Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [noun pl] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sprinkle Cajun Seasoning on fish , chops or chicken breasts to give them zing . |
| 2 | Once you 've exhausted the variations that will give you the step height you need , try different materials , as cutting bricks or walling slabs to give the desired height is not easy . |
| 3 | Sharpe angled away from the river , guiding the horse beside a field of rye which had grown as tall as a man.The field path led uphill , then , after picking a delicate path through a tangled copse where tree roots gave treacherous footing for the horse , Sharpe slid down an earthen bank on to a rutted road where he was shadowed and hidden from the Dragoons by the trees that arched overhead . |
| 4 | Have some spare copies of your phonology or grammar write-ups to give to anyone interested . |
| 5 | A bowler who strays wide of the off or leg stumps gives the batsman ‘ width ’ and enables him to glance , cut , and deflect , opening up scoring opportunities in a 360 degree circle around the bat . |
| 6 | Many hoteliers believe that leisure facilities give them the edge over their competitors in relation to conference business . |
| 7 | Identifying many of the same failings as Wolff Olins , CIPP 's first core recommendation was ‘ that crime investigation should be made victim-focussed , ’ and that CID departments give ‘ higher priority to the victims of crime and witnesses ’ . |
| 8 | The fact that family circumstances gave the school-leaver little option but to take the first available work , and the highest paid , was appreciated by exchange officials . |
| 9 | The spectre of drought looms over Bangladesh 's northern districts , with farmers and agriculture officials giving warning that thousands of acres of rice paddy in about eight north and western districts — the granary of the country — will be ruined . |
| 10 | GHI comment : In general , we found that the Alba and Ferguson models gave the clearest sound . |
| 11 | Samantha led Jacqueline out to buy a paper bag of corn to feed the portly , over-privileged pigeons and Haverford Downs gave them a taste of his ‘ Jottings ’ . |
| 12 | Both prosecution and defence lawyers gave eloquent closing speeches . |
| 13 | Joint promotions include the recent appearance of ‘ affinity ’ credit cards , whereby banks and building societies give a donation to a particular charity for each new cardholder . |
| 14 | For example , 78 r.p.m records and wind-up gramophones gave way in the 1950s to LPs and open-reel tape-recorders . |
| 15 | The classic brackish water system where oscillation of the neap and spring tides gives ‘ tidal prisms ’ of mixed waters and mixing of the flora and fauna that live in each world . |
| 16 | The PhD and MPhil programmes give training for those whose careers are likely to involve a high level of research . |
| 17 | Once career opportunities exist for general practitioners there will be more pressure on medical schools and postgraduate institutions to give appropriate training . |
| 18 | The UK Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew and the Irish Foreign Minister David Andrews agreed on Nov. 16 that progress had been made in the talks when round-table and committee stages gave way to bilateral contacts during the past four weeks , although there had been no bilateral meeting between the Irish government and the Democratic Unionist Party . |
| 19 | Established interior designers and curtain specialists giving personal attention to detail and high standard of finish ( with own workshop on site ) . |
| 20 | Training children in self-control and relaxation techniques gives them control over actual or potentially stressful situations that lead to aggression or ( incidentally ) fearful panic . |
| 21 | Researchers stood on street corners , checked the clocks in banks and the speed at which tellers cashed cheques and shop assistants gave change . |
| 22 | In France the process by which the administrative and business elites give one another interesting employment is called pantouflage which literally means jumping in and out of one another 's trousers ( Birnbaum , 1981 ) . |
| 23 | The Conservative 's plan a continuation of current training programmes for the long-term unemployed together with a new initiative in conjunction with the Training and Enterprise Councils giving people a voucher with which they can buy a ‘ skill check ’ , providing guidance on how to make the most of their working lives . |
| 24 | East and West met in a festive mood and border guards gave up checking documents . |
| 25 | Five and even ten years ago academic librarians were generally aware of the demands and problems of user education in their sector , and the research and development projects gave them little reason to change the fundamentals of their approach . |
| 26 | Disc and drum brakes give good stopping power considering the car weighs over 2600lb at the kerb . |
| 27 | Normally priced at £19.95 , we have 10 Free Curl cordless combination Brush and Tong stylers to give away ! |
| 28 | Applying Kirchhoff 's voltage law to the input and output meshes gives Thus The results obtained for this particular network are illustrative of the fact that or in all passive networks . |
| 29 | The agreement signed on 12 May 1977 between Glitterbest and Virgin Records gave McLaren and the Pistols an initial payment of just £15,000 for the British rights for material sufficient for one Sex Pistols album , to be paid in twelve instalments . |
| 30 | Virtually the whole movement comprises a double canon which begins as in the second violin and viola parts given in Example 90 ( these parts first being played by first violin and viola ) : The point at which our example begins is the first entry of the full orchestra , with the first and second violins in one canon and the violas and basses in another . |