Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] are give [pron] " in BNC.

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1 You can accept payments from passengers in your car if you are giving them * a lift for social or other similar purposes .
2 You can accept payments from passengers in your car if you are giving them a lift for social or other similar purposes .
3 You can accept payments from passengers in your car if you are giving them a lift for social or other similar purposes .
4 You can accept payments from passengers in your car if you are giving them a lift for social or other similar purposes .
5 If as part of the task you specify the effect the programme is to have on the audience , you are building in the criteria by which that audience can judge the programme and you are giving them a purpose in viewing .
6 Manager Bryan Hamilton , who offered the 21-year-old Londoner the opportunity , said : ‘ He is looking for a change of direction while his athletics career is on hold and we are giving him the chance to prove his worth as a footballer . ’
7 If the builder encounters some unforeseen work do n't panic , but you must advise the Environmental Health Officer immediately ; they should be able to assist with additional finance if they are giving you a grant .
8 ‘ Robson has a clot on the calf muscle and we are giving him some fitness routines in the gymnasium in the hope of clearing it , ’ said Mr Ferguson yesterday .
9 Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life .
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