Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Auerbach had previously heard Minton give a Sketch-Club criticism at St Martin 's School of Art . |
| 2 | DRUG SQUAD officers have stopped plans to give visitors to the Expo ‘ 92 World 's Fair in Seville a ‘ true taste ’ of life in Bolivia . |
| 3 | Jane says : ‘ By helping homeowners give dignified care we prevented people ending up in large psychiatric hospitals and residential homes . ’ |
| 4 | They were having trouble with the close-up , until DiCillo finally asked Brad to give him ‘ a deer caught in a car 's headlights ’ . |
| 5 | A club can be weighed using scales to give dead weight , but swingweight has to be measured on a special machine . |
| 6 | I mean we ca n't grumble , I mean Sheila give |
| 7 | Greenfield has attempted to apply this to other cultures , using questionnaires given to Wolof children to establish an empirical basis for the distinction ( 1972 ) . |
| 8 | Omero knew exactly what she meant as he had broken a tooth as a result of eating rock given to him by visitors at Easter , and sometimes it really hurts . |
| 9 | It seems likely that as these authoritarian empires arose the simple egalitarianism of hunter — gathering peoples gave place to the stress of hierarchy . |
| 10 | This anomaly could , however , be remedied if the courts were to embrace novel theories of what constitutes loss given the novel essence of insider dealing . |
| 11 | Garret FitzGerald gave Margaret Thatcher to understand , with the backing of Dublin 's legal advisers , that Article 3 of the Irish constitution — suspending implementation of Article 2 — cancelled out the territorial claim . |
| 12 | Press releases given in technical language , with a large number of figures and percentages , were not easy to listen to and understand when broadcast . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Second , it introduced the practice of Interim Development Control by enabling authorities to give consent to development in advance of the preparation of a scheme . |
| 15 | The meeting is open to the public but expect Taylor to give the banks a hard time . |
| 16 | Still , it is not that he wants biologists to give them more credit for maintaining the planet . |
| 17 | The obvious solution is to provide activities to give the critical sixteen to eighteen age-group a more worthwhile focus . |
| 18 | First , he points out that the process of ostensive definition , whereby the solipsist attempts to give a meaning to the term ‘ pain ’ by pointing ( mentally ) to a sensation , is one which only works when we already have a background of conceptual knowledge , and can not be used to construct such knowledge from a blank sheet . |
| 19 | 8.1 Finding the right expert You may need experts to give you an expert opinion in a number of areas : ( a ) accident reconstruction ( road accident or factory accident ) ; ( b ) more specialist engineering evidence ( metallurgists , road construction etc. ) ; ( c ) experts regarding particular equipment ( cranes , boats ) ; ( d ) experts re particular substances ( glues , fixing devices , gases ) ; ( e ) employment consultants regarding your client 's position on the open labour market should they have lost or are likely to lose their employment ; ( f ) medical evidence ; ( g ) nursing and rehabilitation specialists in serious cases ; ( h ) ancillary services in severe cases ( gardening , home help , home improvements ) ; ( i ) accountants ( in complicated future loss/special damage cases ) . |
| 20 | These may include clinics giving detailed advice on diet , blood pressure , giving up smoking , diabetes , heart disease , alcohol control and stress management . |
| 21 | Europe wants shops to give information on the efficiency of all white goods , televisions and hi-fis , computers , ovens , lights and other household appliances down to the smallest toaster . |
| 22 | Leaning is permissible above 3,000 feet , but check in you flight manual to verify that climbing rpm gives you less than 75 per cent power at that altitude . |
| 23 | They invited Ramsey to give the inaugural address . |
| 24 | The Tesco Cares campaign gives us all a chance to help . |
| 25 | On April 9 the government closed the offices of Africa Concord magazine after it ran the headline : " Has Babangida given up ? " . |
| 26 | Mettwurst is similar to Teewurst but is always made from a mixture of pork and beef , is very smoky and often contains paprika to give it a more spicy flavour . |
| 27 | And I promised Fand to give Undry to Fincara , so I 'm on her side , Ruth thought . |
| 28 | The JMU will take a dim view of any practice in which it discovers repeat breaches or a failure to meet undertakings given at an earlier inspection , regardless of whether or not these were the subject of subsequent correspondence with the Institute ( the fact that they were raised and documented at the closing meeting with the Inspector is a sufficient record ) . |
| 29 | Mr Goria wants banks to give the group a discount on interest payments for 1989 and 1990 and to forgo interest for 1991 . |
| 30 | I did n't know daddy gave me you this film . |