Example sentences of "be [vb pp] give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where it employs professional musicians full- or part-time it should ensure that their salaries take account of their training and qualifications as well as of the time and contribution which they are expected to give to the worship . |
| 2 | Volunteers are needed to give about one hour a month for a group meeting , plus fund-raising events , usually three or four times a year . |
| 3 | If horses are to be housed indoors , faint illumination at night is preferable , and a shielded twenty-five watt electric light can be arranged to give about the same amount of illumination as a nearly full moon . |
| 4 | Even the busiest of us can be persuaded to give of our time and our expertise when we know that the task we are undertaking will take a pre-specified and limited time . |
| 5 | Its obvious injustice would entirely destroy all confidence in the integrity of Government , and any reliance professional men might be induced to give to official programmes in the future ; while its realisation would inflict a serious and almost irreparable injury on the dignity and integrity of a liberal profession . |
| 6 | During your course you will be asked to give at least one talk . |
| 7 | Just as journal serialization affected the chapter formation and the structure of the nineteenth-century novelistic , so also the expectation of the break , mediated by the specific form of attention which audiences are believed to give to television , produces a mutation within the novelistic towards segmented narration . |
| 8 | Having reached his destination , he remembered the message that he had been asked to give to his hostess : ‘ I travelled down with an uncle of yours and he told me to give you the following message , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Visitors to the library are encouraged to give to the donations box at the entrance to allow the book purchasing policy to be kept up . |
| 10 | All pupils are encouraged to give of their best to achieve that goal . |
| 11 | Another limitation placed upon the scheme is the amount of advice which a solicitor is permitted to give without reference to the Area Director . |
| 12 | While the Prime Minister immediately offered the use of British military camps in West Germany to help cope with the current surge of refugees , her Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , promised East Germany the kind of practical help in creating a more market-orientated economy which Britain has given Poland — some £25 million of ‘ Know How ’ funds over 25 years and is pledged to give to ex-Communist Hungary . |
| 13 | ( b ) ( i ) Subject to the Statutory minimum Periods of Notice set out below the Council is required to give to you … weeks notice of termination of employment . |
| 14 | They are the notices which you are required to give to your local council 's Building Control department , to enable them to inspect your work for compliance with the appropriate regulation requirements . |
| 15 | First , an effort was made to give to each local authority ‘ functions and powers which are separate and distinct ’ ( Herbert 1960 : 197 ) . |
| 16 | Furthermore , the reading I did for the lectures I was called to give as a ‘ drugs expert ’ generated queries about such ambiguous areas as victimless crimes and interference in private acts , and altogether raised more questions than were solved . |