Example sentences of "give [pers pn] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only 130,000 of 700,000 eligible disabled people in Britain use their mobility allowance to run a vehicle which could give them a new life through personal transport . |
| 2 | We ca n't give them a new car park . |
| 3 | You 'd just give them a real good biff . ’ |
| 4 | Approximately 12 students are pursuing this valuable course of study , which will give them a real insight into credit management , with a special emphasis on the development of competence in the job . |
| 5 | We believe that allowing these students to go straight from S4 to a level II general SVQ will give them a real sense of progression . |
| 6 | On the foregoing conditions the Goldsmiths ' Company will grant to the Corporation a lease of the School Buildings and Land connected therewith free of rent for 999 years , and will give them a perpetual endowment of £290 per annum in addition to the sum of £10 which they are bound to pay under the will of Sir Edmond Shaa ; but the Lease and the Endowment Grant shall contain clauses giving the Goldsmiths ' Company the right of re-entry in the one case and making the annuity to cease in the other on breach of any or either of the conditions above named . " |
| 7 | Shall we give them a nice sweet , hot cup of coffee ? |
| 8 | If he can convince the 19m north-easterners that he and his recently formed New Aspiration Party will give them a better deal , and he manages to form an electoral pact with the honest and popular governor of Bangkok , he could be on the way to becoming Thailand 's next prime minister . |
| 9 | Erm and i also need to be concerned that the health authority I think is claiming that this merger will actually give them a better erm size population for research purposes for for purchasing , however , I think that it may well be that particular health needs , people in West Essex and Harlow in particular which has , for example , a rapidly ageing population and therefore needs facilities had not been planned into the town by way of health erm , that those statistics , those pockets of need are going to get overlooked in a much more large and vast disparate statistical picture , stretching from Hertfordshire right across to the coast I think it 's too big a sample and we need to make sure that our specific needs are n't going to be overlooked in all that . |
| 10 | Samaritans hope his views will give them a better insight into the problems faced by people who feel trapped inside their own bodies . |
| 11 | But what I 'd do is I 'd I 'd do it from hours something like eight until six and I 'd give them a cooked lunch all fresh food |
| 12 | Searching through a variety of sources will give them a wider perspective on their study area , and may also give them contradictory evidence . |
| 13 | If Labour Members do not think that their party is the most cynical shower alive , I can give them a classic example from my county . |
| 14 | Do they give them a second thought ? |
| 15 | I did n't give them a second glance . |
| 16 | The men lounging beside the gate did n't even give them a second glance . |
| 17 | Would you give them a hundred thousand pounds worth of life cover for a shorter period , looking at them making up the difference perhaps later when they could afford it , or would you give them initially a reduced amount of life cover , say eighty thousand , for the eighteen years ? |
| 18 | But we will give them a five per cent reduction on those prices wh for deliveries between March and September . |
| 19 | Clearly , within the scale of output being contemplated by existing holiday firms they feel this potential advantage can give them a decisive competitive edge vis-à-vis their rivals . |
| 20 | Would you give them a key position of accountability in your team ? |
| 21 | And they do n't automatically give them a higher grade after a , . |
| 22 | Or instead of washing them away down my mythical hillside , I could give them a decent burial in a sod of cancer graveyard , perhaps with a little cross over it . |
| 23 | ‘ But those other poor souls , whoever they are , we must give them a decent burial . ’ |
| 24 | I do n't give them a welcoming smile . |
| 25 | ‘ What we have said in the McFarlane Report is that people are calling for the earth , we ca n't give it all but we can give them a substantial part . |
| 26 | And they 'd come along cattle there just contented as could be and then they got their supper and we 'd give them a wee while of light still to eat their supper . |
| 27 | " People are always telling other people to do that kind of thing , " said Clelia , " it must give them a vicarious thrill . |
| 28 | If the utilitarian looks at it in this way , he takes it as a criterion for an acceptable use of ethical words , and way of understanding moral judgement , that it should give them a factual content which is the only one which it is sensible to expect people in general to endorse as a sensible guide to acceptable conduct . |
| 29 | I 'll just pop in and give them a good scare . |
| 30 | If they had been beaten in a fight , he would give them a good hiding and send them back out to do the job properly . |