Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] give [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only the day before , you came barging into the flat , insinuating that I 'd given information to Richard Blake . |
| 2 | Like most artists , I hope to give shape to a reality that often seems wilfully chaotic . |
| 3 | I try to give value for money . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I had to give evidence at the inquest on the young girl . ’ |
| 5 | Be it one way or the other , and I prefer to give credit to Barbara , her headstone deserves to be preserved as an item of great interest in Ayrshire 's heritage . |
| 6 | And now I 've given way to my emotions when I swore to my father I never would . |
| 7 | Any questions of general interest are also answered on this page , In the last month I have given advice on queries ranging from where to buy exactly the right picture hook to setting up a framing project group in a school . |
| 8 | I have given notice of my point of order to you and to the Secretary of State for Education and Science , who is in his place . |
| 9 | I have given guidance on the rules of debate . |
| 10 | By the tear by the time each of them came to give evidence in this case it was clear that each had brought forward in their own minds the time when daytime carers would be needed . |
| 11 | There Millett J having held that the part of a non-solicitation clause which gave protection to the plaintiff was valid but that the part which sought to give protection to an associated company of the plaintiff was invalid had then to decide whether the invalid part could be severed or whether the whole clause was invalid . |
| 12 | Not only were connections with the Labour Party broken but the Bradford Conference , against the advice of the NAC , decided to discontinue paying the Trade Union political levy ; to withdraw from membership of the Co-operative Party ; and to forbid ILP Members from holding any position in the Labour movement which involved giving support to the policies of the Labour Party . |
| 13 | Wall Street has been hitting new peaks this week too , which has given support to the London market ( and even Japan 's Nikkei index , in a typically erratic period , has gained nearly 800 points while London added its 245 ) but London has real strengths of its own . |
| 14 | But the Banbury environmental research group which has given evidence to the select committee on energy over Harwell says the reasons for the shut-down are more complicated . |
| 15 | It is in this form that I would express the challenge of the social and medical revolution which has given rise to the modern problem of old age . |
| 16 | It is a house which has given rise to much aesthetic conjecture , and for a long time it was deemed to be the first seed of the modern movement in England , for it did not appear to be built in any revival style , but in a fresh new one . |
| 17 | The police and the Army were caught up in a public order crisis which continues to plague us and which has given rise to the most damaging terrorist campaign . |
| 18 | Position not being a quality , and sensations not being in parts of the body as pins , wounds and broken bones are in parts of the body , it would seem that the only way in which a part of the body can enter into one 's experience of a pain is as the apparent place of the prick , scratch , cut , or whatever it may be , which has given rise to the sensation . |
| 19 | One of the most puzzling features for historians has been the apparent rise in illegitimacy , a European-wide phenomenon , in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century , which has given rise to various interpretations of working-class sexual life . |
| 20 | At no time did the defendants tell the plaintiff of Mr. Perot 's proposed purchase of Vertigo and it is this fact which has given rise to the present litigation . |
| 21 | The most probable outcome of all class struggles , according to this view , is civil war ; and it is the use of the term ‘ revolution ’ in this context by many Marxists , and by other radical thinkers , which has given rise to the close association in modern thought between the ideas of revolution and armed conflict . |
| 22 | There is a growing realisation that science and technology have embodied within them many of the ideological assumptions of the society which has given rise to them . |
| 23 | It is probably this incidental side-effect of education which has given currency to another widespread heresy of our times : that education is desirable because it promotes economic growth . |
| 24 | The latter is a good example of his more extended type of cantata with fewer but longer sections than Rossi 's : The opening of the duet will also illustrate one of Carissimi 's most striking characteristics , his genuine sense of key : The slow , uncertain supersession of mode by key had not yet generally revealed the possibilities of tonality for variety and dynamic structure ; composers still treated a key very much as a mode , a tonal area within which they could move and from which they wandered uncertainly , and which helped to give unity to a composition . |
| 25 | Yet it is these very passive , dependent wishes for the omnipotent , omniscient and omnipresent parent which seem to give rise to the conflicts which are central to paranoia . |
| 26 | After the weather I 'll be back with a brand new series called , ’ Lifeline ’ , a short programme which aims to give advice on a whole range of subjects from alcoholism to education . |
| 27 | The courts now adopt a purposive approach which seeks to give effect to the true purpose of legislation and are prepared to look at much extraneous material that bears upon the background against which the legislation was enacted . |
| 28 | Similar to ostertagiasis , with penetration of the gastric glands by the L3 and replacement of the parietal cells by rapidly dividing undifferentiated cells which proliferate to give rise to nodules on the mucosal surface . |
| 29 | During the 1930s , for example , family allowances were seen by increasing numbers of people as a method of combating the falling birth rate which had given rise to widespread fear of an ever declining population . |
| 30 | While the majority of Japanese remained ignorant of Western social values and customs , and of the background which had given rise to them , the new Meiji government was already moving fast to demolish the formal apparatus of Tokugawa society . |