Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , sociological positivism can be criticized for giving the impression of setting out to demonstrate scientifically the truth of an approach which seemed already to have been assumed in the way the terms were defined . |
| 2 | Displacement theory has , however , been criticized for giving insufficient weight to political influences on the level of public expenditure . |
| 3 | Iliescu said that the NSF leadership had been criticized for giving in to mob rule , and that the issue , like that of the death penalty , should instead be put to a referendum . |
| 4 | The JET project was delayed for several years in the 1970s , while the council of ministers vacillated between giving the project to ISPRA , Garching in West Germany and Culham . |
| 5 | The major reason given for giving them the boot was the requirement for a shit-hot pitch when the Euro championships come round in 96 . |
| 6 | But she did not think about giving anything to Finn ; he lived , now , in a country where presents and affection and loving and giving meant nothing . |
| 7 | So OK , without too much effort she had offended Ven Gajdusek , it seemed , but he most definitely had said he would think about giving her the interview ! |
| 8 | I would think about giving up that , send the package out and forget about them |
| 9 | At around the same time , the effects were being felt of a new system ( introduced by the government in 1995 ) of individual budgets for each prison — in effect cash limits on what can be spent on staff in each prison — which has also been blamed for giving rise to understaffing . |
| 10 | Locke is not saying erm that the purchase of property in the territory of the civil society counts as giving express consent . |
| 11 | I 'm sure she needs a bit of time to recharge after giving so much of herself this morning . ’ |
| 12 | Even though she does n't approve of giving in . |
| 13 | ‘ I know you do n't approve of giving money to people in the street , so that was nice of you . ’ |
| 14 | Though the hall 's notoriously unhelpful acoustic is reflected in the relatively dry sound , the Teldec engineers have done wonders in giving it not only a fair bloom but in conveying an extreme dynamic range . |
| 15 | The introduction of characters " names is strangely delayed — but this is accountable if we consider that names have a low priority in the elaboration of psychological reality : if James had begun his first sentence : " Pemberton hesitated and procrastinated " , he would have succeeded in giving his main character a label , and nothing else . |
| 16 | They have let down the public and also let down colleagues who , in the local media and in some national programmes such as ’ Newsnight ’ , have succeeded in giving a more accurate and balanced picture of events . |
| 17 | This made cycling quite exciting , for if you got lost , there were no indications to follow , and people were discouraged from giving directions to strangers . |
| 18 | solicitors ought to be discouraged from giving undertakings which it was not within their capacity to fulfil — particularly those which effectively took the form financial guarantees ; |
| 19 | In proceedings under Parts IV and V of the Children Act this privilege is waived and no person is excused from giving evidence or answering a question put to him in the course of his evidence on the ground that it will incriminate him or his spouse ( s98(1) ) . |
| 20 | But companies can stop giving at any time ; under the traditional system of covenants , they were committed to giving an annual donation for four years . |
| 21 | Because of this cost , I would say one of the main requirements in church planting is that the leader of the mother church should be committed to giving away life . |
| 22 | The Department is committed to giving an indication of the prices which it will pay very soon . |
| 23 | We are committed to giving people the councils that they want — that means creating councils based on the communities with which local people and organisations identify . |
| 24 | The fact that Labour is committed to giving no discounts is — as was said by my hon. Friends the Members for Nottingham , South ( Mr. Brandon-Bravo ) and for Torbay ( Mr. Allason ) — marvellous news from our point of view . |
| 25 | We are committed to giving our viewers and listeners context — to give them the where-with-all to make sense of the world . |
| 26 | The example nicely raises the issue of the degree to which a general linguistic theory is committed to giving an account of language understanding : for here we have a complex interaction between deictic words ( clearly a linguistic problem ) and a culture 's temporal reckoning systems ( not so clearly a linguistic problem ) , and the pre-emptive usage of deictic words ( which lies somewhere in between ) . |
| 27 | The KEEN Olympics are organised by Oxford students committed to giving disabled children a taste of the sporting life |
| 28 | The emphasis is stressed on giving activists the experience in using the equipment . |
| 29 | This alternative has been open to them since 1986 but unfortunately many landowners chose to seek the approval of Licences instead even though it is virtually impossible to arrange for land to be occupied without giving occupation rights . ’ |
| 30 | In Das Rheingold , finished in 1854 , and , up to a point , in Die Walküre , begun in the same year , Wagner came as near as he was ever to come to giving his theories practical effect . |