Example sentences of "of the [noun] give " in BNC.

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1 Amongst those that had received assistance in completing forestry plans , Cameroon and Colombia have had difficulty obtaining funds , partly because of the prominence given to logging .
2 The quality of the papers given in the technical stream was high .
3 ‘ We recognized that they were a new club , that they had obtained a good holding in a Rugby area and that the club had bright prospects , but our case was clear — Leeds were defiant , and could be defiant through one cause — fear of the papers giving away certain secrets . ’
4 Although it is always dangerous to extrapolate from a sample , the findings of the evaluation give rise to cautious optimism that the basis of the new advanced courses system continues to be supported by most staff , even if there is understandable criticism of individual aspects of the implementation .
5 The imposed regularity of the architecture gives the village its still pleasant air , an unexpected oasis of prosperous history , almost a tiny Edinburgh among the trees .
6 The announcement of the dissolution of the FIS gave rise to protests in the east of Algeria , in Constantine , Jenis and Jechan ( resulting in one person being killed and 30 injured ) .
7 The other side of the hedge gives onto the road .
8 The painting on the flat inner bowl of the kylix gave me a shock .
9 ( A fragment of the manuscript of A Portrait of the Artist given by Joyce to Harriet Weaver . )
10 The tilted eyes of the others gives the doctor his heroic , questing mien , his humourless nimbus .
11 Had the inconceivable happened , a relisting would surely have been granted on the most fundamental ground imaginable — a failure of the court to give judgment on issues properly raised before it and essential to a disposal of the case .
12 This time interval is the sum of the times given by eqn ( 9.4 ) and ( 9.5 ) .
13 In yet other important cases the local authorities will regard themselves as the key policy-makers ; the central requirements will have been specified in such general terms that the decisions that really dictate the quality of the service given to the public are made locally .
14 The science teacher will be based in Adelaide , travelling to other parts of the country to give his talks .
15 Thus over half of the respondents gave consideration to the availability of leisure facilities .
16 I 've taken note of the hints given in Starting Block and I 've organized my hard disk into 19 subdirectories and up to 6 levels of sub-subdirectories .
17 This sound of the sea gives promise of inexhaustible springs and powers lying behind the senses .
18 Sorry , I think it 's worth noting some of the circumstances giving rise to Mrs Brown er committing the offences which bring her before the court today .
19 But none of the rules given in traditional grammars can explain the use of the definite article in an opening such as :
20 Aspects of the revolt gave further illustration of the unreliable loyalty of sections of the armed forces .
21 Acquisition of a button-pressing task ( a separate button was assigned to each of the four faces ) proceeded significantly more rapidly for members of the pair given dissimilar names than for members of the pair given similar names .
22 Acquisition of a button-pressing task ( a separate button was assigned to each of the four faces ) proceeded significantly more rapidly for members of the pair given dissimilar names than for members of the pair given similar names .
23 Erosion of the granites gives rise to a barren , rolling landscape such as is seen in the Uig Hills of western Lewis , and steep , inaccessible sea cliffs such as are present in western Harris .
24 As for the Hooligans , newspaper cartoonists ' sketches of their dress permutation depicted a more sharply defined style than anything that can be discerned by modern eyes from surviving photographs of the period — although that should not surprise us , because it is also a characteristic feature of the emphasis given to the cut of clothes within ‘ high ’ fashion sketches .
25 The library has become a closer ally of subject work partly because of the emphasis given by the national curriculum to study skills and information technology .
26 In terms of the emphasis given to agriculture in the EC , the structure of the budget of the EC is very different from national budgets .
27 If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations .
28 Where merger accounting has been used disclose the composition and fair value of the consideration given by the issuing company .
29 Accordingly , the tenant will have carried out substantial improvements , the cost of which will form a large part of the consideration given by him for the grant of the lease .
30 Always placing one foot directly in front of the other gave him a slinking walk .
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