Example sentences of "to give to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this climate , the academic in English and other subjects in the humanities , who is busy , who publishes a lot , who goes to conferences , can not but be preferred to the quiet scholar , who keeps a low profile , even seems rather idle , but is taking his time over a major piece of scholarly writing that may involve many years ' work and which he does not intend to give to the world until he is ready . |
| 2 | These stories also serve to give to the part-time reserve police a self-respect which they feel is otherwise lacking from an organization which undervalues and marginalizes them . |
| 3 | What forms do I need to give to my employees ? |
| 4 | In addition , you should keep a supply of form SMP1 which you will need to give to those employees who can not get SMP from you . |
| 5 | If we take a knife to the Bible and cut out the bits which the modern world can not understand we compromise the message which Christianity has to give to society . |
| 6 | Part of the advice one would want to give to any young person today is to thoroughly know your business by working on the factory floor . |
| 7 | While the Prime Minister immediately offered the use of British military camps in West Germany to help cope with the current surge of refugees , her Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , promised East Germany the kind of practical help in creating a more market-orientated economy which Britain has given Poland — some £25 million of ‘ Know How ’ funds over 25 years and is pledged to give to ex-Communist Hungary . |
| 8 | I have never had any qualms about refusing to fund a cause I do not support , but am glad to have the chance to give to good causes I might otherwise have missed . |
| 9 | Unless , that is , his motive was to supply the infantry with sprigs of mistletoe to give to their sweethearts at Christmas . |
| 10 | In the past that gap was bridged by the commercial banks who , in effect , took from the strong ( which included themselves ) to give to the weak . |
| 11 | During Mark 's absence in Spain , ‘ the mole ’ Fred Klepner had spent countless hours going over the Ten Year Business plan which was to be the subject of the presentation Mark was to give to Nate Cocello at the next Planning Committee meeting . |
| 12 | The urban poor tried valiantly to give to their dead a dignity they had scarcely known in life ; but the attempt often proved unavailing . |
| 13 | Well , I give 'em to Gazzer to give to her . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Those keys that Gazzer was supposed to give to Madge . |
| 15 | Oats are the safest and most natural grain to give to horses ; they have been part of the development of the horse over the last two thousand years . |
| 16 | How individuals come across on television usually depends on how much understanding , effort and practice they are prepared to give to it . |
| 17 | Pen had hung flags on the balcony of the Casa Guidi — one French , one Italian — and told her that he was paid in scudi to give to the war if he did his lessons well . |
| 18 | Small children can sometimes be persuaded to eat cow cake in the same way that old people will eat cat food , but the chief result of all this farming was to produce huge food mountains which we could then refuse to give to the Third World , or to the socialists of Eastern Europe , in order to teach them the error of their ways . |
| 19 | The 1989 Children Act replaces previous grounds for intervention by asking whether the child is receiving that care which ‘ it would be reasonable to expect a parent to give to him ’ ( S. 31(2) ( b ) ) . |
| 20 | The professional takes power to give to the client self-determination . |
| 21 | The third portrait he promised to give to Madame Zborowska in gratitude for acting as a model . |
| 22 | Just as journal serialization affected the chapter formation and the structure of the nineteenth-century novelistic , so also the expectation of the break , mediated by the specific form of attention which audiences are believed to give to television , produces a mutation within the novelistic towards segmented narration . |
| 23 | Mediators also lack self-assurance , something that Jesus promised to give to all those who follow him . |
| 24 | John wrote at length to Hanns about colour , shapes and general effect desirable , and asked him to ‘ do a few rough sketches and send them to me to give to Cecily ; number them so that I can just send you back a telegram saying ‘ Do number three ’ say , unless there is more to be said . ’ |
| 25 | It would be a long time before anyone inherited — and his sons knew that sooner or later Henry would take something from them to give to the youngest of them all , John . |
| 26 | However , he has a lot of valuable information about the surrounding countryside , and the frontier crossings which I will ask him to give to us now . ’ |
| 27 | He explained that his wife was a permanent invalid , unable to come to church , but said he : ‘ Since the day we got married we have shared everything we had and I am bringing this home to give to her . ’ ) |
| 28 | Its obvious injustice would entirely destroy all confidence in the integrity of Government , and any reliance professional men might be induced to give to official programmes in the future ; while its realisation would inflict a serious and almost irreparable injury on the dignity and integrity of a liberal profession . |
| 29 | Thus , when we think of a person , the impression we give to him and the one we wanted to give to him and what we really think of him , and what we say to other people about him are all exactly the same . |
| 30 | The route has been described to death and there have been so many accounts of the leading objects , I am inclined to be silent till I reach some spots where fewer pens have essayed to give to the world their portraiture , allowing the sketches engraved to leave my mite of tribute alike to the noble natural architecture of the Isle of Caves and the art treasures in the Isle of Ionic Crosses . |