Example sentences of "they give to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we saw when considering the interactionist critique of positivism , there are two particularly important reasons for this : first , the processes of definition and application produce the data specifying the nature of , and the trends in , crime , and the characteristics of criminals that are subsequently used by criminologists to construct their theories and explanations ; second , these processes of definition and application have consequences for the meanings , implications and justifications that those ‘ labelled ’ by them give to their own actions . |
| 2 | It would be a long time before anyone inherited — and his sons knew that sooner or later Henry would take something from them to give to the youngest of them all , John . |
| 3 | And now my family have offered forty-nine cattle to his family , but the government will not take them to give to his family in England . ’ |
| 4 | The directors have a reasonable time in which to come to a decision , but since section 183(5) of the Act imposes an obligation on them to give to the transferee notice of rejection within two months of the lodging of the transfer , the maximum reasonable period is two months . |
| 5 | A 'sham " has been defined by Diplock LJ ( as he then was ) in Snook v London and West Riding Investments Ltd [ 1967 ] 2 QB 786 ( at p802 ) to include : [ A ] cts done or documents executed by the parties to the " sham " which are intended by them to give to third parties or to the court the appearance of creating between the parties legal rights and obligations different from the actual legal rights and obligations ( if any ) which the parties intend to create . |
| 6 | The intimacy with which she and Luke explored each other 's mouths was possession of a kind , so wholly were they given to that long kiss , and when it ended they had to have it all over again , instantly , mouths colliding with an urgency which carried them dangerously beyond mere sensuality . |
| 7 | But how much sympathy will they give to a platform whose rules are ‘ Never trust a scientific report ’ and ‘ Never trust a scientist ’ ? |
| 8 | It is also structured by the biographical situation of the person using the term and the definitions they give to their work role . |
| 9 | Nothing is more characteristic of churches than their attitude to assurance and the place they give to it in their preaching and systems of doctrine . |
| 10 | If that is the sense they give to the word ‘ Panslavism ’ , oh ! then I am a Panslav . |
| 11 | ( The authors ' respect for children is further demonstrated by the attention they give to misreadings — ‘ miscues ’ — and blocking . |
| 12 | Many Home Helps become very fond of the elderly people they visit , often doing all kinds of extra jobs for them when they have the time , and the moral support they give to lonely old people is invaluable . |
| 13 | It also provides a useful example to journalists bored with adding the suffix ‘ -gate ’ to the names they give to all political scandals , regardless of whether they have anything to do with break-ins in Washington : by adding ‘ -dome ’ hacks can bring a new sense of variety to their reports , regardless of whether they have anything to do with teapots . |
| 14 | Teachers of English will differ in the weight they give to each of these views of the subject . |
| 15 | The counsellor , in a variety of ways , has to feed back to counsellees the impressions they give to others , and the way they ‘ come across ’ to other people . |
| 16 | Given half a chance they would ‘ retrobolt ’ ( what curious technical names they give to hearsay these days ) everything we hold dear . |
| 17 | It is a book that focuses on the questions that psychobiologists ask , rather than on the answers that they give to them . |
| 18 | Up at HM Systems Plc in North London , they innocently ran a letter through the thing , and once they had stopped chortling , they rang us to advise that people should stick to calling the new chip the 80586 in any correspondence they give to their secretary unless they 're confident that , in the words of Larry Hart , she 's a broad with a broad , broad mind . |
| 19 | However , it remains possible that people do see the support which they give to elderly relatives as part of a two-way pattern which stretches over time and across generations , and where they themselves will benefit ultimately from the support of someone in a younger generation . |
| 20 | Another similarity between control theory and classical criminology is in the kinds of answer they give to the question ‘ why do we conform ? ’ . |
| 21 | Faeces are used by young children as a ‘ gift ’ , and sometimes their stools are wrapped up in parcels which they give to a significant person . |
| 22 | The principal interest of these court appearances is in the confirmation they give to the portrait of the National Socialist League in the last months of peace . |
| 23 | Accounts vary in the emphasis they give to events and the order in which events happened . |
| 24 | Because these appear at about the same level in adjacent fibrils they give to the whole fibre its characteristic cross-striated appearance . |
| 25 | To understand this process , we have to look at the experiences of students themselves , and the meanings they give to their education . |
| 26 | Humans do not just react to fire , they act upon it in terms of the meanings they give to it . |
| 27 | Procedural fairness does not require him to identify his advisers or the advice they give to him . |
| 28 | They give to others what they want for themselves . |
| 29 | The dilemma can be expressed as follows : the more accessible teachers seek to make themselves to all their pupils as individuals , the less time they have for direct , extended and challenging interaction with any of them ; but the more time they devote to such extended interaction with some children , the less demanding on them as teachers must be the activities they give to the rest ; and the less demanding an activity is of their time and attention as teachers , the more the likelihood that the activity in question will demand little of the child . |
| 30 | The real breakthrough will come when the pot plants grown from rainforest seed are sold as such — when customers in down- town LA choose their purchases for the help they give to commercial community-based conservation as much as for their leaf colours . |