Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adv] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't like the way I look , most of the time , for all the reasons I 've just given . |
| 2 | It is also true that proceedings by way of injunction are not the only form of proceedings open to a local authority under the section ; but , unlike Mann L.J. , I am not impressed by that fact , because , in practice , for reasons I have previously given , the circumstances in which injunction proceedings may be successfully brought by a local authority are such that no other proceedings will be effective to enforce the law . |
| 3 | It was pointed out in argument that , pursuant to regulation 7 of the Income Tax ( Building Societies ) Regulations 1986 , tax which was due but not paid on or before the due date could have been the subject of an assessment on Woolwich under paragraph 4(2) or ( 3 ) of Schedule 20 to the Finance Act 1972 ; but for the reasons I have already given any such assessment would , in my opinion , have been a nullity in the circumstances of the present case . |
| 4 | Nor do I think it necessary to consider for the purposes of the present case to what extent the common law may provide the public authority with a defence to a claim for the repayment of money so paid ; though for the reasons I have already given , I do not consider that the principle of recovery should be inapplicable simply because the citizen has paid the money under a mistake of law . |
| 5 | The animals which fought there gave little heed to defence ; they massed around them and tried to engulf them . |
| 6 | The next showing was The Tin Drum , but that was a book my father had bought for me years ago , one of the few real presents he has ever given me , and I had therefore assiduously avoided reading it , just as I had Myra Breckinridge , another of his rare gifts . |
| 7 | Their resilience and in part fortuitous revival may have been due to the slightly more permissive policies of the Popular Front government in Paris — thousands of political prisoners were released although thousands more remained in gaol — but much more seems to have been the result of the ability to rebuild an organization from the bottom up even though the advice and instructions they received from international communism meant acquiescence in policies which did not give them pre-eminent appeal as a revolutionary party . |
| 8 | Even the few hours she put in gave her life some purpose . |
| 9 | Landowners pursue ‘ modern Whims ’ across a landscape exposing those places which had formerly given comfort to ‘ the hapless swain' . |
| 10 | and the things I did n't give him . |
| 11 | So I must check that the figures I 've already given you , that 's the way that I 've done it . |
| 12 | Under the new Housing ( Scotland ) Act secure tenancies will be replaced by assured tenancies which do not give security of tenure . |
| 13 | Although such heresies were far more common in America and in England than they were in Ulster , Ulster Protestants knew of these postures and could see that their own denominations were in formal organizational contact with other churches which did not move to sack ministers and theologians who had obviously given up the traditional beliefs affirmed at their ordinations . |
| 14 | ( They 're primitive , semi-humanoid exters who have n't given up being cannibals despite sharply reduced birth rate . |
| 15 | According to this source , and obviously excluding those firms who did not give a year of formation , only fifteen firms were established in the 1960s . |
| 16 | As long as the planes came to drop his explosives he did n't give a damn for the rest of the war effort . |
| 17 | Abolitionists who had earlier given their commitment to an integrated movement still hoped to avoid open conflict despite these tensions . |
| 18 | Cos th er index-linked gilts were po were we very poor , because against interest rates they did n't give you a lot of guarantees obviously , you know , interest rates were high , index-linked gilts were er already languishing . |
| 19 | We owe this both to the two teams of experienced science teachers responsible for the survey , which we direct , and to the several hundred science teachers who have generously given their time and advice to our teams . |
| 20 | It 's long gone — we did n't give them arms we did n't give them the sort of training you 're talking about . |
| 21 | If one represents the sentence as , roughly speaking , HIT [ boy = agent , girl = acted-upon , flower = instrument ] then clearly this representation applies just as well to the active and to the passive sentences we have just given ( and to many other sentences too , such as ‘ The boy hit the girl , and he used a flower to do it ’ or ‘ There was boy , and he had a flower , and he hit the girl with it ’ ) . |
| 22 | The film is the story of decadent British aristocrats who did not give a damn for anything but their own pleasure . |
| 23 | Around It an elite had formed , dictatorial , pontificating , divorced from the streets which had supposedly given it succour , ran the argument . |
| 24 | There is a strong moral argument within the labour movement , that rejoke rejects workfare and other half-baked schemes which do not give a fair day 's work for a real fair day 's pay . |
| 25 | The most effective operations against the Japanese were launched by the Karens of the border hills who had never given up , awaiting the British return . |
| 26 | Post-natal depression is a distressing phenomenon where women who have just given birth feel fed up , weepy , do n't like the baby , do n't want to be mothers , ca n't really take an interest in it . |
| 27 | A straw poll among women who have recently given birth revealed one father who mirrored every pain his wife laid claim to with one of his own ; back ache was a special problem . |
| 28 | Thompson is the 4/9 favourite with William Hill to win the best actress Oscar , the shortest odds they have ever given for a British actress nominated for a prize . |
| 29 | On Tuesday and Friday nights I go out to give bread and coffee to the street kids and try to become their close friend . |
| 30 | Despite the impact of liberalizing currents which encourage more give and take , this modifying or normalizing function continues to play a major role in psychiatry . |