Example sentences of "the [noun sg] they give [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the main , the church and its leaders drew their importance from the support they gave to the existing powers and from their multiple involvements in education , social welfare and administration . ’ |
| 2 | The principal interest of these court appearances is in the confirmation they give to the portrait of the National Socialist League in the last months of peace . |
| 3 | While DCSLs do not appear actually to veto specific requests , the advice they give on the relative quality of alternative publications — through direct comment to the teacher responsible for submitting the school 's list — can be persuasive . |
| 4 | If that is the sense they give to the word ‘ Panslavism ’ , oh ! then I am a Panslav . |
| 5 | If you believe the Thames Valley CID — not the account they gave at the inquest , when the events were still fresh in everyone 's minds , but the one they came up with in the months following my return to this country — then having lured Dennis on to the river and dosed him with draughts of spiked bubbly , Karen and I went ‘ One , two , three ’ and heaved him overboard . |
| 6 | The significance of both approaches is the challenge they gave to the ‘ naturalness ’ of what appear as basic divisions . |