Example sentences of "the [adj] to give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er thank you Chairman erm th that is one of the Liberal resolutions that we can get it is important at the sorry to give evidence of the alternative viewpoint and , and that is the case in , in opposing er for those who are opposing that er terminal five . |
| 2 | As one of their members , Hugh Dalton ( who was to be Chancellor of the Exchequer when family allowances were first paid in 1946 ) wrote in an article advocating family allowances : ‘ We would raid the luxuries of the rich to give a chance of life to children of the poor ’ ( New Leader 29 January 1926 ) . |
| 3 | Vertical equity is the Robin Hood principle of taking from the rich to give to the poor . |
| 4 | On the Ghosh approach an accused who steals from the rich to give to the poor must be acquitted if he believes that reasonable people would regard what he did as not dishonest . |
| 5 | And Ronald Reagan accepts $2m from the Japanese to give a single lecture . |
| 6 | There is a strong case , therefore , for comparing the combined mortality records of social classes I and II with IV and V plus the unoccupied to give the best aggregate picture of inequalities in child mortality . |
| 7 | In the treaties with the States-General of 1654 and 1667 the English government succeeded in having its claims accepted by its rival ; and so sensible a man as Sir William Temple felt that nothing had ever given him greater pleasure than forcing the Dutch to give way once more on this point in the peace negotiations of 1674 . |
| 8 | The game was all over as a spectacle until the last two minutes when United 's corpse rose from the dead to give Horsham an awful fright . |