Example sentences of "be [verb] give [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pins are designed to give way under pressure , allowing damaged engines to fall free and avoid wrecking the aircraft . |
| 2 | In the latter , pupils succeed or ‘ pass ’ if they reach certain levels of competence : they are expected to give evidence of having reached a particular level of performance regardless of how they stand in relation to their peers . |
| 3 | To signifies this relation of subsequence in virtue of its potential meaning of a movement from one point in time to another and has been seen to give rise to two clearly identifiable actual meanings according to whether the speaker conceives the whole movement which to is capable of signifying or only the initial part thereof . |
| 4 | The location is no longer industrial but , instead , is a zone of consumption where artefacts from its productive past are used to give colour to its present . |
| 5 | cost of training interviewers ; supervisors are needed to give assistance to interviewers and check against possible interviewer dishonesty ; travelling and subsistence must be paid even when the respondent proves to be unavailable or uncooperative interviewers may leave or become stale |
| 6 | Similar considerations apply in the case in which English proceedings are stayed to give effect to an arbitration agreement . |
| 7 | For us an Act of Parliament duly passed by Lords and Commons and assented to by the King , is supreme , and we are bound to give effect to its terms … |
| 8 | Only the Italians , the former colonisers of southern Somalia , are continuing to give aid to Mogadishu . |
| 9 | To treat it separately would be to risk giving rise to the misconception that it should be separately timetabled , taught and assessed , rather than integrated in the speaking , listening , reading and writing activities of any English lesson . |
| 10 | But it can also be held to mean no more than it creates a presumption that , if there is a conflict between community and domestic law , any ambiguity in that domestic law will be resolved to give effect to our community obligations . |
| 11 | A small amount of Italian may be included to give bulk in the first year . |
| 12 | It is a condition that , at the time of insurance becoming effective , the insured person has not booked his/her holiday contrary to medical advice nor is aware of any circumstances which could reasonably be expected to give rise to a claim . |
| 13 | Smoking and drug histories were taken although no patient was receiving any treatment that would be expected to give rise to DNA damage . |
| 14 | Under the Industrial Relations Code of Practice , paragraph 62 , a contract can reasonably be expected to give information about : |
| 15 | She walked behind the main counter to the flap that could be lifted to give access to the shop itself and , leaning on her forearms , looked down on to her weekly customers and asked , ‘ Well then , what is it to be ? ’ |
| 16 | The elder child may be made to give way to the demands of the younger one in order to keep the peace . |
| 17 | When gastrulation is completed , the cells can be divided into a small number of classes according to their future fate : they may be ‘ ectodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to the outer layers of the skin , hair , the lens of the eye , and so on ) , ‘ endodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to the lining of the gut ) , ‘ mesodermal ’ ( destined to give rise to muscle , bone , blood-vessels , and many other structures ) , or , finally , they may be destined to give rise to the brain and nervous system . |
| 18 | If it carries a marker its descendants can be recognized , and they can be seen to give rise to all sorts of tissues , from muscle and bone , to liver and brain . |
| 19 | Grice calls such usages floutings or exploitations of the maxims , and they can be seen to give rise to many of the traditional " figures of speech " . |
| 20 | Section 2(4) could therefore be said to give supremacy to community law . |
| 21 | Form CHA 71 should be used to give notice of proceedings to anyone who is not also a respondent . |
| 22 | Alternatively , it can be used to give information about an issue or piece of software , without an SPR having been received . |
| 23 | But if SEAC can be persuaded to give parity of esteem to the assessment of cross-curricular themes within subjects , and better still , to revise syllabuses when an overall plan does eventually emerge , much will have been achieved — in fact , nothing less than the coherence and purpose educators seek . |
| 24 | Article 41 of the UN Charter , covering sanctions , stated that " the Security Council may decide what measures not involving the use of armed force are to be employed to give effect to its decisions " . |
| 25 | You will be called to give evidence of having discovered the body . ’ |
| 26 | The judge had earlier given leave for Dr Odling-Smee to be called to give evidence for the defence in Lord Aldington 's libel action over allegations in a pamphlet that he is a war criminal responsible for the forced repatriation of 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs who surrendered to the British in southern Austria in May 1945 . |
| 27 | Architects and surveyors will have to be called to give evidence in support of , or to dispute , such claims . |
| 28 | But Lady Thatcher , who is flying back to Britain from the United States , is apparently unaware yet that she will also be invited to give evidence about the affair which , according to one MP , ‘ went right to the heart of Government ’ when she was in power . |
| 29 | It is not to be wondered at if , when a request is made of one person , another is obliged by a trust : for if the following is written in a will ‘ I ask you , Titius , having received a hundred to manumit that slave ’ or ‘ to give something to Sempronius ’ , certainly it is not adequately expressed , but a trust must all the same be understood to be charged on the heir to pay the money to Titius : and so Titius himself will sue the heir , and will be compelled to give freedom to the slave or to Sempronius what he was asked to . |
| 30 | If you want to open a National Savings Investment or Ordinary Account at a post office , you will now be asked to give proof of your identity . |