Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] give the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to try and give the market some confidence the government organised a temporary ‘ buy-back ’ scheme , which provided , in effect , a minimum support price for the shares ( only 2 per cent of the shares issued were in fact returned ) . |
| 2 | Held , allowing the appeal , that although justices had an overriding duty to investigate the proposals advanced by the parties notwithstanding that they had been fully agreed , the profundity of that investigation should reflect the reality that there was consensus between the parties , particularly when one party was a local authority with statutory duties and another the child 's guardian ad litem , and any period during which justices reserved their decision or reasoned judgment should be kept to a minimum ; that if justices , having fulfilled their duty to make an independent investigation of terms proposed by consent , came to the conclusion that other terms should be imposed on the parties , they should indicate the terms they were minded to impose and give the parties an opportunity to make submissions on them ; and that , in all the circumstances , the order should be varied to provide that there would be no contact with the father on the basis that the local authority would continue to perform its statutory duty to review each six months and that the half-sister would be afforded reasonable contact ( post , pp. 277B–F , 278C–D ) . |
| 3 | He managed to push it away one-handed , only for Mark Wallis to pounce and give the visitors the lead on 20 minutes . |
| 4 | Buckley LJ in the Court of Appeal provided some useful guidance as to precisely what rights or powers the individual must have before he can be said to have transferred or given the opportunity to another person so that the other person can make the gain . |
| 5 | Identifying customer needs can enable a company to develop a product and marketing mix that give the company a competitive advantage over its rivals . |
| 6 | Detailing the design features that gave the Connie its unique shape the film goes on to show the various changes and marks of the Connie that enabled it to become a flying legend in civil and military use . |
| 7 | ‘ Lizzie is just the sort of excellent middle-class high achiever that gives the middle class a bad name . |
| 8 | This is true , but on the other hand it must be said that to give the wrong answer to a problem is not necessarily to miss the point of it . |
| 9 | The vintage style , two-tone sunburst finish has been expertly applied and gives the SJ a classic appearance . |
| 10 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 11 | Izzie came and gave the cups into Gabriel 's hands and kissed him on the forehead . |
| 12 | After four days of fasting , High Commission officials in Delhi relented and gave the go-ahead for the couple to be reunited . |
| 13 | I saw the Wing Commander who was to do the reconnoitre and give the signal for the fusing of the lights talking anxiously to Ryan . |
| 14 | say why you are phoning and give the job title and name of contact ; |
| 15 | There have been cases reported of gonorrhoea being passed on within four or five hours of its having been acquired , so , unlike the case with syphilis , there is no ‘ safe ’ period between catching and giving the infection . |
| 16 | When the chip is incorporated into a smart card and inserted into a mock up cash machine , the user only has to speak into a microphone to be recognized and given the cash . |
| 17 | Keep it light and sometimes when things are not as clear as you would like them to be just trust and give the remedy you judge to be nearest . |
| 18 | The judges felt it was a book that had long been needed and gave the work of many of the Bauhaus photographers the recognition they deserved . |
| 19 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 20 | Because we are dealing with what purport to be exceptions to a general principle , it is sometimes argued that there is no single legal principle of justification , merely a number of disparate responses to the specific factual and legal details of a particular case.13 Alternatively , a general principle of justification is advanced and given the name of ‘ necessity ’ or ‘ privilege ’ or some kind of ‘ comprehensive justification in relation to medical procedures ’ . |
| 21 | Gusev knew from experience that sooner or later something would emerge and give the vital clue . |
| 22 | Since wages and prices tend to be ‘ sticky ’ in the downward direction , the only way that the price mechanism can work and give the appropriate signals is for the prices of different goods and services to rise at different rates . |
| 23 | I would suggest that given the decision we prepared to make now even if you have to send a deposit get the local party to stump up the deposit and collect the money as soon as convenient from the people who are committed to going . |
| 24 | The aggregated dogwhelks are feeding and give the appearance of a hunting pack ( that is not the reason for the name dogwhelk ! ) . |
| 25 | So she lay still , prone , trying to catch the sound of her breathing before it escaped and gave the game away . |
| 26 | He re-qualified and gave the lead . |
| 27 | ‘ the presumption that the inspector [ in a revenue case ] acted intra vires when giving the notice can only be displaced by evidence which can not be reconciled with the inspector having the required reasonable opinion . |
| 28 | I believe that given the potential field to whom we circulated details , over 65 UK companies alone , that this level of response is not unreasonable . |
| 29 | From Gladstone 's period as Chancellor in the middle of the last century onwards , a set of rules or constitutional conventions evolved that gave the Treasury its central position as guardian of the public purse , as follows : |
| 30 | I would n't call last season debacle making the right decisions , my own personal opinion of him is that he was the right manager to get us out of the second divsion , but I feel that given the players and money avail able to him he maybe could have done better . |