Example sentences of "[conj] [pos pn] [noun pl] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | The action project began on 1 April 1984 and any people aged 65 or over who were referred to the hospital psychogeriatric service during the 12 months to the end of March 1985 and who were diagnosed as suffering from dementia , became members of the action sample if they lived in the action area , and of the control sample if their home was in the control area ( so long as they were not living permanently in an institution at the time of referral and they or their carers gave consent for their inclusion ) . |
| 2 | Instead of wrestling with the imponderables of land and trees and drainage and crops , he was back where his skills gave him a harsh certainty . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm very glad that my books give you such pleasure , ’ responded Melissa with total sincerity . |
| 4 | The worst result of the earthquake was that its consequences gave an excuse to the town-planners , not least the great urban visionary himself , to undertake grandiose schemes of urban renewal . |
| 5 | Interestingly , 39 respondents said that their companies gave out emergency treatment kits to protect against non-sexual transmission of HIV but only six said that their companies gave out condoms to protect against sexual transmission . |
| 6 | Interestingly , 39 respondents said that their companies gave out emergency treatment kits to protect against non-sexual transmission of HIV but only six said that their companies gave out condoms to protect against sexual transmission . |
| 7 | After that they can be taken out on the parade ground in daylight to learn the basic commands that their mahouts give them . |
| 8 | ‘ The gentleman before you complained that his lenses gave him double vision and headaches . |
| 9 | Looking at the patchwork nature of the results , Sir Patrick may well decide that his proposals to give new talks ‘ a sense of direction and focus ’ would be better grounded in reality than continued wishful thinking . |
| 10 | ‘ The reason the auditors will give us trouble , Mike , is that they have to certify that our accounts give a true and fair account of the financial state of the business . |
| 11 | So in the end we got a mortgage from a building society , and my parents gave us the money to do it up . |
| 12 | Another , who works in a uniform all day , said how important her earrings were , and the short dreadlocks under her hat ; how she felt they were making a statement for her , something like : you may think I 'm an ordinary , boring nurse , but my hair and my earrings give you the clues ; this is what I 'm like out of my uniform , I 'm different , I 'm me . |
| 13 | We rounded the final clump of bamboos in a sprint — until my knees gave way completely . |
| 14 | The fire is a focus for communication and for vision ; its heat serves physical needs and its flames give inspiration for the mind . |
| 15 | The square tower is rib vaulted and its windows give good light to the cathedral . |
| 16 | The social superego is also ineffectual and its representatives give no support . |
| 17 | Each touch of each finger seemed to burn through her sweat-shirt , and her insides gave the most awful lurch as he held her easily above the floor , his eyes fixed steadily on hers . |
| 18 | Julius 's mouth suddenly set into a hard line that she remembered very well , and her nerves gave an involuntary quiver . |
| 19 | For , out towards them continually have the conquered races of the world retreated , and their settlements give those corners a strangeness and a charm to our fantastic sympathies . |
| 20 | Their heads were impaled on Charles Bridge as a warning to others and their families were sent into exile and their lands given to Ferdinand 's Habsburg supporters , mainly Germans . |
| 21 | Staff are available in all gas showrooms and electricity shops and their offices to give advice to anyone in difficulty . |
| 22 | But the English mystics and their followers give us the other side of the picture . |
| 23 | Even if their visits give a kind of pleasure that er , Elizabeth suggested er the th the , the Duchess of Yorks ' visit to , brought to the hospice that she works at ? |
| 24 | Edmund Paston , it is true , was retained by the duke in 1475 , but this was specifically for the campaign against France , and his letters give no hint of a more extended relationship with the duke . |
| 25 | Edmund Paston , it is true , was retained by the duke in 1475 , but this was specifically for the campaign against France , and his letters give no hint of a more extended relationship with the duke . |
| 26 | Harrison and his friends gave a rousing version of his Beatles composition , Taxman , in which the names of former prime ministers Mr Heath and Mr Wilson were replaced by those of Mr Major and Mr Kinnock . |
| 27 | His ashes were scattered on the course and his bonds given to the Club . |
| 28 | Just how successful Reagan was as governor of California has , not surprisingly , been the subject of dispute , with his supporters exaggerating his achievements and his opponents giving him less than his due . |
| 29 | Atiyah 's great work , The Rise and Fall of Freedom of Contract , shows how nineteenth-century English judges , in developing the doctrine of freedom of contract , were influenced by the ideas of political economy to which Adam Smith and his successors gave expression . |
| 30 | The model showing the significance of loss of mother to adult depression by Brown and his colleagues given above suggests that not only is loss of mother an independent vulnerability factor in the aetiology of depression , but that both premarital pregnancy and institutional care could also be considered as vulnerability factors ( see Harris et al. , 1987a ) . |