Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb mod] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shabby streets scattered with litter , full of houses where they 'd give you a bed and a bowl of cereal for a fiver , no questions asked . |
| 2 | Members of the Suffolk Accident Rescue Service , staff voluntarily by GPs , are usually the first doctors to arrive at the scene of car accidents where they can give specialist emergency treatment , additional to that provided by ambulance staff . |
| 3 | Or they may give the impression that they are not quite sure if you are the right candidate , i.e. they have not done their homework . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes and loud and clear on the Saint or they 'll give you a ticket for Cincinnati and it would be months before your next of kin were informed . ’ |
| 5 | The task was " forced " in that the respondents were not allowed to answer " impossible to say " to the question about the speaker 's race , but had to opt for one of the three possibilities , although they could give this the lowest confidence rating . |
| 6 | Maclean 's mother Peggy , his estranged second wife , also Peggy , and his daughter Temora , would no more have volunteered for an Oprah Winfrey panel than they would give this man a bottle of cask-strength whisky for his birthday . |
| 7 | Indeed , there is a greater likelihood that they could give the names of more researchers in the same field in another country than they could give the names of staff in other disciplines in the same building . |
| 8 | They instructed us to tell the promoter that they would give some money towards the gig 's adverts in the local papers . |
| 9 | In Tokyo , Mr Miyazawa , Prime Minister , employed a classic Japanese stalling tactic , telling Jiang that they would give ‘ serious consideration ’ to China 's invitation . |
| 10 | The irony of Labour 's tax proposals is that they would give Britain an income tax profile like that in the United States , where the burden falls hardest on middle income families with children . |
| 11 | Although , if it was a French war , might it also be assumed that the Vietnamese , whose tendency to sit on the fence was the subject of American as well as French complaint , would want to join in with the same enthusiasm that they would give to a national cause ? |
| 12 | Since most women did marry , most teenage girls assumed that they would do so and that they would give up work then . |
| 13 | At the conclusion of the hearing of this petition for special leave to appeal their Lordships announced that they would humbly advise Her Majesty that the petitioner ought to be granted special leave to appeal and that they would give their reasons later . |
| 14 | I. , N. and R. It may be indeed that such doctors will be willing to say that they would give the very authority for mechanical intervention which the doctors who have so far given evidence did not support . |
| 15 | He made himself as meek as a lamb , hoping perhaps that they would give him an extra morsel of food or some other favour . |
| 16 | They decided that they would give as much cash to people in their native Dublin as possible during filming . |
| 17 | Greenpeace in turn criticized the Commission 's proposals on the grounds that they would give industry a licence to burn waste rather than encourage it to minimize the production of waste . |
| 18 | Well I think an awful lot of people think of Oxfam and think of the shops , er and the shops have been terribly important to us for such a long time , but we 've found a few years ago that er people who , er were asked said that they would give money to Oxfam , but that they were n't necessarily always asked . |
| 19 | Cos that 's whatsername 's erm Kenny said that they might give you an injection . |
| 20 | Many will be familiar with Graham Gibbs ' Twenty Terrible Reasons for Lecturing or Donald Bligh 's What 's the Use of Lectures ? ( see Suggestions for further reading at the end of this chapter ) and most will have been intellectually persuaded that they ought to give fewer , better lectures and devote their remaining teaching energies to small-group learning — i.e. tutorials and seminars . |
| 21 | ‘ I think they 're being watched in the hope that they 'll give something away . |
| 22 | A second role of coins in the study of portraiture lies in the help that they may give in the identification of other portraits , particularly sculptures , since it is only very rarely that the latter 's accompanying inscriptions have survived to identify them . |
| 23 | For all people , that they may give glory to God for the gifts of speech , hearing and sight which make communication possible , and for the audiovisual media which nourish these gifts in new and marvellous ways . |
| 24 | Animals again can easily be accommodated at this level but it will not follow from this that they will be capable of the conscious distress or anxiety of a parent at an injury to their child , or of the hamstrung athlete warned by the doctor that they must give up running . |
| 25 | By May 1915 Unionist leaders were convinced that they must give up some independence if they were to influence the war ; the liquor issue seemed to show the danger of staying aloof , and the shell scandal seemed to show that they were needed inside . |
| 26 | Innate within him was the ability to put committee members at their ease , so that they could give of their best , and he could abstract the maximum amount of information . |
| 27 | Indeed , there is a greater likelihood that they could give the names of more researchers in the same field in another country than they could give the names of staff in other disciplines in the same building . |
| 28 | He then generally obliged the heirs and entrusted to them that they should give and make over to each person whatever he had left them . |
| 29 | Despite the unceremonious manner of the suggestion , she agreed that they should give the idea a try . |
| 30 | Quite apart from the fact that they would appear to be unorthodox and a distortion at its best of Christian theology , I believe it must be said of all these suggestions that , if what is intended is that they should give an equal place to women or to the ‘ feminine ’ within the Christian religion , they fail . |