Example sentences of "they be [vb pp] give [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the latter , pupils succeed or ‘ pass ’ if they reach certain levels of competence : they are expected to give evidence of having reached a particular level of performance regardless of how they stand in relation to their peers . |
| 2 | Now if the intention is to elicit authentic behaviour corresponding to that of the natural language user , then learners need to be primed with purpose before they are required to give evidence of understanding , and indeed the evidence itself has to be of the kind which would emerge as a natural outcome . |
| 3 | The fact that they were needed by the state , because there was a " public " dimension to their activity , meant that they were actually co-opted into governmental decision-making : they were asked to give advice , and , more than this , they came to act as agents through which state policy was actually implemented . |
| 4 | While subjects were actually driving around they were required to give risk ratings , this may have caused them to concentrate unusually on the risky situations and think about them to a much greater degree than they would have normally . |
| 5 | And to stand at the ford as long as humanly possible , denying the Northumbrians the crossing until they were forced to give way . |