Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] giving [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sh they 're like all clubbing together and giving her some money to go in with cos she 's got to have some money to go in with . |
| 2 | They argue for the empowerment of subordinated groups , rather than giving them selective access to existing hierarchies ; for the ‘ democratization ’ of the curriculum by reorganizing knowledge to advantage the disadvantaged ; and for special teacher training for teachers to assist girls in resisting the sexist demands of their schools . |
| 3 | I got pregnant because you spent all my life filling my head with romantic ideas rather than giving me any practical advice . |
| 4 | Rather than giving her any other jobs . |
| 5 | But Whitehall should contract out as much as possible of this research to industry itself rather than giving it to government establishments . |
| 6 | Antenor de Santa Cruz , commander of the Amazon , spoke on behalf of the military when he pledged to fight any defence of the ‘ environment and minorities ’ and to ‘ occupy the [ Yanomami ] area , rather than giving it up . ’ |
| 7 | you know , the money is put towards their f food and things , rather than giving it to somebody else . |
| 8 | What matters about lying is giving people false beliefs , just as giving them true ones is what matters about telling the truth . |
| 9 | She stopped in front of him , leaning forward confidentially and giving him the full benefit of the satin décolletage . |
| 10 | In nineteen eighty six treat people as if their labour is worth nothing you know those men have given their lives to the quarry industry and there 's no doubt that there is money to be made from slate at the moment and people are people that have the money to invest are making a lot of money okay they 're inves they 're risking the money but er people are risking their lives as well and giving their lives . |
| 11 | Doctors can convince trusting patients that they will get better even while giving them a course of pills which consist of little more than sugar and water . |
| 12 | The one , that , even while giving her a verbal warning about her work , he had handed her a very important file to work on — albeit only to ensure she had little time for anything else — must mean that he had received good reports on her ability . |
| 13 | As well as giving me lunch , she had rooms to let which were permanently occupied by her ‘ regulars ’ ; two lawyers , a mature medical student and a businessman . |
| 14 | This has ensured that the video is up to date , as well as giving me a few more grey hairs ! |
| 15 | Skipton and its members rounded out his trans-Pennine duchy interests , as well as giving him his first territorial stake in the West Riding . |
| 16 | As well as giving him moral ascendancy over the rest of the company , driving himself to exhaustion might also cloud critical judgement , so that comments would be made on the effort that had gone into the show rather than on its quality . ) |
| 17 | Skipton and its members rounded out his trans-Pennine duchy interests , as well as giving him his first territorial stake in the West Riding . |
| 18 | Throughout human history , disabled people have constantly confounded the low expectations of others , and how much better it would be for special educators to raise the expectations of disabled children and their families by giving them an understanding of this , by helping them to accept their disabled identities with pride , by helping them to understand their place in the world and their rights as well as giving them the practical skills to deal with these issues . |
| 19 | This is the way life is for thousands of working women living with elderly relatives , running a home that the parent is no longer able to manage , as well as giving her care and emotional support , and often feeling too exhausted to be able to organise any reasonable social lives for themselves . |
| 20 | As well as giving her cause to be anxious about Rosemary — whose parents would make life most uncomfortable for her if the rumours circulating the village ever reached them — it was a blow to know that Sebastian would be away for the rest of the year . |
| 21 | As well as giving us data for the industry , the LFS provided us with information about the narrow ( KOS ) occupational group of waiters and bar staff in which casuals are concentrated . |
| 22 | ‘ You all live here in comfort , protected by people who care about you , who feed and clothe you , and pay you a wage every week as well as giving you a home … ’ |
| 23 | We 're very competitive with building society high interest savings accounts , as well as giving you instant access to your money and all for a minimum balance of £500 . |
| 24 | As well as giving you all the benefits of AA Relay , it makes servicing your car a more relaxing experience . |
| 25 | These amplify the sound as well as giving it a particular quality . |
| 26 | She sat there for a long time rocking backwards and forwards and giving herself up to howling , letting her gasps for breath shake her to pieces and leave her shuddering . |
| 27 | No one not in the profession would know for sure whether the assassin had accepted or refused the job ; and no one except the contact and , in this case , the client , would know for sure exactly who was responsible for the messy death of Seren Haminh , probably about fifty hours from now , when the hunger would be rising again and giving her a few hours to sleep the first ecstasy off . |
| 28 | The difference in accident estimates between right and left turns , t(22)=1.89 , p<0.05 , suggests that subjects may indeed have used feelings of risk inappropriately when giving their accident estimates ( alternatively , it is of course possible that the right turns used in this study actually did come from objectively more risky junctions than the left turns ) . |
| 29 | However , treating knowledge about language systematically and giving it explicit mention in the syllabus is not universal in our schools . |