Example sentences of "[pron] give [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what guidance can I give for the actual writing of the crime short story ? |
| 2 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 3 | On the contrary , the older I get , the greater priority I give to a loving relationship . |
| 4 | Coleman 's will , dated 1 July 1839 , provided for the founding of a Coleman prize : ‘ Also , I give to the Royal Veterinary College , at the expiration of three years from my decease , the sum of one hundred and sixty-six pounds thirteen shillings and fourpence , 3 per Cent . |
| 5 | Every area you look at South Africa in a report I gave to the Norwegian government which they commissioned we pointed out every area is like a major disaster area as if you 've been hit by an earthquake in every area of human activity and that situation needs something like a martial plan if we are , a martial aid plan , if we 're to address it but in the world we live in there 's no prospect of such assistance coming to Southern Africa . |
| 6 | If I may hark back to the answer that I gave to the right hon. Member for Morley and Leeds , South ( Mr. Rees ) , one of the areas on which there has been a significant concentration by the Government and the security forces in recent years is the financial resources available to terrorists — I hasten to say on both sides of the community . |
| 7 | guilty lest I gave to the good-looking only |
| 8 | I repeat the undertaking that I gave to the hon. and learned Member for Fife , North-East ( Mr. Campbell ) a moment ago . |
| 9 | I refer to the answer that I gave to the hon. Member for Hemsworth ( Mr. Enright ) some moments ago . |
| 10 | That is the undertaking that I gave to the Select Committee . |
| 11 | And these you should remember are basically the terms I gave on the previous page . |
| 12 | Looking back over some lectures I gave in the early 1980s , I note that the division between the schools which could raise money and those which could not was even then causing me concern . |
| 13 | The medieval choir school also survived — though renamed by Henry VIII ‘ the Kynges Newe Grammer Scole of Seynt Marie Oterey ’ — and like many provincial grammar schools throughout the land it continued to provide a modest education of the kind which gave to the youthful Shakespeare his ‘ small Latin , and less Greek ’ . |
| 14 | In this context town planning was a beneficiary of a number of important developments , which gave to the evolving discipline and profession a distinctive recurrent theme , that of a regional perspective . |
| 15 | What odds would you give for a Central South winner . |
| 16 | Would you give to a dying woman as a last memory the sight of our camp ? |
| 17 | The more status you give to a large number of authority figures , the more , relatively , you diminish your own . |
| 18 | But what comes out of it is what you give as a human being . |
| 19 | I NOTED with interest your report on the Darlington v Huddersfield match , particularly the primacy you gave to an alleged comment by ‘ a fanzine seller ’ who purportedly said ‘ this is the Sack Frank Gray issue ’ . |
| 20 | There are though , records of a talk she gave to the Royal Photographic Society at Russell Square in London on October 28th 1913 . |
| 21 | There are though , records of a talk she gave to the Royal Photographic Society at Russell Square in London on October 28th 1913 . |
| 22 | The series ' existence has hitherto only been known to people who visited the late Dollie de Rothschild 's ( died 1988 ) private house in London , but her heir Lord Rothschild has decided that they should go on display next year in Waddesdon Manor , the house she gave to the National Trust during her lifetime . |
| 23 | Unless there is a special compassionate feature , such as the one given by the hon. Member for Edinburgh , Central , we need to return them home before they have begun to establish themselves here , making their eventual removal more difficult for us and even more unwelcome for them . |
| 24 | Mr. Richard 's argument would , we accept , be formidable indeed had the implied undertaking with which we are concerned been one given in the usual way in civil proceedings . |
| 25 | Even if we accept , as we should , that Thucydides is right about the ‘ truest cause ’ ( and in the passage last quoted he comes near to running together true cause and alleged reasons , so we should not try to separate them too sharply ) , there is still a major problem : what weight should we give to the various instances of encroachment ? |
| 26 | Copse Corner , copse er , is , is a name which we give to a small wood , a small group of trees is a copse , in India that can be called a shola , S H O L A |
| 27 | For the latter , the term God is the main religious symbol for the Ground of Being while , for the former , God is the name we give to the mysterious power that pervades the universe and not a symbol in the Tillichian sense . |
| 28 | A third witness , you understand , adds no further dimension but only spreads it thinner , and a fourth thinner still , and the more witnesses there are the thinner it gets and the more reasonable it becomes until it is as thin as reality , the name we give to the common experience … |
| 29 | It is hopeless beauty that brings the tears to the eyes , a beauty we give to the dead hopes of our past . |
| 30 | I am told there are two sisters who dwell under one roof , and can not speak to one another , for the one is a Free Churcher and the other is a Baptist ; and that one gave to the other cause of great offence , having put cream in the tea of the other when such kind office was not desired . |