Example sentences of "[verb] give [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It reckons it is well placed given its behind-the-scenes work in helping to develop some important interoperability features for Unix : it also developed the Transparent Computing Facility for IBM 's AIX and a remote procedure call test and validation suite for the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 2 | Usually very very pessimistic and always look always look on the on the pessimistic side of things you know all that sort of stuff but you know they are a very important part of the group , you know given given their space to be like they are you know do n't take them too seriously remember their job is to criticise and their job is to pull things to pieces . |
| 3 | Buick 's turnaround has given its parent , the ailing General Motors ( GM ) , plenty to ponder . |
| 4 | The station has given its name to an anxiety state , defined by Cyril Connolly as angoisse des gares : |
| 5 | It has given its owners a greater degree of mobility than they hitherto possessed but the social and environmental cost has been considerable . |
| 6 | The American opossum has given its name to death-feigning . |
| 7 | The government has given its blessing to the £935m bid by Tomkins for Bisto to Mother 's Pride giant Ranks Hovis McDougall . |
| 8 | Royal Dutch Shell Plc has given its contract for payphones at 660 UK petrol stations to British Telecommunications Plc after Mercury Communications Ltd to give up the private site end of the business to concentrate on high street sites ; British Telecom will install up to 840 more pay telephones for Shell under the £10 five-year contract . |
| 9 | National Semiconductor Corp claims that the isochronous Ethernet technology for multimedia communications is gathering support , and that Apple Computer Inc has given its backing , with other manufacturers ‘ reacting very favourably ’ to it . |
| 10 | One is Delta Cephei , which has given its name to the whole class of short-period variables . |
| 11 | In contrast , Article 16 provides that a diplomatic officer or consular agent may only take evidence , without compulsion , of nationals of the State in which he exercises his functions , or of third States , if a competent authority in the requested State has given its permission , either generally or in the particular case , and subject to any conditions imposed . |
| 12 | Since 1983 , Stephen Marks ' French Connection fashion group has given its shareholders a roller-coaster ride . |
| 13 | Irouléguy is unique : it has given its name to the one wine that is still produced in the whole of the Basque country . |
| 14 | Indeed , the Commission has given its opinion . |
| 15 | The Association of Directors of Social Services has given its approval for this research proposal . |
| 16 | The WBC has given its belt to Britain 's Lennox Lewis because of Bowe 's refusal to defend against Lewis within a prescribed time . |
| 17 | The government has given its approval for sale of electricity , generated by the station , to regional electricity companies , as part of its scheme to encourage use of renewable energy . |
| 18 | The ruling body of the International Tropical Timber Organisation ( ITTO ) has given its approval to the continued logging of key tropical forests in Malaysia and the Amazon . |
| 19 | The pub trade has given its support to a campaign to stop people drinking too much . |
| 20 | A CHARITABLE company set up to help homeless and needy people has given its own helpers a vote of thanks . |
| 21 | Her great good fortune has been an electoral system that has given her power on a minority vote . |
| 22 | Unless you have married a man who is unusually attached to his mother ( which is another matter altogether ) , it will be unlikely to occur to your husband that he needs to do anything more to make his mother happy than to be a kind and dutiful son , who has given her sanctuary in his own home in her later years ; but if he is a man of feeling , it will not be difficult to persuade him of her need for his company : her need to be taken out for a run in the car with him alone sometimes , to be kissed when he kisses you when he gets home in the evening , and occasionally to be brought a bunch of flowers instead of you . |
| 23 | The Lord has given her Psalm 91 and Psalm 121 to hold on to and she knows that He is in control of the situation . |
| 24 | In one picture the 18-year-old , who has given her name as Danielle Sanchez , shows her mother and a group of hooded , witch-like women about to sacrifice animals . |
| 25 | In one picture the 18-year-old , who has given her name as Danielle Sanchez , shows her mother and a group of hooded , witch-like women about to sacrifice animals . |
| 26 | And Julie Goodyear — Coronation Street 's Bet Gilroy — has given her earrings for a separate celebrity sale in aid of Romanian children . |
| 27 | ‘ She has given her final view today and although only 15 and a half , she knows her own mind . ’ |
| 28 | The private work she has undertaken in bereavement counselling and nursing the terminally ill has given her intense fulfilment . |
| 29 | ‘ She has given her life in the service of our cause . ’ |
| 30 | She has had published various writings on comparative education and language teaching/learning , and writes that her career has given her great satisfaction . |