Example sentences of "be [adj] give it " in BNC.
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| 1 | the Crown is not bound to take the advice of a particular Ministry to put its subjects to the tumult and turmoil of a series of general elections so long as it can find other Ministers who are prepared to give it a trial . |
| 2 | you 're supposed to give it a good bees waxing once a year ! |
| 3 | But Ministers are unlikely to give it to either group as Mr Major does not want the lottery to be seen as gambling . |
| 4 | Its defenders have certainly been reluctant to give it up in the face of criticisms , for fear that ‘ without it , the macro-economists would be adrift in a sea of unorganized data ’ ( Samuelson and Nordhaus 1985 ) . |
| 5 | I say no , I say it would have been harsh to give it . |
| 6 | Only a handful of people , it had been established , had been near enough to the leading car of the funicular to have been able to give it the fatal extra push that had sent Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan tumbling down the steep hillside . |
| 7 | After the yard was the house that was built for , and due , so much more life than I 'd ever been able to give it . |
| 8 | Many fishkeepers ca n't get rid of this plant and are happy to give it away . |
| 9 | ‘ I might be prepared to give it a try . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ They 'll have it tomorrow morning — or as soon as I 'm free to give it . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ All right , Seb , I 'm willing to give it a try . |
| 12 | The rule i in my submission is that expert evidence is admissible er where there are matters at issue before the court which require expertise for the analysis and these criteria to be satisfied in my submission are that first of all the evidence must be relevant , and secondly the witness must be competent to give it . |
| 13 | City institutions who received money from Maxwell may be reluctant to give it back unless it can be clearly sourced to the pension fund . |
| 14 | Just to be able to give it as your address ! |
| 15 | But I just thought , you know , it 'd be nice to give it because they have been , I mean they 've been really helpful and |
| 16 | The necessary contact could partly be maintained by means of meetings and round-table discussions of the kind so successfully organised at Uig for the Arkleton Trust , but it would be desirable to give it some more concrete , institutional form as well . |
| 17 | You were right to give it a miss , my friend . |
| 18 | He said the RA expected it to be long campaign but were prepared to give it as long as it took to secure their aims . |
| 19 | Even those who did not endorse the company 's claim to produce ‘ The Best Car in the World ’ were prepared to give it the benefit of the doubt . |
| 20 | Commenting on whether a cake had been promised to Miss Dodd , she said : ‘ We were prepared to give it to her as a donation but she cancelled the order . ’ |
| 21 | From a letter to my mother dated 2 May , which has escaped destruction , it is clear that I had just written to Eliot explaining that I realized the undesirability of publication , unless indeed Rowse himself were prepared to give it his endorsement . |
| 22 | They were prepared to compromise because they I 'm sure that you know you ca n't imagine them not being really but because they 're such erm they were outraged at this machine but they were prepared to give it a try but the way it was bulldozed through that once the machine was there there was no choice then and almost you know get going boys get more and more and more slate you know greed they felt the employer was being greedy at the expense of quality . |
| 23 | But he is already top salesman in his company and dreams of being able to give it all up to start his own small business . |
| 24 | We had the NWN report of those six points and were able to give it to him . |
| 25 | He 's still a little wobbly on his feet , but he 's prepared to give it a go . |
| 26 | Her end product may be a highly decorative seat where once a junk shop kitchen chair stood , but it is also functional art , and the fact that it is three-dimensional gives it an element of involvement that is often missing from a flat canvas . |
| 27 | No matter what container you use , it is advisable to give it a thorough scrubbing with clean water . |
| 28 | ‘ If the ground is on the firm side it will be Clever Folly and if there 's any give it will be Pat 's Jester . ’ |
| 29 | But Tracey knows you 're dedicated and it 's silly giving it up . |
| 30 | I am ready to give it a go . |