Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] give " in BNC.

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1 After Downes had been driven away , Morse and Lewis walked back to their own car , where Morse gave urgent instructions to the forensic lab to sent a couple of their whizz-kids over to the railway station — immediately ! — and to Kidlington HQ to see that a breakdown van would be available in about an hour 's time to ferry away a certain Metro .
2 There is an afternoon visit to the temples and a drive to the buried Buddhist city of Sarnath where Buddha gave his first sermon .
3 Indemnities may be used either ( 1 ) to transfer liability , where A requires B to give an indemnity against liability which A may incur to C , or ( 2 ) to reverse liability , as where B gives A an indemnity against A's own liability to B.
4 The journey culminated in a Friday night debate where Patten gave a lecture on proper posture .
5 formerly in John Street in the Adelphi , west London ; where Wardle gives his dinner-party after Pickwick 's release from the Fleet .
6 A law against obscene libel was created by the judges , although Parliament gave some assistance in 1857 with an Obscene Publications Act which permitted magistrates to destroy immoral books found within their jurisdiction .
7 But the almost perverse acceptance of this backwardness began to wilt before the spirit of improvement which gripped much of English society after mid-century , although Sussex gave up its secrets only with a hard battle .
8 Although subjects gave the risk rating immediately on hearing the tone it was stressed that their safety should be the main consideration , thus they should not attempt to perform any judgment task until they felt comfortable with the driving situation .
9 MATERIALS — Although wool gives unbeatable softness and luxury , a blend of 80% wool and 20% man-made fibres adds to the wearing resilience of your carpet .
10 Ewen obviously knew his way , but although Neil gave him room he made no further attempt to break free , or even to reach open water .
11 Zambia , more astute than Tammuz gave hir credit for , knelt against the side of his chair : ‘ You reckon the cocktail will give you gut-ache , its taste is questionable , yet it looks beautiful , glowing there in the glass , smells divine , and the buzz it can give you is a temptation beyond endurance .
12 I walk with a frame so Karen gave me a hand and took me round and introduced me to people . ’
13 In the manufacturing manager 's own words : ‘ Development in the production environment meant that the operator would productionise machinery , and rather than management giving production parameters to the operators , the operators would to some extent give them to management .
14 Yet if he has watched Eastern Europe closely he will have seen that , however the transition begins , be it by round table , coalition government or free election , once Communists give up part of their power they quickly end up losing it all .
15 Although Aquino gave assurances that the Kabisig would not be turned into a political party , the leadership of the LDP treated the new movement with great suspicion , believing that it represented an independent vehicle which could be used by Aquino to run her own favoured candidates in the 1992 elections .
16 ‘ The man 's geese had carbuncles and the lady typewriter had cobwebs in her intray so Bertie gave the hen man notice to quit and sacked the woman .
17 Although Grant gave evidence in thousands of cases in which his wide experience was invaluable , he will be particularly remembered for the prominent part he played in the exposure of the forged Mussolini and Hitler diaries .
18 Although Barthes gives meaning a role in the text , the emphasis is on its production .
19 They set about loosening the ropes just enough for them to be able to reach the knot once Graham gave the signal .
20 Although China gave no guarantee that it would end missile sales , it indicated that it was " seriously considering " signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ( NPT ) .
21 Although evidence given in earlier hearings had suggested that on at least one occasion Ministry of the Interior " reserve funds " had been used for GAL-related activities , the trial judges in their 170-page verdict concluded that the group had not been part of " the apparatus of the state " .
22 She smiled at Aggie ; although Aggie gave her no answering smile , but just said , ‘ Well , the day 's Thursday .
23 Its no worse than industrialists giving money to Maggie in return for peerages .
24 ‘ Since then we have increased the listnership by more than 300pc giving 96.7 BCR over 100,000 adult listeners .
25 But whether Idealism helped Liberalism and the ‘ New ’ Liberals to speak and act on the basis of a more dynamic and conceptually successful social theory , or whether , to quote Michael Freeden , ‘ Rather than Idealism giving birth to a new version of liberalism , it was liberalism that was able to assimilate certain aspects of Idealism to its mainstream and thus bestow new meaning upon Idealist tenets ’ , is not a problem of immediate relevance here .
26 Adam lost his spiritual purity through eating the forbidden fruit , so God gave him the opportunity to reinstate himself partially through immersion in the original water which came from Eden .
27 The works of no jurist other than Scaevola give even a hint that the distinction had become unimportant , and works on trusts continued to be written separately from those on the civil law of succession .
28 It can also be said that , unlike Winckelmann , Hölderlin has some intuitive appreciation of the Greek spirit 's darker depths to which Nietzsche will later attach the name " flionysiac " — although Hölderlin gives them no such definition , and only in the last draft of his unfinished dramatic poem , The Death of Empedocles , do these depths receive a comparably urgent emphasis .
29 The word " advice " is used , although in Caparo v Dickman the " advice " consisted of the audit of a company , which is more similar to an expert determination than advice given , for instance , by a lawyer .
30 ALTHOUGH critics give their judgment on the latest movie releases , it is the public that determines which films become hits .
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