
| 25 | A person 's autonomous choices call for respect only as long as they do not seriously impinge on another 's enjoyment of his autonomy and that other has not agreed beforehand to give up certain of his choices as a condition of practising medicine in , for example , the National Health Service . |
| 26 | ‘ Some may find it easier and quicker to give out a simple number rather than spend time asking about diet and so on . ’ |
| 27 | I dared not tell Mamma , or she would begin to badger me again to give up my job … |
| 28 | In a curious visionary text of the seventh century , Barontus , a monk of St Cyran , is told by St Peter not to hide his possessions , but instead to give away twelve solidi , each one weighed and signed by a priest , for the good of his soul . |
| 29 | Ally McCoist 's fitness will determine who plays up front and yesterday Roxburgh said that the improvement in the player 's hamstring injury was such that he would now be ‘ disappointed ’ if the scorer of 41 goals for his club this season did not play on the ground that has yet to give up a goal to Scotland since they became tenants at Ibrox . |
| 30 | As the pleasurable feelings which first fuelled my psychological addiction decreased and began to turn sour , it became easier to give up the habit , something which would not be possible with a physically addictive drug such as heroin . |