Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] give [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably either a creditor or a debtor could commit the offence of ‘ Knowingly or recklessly giving false information to the Director ’ , which carried a penalty of £400 , two years in gaol , or both . |
| 2 | Pompeii lay in verdant , wine-growing country and so gave special prominence to Venus , goddess of fecundity , Hercules and Bacchus . |
| 3 | The next day I went to see the military commander to ask for permission to stay on to look after stray people and perhaps give pastoral care to the officials and troops left in the city . |
| 4 | They have , however , a mammoth task and only give detailed attention to a limited number of the statutory instruments that are put before Parliament . |
| 5 | For indeed the demand and supply schedules do not in practice remain unchanged for a long time together , but are constantly being changed ; and every change in them alters the equilibrium amount and the equilibrium price , and thus gives new positions to the centres about which the amount and the price tend to oscillate . [ … ] |
| 6 | I practise in the London Borough of Newham and also give medical advice to the family health services authority through the department of general practice and primary care of the Joint Medical Colleges of St Bartholomew 's and the London Hospitals . |
| 7 | ‘ That is why I ask you here and now to give serious thought to ending your innocent liaison with Prince Edward . |
| 8 | The basis for the easy triumphs which had over and again given new nourishment to the ‘ Hitler myth ’ was gone , even if trust in the Führer was still generally strong . |
| 9 | Yet as the war dragged on it served not only to increase the regime 's unpopularity but also to give new leverage to the forces of opposition . |
| 10 | Masefield 's extreme selectiveness in the choice of words turns description into its own form of narrative , reflecting the responses of the characters to immediate circumstances but also giving individual life to those circumstances . |