Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] give their " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group of Mannaia lineages most closely involved in the earlier bloodshed and the anti-Tibbu movement provided six committee members of whom two became chairmen , a high proportion given their numbers , and a high ratio of chairmen to members . |
| 2 | They had both undone their seatbelts and had turned to face each other , the dim streetlighting giving their faces a ghostly orange pallor . |
| 3 | But their hard , streetwise experience gave their big break . |
| 4 | Responsibility lies with the SROs , but it could be argued that they have insufficient resources to carry out this role , and should merely be ombudsmen ( although there is also some doubt as to their ability to act in this limited capacity given their degree of underfunding ) . |
| 5 | But that opportunity is circumscribed , nonetheless , and in a country where Rupert Murdoch , Robert Maxwell and Lord Rothermere , with their powerful and partisan views , control 80 per cent of national newspapers , there is an understandable reluctance to give their newspapers a blank cheque to attack political enemies . |
| 6 | to the Communist Party given their approach . |
| 7 | Other parties involved in the Liberian conflict gave their continued commitment to the peace process . |
| 8 | To do this , and to be able to return to all shareholders the full 100p value of their initial investment , the managers must achieve compound growth of 6.8 per cent — a modest target given their plan to invest 80 per cent of the fund in UK blue-chip companies and the fact that the top 20 Footsie stocks last year accounted for 40 per cent of the total income of the FT-all share index . |
| 9 | Certainly it is hard to see how it is possible to regard , for example , check-out assistants as middle class given their low wages , working conditions , and lack of autonomy at work . |
| 10 | All the cost-cutting tricks which the Reichmanns had learnt on warehouses served them well , as did their single-minded determination to give their customers what they wanted . |