Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] give to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came to despise the good honest smell of bread and the deference my mother gave to her wealthy clients . |
| 2 | Obviously , the flavour which whisky gives to a sauce differs from that produced by cognac , armagnac or Calvados ; certainly the aromas coming from the pot while the whisky is cooking are also very different ; but by the time the alcohol has been burned and cooked away I wonder how many people would spot what precisely the difference is . |
| 3 | Should we not ask whether it is right for people with high salaries to give up some of their income to give to pensioners the means to live with dignity ? |
| 4 | Explain too , how easily a joint tenancy can be converted to a tenancy in common by , for example , simple notice in writing by one party of his or her intention given to the other . |
| 5 | The research aims to obtain detailed evidence of the various ways in which assistance given to firms by district councils conflicts with , or alternatively helps regional policy to bring jobs to the depressed areas . |
| 6 | They are extremely special , are produced at great cost , and it is doubtful that the mere pleasure their harmony gives to a selected happy few is worth such large public expenditure . |
| 7 | ‘ Pay For Your Pleasure ’ ( 1988 , MOCA , Los Angeles ) , one of the notable achievements in last year 's ‘ Metropolis ’ in Berlin , is a gallery of forty-two painted portraits of leading figures of modern civilisation with attributed comments about the licence which society gives to the artist . |
| 8 | The opinions policemen express about sex crimes are worth noting , because they reinforce the structure which gender gives to routine policing . |
| 9 | Design Changes ( DCs ) are the authorisation which LIFESPAN gives to its users to allow them to update modules . |
| 10 | But how can that which God gives to ma be interpreted as something man gives to God ? |
| 11 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many area health authorities now have ( a ) part-time and ( b ) full-time use of helicopters for air ambulance ; and what advice his Department gives to area health authorities on the desirability of these services . |
| 12 | In the selection I was involved in , one prominent candidate — a nationally known figure — suffered from the poor impression his wife gave to some of the selectors . |
| 13 | Also , the factors identified above as relevant to deciding the effect of alternative remedies may be relevant to deciding what effect to give to a statutory ouster clause which is open to more than one interpretation . |
| 14 | Now to be agile you 've got to be able to let your body give to gravity and then pull away from gravity , alternating very quickly er that gives you agility . |
| 15 | The endorsement our society gives to an ideal of thinness for young women is likely to be responsible for the current high frequency of the illness , but other factors must also be involved since anorexic patients have been reported for at least the past 150 years . |
| 16 | If you are married , how much attention do you and your partner give to managing your conflicts ? |