Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [pron] give " in BNC.

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1 Wolfgang replied indignantly that he had no time to write because he was so busy : he got up at six , had his hair dressed , and then composed until nine , after which he gave lessons until lunchtime .
2 Might I ask the right hon. Gentleman a question about which I gave notice to his office earlier this morning ?
3 ‘ The public has also played its part in developing the proposals , particularly by way of a comprehensive consultation exercise during which they gave a high level of support for the principles . ’
4 Shortly afterwards PW held a meeting with the BCCI directors during which it gave them a comprehensive account of the frauds and malpractices .
5 After a spell of this , during which he gave no hint of moving , Rain decided to escape .
6 By law they have to ballot their members in the next couple of years on whether they can keep their political funds , through which they give money to the party .
7 We do appreciate all your prayers and have seen answers to them , for which we give God thanks ; please continue to pray for us .
8 er , it depends on one 's own tastes , I personally do n't like the open planned that I 've seen in very modern houses where , erm I , I do n't quite know how to express it but it does seem to me odd to be on one floor level and then two feet up you 're on another level and er , that 's one aspect of the open plan that does n't appeal to me and I do n't quite understand why it 's necessary to have everything that 's going on in one room with pieces of furniture designed to act as barriers between the different functions or purposes for which you give parts of the room .
9 Bayes 's tentative solution to the problem involves assuming that the lack of knowledge of the probability about which an inference is to be made may be represented by a uniform probability distribution , for which he gives an ingenious argument .
10 Husameddin quotes one such signature , from a for which he gives the date mid-Rabi " II 838/mid-November 1434 , the signature being in the form Mehmed b .
11 Both sides would broadcast interviews with senior personalities , in the course of which they gave interpretations of current developments .
12 The Committee 's 23rd report refers to the failure of the experiment of accepting the services of a young Dutchman , Mr Vincent van Gogh , and goes on to cite his spirit of self-sacrifice , his admirable qualities in aiding the sick and wounded , and his devotion , ‘ of which he gave many proofs ’ .
13 ( 8 ) In proceedings to enforce a liability arising by virtue of subsection ( 3 ) above , it shall be a defence for the defendant to prove that he believed , and had reasonable cause to believe — ( a ) that the residential occupier had ceased to reside in the premises in question at the time when he was deprived of occupation as mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) above or , as the case may be , when the attempt was made or the acts were done as a result of which he gave up his occupation of those premises ; or ( b ) that , where the liability would otherwise arise by virtue only of the doing of acts or the withdrawal or withholding of services , he had reasonable grounds for doing the acts or withdrawing or withholding the services in question .
14 ‘ It having been stated to Samuel Whitbread Esq. , and to me … that Mary Flint , now in the Bedford Infirmary , is in danger of death in consequence of the wounds and injuries which she received from you , we intend to take her examination at the said Infirmary on Tuesday 8th October inst. at 1 o'clock of the afternoon of which I give you this notice that you may if you think proper be present . ’
15 The approach which I take to the subject is one concerned almost exclusively with the Anglo-American tradition , though Hegel is allowed into the last chapter , at the end of which I give some references to sample writings in the continental tradition , especially critical theory .
16 I am anxious that you should start work on this project as soon as possible , so that there are no last-minute delays , I should therefore be grateful if you could start on the first batch of frames , of which I give details below :
17 Even in these circumstances , where one might expect unemployed people to be net receivers , McKee shows that they give as well as receive and the list of what they give looks remarkably similar to the list of items which they receive .
18 The map that 's in the back of what they gave us looks as though it might blown up .
19 ‘ I doubled the value of what you gave me , ’ Nora told John .
20 If the mortgage is a mortgage of the equitable estate , the priority of successive mortgagees depends upon the order in which they give written notice to the trustees or other persons holding the legal estate .
21 Foxes will often enlarge rabbit burrows to make the ‘ earth ’ in which they give birth to their young .
22 However there are some conditions in which they give more useful correction and they may therefore be provided for visually handicapped children .
23 Earlier , she had written Letter to the Deaf in which she gave advice to deaf people based on her experiences .
24 So , after a very busy two more terms at the Royal College in which I gave my first recital , and also had a chance of playing the Beethoven Concerto No. 4 in G major at one of the Patron 's Fund Concerts with Adrian Boult as conductor , I left the College and came up to Oxford in October 1924 .
25 He conceded that it was hard on Alexander , and later came to respect him greatly for the way in which he gave Worrell his fullest support as vice-captain .
26 This interpretation is supported by a letter written by McCann , before the march , to Michael Farrell , leader of the Young Socialists in Belfast , in which he gave an account of the meeting between NICRA and the DHAC :
27 He then wrote A Handbook of the Trip to Liverpool in which he gave every detail of the excursion .
28 Morey Bernstein was so impressed by this that he published details of the case in a book , The Search for Bridey Murphy , in which he gave Virginia Tighe the pseudonym Ruth Simmons .
29 The Times , more restrained , came to the same conclusions : ‘ To most sensible , rational people , a verdict which depends on the evidence of a man like Mathews , in the circumstances in which he gave that evidence , can not be safe . ’
30 This was Bogart 's seventeenth film ( The Petrified Forest had been his eleventh ) and one of the first in which he gave some indication of his range .
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