Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [that] give " in BNC.

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1 When in 1850 Sir George Hamilton Seymour , then representing Britain in Lisbon and with thirty years of diplomatic experience behind him , told a parliamentary select committee that " Certainly I consider that giving dinners is an essential part of diplomacy ; I have no hesitation in saying so .
2 I know that giving a man on a ventilator morphine in high doses , enough to cause general anaesthesia , is risking his life , and it distracts me to think about whether or not it 's ethical .
3 I reckon that give a good team he could turn in ( God forbid ) an England player .
4 I believe that given the potential field to whom we circulated details , over 65 UK companies alone , that this level of response is not unreasonable .
5 I will see that happening , but it is the freedom of schools to choose that is all important , and there are some particular elements of expertise which are not available to schools because it 's not available centrally , and I believe that giving schools their budgets goes a great way to meeting this .
6 ‘ Oh , help , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I suppose that gave 'er ideas . ’
7 I would n't call last season debacle making the right decisions , my own personal opinion of him is that he was the right manager to get us out of the second divsion , but I feel that given the players and money avail able to him he maybe could have done better .
8 I think that given that University work is supposed to encourage intellectual activity at the highest level of which any individual is capable it is very important to increase motivation by allowing those individuals to proceed at their own pace and to establish their cognitive frames as and when they feel capable of doing so .
9 I think that given that you were er , you could n't find the basic book that you were expected to read , I thought you , you gave an excellent account of it , I mean , if you had n't told us that you had n't got the book , I do n't think we would have guessed , would we ?
10 Sorry , the only one I eh , I eh got this idea was when I first took this up I went into the hut in the town , and I picked up the booklets , you know that they have on the counter , and in one of these booklets it had that the vet 's were now I do n't know what I 'm , I 'm very lost for everything like this , but they 've kept and therefore if your animal needed , your pet needed treatment it would be done by the private vet 's and eh , mon the money would be re would be reclaimed by the vet from the R S P C A , and I think that gave to erm .
11 Mr Rogich says , unhelpfully : ‘ I look at everything from the historical point of view because I think that gives greater impact to the message . ’
12 I think the bit that stands up above the horizon is fine , I mean I think that gives you a good idea of what it would have been like had you been able to get the whole , or not perhaps the whole of it , but a lot more of the post up above the horizon simply by getting down lower .
13 ‘ Do you think that gives you some kind of hold over me ?
14 I think it 's the things you collect that give a house character . ’
15 Then , at a stroke , something happened that gave him a powerful sense of purpose .
16 No one pretends that giving up smoking is easy .
17 Our consultants for the project will be for , for all three phases er , Leonard Space Partnership an and Anglian Design who were involved in the initial master planning of of the er Three Hills area so we feel that gives continuity er to the overall planning of the scheme .
18 Governors admit they knew of an association between the 2 men , but they say that gave them no cause for concern .
19 But he blew his chances when he said that giving up sovereignty to the European Commission was like giving in to Hitler .
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