Example sentences of "[noun pl] give their " in BNC.
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| 31 | Information on grade of employment was obtained by asking participants to give their civil service grade at the time of the baseline survey . |
| 32 | The numerous spidery capillaries scrawling their florid graffiti across her nose and cheeks gave their own silent clue as to her habits . |
| 33 | All these workers gave their time and labour freely , their efforts being supported by other citizens who hauled stone and earth at every available opportunity . |
| 34 | The affair came to a head in a series of by-elections in the early 1930s in which the press barons gave their support to Empire Crusade candidates in their fight against the official Conservative central office candidates . |
| 35 | The participants gave their informed consent before participation . |
| 36 | Despite its shattering defeat in 1931 the Labour Party had established itself as the dominant political force opposed to the Conservative Party , as the unchallenged controller of local government on the major coalfields and as the Party to which the great majority of trade-union officials gave their loyalty . |
| 37 | They have also incorporated paintings , photos and graphic works by women artists to give their arguments an extra visual punch . |
| 38 | Pump petrol is also said not to be favoured by oil companies ; instead , they prefer toxic additives to exotic petrochemical cocktails to give their teams power while keeping inside the 101 RON limits . |
| 39 | Butlin knew that the leisure industry was about to be revolutionised by a law forcing employers to give their workers holiday with pay . |
| 40 | Though data are not available , it may well be that socio-economic disparities were narrower in 1974 than before as a result partly of the Contract of Employment Act , 1963 , which required employers to give their employees notice of one to four weeks according to length of service , and partly of the increased power of trade unions . |
| 41 | TODAY asked three wedding fashion experts to give their vision of what Princess Anne should be wearing on Saturday . |
| 42 | What starts as a kind of confusion between the rules accepted for sculpture in the round and those for drawing , ends with the realisation of a new art-form , sculpture in high relief , with conventions of its own : figures given their full bodily roundness but grouped in two-dimensional compositions against a flat background to which they are attached or , in developed pedimental sculpture , from which they are carved separate as complete statues . |
| 43 | DESTINY PLUS NETWARE EQUALS UNIXWARE : 70 SOFTWARE FIRMS GIVE THEIR SUPPORT |
| 44 | The strength of this method is that managers give their views on their peers — in other words , on firms they should know something about . |
| 45 | To raise the cash they need , managers give their bankers a three-year business plan . |
| 46 | 10.40 : Bombers give their final warning — only one bomb has been mentioned ‘ in a store in Oxford Street ’ . |
| 47 | For the last 14 years the show has been put on at the Apollo Theatre , with adoring parents almost filling its eighteen hundred seats as those true troopers give their all for the gang show . |
| 48 | Groups such as N-Joi and Altern 8 use dancers to give their performances a human feel , but what 's the point ? |
| 49 | For knitters who use their own personal blocks but would like more inspiration for patterns , CML 's artworks collections are fantastic value for page after page of chartered designs directly traceable to Brother electronic sheets and easily used by all knitters to give their work an individual look . |
| 50 | After Schmidt 's fall , the SDP chose a moderate candidate , Hans-Jochen Vogel , for Chancellor , but the party was very divided , Vogel was uninspiring , and Kohl was so confident of CDU success that he even advised electors to give their second votes to FDP candidates . |
| 51 | In spite of which , the impression they gave was of being identical , and it was left to the owners to give their property whatever signs of individuality they could , by making neat little gardens , or by not doing so , by cleaning the windows once a month , or by not doing so . |
| 52 | On check-off , the hon. Gentleman said that we could not have that now unless individual trade unionists gave their consent . |
| 53 | Since consultants gave their time free they were more available in more wealthy urban areas which could support the private practices that provided their income . |
| 54 | More than 700 farmers gave their backing to the Carlisle mart firm Harrison & Hetherington which had called the meeting because it believes the new system could paralyse cattle marketing . |
| 55 | Many voluntary organisations depend heavily on those with technical , secretarial , accountancy , fund-raising , carpentry , building or professional skills giving their advice free of charge . |
| 56 | These provisions are an example of the recent trend of legislating against tax avoidance in an arcane and difficult fashion , leaving the Revenue to publish Practice Statements or press releases giving their interpretations ( though the Revenue has not been particularly forthcoming regarding " options arrangements " in Statement of Practice 3/93 which supersedes Statement of Practice 5/80 ) . |
| 57 | Both groups of workers set their wage rates given their ( rational ) expectations of the level of prices in the two periods covered by the wage contract . |
| 58 | So a legend which had originated with the attempts of Dark Age royal servants to give their masters a lineage as old and distinguished as that of the Western Roman emperors they had displaced continued in the twelfth century to satisfy the needs of new royal families and even of some princely houses . |
| 59 | The company has been touring the play around Gloucestershire encouraging their evening audiences to give their reaction right after each performance . |
| 60 | The old gods keep their gifts to give their own . ’ |