Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] and give " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Halifax Building Society has also produced a booklet called Home Help for Widows , which has been compiled in conjunction with the National Association for Widows and gives practical advice on property matters . |
| 2 | One difference was that working-class women were more likely to describe themselves as housewives and to give ‘ domestic ’ responses generally . |
| 3 | Now Emperor Clocks gives you the opportunity to own a classic timepiece that will stay in your family for generations and give to your children and your grandchildren the same precious memories . |
| 4 | For the finance community , what they 've got to do , too , is take a longer term view about projects and give the companies an opportunity to grow and ride the pitfalls and the the peaks and troughs . |
| 5 | The librarian brings items to the attention of lecturers and gives advice where needed . |
| 6 | To Zborowski 's annoyance , Modigliani still clung to his old habits in the cafés , making dozens of sketches and giving most of his work away or bartering it to buy drinks . |
| 7 | Now you rea fo w with a story like this you really need a erm a , a decent does of antibiotics and given the of the unpleasant taste and the pus you can see , ordinary penicillin probably wo n't do the trick , so we need to use something with a bit more oomph |
| 8 | Such clubs were vulnerable to untrustworthy treasurers ' misappropriation of funds and gave members none of the benefits of an interest bearing fund . |
| 9 | I said , I said we 've been doing boundaries for the trial park today and they ran out of passes and gave us these and said they 'd be alright . |
| 10 | The plans would seem to have the merit both of broadening the spectrum of judges and giving the consumer greater choice . |
| 11 | You must explain the use of tapes and give clear instructions on the correct methods of drilling , both in classroom groups and in individual sessions . |
| 12 | At the same time , many governments offered social reforms to ease the plight of workers and give them fewer grounds for opposition . |
| 13 | It is easy to imagine the uses to which historians might put this information : from improving their understanding of the role of charities and giving , to providing material to construct a profile of a twentieth-century charity . |
| 14 | I can offer an account of what the minimum level to be attained at 16 by 80%-90% of pupils would entail in a few areas of the curriculum … ; in English , pupils would need to demonstrate that they are attentive listeners and confident speakers when dealing with everyday matters of which they have experience , that they can read straightforward written information and pass it on — orally and in written form — without loss of meaning and that they can say clearly what their own views are ; in Mathematics , that they can apply the topics and skills in the foundation list proposed in the Cockcroft Report ; in Science , that they are willing and able to take a practical approach to problems , involving sensible observations and appropriate measurements and can communicate their findings effectively … ; in History , that they possess some historical knowledge and perspective , understand the concepts of cause and consequence , and can compare and extract information from historical evidence and be aware of its limitations ; and in CDT [ craft , design and technology ] , that they can design and make something , using a limited range of materials and calling on a restricted range of concepts and give an account of what they have done and the problems they encountered . |
| 15 | Thus a type description might present a comprehensive array of structures and give each of them equal descriptive weight , but a token description might well reveal that some of these were of rare occurrence , or restricted to a realization through a limited range of lexical items , almost exclusively confined to certain contexts , or associated with certain meanings . |
| 16 | First , Suenens proposed a plan d'ensemble , an overall plan , to reduce the number of topics and give some direction to their work . |
| 17 | They are provided centrally in order to make the most effective use of resources and to give line managers the freedom to do the jobs they are paid to do . |
| 18 | The latter , in particular , has an extremely modest set of regulations and gives BVI-incorporated companies the freedom to switch their domicile to any other country if necessary . |
| 19 | In recounting the story of his life , he assumes a variety of identities and gives multiple conflicting versions of events in a contradictory attempt to acquire the sense of identity he has always lacked and to conceal himself from a world by which he has always felt persecuted . |
| 20 | Poor diary completion may result from having unreasonable expectations of patients and giving incomplete instructions . |
| 21 | The facts that they restricted entry to the lounge to certain classes of passengers and gave their staff instructions as to what to do with lost property were insufficient to manifest the intention to exercise the requisite degree of control . |
| 22 | I think that the idea of offsetting imbalances on on one project er with transfer the work in other is certainly very interesting but of course as far as the erm tornado programme is concerned I think it it is now really far too late because production is over apart from the the second Saudi Arabian order and we are really only working on the manufacture of spares and given that the existing suppliers are all tooled up for those and indeed her are way down the learning curve having produced vast quantities of them , it really would n't be economic to transfer any of that work now I do n't think . |
| 23 | Meiosis , you will remember , is the special kind of cell division that halves the number of chromosomes and gives rise to sperm cells or egg cells . |
| 24 | Jack Carter fumbled a cigarette out of a packet of Players and gave him a light . |
| 25 | At a general evolutionary level it is quite adaptive for a species to seek out foods that provide reasonable amounts of nutrients and give high energy levels . |
| 26 | In Parsons ' view , the modern family deals only with the socialization of children and gives stability to adult personalities . |
| 27 | This simple notion made possible the automatic filling of matchboxes and gave the Swedes a world monopoly on matches for half a century . |
| 28 | But surprising the people that you do n't realise , you know , it troubles the parents and as I say they took them to a number of specialists and given different things |
| 29 | Dr Merson called for national programmes to make AIDS prevention ‘ truly sensitive ’ to the needs of women and give them a greater say in the programmes . |
| 30 | Its lack of significance is that it made no real difference to the political situation , except for putting the burgh of Edinburgh through a rapid change of councils and giving it the burden of housing the army of the Congregation . |