Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it can not be entirely free of period distortions , it shows more modest fluctuations in fertility than the TFR and in particular gives an estimate of fertility of over 2 children for most of the time since 1972 , not the 1.8 or so given by the IFR . |
| 2 | For very young children our Multivitamin Liquid can be mixed into milk or diluted fruit juice , or simply given on a spoon . |
| 3 | Although not given to dramatic expressions , he found himself thinking : End of Act One . |
| 4 | In a better attempt to define the intermediate diameter ( I ) of particles retained on sieves of specific nominal diameters ( D sv ) Komar & Cui ( 1984 ) demonstrated that the relationship provided a means of obtaining a more closely representative grain diameter than currently given by the sieve mesh itself . |
| 5 | The transcripts were handed over to the Serious Fraud Office , and duly and properly given to the defendants in the criminal proceedings . |
| 6 | If he did not touch such heights again , he remained a thoroughly reliable keeper right to the end , small , neat and quiet , and rarely given to histrionics . |
| 7 | It is certainly less idealized , and less given to black-and-white distinctions . |
| 8 | Individuals usually more widely scattered over shore than Golden Plovers , and less given to manoeuvres in close flocks . |
| 9 | Mr Gilligrew seems ideally cut out to be leader of a protest group : insecure , loud , unhumorous , indignant , unpleasant , small and much given to counting points off on his fingers . |
| 10 | The students at Cuddesdon still found him very odd , and very unpractical , and very absent-minded , and much given to muttering to himself . |
| 11 | A broken man , pale and much given to outbursts of weeping , a man trembling on the threshold of self-murder . |
| 12 | He reminded the Treasury that in 1856 he had made it a policy that all public buildings in London should be open to competition and not given as a matter of course to one of his officers , and if their Lordships did not want to hold another competition , they could well appoint the winner of the Foreign Office design , as the judges had selected the prize-winning schemes ‘ not only in regard to their external appearance , but more especially on account of the excellence of their internal arrangements ’ . |
| 13 | Bettinson is a man of considerable dignity , diplomatic and not given to emotional language . |
| 14 | Bettinson is a man of considerable dignity , diplomatic and not given to emotional language . |
| 15 | My uncle was already old , and not given to rash spending , indeed he carried his carefulness too far , and was something of a miser . |
| 16 | Belfast proved worthy opponents , attacking tenaciously and not giving at the back . |
| 17 | Irrespective of their magnitude , whether they are big or small , in each case think about the emotional weight you once gave and still give to them . |
| 18 | Vestments and linens made by members in the preceding year were displayed and later given to churches as requested . |
| 19 | One produces a flower that closely resembles the form of a female wasp complete with eyes , antennae and wings and even gives off the odour of a female wasp in mating condition . |
| 20 | The kindest way is to say that , had we followed the advice so loudly and frequently given by the right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) and his colleagues seven or eight years ago , it is highly probable that the hammer and sickle would still be flying over the Kremlin and , more importantly , that the Soviet armies would be massed in Europe . |
| 21 | The first , which is the simpler and the one used not in Northern Ireland but in the Republic , is to sort all of Paisley 's papers into " sub-parcels " , one for each second-preference candidate , and then to give to each such candidate a number of votes calculated in accordance with the following formula : the surplus divided by the total number of transferable votes , multiplied by the number of papers in each sub-parcel . |
| 22 | It was created and then given to the town in the last century by Massey — first name , and how fittingly , Placide — who had previously been the gardener in charge of the orangery of Versailles and at the Jar din tea Plantes in Paris . |
| 23 | Her Father had been a District Officer in N. Nigeria in the 1920's , and she gave us letters ; a diary ; some amazing old photographs and a telegram ; and , perhaps best of all , the mementoes of Piccin , the baby leopard reared by the family and then given to Edinburgh Zoo in 1929 . |
| 24 | This he kneaded into a pulp and then gave to Cleo to hold against her scratched cheek . |
| 25 | A clash with Constantius II was inevitable and Magnentius prepared for this immediately by raising a large army with substantial aid obtained from and freely given by the provincials , especially those in Gaul and Britain . |
| 26 | Knowing her husband , if he could be led to believe that the royal castle of Berwick might be alienated from the crown and actually given to him for his services , he would be the more apt to accede to the arrangement , being a man of acquisitive mind . |
| 27 | The food must not only be disguised , but also given in sufficient quantity , a task that has taxed the ingenuity of many a researcher ( see p91 and p92 ) . |
| 28 | This evidence was available to the chief veterinary officer last December but never given to the Select Committee . |
| 29 | The SADR first took its seat at the Organization of African Unity summit of 1984 , not 1989 as inadvertently given on pp. 37014 , 37220 . |
| 30 | The Melanesian Spearhead Group ( SPG — composed of Papua New Guinea , Solomon Islands and Vanuatu ) , originally formed in 1986 [ not 1988 as wrongly given on p. 36702 ] to press for a strong stance on the New Caledonia issue within the South Pacific Forum , held a summit meeting in the Solomon Islands capital Honiara in March 1990 , when the FLNKS was admitted to full membership . |