Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [noun pl] give " in BNC.

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1 The yellowish-gray brick houses gave straight on to the street , which she had found only after turning out of another one , and then another .
2 On Aug. 14 the government modified budget allocations to give greater priority to improving living standards in the poorest regions and on Aug. 19 issued guidelines to curb " unnecessary spending " .
3 This time , their leaders are back in office and are promising lower income taxes to give domestic spending a boost if the country votes Yes .
4 I have yet to see much validation of this support women give each other , especially in working-class communities , which recognise it as a political affiliation , a movement .
5 Our 68 staff work 12 hour shifts giving a 24 hour service .
6 OPENING up your excellent Have a Rattle page , it continually sickens me to see so-called Glentoran supporters giving their manager the verbals in the press .
7 Some university administrations give almost total control of the bookfund to the librarian , with suggestions from departments and faculties permitted , but not particularly encouraged .
8 Somali aid workers gave warning that , if imported food aid continued to flow in , local farmers would have difficulty selling their own produce .
9 The Charity Household Survey , the Family Expenditure Survey and Inland Revenue figures give us some rough guide .
10 Ebenezer and Hezekiah Roebuck , two woollen weavers in the same village , were probably his brothers ; their Old Testament names give witness to their parents ' religious beliefs .
11 Since the mid-1980s , there has also been a sharp growth in the numbers of foreign aid donors giving various kinds of scholarships , either for study abroad or training in South Africa .
12 Although standards for cycle track construction were set as part of the 1975 Act , it was felt necessary to provide some demonstration projects to give local authorities guidelines on costs , approaches to particular problems , and above all to demonstrate how an entire cycle route might be created .
13 The more experienced may try Villa-Flotilla in Yalikavak , where high wind courses give the confidence needed to cope with choppy seas .
14 sorts of different exchange situations gives it a specious advantage over other media of exchange .
15 Given that most social work courses give a pass rate of 99 per cent it is hardly surprising that less-than-adequate workers are sometimes unleashed on the public .
16 Thirty-nine IOC members give football as their first interest , ’ Scott reveals .
17 The question of whether social security benefits give rise to a ‘ culture of dependency ’ has been hotly debated in recent years .
18 The second unpopular feature of the system arose from the different attention doctors gave to members of the state scheme compared with their private patients , often even segregated in different waiting rooms .
19 In some cases , the accompanying wall texts give details of the sittings : , the model for Euan Uglow 's ‘ Zagi ’ ( 1981–2 ) sat for five hours a day , five or six days a week , during a period from Easter 1981 to Easter 1982 .
20 Using this procedure subjects gave more intelligible descriptions .
21 However , what I have done is to use detailed assignment printouts given to me by the County Council , it 's erm these things here , to look at the changes in traffic flow along the whole length of the A sixty one between its southern junction with a proposed western relief road and its northern junction with a western relief road .
22 If they work also as weekly credit callers giving cash loans to the same customers who buy goods from them , their rates for money loans may be just the same as their rates for credit on goods .
23 Above : Light oak units give a country look to this cottage kitchen
24 The law , which was the first in post-war Italy to restrict the right to strike , required public service employees to give a minimum number of days ' notice of intended strikes and to guarantee essential services .
25 Its urgent overall rhythm commands the choreographer to keep the dancers moving forever onwards with greater intensity to the climax , whilst the shorter phrase rhythms give the Chosen Maiden and smaller groups such ways of moving that they hold the audience 's full attention until the fall of the curtain .
26 High bay windows give a leafy view over the terraced front garden and a sycamore-lined walk where Queen Anne liked to promenade on her visits to Tunbridge Wells .
27 Apart from arguing the need for adequate benefit levels to ensure that effective community care policies are possible , Saul Backer drew the link between SSDs handling care budgets and the DSS 's social fund officers giving discretionary loans or grant payments .
28 It is certainly true that the most active social science departments gave rise to the approach to social science which became associated with participant observation , the more extensive use of the survey method as a means to examine attitudes and personality and , last but not least , the modern sociological use of the survey as a tool for the development of theory as in variable analysis .
29 Another reason companies give for choosing to invest in Singapore is the availability of good accommodation and excellent schools , some specifically for expats .
30 And as students of the star signs will verify , the cuspate divisions help explain his ability to carve the characters he plays into different personality fragments to give them added depth .
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