Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was presumably the reply given to the representative of HQ Army Group E whom Gen Schmidt-Richberg had been instructed on 13 May to send back to HQ 5 Corps at 1400 hrs the following day . |
| 2 | Eventually the Corporal gave me a cigarette , and in due course we pulled over at a roadside cafe to have a cup of coffee and to stretch our legs . |
| 3 | Their visits were threatening and long , and eventually the agency gave up hope of substituting mulberry trees for opium . |
| 4 | If you 're the first correct entry out of the hat we 'll be straight on the phone to give you the good news and arrange the presentation . |
| 5 | ‘ They are therefore in an excellent position to pass on the advice given by speakers at the conference . ’ |
| 6 | I pass on the advice given by the Lochcarron police : Do n't panic , the pilots know what they are doing and where they are going . |
| 7 | Rather the court gave an authoritative ruling on how the statutory definition applies in the case of a motor vehicle . |
| 8 | Suddenly the head gave a brisk nod . |
| 9 | But suddenly the car gave a stutter and the engine died . |
| 10 | You know , because tremendous publicity quite rightly the thing given to the campaign to save the pits . |
| 11 | The Department of Industry provides CAD information centres up and down the country to give the tyro some help . |
| 12 | If you are driving alone in a car , do not stop to pick up hitch-hikers , always lock all your doors if you are sitting in a parked car and do not roll down the window to give a suspicious looking stranger directions . |
| 13 | So the message given to young people is on the whole negative : science and technology often create more problems than they solve . |
| 14 | A detailed analysis of such techniques is beyond the scope of this book , and so the coverage given to them will be generally limited to their marketing applications . |
| 15 | So the gradient gives you a mea If I gave you the gradient , if I said the gradient is one , what would the angle be ? |
| 16 | SIS will also be covering Kelso , Newbury and greyhound racing from Bristol so the need to give punters the opportunity to additionally sample delights from the orient hardly seems necessary . |
| 17 | Had he been in Whitechapel , Charlie would have been happy to run up and down the market from five in the morning to seven at night and still box a few rounds at the club , drink a couple of pints of beer and carry out the same routine the next day without a second thought , but when at nine o'clock the sergeant-major gave them a ten-minute break for cocoa he collapsed on to the verge exhausted . |
| 18 | Glue-sniffing means breathing in the vapours given off by certain types of glue in order to get intoxicated or ‘ high ’ , rather like getting drunk on alcohol . |
| 19 | Emma Morwood , from Carrickfergus , was travelling on the ferry with her family and filled in the questionnaire given to passengers . |
| 20 | The forest was dark and low upon me , and only the gunfire gave me any sense of direction . |
| 21 | Moreover , it would be quite wrong to conclude that in the above examples only the tones given would be appropriate ; it is , in fact , almost impossible to find a context where one could not substitute a different tone . |
| 22 | Only the mouth gave the face its expression . |
| 23 | His face was calm still , only the mouth gave evidence of change , the lips parted . |
| 24 | Only the mast gave trouble . |
| 25 | Together the results gave a precise guide to the extent of the Moons shadow . |
| 26 | For the top row , no stimulus was applied , but nevertheless the cells give a slow and irregular sequence of these impulses . |
| 27 | Nevertheless the data given in Table 7.2 are the most widely quoted , and illustrate that the area already affected is immense and that average rates of deforestation in these regions are sufficiently high that there is a real danger that forests will disappear altogether in the next 200 years , especially as reforestation is replacing only c. 10 per cent of the cleared forest ( Lanly 1982 ) . |
| 28 | Thus the sections give good title to the innocent sub-purchaser . |
| 29 | Thus the war gave corporations massive profits and solved the problems of underconsumption . |
| 30 | Thus the weight given to values such as thrift and respectability may have been articulated in terms of the dominant ideology , but they still have to be understood as outcrops of a distinctive social experience . |