Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my view , however , therein lies its strength ; it is a programme that can be relied on to give an unvarnished account of the proceedings of the House and its committees ; it has been called a mini-Hansard . |
| 2 | The graph of the cratering rate for the Moon ( Figure 8.1 ) can only be relied on to give a very general indication of the ages of the various cratered regions on the other terrestrial planets , even if considerable care is taken in adapting the data to these planets . |
| 3 | The text pronounces that so far as the words are concerned no trust is created , but then goes on to give a moral reason for holding one to have been created ; it ends by referring to a similar decision of Marcus Aurelius . |
| 4 | But the publicly alleged reasons were as follows … ’ and Thucydides goes on to give them : quarrels between Athens and Corinth over Corcyra and Potidaia . |
| 5 | He goes on to give a splendid example of the thing he has in mind , when an old Muslim tribesman went on urging a drug-addicted English hippy to ‘ pray to Jesus the Messiah ’ , until he was converted and delivered . |
| 6 | ‘ England , of course , and the southeast , ’ and it goes on to give you the dates , the times , the places and contacts and so forth . |
| 7 | It may be hard for them to go on giving warmth and understanding love amidst the euphoria and excitement that can surround the search for the birth parents and their possible discovery . |
| 8 | Supporting the family and carers who may not be able to go on giving the very demanding twenty-four hour care needed in the later stages of the illness . |
| 9 | Rivers only roll along to brighten up the landscape , and cattle graze only to give life to his drawings . |
| 10 | The ones listed below give more detailed information about social security benefits . |
| 11 | Wolfgang recovered sufficiently to give two concerts in Amsterdam where his new symphony ( No 5 in B flat , K.22 , written in The Hague ) was played . |
| 12 | Basically , that means maintaining quality work , but easing down to give my body time to recover and possibly even occasionally allowing myself the luxury of collapsing on the settee , falling asleep and dreaming of all those races I wish I could still win . |
| 13 | Raft , n , an improvised float of planks fastened together to give support on water . |
| 14 | A defence lawyer said : ‘ It is apparent she was asked to go along to give the appearance of a young man and woman out for an evenings drive . |
| 15 | Erm I 'm surprised that slightly surprised that with council and Hugh were willing to go down given what we had given our information about how dangerous or not the site actually is . |
| 16 | But myths do not exist only to give human proportions to events ; they are also created to mystify experience . |
| 17 | Instead of banning corporal punishment outright , however , it sought merely to give effect to the Court 's ruling . |
| 18 | Heard Island , comparatively tiny , has little open ground and a smaller range of habitats ; comparative remoteness has presumably given it fewer opportunities to acquire a flora . |
| 19 | So if this stands for this year 's output at a hundred percent fifty percent of it has to be added on to give next year 's . |
| 20 | Joanne has since given birth to Feathers ' daughter . |
| 21 | He has since given over his castle to the worship of Isis . |
| 22 | Parliament has expressly given him power to intervene when the local authority is acting unreasonably . |
| 23 | The Governor has effectively given up control of the Bermudian police to the local government , though he still retains the right to be consulted . |
| 24 | ‘ Mr. Green finding it industriously circulated that he has entirely given up his intention of completing his survey , conceives himself for the liberal patronage he has experienced under the obligation of informing his subscribers that so far from relinquishing it , the Plan is three fourths finished , and that he intends laying aside all his other occupations to appropriate the ensuing half-year , from Christmas to midsummer , solely to that work , about which time , as part of it will very early in spring be put into the hands of able engravers , he hopes to complete it . |
| 25 | The pidgin form used ( and it can exist with or without fixed English syntactic markers ) has naturally given way in the USA and Scandinavia to a greater interest and access to the sign language as used by deaf people . |
| 26 | well when you 're driving along give us some of the things what you do , tell us something that you do when you 're driving along |
| 27 | This book is intended as a concise account of the principles of peptide chemistry for upper-level undergraduates studying chemistry and biochemistry and the author has obviously given a great deal of thought to the needs of his readers . |
| 28 | It has the best links between applications , and Spinnaker has obviously given some thought to the future needs of users by including OLE support . |
| 29 | Two cameras , switched to give an almost negative image that enhances the metallic quality of the foliage ( and presaging the Dalek gunfire effect mentioned earlier ) , pan across the ashen forest in sweeping arcs , their pictures mixed together giving a greater impression of size to the dense , white foliage . |
| 30 | In 1982 BBC1 's ‘ Nationwide ’ covered Gay News ' tenth birthday , but in general the sharp end of factual programming has only given space to gay issues when they impinge on heterosexual concerns . |