Example sentences of "[conj] [pos pn] [noun] give [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The action project began on 1 April 1984 and any people aged 65 or over who were referred to the hospital psychogeriatric service during the 12 months to the end of March 1985 and who were diagnosed as suffering from dementia , became members of the action sample if they lived in the action area , and of the control sample if their home was in the control area ( so long as they were not living permanently in an institution at the time of referral and they or their carers gave consent for their inclusion ) . |
| 2 | Control Theory holds that the sufferer has the choice of " pictures " of perception in his or her mind giving images of how life " should " be . |
| 3 | The ontological idealist , given his general metaphysical premisses , can at least argue that what we regard as " physical bodies " are really no extra-spiritual entities , for all entities are either spiritual or are explicable in terms of attributes of such entities , and although his position gives rise to all kinds of difficulties , he can , on the whole , present his case a good deal more consistently than a dualist can . |
| 4 | All that can be surmised of the apparently endless demand for Cooper 's paintings beyond an obvious urban desire for a monolithic , idyllically produced rural peace , is that his reception gives evidence of a constant market , particularly an urban market , for well produced animal painting . |
| 5 | The fire is a focus for communication and for vision ; its heat serves physical needs and its flames give inspiration for the mind . |
| 6 | Solitude was an eccentricity the school was at pains to discourage , and its absence gave rise to a sort of panic in me which served to reinforce my sense of loss of self . |
| 7 | There are substantial hints that if paternal family experience encouraged Edward to extend his interests , both in preparing for a career and in his natural history pursuits , along practical and fact-gathering lines , the subtler influence of his mother and her family gave approval to the sudden spurt of interest in the affective literature of Richard Jefferies and , even more , to the reading of poetry for its own sake . |
| 8 | Despite her occasional lapses into the royal ‘ we ’ and her desire to give comfort to victims of disaster , she is not monarch , head of state , nor dictator . |
| 9 | Staff are available in all gas showrooms and electricity shops and their offices to give advice to anyone in difficulty . |
| 10 | No object can qualify as a possible ontological existent if its notion gives rise to a contradiction . |
| 11 | If its investigation gives credence to the theory that people do not tell the truth to market researchers , the industry has a problem . |
| 12 | Here we see him and his queen give rein to their unbridled passion ! |
| 13 | But their work gives rise to another problem . |
| 14 | The ‘ Old Believers ’ , as the schismatics became known , lacked intellectual vigour , but their protest gave expression to more general social discontent and they contributed to popular revolts from that of Stenka Razin ( 1670–71 ) onwards . |
| 15 | They left quietly when asked but their pictures gave fun to the newspapers . |
| 16 | In earlier examples , the boy trying to solve a design problem and the girl trying to spell a particular sound , the children turned to others for support because their tasks gave rise to questions which needed talking through . |
| 17 | Paul , 33 , an accountant , had a brief affair shortly after his wife gave birth to their first child . |
| 18 | Hours after his wife gave birth to their son , he was out with the girl he 's living with . |
| 19 | Belfast Coroner 's Court heard the baby was re-admitted to hospital six days after his mother gave birth by caesarian section on January 18 last . |
| 20 | She took a step back and , gasping with pain , stumbled as her ankle gave way beneath her . |
| 21 | Nijkamp of the Netherlands spent the previous night in a Paris hospital as his wife gave birth to their first child , got back at 5am for some sleep and went on to paddle to last place . |
| 22 | We need have no reservation that such memories , not least the sounds , entered deeply into the young boy 's consciousness , as his mother gave vent to her distress in English and her native Yiddish , as well as symbolically rending her clothes and chanting the dirges . |
| 23 | Ranulf nodded and promptly vomited , leaning over his horse 's head as his stomach gave vent to its sudden fear . |