Example sentences of "they give [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | These freedoms are clearly of importance in the face of the public power of the state , but they give small comfort to those who would like to see the position of individuals strengthened in relation to the exercise of private power in the economy . |
| 2 | They use role , they develop stories , they give symbolic significance to the spaces in which they play — a bed becoming a pirate ship , the arm of an armchair becoming the back of a horse . |
| 3 | Confirming instances are such if they give inductive support to a theory , and the greater the number of confirming instances established , the greater the support for the theory and the more likely it is to be true . |
| 4 | If the mortgage is a mortgage of the equitable estate , the priority of successive mortgagees depends upon the order in which they give written notice to the trustees or other persons holding the legal estate . |
| 5 | They give proper emphasis to its quiet poetry as well as its obvious rhetorical grandeur , while their classic mid-price disc is finely recorded and also includes a sensitive account of the Debussy Sonata as well as other music by Debussy and Ravel . |
| 6 | A few opposed the proposals on the ground that they gave international sanction to an undemocratic regime , but it was the more nationalist elements which were particularly vocal , and there was a broad measure of support for their sentiments . |
| 7 | Because Marx and Engels saw the reanalysis of history and anthropology as and essential part of their political activity , they gave ever-growing importance to the study and understanding of pre-capitalist societies . |
| 8 | A few days later he came back , said they gave tactile pleasure to his patients , a little on the lines of worry beads , and off he went with a boxful . ’ |
| 9 | To an illiterate population they gave tangible reality to their beliefs . |