Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] [noun] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | The suggestion for a community treatment order was rejected by some , on the grounds that it would infringe civil liberties , there was insufficient research to justify this extra measure , the existing legislation provided a sufficient framework to give the necessary powers to deal with the problem , and changing the law might divert attention from the real need to provide resources to support an acceptable programme of community care . |
| 2 | If you saw the other films , you wo n't need a gay activist to give away the ending , although the spin on the story here is that the hero is a male cop ( Douglas ) , as opposed to the female lawyers and FBI agents of the earlier movies . |
| 3 | But , however successful they are financially , they provide a splendid opportunity to give your work exposure and publicity and to take stock of your progress and development , as well as often providing various contacts and leads to follow up . |
| 4 | In addition it was very remote from the catchment area , located fifteen miles from central London , representing a considerable journey given the density of the urban areas to be crossed and the paucity of public transport systems in Surrey . |
| 5 | When finalising arrangements and confirming the reservation the tour operator will usually include a rooming list giving full names of all the group , their nationality and passport numbers and any special requirements such as family groupings or adjacent rooms . |
| 6 | At the beginning of 1990 , Jennifer Kelsall helped a deaf woman give birth to her first child at Wythenshawe Maternity Hospital in Manchester . |
| 7 | The state was independent of classes in determining how best to secure a social order given the circumstances of the time . |
| 8 | First we felt that women have come a long way given the very radical and novel nature of their demands to enter public life as individuals in their own right . |
| 9 | However , while people were in general very willing to cooperate in the data collection , it should be added that it was not always possible to collect all items of information at each stage : for example , a very severely demented person might not be able to respond to questions at all ; it was not always possible to find a medical practitioner with up-to-date information about a person 's medical condition ; respondents sometimes refused to perform all the action tests ; it was occasionally impossible to find a key informant to give , for example , information about services received by a dementia sufferer or about his/her housing circumstances . |
| 10 | But there is no reason to believe — and the paper by Eliasson cited by Tummon and Mortimer certainly does not provide any supporting evidence — that use of white cell pipettes would introduce a systematic error giving values that are 100% higher than the sperm concentrations measured by the pipettes used today . |
| 11 | European president Ninian Eadie is continuing to manage ICL 's personal products , and now includes the company 's mid-range systems in his portfolio , which is considered a natural step given the movement towards client server systems . |
| 12 | But Elaine no longer has a close relationship to give her the support she needs . |
| 13 | CA has a clear responsibility to give wherever possible clear advice , exposing fads and gimmicks , but at the same time analysing problems where they exist . |
| 14 | Grain and orchards do flourish in , for example , the Marathon plain , the market garden of modern Athens , but the inability of Attica as a whole to feed a large population gave the olive an additional role as an export , to be sent to south Russia to pay for Ukrainian corn . |
| 15 | Barnes added a further penalty to give Portadown a comfortable 10-0 lead at half-time . |
| 16 | The entwined serpents forming a double helix gave birth to the Caduceus . |
| 17 | Many also issue a monthly newsletter giving investment advice . |
| 18 | Similarly , others have argued that the matrices make little allowance for risk and in their early application this was true , but , if one undertakes a Porter-type analysis to give a solid foundation to industry attractiveness and competitive strengths and the derivation of the appropriate strategies , that will take into account a risk assessment . |
| 19 | Nigel was ostentatiously smoking a big cigar to give an illusion of poise . |
| 20 | Neither Jochen Mass nor Patrick Tambay did much to push him towards fresh championships ; his Number One status in the team was assured without effort , and I have often been led to wonder what would have happened if Teddy Mayer had been smart enough to hire a young hot-shot to give Master James a needed shot in the arm . |
| 21 | Unionist reactions to these proposals , published and embodied in the Representation of the People Bill early in 1917 , were very hostile indeed ; it seemed a reckless step to give the biggest ever increase in the franchise in the midst of a major war , to throw away some of the plural votes on which the party had relied , and to receive in return a redistribution that could bring almost anything . |
| 22 | Adding a human opponent gives a game an extra , unpredictable excitement that a computer opponent lacks . |
| 23 | Stella tried to imagine a younger Lily giving Uncle Vernon cause for jealousy . |
| 24 | Armed police laid seige to a house for seven hours pursuading a runaway prisoner to give himself up . |
| 25 | These days it can be very worthwhile to buy a substantial specimen to give a small garden instant maturity . |
| 26 | For an extra charge T will also provide a recorded message giving your new number to any callers on your old line . |
| 27 | But we have n't got a hundred pounds to give them . |
| 28 | Got a bloody assignment to give in and I forgot I lost the bloody address ! |
| 29 | IBM sells the Stratus machines as System/88 , but the new contract includes a cross-licensing agreement giving IBM and Stratus some rights to each other 's patents , suggesting that IBM may have designs on developing its own fault-tolerant Unix for the RS/6000 . |
| 30 | Mr Alan Milburn said he had obtained a copy of The Waiting a secret document giving details of queues for each different consultant . |