Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | The confidence that often comes with maturity can help us to voice our sexual preferences to our partners in a way which we may have been inhibited about in the past , and the ability to communicate sexual needs gives a good foundation for a satisfying relationship . |
| 2 | Our own experiments with people 's ability to juggle credit-cost options give no reason to expect different results here . |
| 3 | Every independent committee of experts which has considered the subject has recognised the need to require public authorities to give reasons ( the current position in Australia , Israel and the United States , as well as under European Community law ) . |
| 4 | The British approach of refusing to assert positive rights gives freedom no weapons with which to retaliate . |
| 5 | Because there is pressure on departments in humanistic subjects to appear up to date and efficient , it is much easier to persuade funding bodies to give money for computers and software than to buy manuscripts , rare books , or second and third copies of frequently used library texts . |
| 6 | More recently , we have learned how to use electromagnetic fields to give particles energies of at first millions and then thousands of millions of electron volts . |
| 7 | My secretary , Judy Fella , had used her not inconsiderable charm to persuade British Airways to give herself and me free seats on a Concorde as a publicity venture . |
| 8 | ( d ) Unsuccessful attempts to persuade other teachers to give up a reserve lesson in order to supervise the library . |
| 9 | Company relocation policies generally provide tax-free disturbance allowances and employees are therefore usually asked to keep appropriate receipts to give to the Inland Revenue or their employers . |
| 10 | to describe civil servants giving evidence to a committee as being " -paralysed with caution . " |
| 11 | New age travellers have lost their battle to force local councils to give them camp sites . |
| 12 | The next step is to offer additional techniques to give a family space to explore the way the patterns of past relationships affect the problems , and decisions made in the present . |
| 13 | Another device was to bake sweet-scented cakes to give to the horse as tit-bits : |
| 14 | To claim crop and livestock payments , farmers have to complete special forms giving highly detailed information and , in some cases , extremely accurate maps to support claims . |
| 15 | Once this has been done it is possible to make single-frequency readings to give quantitative concentrations of constituents of a mixture . |