Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] give [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sudden use of low notes gives them prominence and unusual power . |
| 2 | According to Rohlen ( 1973 ) , drawing on fieldwork in a Japanese bank , about a third of Japanese organizations give their employees ‘ spiritual training ’ , akin to techniques of religious con-version , therapy and initiation rites , which emphasize social co-operation , responsibility , reality acceptance and perseverance in one 's tasks . |
| 3 | THE EUROPEAN Commission of Human Rights gave its permission yesterday for three newspapers to pursue a claim that the UK broke freedom of expression guarantees during the Spycatcher affair . |
| 4 | NORWEGIAN explorer Erling Kagge , 29 , aiming to become the first person to walk alone to the South Pole , left Oslo yesterday after piling on 18lbs of fat with huge meals to give him energy resources for his two months on the ice trekking 814 miles across the Antarctica . |
| 5 | More importantly , his idea that narrative grammar may be transformed or subverted by individual texts gives his grammar far greater analytical power , since elements which might fall outside the scope of a more rigid model may now be read as transformations of it . |