Example sentences of "not give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raconteur and raisonneur , in his art as in his personal life , he is a concealed author who is evident enough in his hotly opinionated fiction : he is not given to expounding his own passionate opinions there , but can be recognised without difficulty in almost every aspect of every one of his novels , including the speech assigned to his often disputatious characters . |
| 2 | Entrepreneurs , by their nature , are relatively thin on the ground — and an ungrateful lot not given to remembering those who helped them on the first , shaky steps on the ladder . |
| 3 | Was my freedom not given to me then in order to build the world of the You ? |
| 4 | Bettinson is a man of considerable dignity , diplomatic and not given to emotional language . |
| 5 | Bettinson is a man of considerable dignity , diplomatic and not given to emotional language . |
| 6 | As NASA 's recently launched Cosmic Background Explorer ( COBE ) confirmed , the background looks the same all over the sky , which implies that the cooling fireball which produced it was not given to clumpiness . |
| 7 | Yet this is a politician not given to balancing market forces against anything : as unreal an animal , implies rich socialist Mr Mortimer , as a green Tory party in real life . |
| 8 | This may be unfair on her , but it probably helps the Community to have Mrs Cresson threatening to block Japanese exports if ‘ reciprocal access ’ is not given to European goods in Japan . |
| 9 | But then the property was not given to her ; it was given on the face of it to the trustee . |
| 10 | She is not given to grieving . |
| 11 | HAVE noticed that any old grandad who can prop himself up on a spade can dig better than I can , and it does seem that although women have virtues not given to men , men also have their gifts . |
| 12 | He could imagine its reception in England , particularly from Clarissa , who was intrinsically a very sensible girl , not given to ideas of fantasy . |
| 13 | They can thank whatever devils they happen to worship that I have much gentleness in my soul and am not given to vituperation or excessive polemic . |
| 14 | I daresay you find this strange and may think I am ungrateful when after all I have been given the chance to set up for myself which is not given to many of our station but it is a surprise to me too . |
| 15 | The number of peoples in the world who knew of these advantages and nevertheless persisted in rejecting them were few : to do so required a tenacity of purpose , an indifference to wealth and comfort which were not given to many . |
| 16 | Second , the male family members , because they are male , are given a credibility — and hence power — to influence non admission not given to female members . |
| 17 | There is a Joy that is not given to those who do not love you ( O God ) , but only to those who love you for your own sake . |
| 18 | I 'm not given to making guesses . ’ |
| 19 | Jazz gave little away , and was not given to complaint . |
| 20 | Not given to self-pity , he heaved the problem out of his mind and tried to look forward to the challenges of tomorrow , but weariness overtook him and he retired to the shed and his mothy sleeping bag . |
| 21 | For example , if you are unfairly made redundant because consideration was not given to offering you another job , your compensation might be discounted to take account of the fact that , had proper consideration been given , you might still not have been offered that job . |
| 22 | Elevenses were not given to clerks then . |
| 23 | Yanto Gates was not given to quick decisions or mad impulses , but the girl in reality matched his dreams of her so perfectly that he had to take it as a sign . |
| 24 | A sleepy old town is Devizes Not given to chaos and crisis The major event 's A canoe race in Lent With stiff backs and sore bums as prizes ! |
| 25 | So it is hardly surprising that the place has bred a line of hardy , taciturn beings who , accustomed from birth to fighting the elements simply to survive , are not given to public demonstrations of any kind of emotion . |
| 26 | the ‘ evidence ’ comes from the subject himself and is not given to him by another person . |
| 27 | ‘ Such talents and indomitable spirit are not given to all of us . |
| 28 | In Tolkien 's poem , accordingly , the words are not given to Beorhtwold but form part of a dream dreamt by the poet Torhthelm : |
| 29 | As Mr Leslie had explained earlier he was completely sober and was not given to imagination , he screwed his eyes up looking for the reason for the footsteps ; he could n't see the feet but heard them quite distinctly passing him in the ballast below . |
| 30 | ‘ They are old , practically all of them are over 60 , and traditionally not given to any kind of positive relations with blacks , ’ he said . |