Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hand resisted , then after a moment gave way . |
| 2 | Four weeks ago a girl who worked for him , Diana Travers , was found drowned following a party given for his wife on her birthday , a party at which he was expected to be present . |
| 3 | One possibility being envisaged is the creation of a document giving a detailed description of a sculpture which would accompany the work whenever it was sold . |
| 4 | ‘ It seemed to take less of a hit to give me a concussion and it 's taking me longer to recover , ’ he says . |
| 5 | We whipped up Christmassy feelings and pulled decorations and paper hats out of a hamper given by soldiers in the Outer Hebrides . |
| 6 | The exact words of a speaker given in inverted commas . |
| 7 | For , according to the terms of her contract with Vasey 's , with the exception of a clause giving them the right to instant dismissal should she ever be guilty of industrial misconduct , either party was to give the other three months ' notice . |
| 8 | Work carried out in the area of ergonomics takes account of the fact that most drivers only have a few tenths of a second to give an order or read information . |
| 9 | Enter Rooms for Windows , a shell that takes the metaphor of a building to give not just multiple desktops , but also multiple environments , each of which is called a room . |
| 10 | It is not a simple matter of a king giving his orders which then pass smoothly down an organized chain of command . |
| 11 | Accordingly , makers and dealers in ‘ bootleg ’ recordings did not commit this tort even though their activities very seriously affected the value of a contract giving a recording company the exclusive right to exploit live performances . |
| 12 | Rule 2 of the No 3 Amendment Rules 1991 inserts Ord 25 , r 5A and provides that : where the judgment creditor claims interest pursuant to the County Court ( Interest on Judgment Debts ) Order 1991 and takes proceedings to enforce payment under the relevant judgment ( within the meaning of Art 4(1) of that Order ) , any request or application for enforcement made in those proceedings shall be accompanied by two copies of a certificate giving details of : ( 1 ) the amount of interest claimed and the sum on which it is claimed , ( 2 ) the dates from and to which interest has accrued , and ( 3 ) the rate of interest which has been applied and , where more than one rate of interest has been applied , the relevant dates and rates . |
| 13 | In the inner court McMoran 's Lodging , built in 1590 , was the scene of a banquet given to James VI and Queen Anne . |
| 14 | The results from the simple syntactic processor are of little use to the semantic analysis , being simply a rating of the ‘ goodness ’ of fit of a word given its local syntactic environment . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , however , Baldwin was prevented from applying this remedy because of a pledge given by his predecessor Bonar Law that there should be no fundamental change in the fiscal arrangements of the country . |
| 16 | It tallies exactly with the description in the Liber Albus of a jewel given to the College by Thomas Hyll , who died in 1468 . |
| 17 | … the obligation [ entails ] two principal elements ; first , the existence of a relationship giving access , directly or indirectly , to information intended to be available only for a corporate purpose and not for the personal benefit of anyone , and second , the inherent , unfairness involved where a party takes advantage of such information knowing it is unavailable to those with whom he is dealing . |
| 18 | These were not John 's only ballet designs ; the press announcement of a performance given by the Eoan Group in March 1946 mentioned that the programme would include ‘ The Circus , to music by Suppé , costumes by John Cranko and choreography by Pamela Chrimes ( two Cape Town dancers as present seeking fame and fortune overseas ) and Walpurgis Night to music by Moussorgsky , costumes by John Cranko and choreography by Jasmine Honoré . ’ |
| 19 | Every repetition of a libel gives a fresh cause of action against the persons responsible for the repetition . |
| 20 | But it 's not really that much of a boast given that they also have bigger buttocks , breasts , and just about everything really . |
| 21 | Accepting the definition of a symbol given in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary as ‘ a material object representing or taken to represent something immaterial or abstract ’ , one may safely look to archaeology , a discipline whose very existence depends on its ability to learn from things what is not available in words . |
| 22 | ‘ the body of our dear brother here departed to a hemmed-in churchyard , pestiferous and obscene , where malignant diseases are communicated to the bodies of our dear brothers and sisters who have not departed … where a reeking little tunnel of a court gives access to the iron gate — here they lower our dear brother down a foot or two : here sow him in corruption , to be raised in corruption : an avenging ghost at many a sick-bedside . ’ |
| 23 | The astonishing range of innovations made by this tireless giant of a man gave contemporary noblemen — never mind humbler folk — the sense of being in the hands of some alien , elemental force . |
| 24 | Notably absent from this taxonomy is any reference to the socio-political context — somewhat of a surprise given their reference to the changing direction of the ‘ political winds ’ in the 1981 coal strike . |
| 25 | TWO brands of a vaccine given to millions of children were withdrawn last night because it is feared they could cause meningitis . |
| 26 | A local authority or child care agency will not be compelled to disclose the identity of a person giving information about child abuse ( D v NSPCC [ 1978 ] AC 171 ) . |
| 27 | Few other aspects of the business of a firm give rise to dispute more frequently than those in relation to the ownership of its property and the extent to which individual partners are interested in its assets . |
| 28 | SUDBURY Rugby Club are at the forefront of a campaign to give minnows of the new national league set-up a bigger slice of the game 's sponsorship cake . |
| 29 | Firstly , the training of young people , building upon a Council Decision ( Dec. 1987 ) calling for the setting-up of a system giving all young people the right to up to two years ' basic training . |
| 30 | Bracewell , 29 , claimed the directors backed out of a promise to give him a two-year contract by offering him only a 12-month deal to stay . |