Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [pron] give to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dilemma can be expressed as follows : the more accessible teachers seek to make themselves to all their pupils as individuals , the less time they have for direct , extended and challenging interaction with any of them ; but the more time they devote to such extended interaction with some children , the less demanding on them as teachers must be the activities they give to the rest ; and the less demanding an activity is of their time and attention as teachers , the more the likelihood that the activity in question will demand little of the child . |
| 2 | To understand this process , we have to look at the experiences of students themselves , and the meanings they give to their education . |
| 3 | Humans do not just react to fire , they act upon it in terms of the meanings they give to it . |
| 4 | Physics is interesting in having connotations of both : as a physical science , its discoveries ( and the skills it gives to its graduates ) have obvious uses for industry ; while its status as a ‘ pure ’ rather than an ‘ applied ’ science gives it the appearance of being removed from the uses to which it may be put . |
| 5 | It is also structured by the biographical situation of the person using the term and the definitions they give to their work role . |
| 6 | It also provides a useful example to journalists bored with adding the suffix ‘ -gate ’ to the names they give to all political scandals , regardless of whether they have anything to do with break-ins in Washington : by adding ‘ -dome ’ hacks can bring a new sense of variety to their reports , regardless of whether they have anything to do with teapots . |
| 7 | In the hitherto unpublished Leeds University evaluation of the 1991 Key Stage One National Curriculum Assessment , teachers rated the tasks they gave to children as rather more challenging than did observers , and were rather more generous than the observers in their estimates both of the frequency of open questions and of the opportunities they gave pupils to volunteer opinions . |
| 8 | The counsellor , in a variety of ways , has to feed back to counsellees the impressions they give to others , and the way they ‘ come across ’ to other people . |