Example sentences of "[noun pl] by giving [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a great worry to us and we believe we can help to prevent these losses by giving them something to distract them from smoking like liver , bacon , eggs , or steak and onions . |
| 2 | Also , while he is paying and after he has paid , do n't add to your worries by giving him more credit . |
| 3 | The clarinets qua clarinets are not heard , but they certainly improve the tone of the high trumpets by giving it a rounder , smoother , and more effortless quality . |
| 4 | The court will not , however , read an ambiguity into clear words by giving them a strained or tortured meaning . |
| 5 | The aim of this policy was to define parental rights and incidentally , mobilise parents by giving them more influence within the schools their children attended . |
| 6 | He brought undue pressure to bear on his parents by giving them an entirely misleading account of the documents . |
| 7 | Mr Clarke and Mr Hunt told MPs the decision to break the law by dispensing with a 90-day consultation period was taken because of ‘ special circumstances ’ and in order to help the miners by giving them the best redundancy terms . |
| 8 | The restored Stuarts also encouraged companies by giving them charters , and two or three trading companies did a lot to expand English interests , although settlement of land by commercial companies never regained its initial importance . |
| 9 | ‘ She 's cured me of all my hang-ups by giving me self-confidence , ’ he says . |
| 10 | We will encourage victims to report sexual offences by giving them statutory anonymity . |
| 11 | As more of their advertising budget was diverted into promotions , consumer-goods firms strengthened retailers by giving them far more discretion over pricing . |
| 12 | He paid compensation to the monks by giving them ten years ' revenue from an archiepiscopal estate worth £30 a year . |
| 13 | Louis and his great men deliberated , and decided : at the summer assembly in July , the Ordinatio Imperii accommodated Lothar 's ambitions by giving him the title of co-emperor forthwith and promising him the whole of Francia on his father 's demise . |
| 14 | Cope argued for a new theology in which the Creator has delegated His power to living things by giving them the ability to shape the future through their purposeful response to the environment . |
| 15 | Now , to do that , it means you tax the polluter , you make the polluter pay and you encourage people to do good environmental things by giving them grants or subsidies , but they are financial mechanisms and there is no proposal in here that allows any financial mechanisms . |
| 16 | FRANCE pursues a single-minded policy to promote families by giving them a large tax deduction for each child , in addition to an allowance for mothers who stay at home . |
| 17 | Throughout human history , disabled people have constantly confounded the low expectations of others , and how much better it would be for special educators to raise the expectations of disabled children and their families by giving them an understanding of this , by helping them to accept their disabled identities with pride , by helping them to understand their place in the world and their rights as well as giving them the practical skills to deal with these issues . |
| 18 | The programme , which began in the early 1970s , aimed at helping students to reassess their own assumptions by giving them first-hand experience of the life and social conditions in which many children grow and develop . |
| 19 | History has played a cruel joke on the Somalis by giving them a culture of internal clan divisions in a world of centralised government and bureaucracy . |
| 20 | The package , called Hippix and developed at the university 's Center for Software Science , includes Unix commands and libraries that Hippo maintains will let Unix users cost-effectively integrate PCs into their Unix networks by giving them identical tools for both platforms . |
| 21 | They protect the managers by giving them some overall security of employment and a remuneration package , usually including a pension , a car and other benefits . |
| 22 | A planned policy in relation to retirements from the firm is also more likely to strengthen the loyalties of junior partners by giving them sight of a clearly defined career progression within the firm . |
| 23 | Calling upon Congress to honour the nation 's veterans by giving them " an America where it is safe to walk on the streets " , Bush challenged Congress to pass his proposed crime bill within 100 days . |
| 24 | The reforms which might be expected from this theoretical starting-point are moves towards market mechanisms or some surrogate for them which can be used both to influence the behaviour of bureaucrats by giving them a different set of incentives , and to increase the range of choice available to the consumers of public — in this case particularly local government — services . |
| 25 | But it 's difficult , who should you look after — your solicitors who are trying to increase or break into criminal work or should you look after the client 's interests by giving him only solicitors who are already tried and tested . |
| 26 | By the turn of the century , which was only ten years since his first professional engagement , John Tiller had amassed a great fortune for himself whilst changing the lives of working-class girls by giving them good wages and a career . |
| 27 | Most manufacturers classify the warmth of their bags by giving them season ratings . |
| 28 | The semantic net does not have a particular linear version burnt into it and must distinguish different history subsections by giving them distinct names . |
| 29 | Anthemius intended to acknowledge his achievements by giving him the title of patricius , but the emperor was himself killed by Gundobad . |
| 30 | Finally , reward those who have read the papers by giving them the most opportunities to talk about the material and to express their views . |