Example sentences of "they give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Another similarity between control theory and classical criminology is in the kinds of answer they give to the question ‘ why do we conform ? ’ . |
| 32 | Faeces are used by young children as a ‘ gift ’ , and sometimes their stools are wrapped up in parcels which they give to a significant person . |
| 33 | The principal interest of these court appearances is in the confirmation they give to the portrait of the National Socialist League in the last months of peace . |
| 34 | Accounts vary in the emphasis they give to events and the order in which events happened . |
| 35 | Because these appear at about the same level in adjacent fibrils they give to the whole fibre its characteristic cross-striated appearance . |
| 36 | To understand this process , we have to look at the experiences of students themselves , and the meanings they give to their education . |
| 37 | Humans do not just react to fire , they act upon it in terms of the meanings they give to it . |
| 38 | Procedural fairness does not require him to identify his advisers or the advice they give to him . |
| 39 | They give to others what they want for themselves . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | The real breakthrough will come when the pot plants grown from rainforest seed are sold as such — when customers in down- town LA choose their purchases for the help they give to commercial community-based conservation as much as for their leaf colours . |
| 42 | Financial management advice and services has continued to be provided by Napier University Ventures Limited and I would take this opportunity to thank Ed Angus and all his staff for the hard work and support they give to the Enterprise Centre . |
| 43 | We begin this chapter , accordingly , by looking at the different types of literary essay it is possible to write , considering first the variety of focus they give to their subject matter and the different modes of argument they adopt . |
| 44 | In achieving this end , essays follow certain general patterns of development and direction , which are definable in terms of the focus they give to their subject matter and the different modes of argument they adopt . |
| 45 | Erm , one other thing that I want to make about erm , the victims , erm , I am very much er , involved with erm , victim support Wiltshire , and one of the problems with victim support Wiltshire is their work is increasing all the time because the crime rate goes up , and every time there is more crime there is more victims , but the , the Government has not yet said that they will put the money up that they erm , that they er , the grant up that they give to the victim support . |
| 46 | The importance of the miracles is the teaching they give about Jesus to the modern Christian . |
| 47 | One feature of Tukey 's techniques is the degree of insight they give into the data . |
| 48 | They give in order to look good and to feel good but not to do good . |
| 49 | Instead their lasting legacy and major influence was the legitimacy that they gave for local politics to be reduced to urban politics , which in turn consisted solely of issues concerning collective consumption . |
| 50 | The reasons that they gave for this varied considerably . |
| 51 | This change in female initiation patterns is also reflected in the reasons they gave for experimentation with heroin in the first place . |
| 52 | The key to an understanding of the farmers in the survey lay in the emphasis they gave to enjoyment of and satisfaction with their work . |
| 53 | ‘ In the main , the church and its leaders drew their importance from the support they gave to the existing powers and from their multiple involvements in education , social welfare and administration . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ They never offer us the help they gave to TV . ’ |
| 55 | The backbenchers ' unrest was underlined by the rousing ovation they gave to Chancellor Nor-man Lamont at a private meeting yesterday . |
| 56 | ‘ It 's not a nice feeling and I know what United 's war cry will be : ‘ Let's give them what they gave to us ’ . ’ |
| 57 | They found that young mothers seemed to give health visitors a more idealized version of how they treated their babies than the account they gave to Elizabeth Newson , who was not seen to have any authority over them . |
| 58 | A survey asked 1,245 randomly selected college professors how much they gave to charity each year . |
| 59 | Kandinsky when first he saw Money 's later paintings noted , ‘ they gave to painting a fantastic strength and brilliance . |
| 60 | The significance of both approaches is the challenge they gave to the ‘ naturalness ’ of what appear as basic divisions . |