Example sentences of "[noun pl] to give [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally speaking , it is better for farm animals to give them a lot more space and a lot more variety in their environment . |
| 2 | ‘ If they do n't drive , then they ask their husbands to give them a lift . |
| 3 | A small investment — for INCUBUS — in certain companies to give us a toehold inside me Common Market . |
| 4 | These raised the nap on the cloth , which could then be cropped with shears to give it a smoother finish . |
| 5 | It enables adaptation of plants and animals to human purposes that would be beyond the reach of traditional breeding techniques ; an example is the insertion of toxin genes from bacteria into plants to give them an in-built system for poisoning pests . |
| 6 | However , I 'm not too impressed by the pickups and need some replacements to give it a bit more OOMPH . |
| 7 | The PLA won enough seats to give it a two-thirds majority in the 250-member People 's Assembly , which would enable it to make constitutional changes without the support of other parties . |
| 8 | A wife whose husband had had multiple sclerosis and went to a holiday home for the disabled for two weeks to give her a rest said : |
| 9 | I 'll take the little one home with me for a few days to give you a break . |
| 10 | We also use targets to give us a sense of achievement . |
| 11 | Moscow was also offended by the refusal of the Anglo-Americans to give her a share in controlling the German industrial heartland , the Ruhr , which lay in the British zone . |
| 12 | Consequently , the result is a dull plod , a sort of po-faced mini-series in which a whole bunch of set-pieces go begging for some cinematic tricks to give them a proper build-up and punchline . |
| 13 | I have to know that sort of thing otherwise I would n't know how hard to fire the retro-rockets to give you a gentle landing . |
| 14 | In his Reith lectures , broadcast in 1991 and now published as a book , he has set aside his snails to give us a glimpse of human evolution through his geneticist 's eye . |
| 15 | 8.1 Finding the right expert You may need experts to give you an expert opinion in a number of areas : ( a ) accident reconstruction ( road accident or factory accident ) ; ( b ) more specialist engineering evidence ( metallurgists , road construction etc. ) ; ( c ) experts regarding particular equipment ( cranes , boats ) ; ( d ) experts re particular substances ( glues , fixing devices , gases ) ; ( e ) employment consultants regarding your client 's position on the open labour market should they have lost or are likely to lose their employment ; ( f ) medical evidence ; ( g ) nursing and rehabilitation specialists in serious cases ; ( h ) ancillary services in severe cases ( gardening , home help , home improvements ) ; ( i ) accountants ( in complicated future loss/special damage cases ) . |
| 16 | If they do n't contain a waterproof membrane such as Gore-Tex or Sympatex , you can obtain spray-on products to give them a water-repellent finish . |
| 17 | Coding can be done by interviewers to give them a break and to sustain their interest , but is more usually done by special staff . |
| 18 | If you have time , pipe a little flavoured butter around the tartlets to give them a professional finish . |
| 19 | Pluralism is a development of democratic theory and recognises that often individuals can best get their views heard by combining in groups to give them a stronger voice . |
| 20 | There is a lot of parental involvement and we have made several improvements to give it a better image . |
| 21 | There is a lot of parental involvement and we have made several improvements to give it a better image . |
| 22 | We 're also trying to find young , female African-American film-makers to give them a shot . ’ |
| 23 | They still believed that they had put a 2Mb memory upgrade into one of these machines to give it a 4Mb of RAM . |
| 24 | IN THE ancient fable the frogs called on the gods to give them a king . |
| 25 | Information is relevant when it has a significant effect on our assumptions : in other words , when it will allow us to alter our knowledge structures to give us a more accurate representation of the world . |
| 26 | But again the government retained extensive administrative powers to give it a free hand in dealing with radical writers and journalists . |
| 27 | I 'll talk to you about one of his experiments to give you a sort of flavour of it , although other people and himself and others have done a lot of interesting work that 's similar . |
| 28 | She was his only daughter and the youngest of seven , and he had been at pains to give her a good education . |
| 29 | It 's no good just saying you can report fraud er to er t t to the regulator , they should also be responsible to the shareholders , the stake holders , everybody involved er in er er er a company er and in fact er they are n't they have really responsibility to no one except the directors er who appoint them , the company share holders are given very little information , the choice of auditors er is firmly in the director 's director 's hands , the depositors , the consumers , the employees er have no say er in the appointment of er auditors and more important the recent legal cases for instance and the Al Saudi Bank er er and Berg er sons er and company also decided that er auditors do n't owe a duty of care er to individual shareholders , potential investors , the current or potential creditors er even though that information is supposed to be there to help markets understand what is happening to that committee and the government showed no indication that it wants to reverse these judgements , it should reverse them , there should be specific responsibilities attached to er auditors to give them a duty of care er so that we get the information er and er spend more widely and the share holders and the stake holders know what 's going on er er er as well as er the bank or the financial er institution er itself . |
| 30 | They will be able to send you some materials to give you a plan for getting started and to help you think through the two important questions : |