Example sentences of "[noun] give [pron] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The value per share of the players comes to £2 — a useful figure for shareholders given our fully prudent accounting policy . ’ |
| 2 | To straddle the hurdle between its Unix commitments , where it derives its revenues , and NT , Sequent last week reorganised its management to give it more strategic depth . |
| 3 | To straddle the hurdle between its Unix commitments , where its revenues come from , and NT , Sequent last week reorganised its management to give it more strategic depth . |
| 4 | The extra 136 kilos in the stretched long-nose type gives it both much-needed freight and luggage space as well as making the aircraft easier to balance — always an interesting exercise in pre-flight planning for the pilots . |
| 5 | MR KINNOCK returned to his Islwyn constituency last night to give his most electrifying performance of the election campaign , claiming that , after years in the political wilderness , Labour 's values were about to join forces with the popular vote in an historic victory . |
| 6 | Our guide Sam gave us very clear instructions — he did n't need to emphasise how important it was for us to do exactly as he said . |
| 7 | African tribal beliefs gave her more serious pause for thought . |
| 8 | Personal equity plans , for example , have not until now commanded the following that their tax-exempt status would justify , whereas scrip dividend facilities have enjoyed a high take-up rate given their generally modest benefits and administrative inconvenience . . |
| 9 | Even when our bodies give us very clear signals that something is wrong , we will hardly ever take responsibility for any problems that we may incur . |
| 10 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 11 | Weight lifting and construction give you tight bulky muscles . |
| 12 | For someone over seventy her descent of that great staircase was as good as a frolic ; her satchel swung wildly round merrily bumping her large bottom , her sensible suede shoes skippetty-hopped like the finest quality glass slippers , while her honest tweed skirt flirted up her legs in order to give her long beige knickers their first sight of the sunshine in quarter of a century . |
| 13 | Jones , an interesting newcomer with a simmering , highly charged air , is the daughter of an absentee Italian mother , which does not endear her to the xenophobic locals and an unemployed woodsman father , Seiriol Tomos , who disappears and leaves her in the care of his cold , embittered sister Maggie , Sue Jones-Davies giving everyone very beady looks . |
| 14 | Again , this design gives it only vague impressions of light and shade , but it allows the ostracod to collect a phenomenal amount of the illumination available in its dimly lit environment . |