Example sentences of "[verb] that giving " in BNC.
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| 1 | Researchers in Sheffield analysed the contents of several popular brands and found that giving a baby the recommended dose of eight 5ml spoons a day is equivalent to an adult drinking five tots of whisky ! |
| 2 | Most people had come to understand the danger posed by Hitler 's Germany ; but they decided to delude themselves into believing that giving him Austria and Czechoslovakia would buy him off . |
| 3 | I have just said that giving reasons is a move in the direction of objectivity . |
| 4 | We have seen that giving advice is bad counselling , but it is also insufficient . |
| 5 | When in 1850 Sir George Hamilton Seymour , then representing Britain in Lisbon and with thirty years of diplomatic experience behind him , told a parliamentary select committee that " Certainly I consider that giving dinners is an essential part of diplomacy ; I have no hesitation in saying so . |
| 6 | Also , I 've always thought that giving pleasure is as important as receiving it . |
| 7 | Studies in animals and humans have shown that giving angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors after myocardial infarction reduces left ventricular remodelling , and this effect has been linked to benefits in clinical outcome . |
| 8 | In short , the latest evidence does not suggest that giving more tax relief will promote much more giving . |
| 9 | I know that giving a man on a ventilator morphine in high doses , enough to cause general anaesthesia , is risking his life , and it distracts me to think about whether or not it 's ethical . |
| 10 | Apart from the fact that Havana 's support for these adventures added up to little more than ‘ a limited amount of old weapons ’ in the chaotic early months of revolutionary power ( Bourne : 1987 , p. 188 ) , ‘ it must … be recognised that giving aid to revolutionaries seeking to overthrow dictatorships is a long-standing tradition for Latin America 's democratic Left . |
| 11 | No one pretends that giving up smoking is easy . |
| 12 | It 's a good artist 's sketch of a building , ’ he said , but warned that giving more money to Congress was like giving an alcoholic a liquor store . |
| 13 | I will see that happening , but it is the freedom of schools to choose that is all important , and there are some particular elements of expertise which are not available to schools because it 's not available centrally , and I believe that giving schools their budgets goes a great way to meeting this . |
| 14 | Hayward ( 1975 ) felt that giving patients advance information helped to reduce their anxiety levels during and after treatment . |
| 15 | For a Liberal Democrat to argue that giving institutions the power to run their own affairs is a centralising measure is extraordinary . |
| 16 | On the face of it , this is very alarming and seems to imply that giving your baby cow 's milk will have her haemorrhaging blood . |
| 17 | ‘ In its report published yesterday , the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice said that giving solicitors advocacy rights might improve the overall quality of advocacy in the Crown Court . |
| 18 | But he blew his chances when he said that giving up sovereignty to the European Commission was like giving in to Hitler . |
| 19 | Williamson argues that giving due recognition to the importance of transaction costs serves to redress the balance towards efficiency explanations , particularly if one accepts that rather stringent structural preconditions must be satisfied before anti-competitive behaviour is plausibly successful ( 1983 : 537 , n. 38 ) . |
| 20 | The evidence now suggests that giving up smoking in the seventh decade of life brings health benefits . |
| 21 | If the EEC were to acquire its own resources , then the organisation would lose the element of control over its spending that came with the existing system of national contributions : Hallstein could then argue that giving the European Parliament more authority would provide the necessary democratic control over the Commission . |
| 22 | It was here held that giving the tenant the keys , and readmitting her to the premises , did not suffice . |
| 23 | The UK , in particular , is fundamentally opposed to the idea of compulsory employee participation , believing that this is an area best left to individual company policy and fearing that giving in on the issue in this context could lead to similar measures becoming a compulsory feature of EC company law . |