Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [noun] give [prep] " in BNC.

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31 Legends must suffer for all the gifts and luck and privilege given to them .
32 Meditation is the just judge that can look at the present and put it into perspective ; the images of the past , the faithfulness , the many joys and sadnesses give to the present a continuity so that the nearness does not warp the judgement .
33 ' How the Holy Spirit spoke at this time is unclear , but it seems reasonable to suppose that it was through a prophecy or exhortation given through another of the leaders .
34 It is important also to remember that a post or pension given to a member could be a reward for past services as well as a means of securing future ones .
35 Is there really anything in common between what was understood by the term in the time of Plato and Pericles and the meaning or meanings given to it nearly two and a half thousand years later ?
36 A later ( later in terms of the Quarto numbering , that is ) example of this type of sonnet , with its disgusted ‘ withdrawal of the Poet ’ gesture , is 95 : The exclamatory style , the notably affectionate gestures , the epithets of praise ( ‘ sweet and lovely ’ , ‘ sweets ’ , ‘ beauty 's veil ’ in line 11 ) almost convince us that the Friend 's personal attractiveness can somehow transmute evil to good , a form of paradoxical hyperbole that Shakespeare gives to Lepidus , attempting to excuse Antony 's faults to Caesar : ‘ His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven , /More fiery by night 's blackness ’ ( Antony and Cleopatra , I.iv.13f ) .
37 The most that sociologists can hope to do is to understand the meaning that individuals give to particular phenomena .
38 My arguments concerning the broad possibilities and constraints given by the present structure of capitalist property are not supposed to have the status of a ready-made political programme , and in discussing the possibilities for investment planning as a fruitful avenue for socialist argument I make no pretence to have identified the means of conversion of ‘ social reason into social force ’ ( to use Marx 's formula ) .
39 General secretary of the Society Kate Ashbrook argues that the change of mind shows that ‘ The predictions , promises and guarantees given at the inquiry have been proved wrong .
40 We have referred to promises and understandings given in the European context .
41 The balls and parties given by the Franklins did little to buoy up her spirits , being , as she described herself , ‘ such a shy , reserved being ’ , and she longed for the quiet , regular family life of home .
42 said : ‘ This court has on numerous occasions held that the effect of Ord. 29 , r. 1(5) of the County Court Rules 1981 is that the contemnor must be personally served with a properly drafted notice which recites in clear and unambiguous detail the following : ( 1 ) the order of the court or undertaking given to the court in respect of which he has been found in breach ; ( 2 ) the respects in which it is alleged that he has been in breach ; ( 3 ) the findings of the judge as to the alleged breaches ; ( 4 ) the period of committal to which he has been sentenced and ( 5 ) that he may apply to the court to purge his contempt and seek his release .
43 The title ‘ administrative criminology ’ is of significance in that it is the title that Vold gave to the classical criminology of Beccaria and Bentham ( as we saw in Chapter 1 ) .
44 Therefore I have taken the different topics in the order that my sources thought appropriate and provided references to at least some of the specific instances of those problems that Howard gave in his text .
45 So it 's not a shortage of specialists , it 's a shortage of the erm importance both L E A's and schools give to the subject and make sure that the specialisms are used in the right place .
46 Copies of the hospital 's disinfectant and other infection control policies must be made available to mortuary technicians and the necessary education and training given in their use .
47 They also have to learn that the various legal powers and duties given to the governing body mean very little in practice if the governors are at odds with the head and staff .
48 The situation is depicted in figure 2.1 , with the monopolist 's price and output given by
49 The tribunal has a limited authority , the correlative of which is the power of the court , on review , to keep that tribunal within the area or field given to it .
50 Such policy simulation forms the basis of the advice that economists give to governments about what policies they should actually undertake .
51 This did not mean that they were wholly resistant to new ideas — that was clearly not the case because many spoke of the helpful advice and information given on the farming , nutrition , health and child care programmes — but they seemed to resist anything which either conflicted with views they already held or seemed to have no relevance to their experience .
52 All reasonable precautions are taken to ensure that the advice and data given to readers is reliable .
53 All reasonable precautions are taken to ensure that the advice and data given to readers is reliable .
54 His work remains largely in the hands of private collectors , and has so far escaped the reassessment and appreciation give to fellow Cubists Picasso , Braque and Leger in recent years .
55 According to Mujjaddedi , the Jamiat-i-Islami had censored the announcements and interviews given by members of the interim government , and the senior Jamiat-i-Islami commander , Defence Minister Ahmed Shah Masud , had been controlling his " activities , actions and instructions " .
56 I hope you 're not going to give me as much trouble as Puck gave to the lovers in the play , ’ Lucenzo murmured , a sliver of steel-tipped menace in his tone .
57 There is no doubt that a bill or note given in consideration of what is supposed to be a debt is without consideration if it appears that there was a mistake in fact as to the existence of the debt ; Bell v. Gardiner ( 4 M. & Gr. 11 ) ; and , according to the cases of Southall v. Rigg and Forman v. Wright ( 11 C.B. 481 ) , the law is the same if the bill or note is given in consequence of a mistake of law as to the existence of a debt .
58 But any thought or consideration given to working men was only part of a larger strategy of appealing to the public generally .
59 A somewhat different tone began to emerge relatively quickly , particularly in an address that Gorbachev gave to British members of parliament later the same month .
60 We have freedom to enjoy the space that God gives to us in his family .
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