Example sentences of "[noun pl] give of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 2 | ( Palmer 1986 , Radway 1984 ) But at the same time , such research raises many questions ; not least , how to make sense of the accounts readers give of their activity as they read . |
| 3 | Even if we have few possessions or little wealth to give away , may we seek out opportunities to give of our time , our skills and our concern to those who need us . |
| 4 | He could be relied upon in all circumstances to give of his best for us , even though , in all honesty , we were seldom more than a pretty poor bunch throughout the period he was with us . |
| 5 | And although the names given of some of the boys arrested for these offences — David Stones and Arthur Gobbing , for example — suggest the possibility of a hoax , police reports repeatedly referred to ‘ this dangerous practice ’ and that ‘ the danger to the public seems sufficiently marked to warrant some special steps ’ . |
| 6 | Nor are details given of the number of Euramco shares that the respective investors purchased or subscribed for . |
| 7 | They are summarized in Table 1 with examples given of the types of outputs to be expected in each of the categories . |
| 8 | The examples given of settlements in Canada , Australia and New Zealand demonstrate the influence of a few of the colonisers who went out from Ayrshire and give an indication of the varied circumstances and locations in which the emigrants started their new lives . |
| 9 | Therefore , the assessments which the neighbourhood police give of how much support they obtain from the Catholic community ( or , more accurately , how much support they see the majority of Catholics as feeling able safely to show ) , vary depending on wider circumstances and the time-scale used . |
| 10 | It was in their power to make and break military reputations ; men gave of their best in front of them . |
| 11 | ‘ Charles was told that they owed it to their hosts to give of their professional best , ’ a royal aide said yesterday . |
| 12 | For organizations that want their employees to give of their best the conclusion must be that ‘ we can not afford not to have an effective communication policy ’ . |