Example sentences of "the [adj] give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year 's donations were the largest given in a single year . |
| 2 | Vertical equity is the Robin Hood principle of taking from the rich to give to the poor . |
| 3 | On the Ghosh approach an accused who steals from the rich to give to the poor must be acquitted if he believes that reasonable people would regard what he did as not dishonest . |
| 4 | Another , and that 's a , it 's a very much smaller point , but I think it 's not unimportant thing , that I would like to see the British Civil Service emulating , is the amount of time and attention that the French give to training their young civil servants in foreign languages . |
| 5 | The main reason the three gave for this was the outdatedness of the data , especially those data which are ‘ referring to the past and therefore of little use ’ . |
| 6 | We have to give thanks for the magnificent giving to the Camphill Project . |
| 7 | In the canon at the 7th given in Example 37 Bach had to change the intervals of the following , or ‘ consequent ’ , voice . |
| 8 | So if under our present system 25,000 votes go to Alphonse and 15,000 to Belinda and 10,000 to Cuthbert , the votes wasted are the 25,000 given to the two defeated candidates plus 9,999 of the votes given to Alphonse who needed only 15,001 to defeat Belinda , his closest competitor . |
| 9 | The former represents the once-for-all giving of spiritual life , and the latter the regular repetition of the saving events of the cross and resurrection . |