Example sentences of "[prep] give [noun sg] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It offers nothing less than the prospect of giving substance to the idea of ‘ an academic community ’ , unknown since the medieval foundation of the university . |
| 2 | Doubts arose over the length of time which might elapse before the child ceased to be regarded as ‘ newly born ’ , and the Infanticide Act 1938 extended the definition to the killing of a child within twelve months of its birth by a mother whose mind is disturbed either by reason of her not having fully recovered from the effect of giving birth to the child or by reason of the effect of lactation consequent upon the birth of the child . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's no way of giving warning to the pilot from here that it 's swamp below . |
| 4 | Cases alleging ‘ criminal conversation ’ , which begin as a means of giving compensation to the husband for a lover 's access to his wife and ending ( by the late eighteenth century ) as a necessary prerequisite for full divorce by Act of Parliament , provide another . |
| 5 | Egerton Wake became the party 's national agent and vigorously pursued the policy of giving direction to the rest of the movement , through the organization of regional and local conferences . |
| 6 | It certainly underlines the court 's policy of giving effect to the contract between the parties , rather than seeking to establish general rules about who is qualified to act as an expert . |
| 7 | the gay male parody of a certain femininity , which , as others have argued , may itself be an elaborate social construct , is both a way of giving vent to the hostility toward women that probably afflicts every male ( and which male heterosexuals have of course expressed in infinitely nastier and more effective ways ) and could paradoxically be thought of as helping to deconstruct that image for women themselves … |
| 8 | In the case of a registered title , a charge may have been secured by the less formal method of giving notice to the Land Registry of " Notice of Deposit " ( or " Intended Deposit " ) of the land certificate , and in such a case the appropriate document is the " Withdrawal of Notice " , which is endorsed on the back of the official receipt of notice of deposit . |
| 9 | Captured , he would be forced into giving credence to the coup . |
| 10 | Elaine Paige remembered the energy he put into giving pleasure to the audience . |
| 11 | This was an additional reason for giving supremacy to the Constitution and for introducing certain extra safeguards into it . |
| 12 | If it could be shown , for instance , that we know sufficient about the deliberation of legislators , political and judicial , to be assured , for instance , that they were better informed than we are then this might be a reason for giving weight to the content of the law in deciding what is morally right or wrong in areas where we felt that we lacked sufficient knowledge . |
| 13 | In spite of their support of the Conservative Party , the leaders of British industry have made it plain that there are limits to the extent to which they are prepared to sacrifice profitability in giving support to the government 's inner city policies . |
| 14 | The Leader of the House was right to say that there were many who said , in giving evidence to the Committee which he set up , that they think it right that Bills should be the subject of timetables . |
| 15 | My hon. Friend is right to point out that , in the past five years and beyond , the taxpayer has not been ungenerous in giving money to the coal industry . |
| 16 | The temporary coordinator could draw on the skill of all his or her colleagues in an enlarged district in giving advice to the health authority . |
| 17 | The letter continued : ’ The answers to your specific questions to the Minister , are , therefore , that we have seen a certain amount of information on the cost of the King 's Cross project ’ — we should like to know what that certain amount of information is — ’ and the projected revenues before giving consent to the deposit of the Bill . ’ |
| 18 | However , his current commitments prevent him from giving time to the forum . |
| 19 | On receipt of the application , the court can dismiss it without giving notice to the creditor and , immediately the application is dismissed , time for compliance with the demand starts to run again . |
| 20 | Hodson admitted that , prior to giving evidence to the Committee , he had had no fewer than twenty meetings with Francis Place , the radical tailor of Charing Cross Road . |
| 21 | The mini and mainframe computer manufacturers were slow to realise the enormous potential of single board microcomputers based on these microprocessors and it was left to the electronics hobbyists and entrepreneurs , who responded by giving birth to the microcomputer industry . |
| 22 | First by giving notice to the chairman of the appropriate committee . |
| 23 | Provided that all the members comply with each Compulsory Sale Notice , the Seller shall sell the Selling Shares to the Proposed Purchaser on Completion , subject at all times to the Seller being able to withdraw the Selling Notice at any time prior to Completion by giving notice to the Company to that effect , whereupon each Compulsory Transfer Notice shall cease to have effect . |
| 24 | A trustee may , in the prescribed circumstances , resign his office by giving notice to the court ( s 298(7) ) . |