Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cloak can be used : to conceal identity or diguise to give warmth and protection to assume or transfer power . |
| 2 | Braid can easily be attached to a chair with upholstery pins or Copydex to give a decorative edge |
| 3 | TUFTED CARPET are made by stitching the yarn through a woven polypropylene backing and either left in loops or cut to give a pile surface . |
| 4 | Modern electronic indicators have a probe in each exhaust pipe , and can show temperature individually or scan to give an average reading . |
| 5 | Grieving can be for the loss of any person , idea or object giving meaning and significance to our lives . |
| 6 | For free brochure write or telephone giving age of eldest person to be included . |
| 7 | ‘ Are you planning to avenge his death ? ’ he enquired , neither his voice or face giving anything away . |
| 8 | And , if you do n't accept that fact well then I suggest you either fuck off and read Althusser or begin giving your paper away free instead of charging horrible , nasty capitalist money for it . |
| 9 | Gabriel 's use of colour is sublime , often radiantly transparent , and occasionally accentuated by the addition of sand or tar to give full impact to the overall artistic image . |
| 10 | Both national survey data and smaller in-depth studies now enable us to document at least some of the financial effects of care-giving on women , although we still know very little about the consequences for women who begin or continue to give care in their own old age , or about the experiences of Black women carers . |
| 11 | The vibrant use of colour contrasted well with the areas of white paper and fluidity or mark to give energy and unity to the image |
| 12 | Now , many people as they retrieved their fingers from the handshake were likely to tell you that their husband had just fathered an illegitimate child and ask your advice on how to proceed , or offer to give you the telephone number of their analyst/acupuncturist/homeopath/hypnotist who had been so helpful over their drink problem . |
| 13 | One can agree that another has or should have a right , that is , believe that he has or should have it , or agree to give him a right . |
| 14 | Er if , if you , if you had , you had to dig a little hole in , in the , in the , by the wall on the , on the pavement like that to hold about sixty four marbles say , and you 'd start off and say , give or give or take give or take as a lawyer , I used to have four marbles , and whoever was taken that was a lawyer of four marbles , I do n't know why . |
| 15 | Blend the pieces together roughly and roll out on a surface dusted with icing sugar or cornflour to give a marbled brown effect . |
| 16 | For public health doctors to withdraw from or refuse to give support to the task at this critical moment would greatly endanger the specialty , as people without the necessary combination of medical and public health skills would attempt the job . |
| 17 | No account is usually taken of the care which the dependant may be giving or have given in the past to the carer . |
| 18 | It is even more useful if people have produced verbal statements without explanation , or have given you a formula but missed the underlying structure . |
| 19 | But there are some instances documented in the literature where people are quite clear that support given to in-laws is really being given to the blood relative . |
| 20 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , although a judge had the power to call a witness where justice and fairness required that witness to give evidence , a judge could neither refuse to permit the prosecution to discontinue its case nor direct whether the trial should continue until the close of the prosecution 's case ; and that , accordingly , the judge had erred in directing the prosecution to continue and in calling the police officer to give evidence for the prosecution ( post , p. 536B , C–G ) . |
| 21 | His book does more than attempt to give comfort to those who have been bereaved . |
| 22 | My purpose here will be to give a very brief sketch of what each of the theories attempts and to direct the interested reader to a few of the many other books that do give detailed accounts and critiques of them . |
| 23 | It 's extraordinary how many businesses man their front lines with speaking voices that fail to give the customer or client any sense of status ( see Chapter Nine ) . |
| 24 | Rehabilitation is fostered by developing workshops at hospitals that aim to give patients confidence in their working ability and experience in social relationships and responsibility . |
| 25 | Finally , he is drawn to the essence of Muir 's genius which he sees as that of ‘ the sensibility of the remote islander ’ , and the words that follow give one final transformation of the savage and city motif , when he describes Muir as ‘ the boy from a simple primitive offshore community who then was plunged into the sordid horror of industrialism in Glasgow , who struggled to understand the modern world of the metropolis in London … |
| 26 | His glorification of the subtle and simple cocks a snook at the overblown excesses that have given Paris couture the kiss of death . |
| 27 | Victories in three primaries , including the battle of New York , were a turning point that have given the Arkansas governor an unassailable lead in delegates needed for the Democrats ' presidential nomination . |
| 28 | They wish to develop alternatives to the traditional approaches that have given privileged positions to discoveries , innovative theories , to the world of ideas . |
| 29 | ‘ To date there are only fourteen families in the whole district that have given BP Coal right of access to their land . |
| 30 | However I must sink my prejudices and draw attention to those places that have given me special pleasure . |