Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun] [modal v] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I want this country to be so proud of me that the Queen will give me one of her crowns . |
| 2 | The fact that the changes will give us a stronger , better Bank and a better place in which to work does n't make their impact any easier to bear . |
| 3 | erm I take refuge in the fact that this is what Proust says , and I report , erm I think this amounts to claiming that the artist can give us privileged insight into life . |
| 4 | The polytechnics support vouchers because they believe that the system will give them parity of resources with the universities by allowing them to compete for students on equal terms . |
| 5 | They would warmly welcome the opportunity , which they hope that the Government will give them , of being able to convert their rents to mortgages . |
| 6 | Every year that I have been Minister with responsibility for housing — it is now six years — the Housing Executive has suggested an amount which it hopes that the Government will give it , while knowing perfectly well that it will not get all that it asks for . |
| 7 | Therefore , I believe that the Minister should give me the assurance that I seek . |
| 8 | I have waited 20 years for a decision on the Ardrossan-Saltcoats-Stevenston bypass , and I am sure that the Minister will give me a favourable result before I retire at the next election . |
| 9 | I hope that the Minister will give us some more idea of the circumstances in which people 's HIV status will be entered on the computer . |
| 10 | When in Colossians 1:9ff Paul prays for Christians he has never met , his first request is that the Spirit would give them understanding of the Lord 's will for their lives ; then , that they should live their lives in accordance with that will by pleasing the Lord in everything ; then , that they should increase in their knowledge of God ; and finally , that they should be strengthened with all might according to the measure of his glorious power which should result for them as it did for Christ , not in arrogance but in patience and longsuffering . |
| 11 | If the bishop ca n't hear you or if you forget to say it , he will ask you you are saying yes to all that the spirit will give you ? |
| 12 | The policeman glanced upwards as if he hoped that the phone would give him an excuse to get rid of this intruder . |
| 13 | Workers valued the education that the intelligenty could give them . |
| 14 | B and K claimed that the Board should give them sufficient information to enable them to answer the case against them . |
| 15 | The most voiced reason for having a baby is that the parents can give what was not given in their own lives , to compensate for their own emptiness . |
| 16 | It was odd , Hope thought , as he lay deeply sunk in the great feather mattress , how perfect and desirable such a dowry would so recently have been to John — for Mary was the only child and it was apparent that the landlord would give her everything . |
| 17 | In the same way that the agent will give you a package to the Canaries or go-as-you-please trek in the Himalayas , so the centre may attach an inquirer to a study visit to Sweden with 20 others or arrange a single stay in Peru . |
| 18 | This is so that the crowd can give him a fair judgement . |
| 19 | His study took three months to prepare and , considers the markets available , it considers things like recycling credits that the councils can give you . |
| 20 | The gist of de Lattre 's message in Washington was that if the US would give him the tools , he would finish the job . |
| 21 | If the Minister can give us any example from the privatisation programme , in which the Government have been engaged since 1979 , of a Secretary of State coming to the House in order to bring in check private owners who have subsequently done away with the right of the employees of former public companies , I should be extremely interested to hear about it . |
| 22 | The Government have a duty and I am here to answer it — — if the House will give me an opportunity . |
| 23 | Oh there 's people go down the Chinese with letters and the boy 'll give it to me erm can I have so and so , so and so , so and so , so and so , I 'll pay you tomorrow when get paid . |
| 24 | Our companies need to take advantage of it and the Government should give them every encouragement . |
| 25 | It would n't do him any harm to take this ungoverned creature for a short jaunt in the fields and the experience would give him a splendid ascendancy over Inspector Burden when he walked into the station at nine-thirty . |
| 26 | The masters , when they punished , instructed the prefects to slog you with a gym-shoe ; one prefect would hold you like a trussed chicken and the other would give you six of the best . |
| 27 | Does he recall that he said that if the business community took the first step he and the police would give it whatever support and back-up it needed ? |
| 28 | You ask a man who has a bit more experience and plenty of common sense ad he 'll say to you , ‘ Get the lad in , bring him home to his parents and the father will give him a clip round the ear . ’ |
| 29 | You did not choose me , I chose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit , the kind of fruit that endures and the Father will give you whatever you ask of him in my name . |
| 30 | ‘ It is n't far , and the Giffens will give us tea . |