Example sentences of "[adv] give the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Do not necessarily give the job to the most highly qualified candidate .
2 Clearly this analysis will only give the performance of corresponding practical circuits up to some critical frequency beyond which their response will be influenced by the significant departure of the operational amplifier from ideal behaviour .
3 The Keeper of the Temple will only give the Key to those who have proved themselves worthy .
4 We do n't normally give the verdict at the beginning of the review , but what the heck : this MIDI preamp from Marshall had the collective pulse rate quickening by the minute , as rack and reviewers put each other through their paces .
5 He did not give the money to charity .
6 Parliament did not give the Secretary of State the power to fix poll tax levels .
7 Mary , who now combines her psychology practice with astrological counselling , said : ‘ As a psychologist , for a long time I had been aware of a lack , that this science did not give the whole of the picture .
8 It would be beneficial to warn people to change their ‘ alien ’ notes to familiar currency during the Christmas period so they know where they are and do not give the opportunity to the fast buck merchants of lining their nests .
9 It does not give the subject of the investigation at that stage the opportunity to challenge the matter , other than upon medical reasons .
10 York winner Sabre Rattler will be backed for the big two-year-old race , but may not give the weight to Urry Urry Urry ( 3.00 ) .
11 Firstly , there was a widespread opinion that arts staff do not give the priority to INSET which other areas of the curriculum do .
12 The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower .
13 I must not give the impression of being without sin .
14 He did not mention his family and did not give the impression of a man with marital problems . ’
15 A British official observed that , ‘ The truth is that Mr Yoshida , although able in his own way , does not give the impression of being particularly well-qualified to cope with the intricate political and economic situation in which Japan now finds herself . ’
16 Aethelbald 's association with these councils does not give the impression of a king so totally outside contemporary conventions as Boniface 's letter to him seems to imply .
17 This does not give the impression of a Mercian king in control of the south-eastern provinces from the mid-760s .
18 No , not really I think erm , er first of all I think very important that especially with the Baltic share the public the should not give the commission to the Baltic public until , unless the Republic itself guaranteed the right of the Russian and minority and the Polish minority and the and the Republic .
19 And er that they they still , even when I have to do things , which are not very erm happy either for me or for them , erm I 'll just give the example of removing a child from
20 Lloyd George made a stand on the issue of a plebiscite for Upper Silesia , saying that he would no more give the place to the Poles than he would give a clock to a monkey .
21 In a statement this evening , Thames Water apologized for the inconvenience caused , but said they must always give the welfare of their customers the highest priority .
22 do not always give the job to the best of a bad bunch , but investigate where the recruiting methods and job specification may have gone wrong and start again ;
23 It must also give the decision in writing to you and the Council , and the reasons for it .
24 It is not a painful experience provided the patient is being treated by a trained and ethical therapist who will also give the kind of follow-up treatment described in the case histories detailed in later chapters .
25 The security grilles are made from steel or aluminium , and can also give the effect of leaded lights .
26 Fabrics with horizontal patterns will also give the impression of width , and curtains that are draped back will help to break the vertical line that would otherwise be formed by curtains which hang straight down at the sides .
27 You can also give the number of words in the phrase .
28 You should also give the reason for your opinion as shortly as the importance of the point seems to require .
29 Recent reprints of Royal Institution discourses , organized under disciplines , do not really give the flavour of the programme as a whole .
30 If someone goes away on holiday , you may well give the key to a neighbour , they probably know a relative of yours or somebody like that that if anything does happen they can contact you or your relative to come down and check the house over .
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