Example sentences of "[adv] [vb mod] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hostility — " I suppose you think that we 're all alcoholics or addicts of some kind and that we all ought to give up everything we enjoy " . |
| 2 | So let's give two cheers to kids who passed their exams . |
| 3 | Well , we 're not supposed to start till five past , so let's give them a couple more minutes just in case they 're caught in the lift or something . |
| 4 | Its been wrotten weather for sport wrotten weather for just about anything this weekend … so let's give you some sunshine … we 're off to Brazil to Rio … for news of a Gloucester girl in the British Steel … |
| 5 | So let's give that to Ron . |
| 6 | so let's give you three |
| 7 | The table below may give some useful general guidance . |
| 8 | However , the danger evident in some of the work produced here is that , like diffusionism , it tends to examine particular cultural items without an adequate appreciation of their social context , and so may give a distorted picture of what are essentially social phenomena . |
| 9 | No matter what benefits the salesperson discusses , the buyer may be reluctant to change from his present supplier or change his present model because to do so may give rise to unforeseen problems — delivery may be unpredictable or the new model may be unreliable . |
| 10 | My understanding of the law is that an adult patient who is capable of doing so must give consent to any medical treatment if that treatment is to be lawful . |
| 11 | Toyota 's ambitions alone should give Detroit nightmares . |
| 12 | Concatenating the two together should give the full pathname of the Process Directory , and you should have read and write access to that directory . |
| 13 | There were also new rules for the periti , who henceforth might give advice only when asked . |
| 14 | You could either pay ten rupees or , if you did n't have the money , you could give a chicken , or three households together could give a sheep . |
| 15 | As Denton has shown , Winchelsey had used Clericis Laicos tactically to keep the king at bay while evading the full implications of that bull — that the pope alone could give consent ; Edward spent the last years of his reign dexterously reversing this and nullifying the commitments which appeared to have been extracted from him by the Confirmation of the Charters in 1297 . |
| 16 | If I pay at 50 per cent , I only need give 50 . |
| 17 | And they do actually now add , they only used to give you Italian terms , they 've now add added quite a lot of the French ones and the German ones . |
| 18 | Er you did a lot of it voluntary but the the better off person perhaps would give you a penny . |
| 19 | All of this it seemed might make the Prince less unacceptable to France and so would give the candidacy an air of reasonableness to the rest of Europe . |
| 20 | To proceed without doing so would give rise to conflicts of interest which could impede the proper performance of his duties . |
| 21 | Er , er , and Red would go on to say , er , unfortunately we 're in an overspend situation so I ca n't afford to pay you , but I personally would give you fifty P towards your expenses as you pitch over there . |
| 22 | Could we use a factor tree to find out we 're trying to find out which of these when you multiply them together would give you forty five . |
| 23 | The title alone would give Americans some trouble . |
| 24 | Their home alone would give Brian every justification for moving . |
| 25 | However , it soon became clear that , not only are Indian gaols so varied that to describe any one is to create a false picture , but a description of ‘ conditions ’ alone would give readers outside India little real insight into the country 's prison system or how it is experienced by inmates . |
| 26 | A glance at the latest list published in Fortune magazine shows it to be not just silly but ludicrous : the list purports to show only US industrial companies — but it classifies AT&T Co as a service company and eliminates it altogether despite the fact that with NCR Corp added in , AT&T 's non-service businesses alone would give the firm a ranking in the 50s . |
| 27 | The Widnes forwards especially would give the Kiwis some punch ; the present pack is simply unable to dominate . |
| 28 | The overseas trade fair will give 25 companies from all over Northern Ireland the opportunity to sell to hundreds of US buyers . |
| 29 | failure to do so will give the impression that you have not taken much trouble with your application and may be careless in the future . |
| 30 | So will give evidence . |