Example sentences of "[noun pl] give [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baptism entries give name , date of baptism , parents ' Christian names and surname , abode , and occupation of the father . |
| 2 | Burial entries give name , abode , date of burial , and age at death . |
| 3 | So it was that on a golden autumn evening , towards mid-September of 1937 , I came to write my -30- to a career of journalism cum radio , and sat watching the flatness of the prairies give way to rising foothills as the twin-engined CPR ‘ Dominion ’ crawled westward up the slopes of the mountain . |
| 4 | Many of these songs give opportunity for pupils to mime or perform actions while seated at their desks . |
| 5 | Hornets give youth a fling |
| 6 | Nevertheless , some 33,000 faithful pack into Fenway , probably the loveliest old ballpark left in the country as the traditional grass arenas give way to Astroturf colosseums . |
| 7 | 5 The attacker 's legs give way under the pressure and he sinks to the floor . |
| 8 | The authors give warning that the Government has drawn the wrong conclusions from its experience of the poll tax . |
| 9 | Territorial disputes give rise to elaborate tournaments in which workers extend their legs to walk on stilts and drum their antennae on each other 's abdomens . |
| 10 | Developments and opportunities give board significant confidence for the future |
| 11 | With over 5,700 dogs , plus a few cats and rabbits , this scheme is now the largest community service in the United Kingdom where animals give pleasure and benefit to people . |
| 12 | The guidelines give advice as to the kind of trees that should be planted . |
| 13 | While the adults distinguish between particular predator species within a class and only call to species that are likely to give them trouble , the young vervets give leopard alarm calls in response to a wide variety of terrestrial mammals , the eagle calls in response to a great many different birds and snake alarm calls in response to long thin objects , many of which are not snakes . |
| 14 | Our house stood at the east end of the rue Victorie , where the shops give way to workshops . |
| 15 | We no longer believe that language and reality ‘ match up ’ so congruently — indeed , we probably think that words give birth to things as much as things give birth to words . |
| 16 | Admittedly , another aspect of the whole thing , as you rightly say , is that there 's been a burgeoning and a lot of different schools , and of course different schools give emphasis to different , different kinds of things . |
| 17 | The buses are cheap and excellent , the drivers are virtuosi , and cars give way to them , so it makes sense to use this facility and relax . |
| 18 | In particular it will investigate what individual and area characteristics give rise to a person having a high probability of being a victim of crime not just once , but repeatedly . |
| 19 | A few miles from Gunby is a quite unassumingly important site to be found where the marshlands give way to the slightly hilly area in the shadow of the wolds . |
| 20 | Lines of men in sunglasses , peaked caps , harnessed up with sundry sport trappings and white sun cream smeared down their noses give cover to at least two miles of coast . |
| 21 | These recordings give evidence of substantial artistic and commercial courage , and also show a laudably pig-headed indifference to conventional wisdom . |
| 22 | Figures in parentheses give seat distribution in old congress . |
| 23 | In CLE-I , as we have seen , non-anaphoric ambiguities give rise to an ordered list of scoped QLFs . |
| 24 | We soon learn that the huts give relief from yet more mosquitos , but compared to central Lappland insects these are either timid or full-up . |
| 25 | New homes give hope for Drumchapel 's image |
| 26 | Assuming that the success of the leader and of the team are inseparable , combinations of the four variables give rise to eight categories . |
| 27 | The emotions give warmth and feeling , but through them factual perception and logic are all too easily ruled by imagination . |
| 28 | At indirect immunofluorescent microscopical determination of ANCA , anti-proteinase 3 antibodies produce a typical pancytoplasmatic granular staining pattern ( C-ANCA ) , whereas anti-myeloperoxidase and anti-elastase antibodies give rise to a blurry perinuclear staining pattern ( P-ANCA ) or staining of the PMNL nuclei ( granulocyte specific anti-nuclear antibodies , GS-ANA ) . |
| 29 | Once people recognise that through the process of exchange they can mutually benefit , they have no need to approve of the individual ends to which the transactions give rise . |
| 30 | In the latter case , however , the commissioners give consideration because they refrain from pursuing the threatened proceedings . |