Example sentences of "[conj] give they [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of these reasons for creating assemblies at the district and provincial levels implied a desire to make them broadly representative or to give them much clout , but as the draft legislation passed through the upper reaches of the government keen reformers got their hands on it . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps some people need a psychological or emotional crutch before their faith will come back or to give them more confidence . |
| 3 | What other things , what other things other than giving them actually |
| 4 | Sometimes , it is this flash of white belly that gives them away when you are roaming the river bank trying to spot them . |
| 5 | • After several days on this schedule they will be going to bed and getting up at their chosen time , one that gives them enough sleep during the weekdays . |
| 6 | It 's not what people say that gives 'em away , it 's what they do . ’ |
| 7 | Yeah but its , you got ta try and give them instead of putting the law first , not |
| 8 | I told Patterson to follow normal procedure and he got one of the girls in the postroom to ring Airborne and say there was a package for delivery a.s.a.p. and give them just the district , EC 1 , where it was going . |
| 9 | This is where we need to listen to what they 're asking and what they need , and give them enough to satisfy them . |
| 10 | Never put flavoured drinks in a bottle and give them only to quench thirst . |
| 11 | If in doubt , do n't buy and if you are suspicious ring the police and give them as many details as you can . |
| 12 | And so a strong tradition has grown up that teachers must know their pupils , care for them in a general way , interest themselves in their moral development , and give them as many educational opportunities as possible outside the class-room as well as in it . |
| 13 | Diana has a duty to bring up her own children and give them as normal a life as possible for as long as possible . |
| 14 | This would certainly allow students to participate more in their own learning , and give them more chance to get to grips with complex ideas . |
| 15 | Well I can I can remember when I was a child and kids had a lot of time to do hobbies and a favourite hobby was to make a a garden and I never made one , but a friend of mine was ooh forever making these things and giving them away as presents you got the lid of a biscuit tin or something of that sort and you I do n't know what they used for grass they used to model little ducks and things and he had a piece of mirror to make a pond have you ever seen this done ? |
| 16 | No adult insect can produce silk , so these ants bring young larvae to the site , holding them between their jaws and giving them little squeezes so that the larvae will produce their silk . |
| 17 | Sometimes he forgot and gave them again , which she took to be a good sign . |
| 18 | The new conditions offered no incentive payment to encourage banks to sign early , and gave them only two choices : ( i ) to exchange their loans for 30-year bonds with a discounted face value of 35 per cent ; or ( ii ) to exchange loans for " par " bonds , denominated in either US dollars or German marks , which carried pre-set concessional interest rates . |
| 19 | This freed the geologists from this task and gave them more time to write memoirs . |
| 20 | The labour movement has made hardly any use of its own scholars and intellectuals , and gives them little support , so that many drift through higher education into roles that have little relationship with their origins and aspirations . |
| 21 | ‘ It offers users benefits through greater accuracy of input and gives them more time to respond to customers . ’ |
| 22 | Thus the ‘ qualities ’ covered a wider range of sports but gave them proportionately much less space overall than the populars . |
| 23 | Suspicious of voluntary admissions , social workers regarded court orders as giving them more control : yet the perverse outcome of more adversarial methods was to introduce an increased element of crisis . |