Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [noun] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | This in fact became so only because of the policies Wilson adopted in the way of providing arms to the other side , for which there was insufficient compensation from the rather half-hearted support given by the Soviets and by a few other countries to the Biafrans . |
| 2 | The proposed new law curbing this type of blatantly dishonest description given by some estate agents is not before time . |
| 3 | The rather weak reason given was the waste of the resources used in training these people . |
| 4 | The most reliable data gives its size as 60cm ( 2″ ) , so do n't consider a tank of less than 4′ , and be prepared to go up to 6′ as the fish matures . |
| 5 | Shannon 's sherry-coloured eyes danced with a mixture of amusement and pleasure as the short , rather portly director gave the classic command . |
| 6 | In the end , over 600 people were able to take part in the inquiry , a remarkably high figure given the time required to prepare and attend and the intimidating feel of the proceedings . |
| 7 | So representative government gives some role to the will of the people , some role to the individual to individuals , but erm in a way less role |
| 8 | This can be done simply by defining the term imposing the duty as a " condition " ( giving a right to terminate the contract in the event of breach ) or " warranty " ( so that breach gives no right to terminate ) ; however , care must be taken because a court may not necessarily be bound by the label attached to a clause by the parties : for example , a term described as a " condition " will not necessarily be interpreted as a " condition " in law , so that breach of it will not necessarily allow the innocent party to terminate the contract ( L Schuler AG v Wickman Machine Tool Sales Ltd [ 1974 ] AC 235 ) . |
| 9 | It is a tale full of interest , and it reveals an attitude to work and to the Service that makes pleasant reading ( unhappily some authors give the impression they had a less than fulfilling time while in the RAF ) . |
| 10 | Just as variations in the physical and mineralogical properties of bedrock can influence the mineralogical products of weathering so different lithologies give rise to a range of weathering forms . |
| 11 | Okay , so high resistance gives low current . |
| 12 | Daily purposeful occupation gives form to our lives , and if mentally disordered people are unable to participate in ordinary work inside or outside the home , consideration needs to be given as to how the absence of normal occupation can be compensated for . |
| 13 | So obviously this consultancy gives a lot of good ideas , and a lot of very practical advice , because they were actually doing it . |
| 14 | less reliable supporters give away one or more of these to candidates of other parties who are better known to them . |
| 15 | People and animals portray in this , in the Tahiti painting , never seemed to be in a hurry , erm , even when always relaxed even when working and I wondered how much of this was cultural and erm , how much was due to the large amounts of erm drugs consumed in most paintings at this , this period but that I suppose I 'll , I 'll never know for sure about , erm with this painting I found in the background , er there 's a figure , that 's looking in on the situation and I , I for myself think 's its probably Gaugin , as he portrays himself as Christ , which I think he did quite a lot to me in , in , in a few of his paintings and so this painting gave me tremendous sense of being looked in on and this figure in the background , was the person that was doing the looking in . |
| 16 | So Wordsworthian romanticism gives way to Tennyson 's ‘ And answer , echoes , answer , dying , dying , dying ’ and the Arnoldian ‘ infinitely distant land , [ from which ] / Come airs , and floating echoes ’ ( ‘ The Buried Life ’ ) . |
| 17 | Equally good is the string spacing , which does not feel cramped at all ( 39mm across a 47mm nut , 81mm at bridge ) — obviously another feature given special consideration . |
| 18 | Why , it might still be asked , did Franco go to so much trouble to give the impression that his regime had a basis other than sheer force , when that selfsame exercise made it clear that he did not need to ? |
| 19 | Together these firms gave birth to Canning Town , where the vast majority of their workforces resided , and spawned numerous subsidiary industries ( Figure 1.2 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ They know who I am , so these people give me respect , ’ said Pakeezah when Mrs Bannerji had disappeared . |
| 21 | There should have been plenty of time for all the work we planned , but what with all the delays of getting the assay going in an unfamiliar lab , as well as making a quick canter round a dozen or so Australian campuses to give seminars , it was n't until almost the last few days of my visit , during a long car journey through the outback to attend a biochemistry congress at Brisbane , that I managed to decode and assemble all the data . |
| 22 | And there 's enough psychological insight to give the characters three dimensions . |
| 23 | Setting up so many colonies to give people a chance to practise religion in their own way had helped produce a great diversity among the English colonies . |
| 24 | It 's at this point that so many people give up . |
| 25 | So many people give up because , after the elation of seeing the pounds fall off in the first few days , they lose heart when weight loss slows down . |
| 26 | Watching her struggle to overcome so many struggles gave me ambition . ’ |
| 27 | In part this dramatic result reflected a widespread but not necessarily dependable willingness to give the Republic a chance , in part the temporary demoralization and organizational unpreparedness of the anti- and non-republican right , whose fifty or so deputies seriously under-represented its true strength and potential . |
| 28 | This somewhat unexpected decision gave ammunition to those who felt the schema on priestly life was too spiritual in tone . |
| 29 | ‘ We do n't spoonfeed you here ’ was one of the less excusable reasons given for declining to help floundering students . |
| 30 | The trap of the giver is pride , believing that you have enough inner resources to give away to others . |