Example sentences of "[adv] give [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sacrifice of analytical rigour may not be that important if the concept which has been thereby given life is never used , and it is clear from Lord Greene M.R 's judgment in the Wednesbury case that he conceived of it being utilised only in the extreme ( and hypothetical ) instance of ‘ dismissal for red hair type of case . ’ |
| 2 | When the pope nevertheless steadfastly refused to give way , Henry intensified his attack on the church ; in the summer of 1530 he issued a charge of praemunire against fifteen clerics , including the four bishops who had supported Catherine , on the grounds that they had aided Wolsey in the exercise of his legatine authority and thereby given support to papal jurisdiction within his realm . |
| 3 | Zahira was eventually given permission to stay on in Britain . |
| 4 | The earlier deluge had eventually given way to more normal rain , and now finally that too had passed . |
| 5 | By 1989 even his brother Nicu was rarely given publicity . |
| 6 | In his eighties he was a recipient of his union 's rarely given citation for ‘ services to the acting profession ’ . |
| 7 | For this ‘ miracle that God let be born in Salzburg ’ , every musician has since humbly given thanks . |
| 8 | A programme of accounts monitoring of ‘ at risk ’ firms commenced in January , aiming to cover 650 visits per year , and a fraud intelligence officer was appointed , to be based in the Society 's Monitoring Unit , Measures to reduce conveyancing-based fraud were also adopted ; cards warning on property fraud and loosely given undertakings were circulated . |
| 9 | Joanne has since given birth to Feathers ' daughter . |
| 10 | They looked together at the one about the woman who had said she would give anything for a child , of any kind , even a hedgehog , and had duly given birth to a monster , half-hedgehog , half-boy . |
| 11 | The Italian doctor who claims to have successfully given fertility treatment to a 58-year-old English woman has cancelled a trip to London because he received a death threat . |
| 12 | The third major group to be settled were the Burgundians , who were apparently given Sapaudia a year after the grant of Gallia Ulterior to the Alans . |
| 13 | The President of Cuba had apparently given permission for the Jews to be landed on the Isle of Pines , a former penal colony . |
| 14 | Many more recent innovations in costume have led to today 's all-over leotard and tights which has not only given dancers complete freedom of movement but has given choreographers freedom to design as they will without constricting rules and conventions . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Yet as the responsibilities of public life invade Hal 's apprenticeship to pleasure , the distinction — prose with Falstaff/verse without him — breaks down , as we see when he addresses his fat friend in verse to urge him to the wars ( III.iii.199ff. ) , a change of tone so marked that Shakespeare makes Falstaff reply in a couplet — as Milton Crane noted , Falstaff is only given verse for mockery . |
| 17 | Right , so given sort of erm , public and semi-public institutions , right , represent a large proportion of the non- agricultural erm , employment opportunities , and as a result , alright , the rates of pay in the , in the civil service , essentially , are going to , going to determine erm , the urban , the urban wage rate . |
| 18 | Like a pressure-cooker suddenly given release . |
| 19 | All of these foundationalisms are subjected to thoroughgoing challenges , as perhaps given voice to with greatest immediacy and impact in Nietzsche 's radical epistemological , ethical , and aesthetic scepticism , in turn-of-the-century cultural modernism . |
| 20 | At the same time , the yield curve has taken on a flatter shape and could , especially given Exchange Rate Mechanism membership , take on a more typically continental European upward sloping nature . |
| 21 | But this is exactly what large sections of the media , especially given Manchester City Council 's refusal to publish the full report for fear of litigation , took to be the real meaning of the report . |
| 22 | Is DCF as desirable a form of analysis as the theory of finance implies — especially given criticisms of the technique voiced by some academics in the corporate-strategy area ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This is all logical enough given Fforde 's conviction that collectivism comes from ‘ areas other than the British Conservative party ’ , but Fforde seems to forget that the Conservatives were in power for fifty-five of the 100 years from the dawn of collectivism to the edge of Thatcherism , and must , therefore , have been at least partly responsible for some of Keith Joseph 's ‘ detritus ’ . |
| 25 | In the latter case the offender does appropriate the property because , although the owner has handed over possession by consent ( which was obtained by deception ) , he has not transferred the property ( that is , the ownership ) and the offender , intending to deprive the owner permanently of his property , appropriates it , not by taking possession , but by the unilateral act , adverse to the owner , of treating as his own and taking to himself property of which he was merely given possession . |
| 26 | Even then the provisions under the Act were fairly limited : the penal laws were not repealed , but Protestant Dissenters were merely given immunity from prosecution if they held their own religious services , provided their meeting-houses were licensed and the doors were left open when they met . |
| 27 | This is well-illustrated by the plentiful funerary monuments of hellenistic Boiotia , which retain features , such as the simple naming of the dead man without patronymic , which in other parts of the Greek world had long given way to more sophisticated formulae ; and Boiotia retained her local script till the age of Epaminondas in the fourth century . |
| 28 | Adam turned his attention to Miranda 's other tender places and casually added , ‘ Perhaps you 'd better give Annabel a call , to reassure her that you 're keeping a watchful eye on the accounts . |
| 29 | If you 're ticklish on the feet , perhaps you 'd better give reflexology a miss , but if you love a little footsie , read on . |
| 30 | Since ‘ compliance ’ is an administrative definition and since production or treatment processes can constantly give rise to changes in water quality , field men must be ever-vigilant in the face of uncertainty . |