Example sentences of "[adj] to give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How individuals come across on television usually depends on how much understanding , effort and practice they are prepared to give to it . |
| 2 | The more interested pupils are in what they write , the more attention they are prepared to give to its appearance , including spelling . |
| 3 | I accept that the Government have the right to determine the amount of money that they are prepared to give to local government . |
| 4 | I became a railway enthusiast mainly because the civil engineer on the Gwili Railway at the time was willing to give of his time to answer my questions . |
| 5 | I think erm I think is quite fair maybe if concessions could be raised to one fifty or two pounds but overall I think that people who can afford it spend such a lot of money on the raffle and we therefore give raffle tickets to those who can afford it could jealousy and on the raffle generally about a hundred pounds is made and if there , if there was more charge for tickets , people might not give so much for the raffles and also if you give but if you charge them a nominal sum and then shove other things at them on their options they might be more willing to give to optional choices like a raffle . |
| 6 | Supermarkets and libraries too are usually willing to give over part of their foyer for a limited time for exhibitions of children 's work . |
| 7 | There are good arguments for limiting a field of study to make it manageable ; but it is also true to say that the answer to the question of what gives discourse its unity may be impossible to give without considering the world at large : the context . |
| 8 | ‘ Those keys that Gazzer was supposed to give to Madge . |
| 9 | She quoted from an address that John was supposed to give to his troupes whenever they were about to tour : |
| 10 | Montrose , however , pressed the candidacy of William Hamilton , chiding his fellow peer for ingratitude and suggesting ‘ that its ane ill requitall he 's likely to give by showeing a backwardness to [ a ] brother of Baillie Hamilton 's who showed some zeall for the service of his bro[the]r at his election . |
| 11 | When correcting a question , it is not satisfactory to give without comment , a mark such as 10/20 ; this only irritates the student and leaves him/her to guess the reason for the loss of marks from the printed solutions ; and often the guess will be incorrect . |
| 12 | There are enormous pressures on the time of the Administration and Commons and it is not always possible to give to Bills the leisured consideration desirable for good drafting and effective debate . |
| 13 | First though I want to see what help and advice it is possible to give to teachers in the first two groups : we will focus on the ‘ destressers ’ in this chapter , and on the ‘ change agents ’ in the next . |
| 14 | Vertical equity is the Robin Hood principle of taking from the rich to give to the poor . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | One might argue that Montini , who had more ‘ on-the-job ’ training for the office of pope and was intellectually better prepared for it than anyone since Benedict XIV in the eighteenth century , became pope too late to give of his best . |
| 17 | It would only be reasonable to give at least some of the credit for this successful adaptation to de Gaulle 's incessant proselytizing about the necessity of modernization . |
| 18 | ‘ I am one of those people ’ , he has said in the past , ’ who must take exercise not only to be able to give of my best , but just to survive — I mean , I ca n't function without it . |
| 19 | Pending discovery and/or the administration of interrogatories the best particulars the plaintiff is able to give of such transactions is that the third to fifth defendants were knowingly concerned in each and every transaction of which the following payments and each of them represent the proceeds of such transactions namely : … |
| 20 | When , for example , Myra played disappointingly in the Scottish Girls ' after having made so big an impact at the Scottish Championship at Lossiemouth , he had to take her on one side and explain that she was far too exhausted , physically , to be able to give of her best : " I told her that she had to learn to pace herself and decide which tournaments she felt to be important . " |
| 21 | I shall be able to give to you . |
| 22 | The question , in short , is , what confers objectivity upon such spatial intuitions ? — and the only answer that Kant is able to give to this is : " The universal validity and necessity of geometrical propositions . " |
| 23 | It is still uncertain how much time schools will have to devote to the national curriculum and its various subjects , and how much they will be able to give to other activities . |
| 24 | I am pleased that through the good settlement that I was able to give to the Arts Council of Great Britain for the year ahead and , through it , the Welsh Arts Council , the Welsh National Opera 's overall income from the two arts councils will rise by about 7 per cent . |
| 25 | I insisted that the large increase that I was able to give to the Arts Council of Great Britain be matched by a reduction in the administration costs between the council 's headquarters and the regional arts boards . |
| 26 | Under the terms of the guidance note we may also be obliged to supply to the Panel any information , books , documents or other records concerning the transaction which the Panel may properly require and otherwise render all such assistance as we are reasonable able to give to the Panel . |
| 27 | Under the terms of the guidance note we may also be obliged to supply to the Panel any information , books , documents or other records concerning the transaction which the Panel may properly require and otherwise render all such assistance as we are reasonably able to give to the Panel . |
| 28 | Under the terms of the guidance note we may also be obliged to supply to the Panel and information , books , documents or other records concerning the transaction which the Panel may properly require and otherwise render all such assistance as we are reasonably able to give to the Panel . |
| 29 | Under the terms of the guidance note we may also be obliged to supply to the Panel and information , books , documents or other records concerning the transaction which the Panel may properly require and otherwise render all such assistance as we are reasonably able to give to the Panel . |
| 30 | Under the terms of the guidance note we may also be obliged to supply to the Panel and information , books , documents or other records concerning the transaction which the Panel may properly require and otherwise render all such assistance as we are reasonably able to give to the Panel . |