Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | The birds hatched in an incubator can then be hand-reared or given back to their parents , who will rear any number of chicks as long as they have enough food . |
| 2 | Neither of these reasons for creating assemblies at the district and provincial levels implied a desire to make them broadly representative or to give them much clout , but as the draft legislation passed through the upper reaches of the government keen reformers got their hands on it . |
| 3 | The company makes it quite clear that giving younger people career opportunities may mean moving older employees down the status ladder . |
| 4 | SOUNDS : Sadly missed rock 'n' roll weekly that gave a start to half NME 's current glitterati . |
| 5 | But giving £10,000 credit for one month can be less risky than giving £5000 of credit for six months . |
| 6 | Giving credit for extended periods is always more risky than giving it for shorter periods . |
| 7 | Small things to many , but at Miele excellence of design and construction ensure a kitchen whose performance will remain faultless and give pleasure for life , which has been our philosophy since we introduced major kitchen appliances at the turn of the century . |
| 8 | ‘ It was only intended as a short-term measure , ’ Schaffer objected , ‘ to keep the valley clear and give us the best possible chance for a manhunt . ’ |
| 9 | Age Concern Scotland has produced two invaluable quizzes which address some of the myths that surround ageing and give the research evidence to combat ( and occasionally support ) them . |
| 10 | Sucralfate or bFGF was dissolved in saline and given by the intragastric route in a volume of 1 ml or infused subcutaneously at 4ml/hour . |
| 11 | If you forget , the helicopter will resume flying crabwise and give you a fairly gentle reminder . |
| 12 | I wanted to say , as I believed , that the consul was an English person of good sense with a proper grasp of facts , but I was too well brought up to state unequivocally that all foreigners , including Nour , were superstitious and given to exaggeration and unnecessary alarms . |
| 13 | But this kind of stimulus neighbourhood he engineers point of view is actually extremely interesting and give you a hell of a lot of job satisfaction because you are getting the youngsters really involved in what it 's all about . |
| 14 | We try to rotate all the jobs on site between the eight of us — it makes life more interesting and gives us more flexibility . |
| 15 | On healthy hair the cuticle scales lie flat , reflecting light and giving hair a healthy sheen . |
| 16 | Both , as it turns out , were wrong and gave ‘ invalid drive specification ’ messages when trying to change to drive C after booting from the A drive . |
| 17 | The pitch patterns of a foreign language applied to English sound wrong and give rise to difficulties of communication . |
| 18 | They second-guess the other side 's reaction , guessing wrong and giving too much . |
| 19 | But those keen to dial a sex show face problems — the screen is a mere three inches high and gives a poor image . |
| 20 | The life cycle is direct and given optimal conditions the eggs may hatch and develop to L3 in as little as five days . |
| 21 | ‘ I said I was very interested and gave my credit card number as requested . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ She must be sensible and give the baby back safely where she belongs . ’ |
| 23 | While Mr Gould said membership of the ERM was ‘ not in play ’ , he nevertheless believed the rate at which sterling was taken in was indefensible and gave little room to develop a coherent economic strategy . |
| 24 | And our feeling , if if my memory serves me right , was that we felt that our site safety courses were adequate and gave |
| 25 | In my view , the existing available protection is adequate and gives to a governmental body all such rights as are necessary in a democratic society for the protection of its governing reputation . |
| 26 | I will return and tell Prince Rainbow that the lung 's guard were foolish and gave me such treatment as one might expect from a crowd of flea-bitten louts . " |
| 27 | Then we recontoured the maps into metric and gave Foinavon a spot height of 914 . ’ |
| 28 | He ‘ caught numerous examples , marked and gave them their liberty , in order to ascertain whether the individuals which were flying round the ship at nightfall , were the same that were similarly engaged at daylight in the morning after a night 's run of 120 miles , and which in nearly every instance proved to be the case . ’ |
| 29 | The schoolmaster then spent an endless period fussily sorting out his things — extracting a folded newspaper and a small bag of plums from his case , arranging the case on the rack , examining the seat minutely for anything unpleasant and giving it a brush with the back of his hand , folding his jacket and his jumper with ritualistic care , adjusting the window in consultation with the lady , but without reference to me or to the young Swede , getting his case down again for some forgotten item , checking his hankie , readjusting the window . |
| 30 | We had taken evidence in public and given all the interested parties the chance to have their say . |