Example sentences of "give support to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AFTER a week mulling over Budget proposals for offshore tax reform , British Petroleum has given support to the Chancellor 's moves to encourage more efficient oil and gas production . |
| 2 | Similarly , the prevention of further episodes of self-poisoning or self-injury continues to be a problem , and while retrospective investigations have given support to the policy of psychiatric intervention , prospective studies have failed to demonstrate any effect on repetition rates . |
| 3 | With several modifications , such varied anthropologists as D. Forde [ 1948 ] , M. Fortes ] 1953 ] , and M. Sahlins [ 1961 ] have given support to the view that segmentary systems , the modern anthropological equivalent of Morgan 's ‘ gentile systems ’ , seem to occur in societies with similar technologies and they are by and large of the type postulated in The Origin . |
| 4 | Issued to 144 Squadron ( becoming ‘ PL-K ’ ) at Leuchars , the unit trained-up and ferried out to Vaenga I in the USSR to give support to the convoy lifeline around the top of Norway . |
| 5 | The Community Support Anti-waste Scheme ( CSAWS ) was set up in 1976 with the following aims : to promote the recycling of materials ; to give support to the government 's anti-waste programme ; to provide employment for a cross section of the community ; and to stimulate industrial , community and charitable organisations to participate in the collection and recycling of waste materials . |
| 6 | Newtonian physics at one time seemed to give support to the idea that the universe was ordered and mechanistic and , therefore , divinely made ; Darwinism challenged many of the basic tenets of Christianity , thereby setting science and religion in opposition and creating an important set of dualities — rationality/irrationality , reason/faith — through which we have come to construct science . |
| 7 | For public health doctors to withdraw from or refuse to give support to the task at this critical moment would greatly endanger the specialty , as people without the necessary combination of medical and public health skills would attempt the job . |
| 8 | So you 're going to fold this around the elbow to give support to the arm and in this one you 're gon na fold first of all forward and then back , can you see that little neat envelope ? |
| 9 | Whether painting , launching a course , or giving support to a teacher breaking new ground , the same personal qualities pervaded all Basil 's endeavours : patience , honesty , love and care . |
| 10 | Despite Wilson 's inclination to adopt what he considered to be a conciliatory approach to the shipowners he found himself , whether pioneering new branches or giving support to the work of the union 's organizing delegates , in the role of agitator . |
| 11 | You may combine this with the role of company Secretary , giving support to the Board of directors by providing legal and financial information essential for the Board to make informed decisions . |
| 12 | In spite of their support of the Conservative Party , the leaders of British industry have made it plain that there are limits to the extent to which they are prepared to sacrifice profitability in giving support to the government 's inner city policies . |
| 13 | There are clear ‘ fits ’ between the two lists , giving support to the view that a synergetic relationship is possible , and some obvious benefits are almost bound to derive from bringing two organisations together , just as sitting next to Nellie traditionally gradually fused the experience of the expert with the youthful vigour of the apprentice . |
| 14 | And it gives support to the idea that treating the colic is important , because the children in the study all had serious health problems as a result of their sensitivity to milk — problems that might have been avoided if they had been taken off cow 's milk at an earlier age . |
| 15 | Figure 3.1 gives support to the view that ‘ Perhaps the single most distinguishing characteristic of the Japanese wage structure is the effect of firm size on wages ’ ( Hashimoto 1979 p.1098 ) . |
| 16 | In 1937 its Annual Conference gave support to the formation of a " Workers Front " , a coalition of socialist groups for specifically radical objectives . |
| 17 | While Democrats in Congress gave support to the President 's decision to launch the biggest US military operation since the Vietnam War , Russia expressed ‘ deep concern ’ for what it dubbed gunboat diplomacy which violated the UN Charter . |
| 18 | A second series of influential studies that gave support to the model presented in chapter 4 — this time to its prediction that only unanticipated changes in aggregate demand have real output effects — were those of Barro ( 1977a , 1978a ; see also Barro and Rush , 1980 ) . |