Example sentences of "[adj] of give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Sam was the younger of the two , he was not afraid of giving Carl a hard kick on the tochas ( arse ) if he had stepped out of line . |
| 2 | She discovered that she was afraid of getting close , afraid of being betrayed , afraid of finding that a relationship did not solve all her problems , afraid of feeling trapped , afraid of ‘ disappearing ’ as a person , afraid of admitting that men were not all bad , afraid of losing her friends , afraid of having no more goals in life , afraid of giving up her unhappiness , afraid he might die , afraid of feeling dependent , afraid of sexual intimacy , afraid of letting go of the past , afraid that reality would not match up to the glorious fantasy … . |
| 3 | She was becoming increasingly afraid of giving herself away . |
| 4 | Moreover , it will be guilty of giving succour , however tacit , to a regime where people continue to be deprived of their democratic rights , to suffer and to be killed , purely on the grounds of the colour of their skin . |
| 5 | In 1987 , in R v Thornton , a man was found guilty of giving blood for transfusion when HIV positive . |
| 6 | THE girl found guilty of giving a religious education teacher a sweet spiked with the hallucinogenic drug LSD has branded the schoolpals she says tricked her into handing it over as ‘ stupid ’ . |
| 7 | His Lordship accepted Mr Bayliss 's submission that Order 5 , rule 5 did not give power to make an order for contribution in favour of a representative defendant against a member of the class which he was named as representing ; and that the only power it gave was that of giving leave to a person , in whose favour a judgment or order had been given or made , to enforce the judgment or order against a person not a party to the proceedings who was bound by the judgment or order . |
| 8 | They argue further that it should be possible to eliminate the long-term effect by a procedure designed to extinguish a context — stimulus association — the procedure they used was that of giving a period of exposure to the context alone between initial exposure to the target and the conditioning phase . |
| 9 | Parents in this dilemma might think carefully about being more discriminating with their words of approval and with their reflex action to requests — that of giving and giving and giving . |
| 10 | ‘ Trees with him have no other use , but that of giving softness and effect to a picture . |
| 11 | The current legislation states that : ‘ The powers of Council shall include that of giving , in such manner as it thinks fit , advice to nurses , midwives and health visitors on standards of professional conduct . ’ |
| 12 | One of its main functions is that of giving in-service training on the shop floor . " |
| 13 | His work , a homogeneous mass , moves in front of our eyes , contracts , expands , seems motionless or flickers , and proves that painting is not — or is no longer — the art of imitating an object by means of lines and colours , but that of giving a pictorial expression to our intuitions . ’ |
| 14 | Apart from recruitment the greatest problem most armies faced was that of giving adequate training to their officers . |
| 15 | If we are to vote for the family because it is good , warm and loving , what are we to do if it turns cold ? ’ ; it well-nigh accused Labour of giving ‘ a sharp twist to a competitive spiral of wholesome image making ’ ; and it stated that the Tory Government must be defeated by ‘ the issues ’ . |
| 16 | Oh well , there 's no harm done in this case , only you really must be more chary of giving invitations to people we know nothing about . ’ |
| 17 | They had grown tired of giving parties and picnics in Swangrove . |
| 18 | Fish explained his decision to run his own recording studio ; ‘ I got tired of giving a lot of money away to other studios and being away from my family and Scotland . |
| 19 | There 's really not much else we can do , short of giving an oscilloscope readout of the ‘ voice ’ of every amp or guitar . |
| 20 | That is , we can see that the answer we should give is , ‘ You ca n't , short of giving an entirely new meaning to ‘ It 's afternoon ’ , and why should you want to do that ? ’ |
| 21 | Jessop , however , has argued that while there are important insights to be gleaned from this approach , the instrumental reappraisal falls somewhat short of giving an adequate theoretical account of the state in capitalism . |
| 22 | But there was nothing she could do about it , short of giving him an explanation for the presence of Richard 's car outside her flat . |
| 23 | Short of giving the guy cue-sheets , there was not much else we could do . |
| 24 | Ambulance crews were able to give them fluids but doctors had to stop short of giving blood . |
| 25 | She stopped short of giving market forces a free rein , confirming that regional health authorities would stay — in slimmed-down form — to maintain strategic oversight . |
| 26 | There was a custom here until the fifties of giving people new clay pipes at a funeral . |
| 27 | Dead Certain had been as badly affected as any , but Elsworth simply would not run a horse of that class in such a race unless he believed it was capable of giving of its best . |
| 28 | The Crown Prosecution Service is to prepare a report on the case of a man cleared of raping a 16-year-old girl because his alleged victim was not considered mentally capable of giving evidence . |
| 29 | ‘ Britain 's always wanted a heavyweight champion , and I believe Lennox is the only man capable of giving us one , ’ Maloney said . |
| 30 | MR JUSTICE MILLETT said that the particular question was whether a decision of a commons commissioner that certain land was not registrable as common land because it formed part of a highway was capable of giving rise to an estoppel per rem judicatam so as to preclude the landowner from afterwards asserting , in proceedings unconnected with the register , that the land in question did not form part of a highway . |