Example sentences of "to the [noun] to give " in BNC.
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| 1 | O , the Fox went out on a chilly night and he prayed to the moon to give him light … |
| 2 | In spite of which , the impression they gave was of being identical , and it was left to the owners to give their property whatever signs of individuality they could , by making neat little gardens , or by not doing so , by cleaning the windows once a month , or by not doing so . |
| 3 | I appeal to the Minister to give at least some consideration to how far the environmental statement should come from a neutral source rather than from the promoters . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you disapprove of us , my angel ? ’ she asked , exalted by wine and overbearing , and took him down to the kitchen to give him some of the leftover chicken . |
| 5 | She was moved by his address : not so much by the declaration of the reformed and Catholic nature of the Church of England , nor by his condemnation of racialism , nor by his challenge to the State to give the Church more liberty to follow its vocation in worship ; but by his gratitude at the growing longing within the Church for a deeper life of prayer . |
| 6 | Few Conservative MPs doubt the sincerity of Mr Tebbit 's gut hostility to the plan to give British passports to up to 225,000 Hong Kongers as an insurance policy designed to ‘ anchor ’ them in the troubled colony . |
| 7 | She appealed to the Teachers to give them their support in every way possible . |
| 8 | ( h ) Outstanding borrowing If there is a mortgage , it is important to write to the mortgagee to give notice of the client 's intention to redeem . |
| 9 | It would be open to the prosecutor to give an indication to the bench that he was not prepared to prosecute again . |
| 10 | Mousse was applied to the hair to give body and firmness . |
| 11 | Today 's cases are significant as the Court allowed the help of so-called Mackenzie 's friends in to the Court to give help . |
| 12 | The application still ran close to the user to give a crisp look and feel . |
| 13 | How can you give them the opportunity to make alterations to the rules to give them " ownership " of a game ? |
| 14 | Back to the basins to give my hair a brush-through : I liked myself spiky , hedgehog , but I wanted a will-brushed hedgehog . |
| 15 | However , an irregular inflection like sung would be listed , so that the lexical rule for the formation of the regular plural present tense would not be inappropriately applied to the base to give singed . |
| 16 | Although we could n't speak the language , there were enough ‘ … issimos ’ attached to the adjectives to give a good idea of what the locals thought of the route , and the frequent appearance of numbers like VIII , VII+ , A4 and A3 on the topo seemed more in keeping with our previous experience than the more modest gradings given by Ron James . |
| 17 | He then climbed the parallel crackline to the left to give Pagan Lovesong , E4 5b , 6a ( try to imagine a lovesong in a Geordie accent ! ) . |
| 18 | Some pieces of bogwood and floating plants can also be added to the tank to give shade and provide hiding places for the fry . |
| 19 | From the beginning , Lewis was a conscientious tutor who tried to keep the balance right between amiability or conviviality ( not always possible between incompatible types ) and his duty to the pupils to give them sufficient preparation for their examinations . |
| 20 | A finish applied to the fabric to give it a watermarked appearance . |
| 21 | There was time when they had to bribe er , give some sort of er incentive to the foreman to give them a good time , then it was the shop stewards who would give the workers to the management who will do the o overtime . |
| 22 | Then space out the pots close to the glass to give your charges room to develop . |
| 23 | A few days later he came to the office to give his report in person . |
| 24 | It was not unusual for the orderer of the Boozebuster to specify a long route back to the office to give the victim 's fellow revellers time to get back ahead of him . |
| 25 | Now I am trying to find about half-a-dozen Welsh-based companies with a commitment to the environment to give say £250–£300 each towards its production . |
| 26 | I am now trying to find about half-a-dozen Welsh-based companies with a commitment to the environment to give say £250–£300 each towards its production . |
| 27 | Because the nests are in such orderly rows , scientists at the Museum of Paleontology at Drumheller , Alberta , believe that the same species of dinosaur returned to the site to give birth each year for many hundreds of years . |
| 28 | Further permission for publication of the report was left to the department to give . |
| 29 | Mr Shevardnadze , worn out by the struggle for reform , used his resignation speech to the Congress to give warning that a new dictatorship was in preparation . |
| 30 | Hence , the traditional indifference ( now obscured by educational theorists ' cant ) to the need to give children the uniquely essential means for social liberation : an ability to speak and write their own language correctly . |