Example sentences of "have give them " in BNC.
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| 1 | In theory , during this period their potential to adapt technology to source inputs locally ( as had occurred in Biafra during the civil war ) , rather than to import them might have given them a competitive edge over the large manufacturing companies managed and partly owned from overseas . |
| 2 | ‘ England 's batting , fielding and — apart from Emburey and Edmonds — their bowling proclaimed the lack of practice and resolve on a slow pitch which , had they been in the right frame of mind , would have given them an even chance of levelling the series , ’ asserted Wisden . |
| 3 | My all-time favourite remark was made by a visiting Chesterfield supporter who watched silently as his team prepared to take a penalty in the dying seconds of a game at Barnsley which would have given them the draw . |
| 4 | In so doing they will be building on their earlier writing experiences which should have given them a positive view of themselves as writers who are capable of making and receiving meanings using a variety of forms depending on audience and purpose . |
| 5 | For me , their own evaluations and this record book tells more about the progress of the children than any written examination I might have given them . |
| 6 | Under the energetic leadership of H. L. Dowbiggin , Inspector-General from 1913 to 1937 , the police gained sophistication which may have given them a relative advantage over some lawbreakers . |
| 7 | Trailing 6-3 , Cardiff won a last-chance scrum on the Swansea line and the players pressured Hall into running the ball rather than going for a drop goal which would have given them a draw . |
| 8 | This should have given them several useful advantages , including the right to trial by jury . |
| 9 | Something must have given them a shake-up . |
| 10 | Although Mikhailichenko should have given them a 15th-minute lead , Marseille increasingly controlled the game . |
| 11 | Large figure-of-eight shields were depicted on the walls of the East Wing of the Labyrinth , possibly to indicate that the building was under divine protection ; the dappled hides of which the shields were made presumably came from the bull , the sacred beast , and this may have given them additional prophylactic value . |
| 12 | Much of this public criticism directed at practitioners , often reinforced and fuelled by the reports themselves , is that these tragedies and scandals have arisen because practitioners ‘ failed ’ , in part , because they lacked the knowledge about child abuse which a thorough grounding in the research and its findings would have given them . |
| 13 | Since the 1920s women have been free of the burden of high fertility which previously would have given them young children to cope with for more than two decades of their adult life . |
| 14 | It also must have given them much-needed protection , for the seas at this time were tyrannised by the huge , two-metre-long sea scorpions armed with massive claws which fed on the smaller creatures of the sea floor . |
| 15 | Their PS was 3.6 , i.e. six actual seats instead of the nine that accurate PR would have given them : not a large difference , but important for a small party . |
| 16 | If the stranger had not been there , he would have given them an account of what had happened . |
| 17 | They were both straining to reach , leaning forward as far as they could , agonisingly aware that the door and its ring handle that might have given them some leverage were out of their reach , when another sound fell on their ears . |
| 18 | His father would have given them to Oxfam , or to a jumble sale . |
| 19 | One may presume that the standard of living of both these groups was above the national average , and that this could have given them better resistance to disease than their poorer neighbours . |
| 20 | Many of the prominent citizens , when their origins can be traced , were drawn from the lesser landed class , who may have given them moral or financial support . |
| 21 | A contemporary Christ Church gospel book records the entry of Cnut and his brother Harald into confraternity with the community , and although Cnut could simply have given them Harald 's name , it is possible that he was in England in 1016 , as Thietmar says , remained with Cnut , went to Canterbury , and returned to Denmark with part of the fleet after the payment of 1018 . |
| 22 | And he referred quite clearly to the notes someone had taken , information my mother must have given them . |
| 23 | ‘ — he would have given them wings . |
| 24 | But he agreed the police could have given them a few day 's notice of the situation . |
| 25 | The night 's events must have given them a very clear idea of the depth of local opinion . ’ |
| 26 | Yeah , but the thing is right , they , that 's because they 're criminally insane any way , it may have given them an idea but it does n't mean that that women or whoever it might not of died any way . |
| 27 | If Sacu is to choose the latter road , the NSC may have to give them a clearer idea of what they will meet as they travel along it . |
| 28 | I swerved , went into the bedroom , found my shopping bag , packed my nightie and three library books my neighbour loaned me — I knew I 'd have to give them back . |
| 29 | Well their mother 'll have to give them |
| 30 | I do n't know , people l I 'm of them say they ca n't afford to pay the kids , and get the food for the kids , and they 'll have to give them chips a couple of , every day of the week or whatever , but th there 's no need for that . |