Example sentences of "and [noun pl] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remains of houses and possessions give an idea of people 's lifestyle , while the remains of their tools can show what work they did , and to some extent how hard they would have had to work to do a particular job . |
| 2 | Parisian cultural life between the wars was close-knit ; writers and artists gave each other mutual support . |
| 3 | Biblion and pegnunai give us ‘ bibliopegy ’ , which is the art of binding books , and ‘ bibliopegist ’ , the student and lover of bindings . |
| 4 | He flew slowly and high , watching the land unfold beneath him as buildings and roads gave way to brief outcrops of country followed by more towns . |
| 5 | These forms of sexuality were dependent on specific codes and rituals to give them meaning . |
| 6 | Persistent microalbuminuria — that is , urinary albumin excretion between normal values and values giving positive results with test strips — predicts diabetic nephropathy and is an early sign of kidney disease . |
| 7 | Anarchy was over and there now began the reign of one of the strongest kings ever to rule England , one whose territories and titles gave him authority over a great part of north-western Europe . |
| 8 | The many other points made , and reasons given , are best , I think , left to my correspondents themselves to express ; here is a further sample of the most recurrent . |
| 9 | Moreover , the court should not approach decisions and reasons given by committees of laymen expecting the same accuracy in the use of language which a lawyer might be expected to adopt . |
| 10 | Together they add up to a ‘ magical ’ mix of people and products to give you , the architectural specifier , extra confidence — extra choice . |
| 11 | Diagrams and illustrations giving examples of screen output and prints-out also help users to get an idea of what the program is like . |
| 12 | Sumptuous public rooms , marble floors and rugs give it a style of its own , and the restaurant opens onto a splendid waterfront terrace . |
| 13 | Its wide choice of materials , colour options and designs gives architects the freedom to combine visual appeal with optimal natural light transmission in the design of new or refurbished buildings . |
| 14 | Keynesians and monetarists give very different answers to these questions . |
| 15 | The absolute size of population gains and losses gives a slightly different picture of regional change . |
| 16 | The buses are cheap and excellent , the drivers are virtuosi , and cars give way to them , so it makes sense to use this facility and relax . |
| 17 | Information is power and computers give both to ordinary people — or do they ? |
| 18 | In the early sixties building of new churches and halls gave the Guild much work to do . |
| 19 | Energy-hungry industries may well be exempted , and exporters given a rebate . |
| 20 | These are rehearsals , and performances given solely or primarily for the purpose of making a recording or to enable the performance to he broadcast or included in a cable programme , unless it was attended by persons other than those participating for such purposes . |
| 21 | My conclusions come from experiments in which comparison is made between subjects given discrimination training and subjects given a control procedure of some sort ( or sometimes , in the studies done with human subjects , no pre-training at all ) . |
| 22 | The study was approved by the human research and review committees of the participating centres and subjects gave written informed consent . |
| 23 | In the larger establishments there were restaurants , theatre , gardens and fountains , a sports stadium , rest rooms and large halls where poets and philosophers exchanged views and authors gave lectures or read their latest works . |
| 24 | Minton , himself , still attended dinners and parties given by Lehmann , even though his interests were now drawing him away from the kind of society that Lehmann represented . |
| 25 | The balls and parties given by the Franklins did little to buoy up her spirits , being , as she described herself , ‘ such a shy , reserved being ’ , and she longed for the quiet , regular family life of home . |
| 26 | When he ran to call the police trays of fish were upset and passers-by given the products . |
| 27 | Apathy is usually ascribed only to one side — the parents — and that is sometimes thought to give a sufficient reason for teachers and schools to give up the struggle of recruiting them as allies . |
| 28 | In addition , historians in universities and schools give lectures and classes to train less experienced persons to understand or to turn out characteristic products . |
| 29 | So it 's not a shortage of specialists , it 's a shortage of the erm importance both L E A's and schools give to the subject and make sure that the specialisms are used in the right place . |
| 30 | Specific things are requested — offerings of flowers for passing an examination , or burning oil for relief from illness in the next life , and sometimes in this life , and thanks given for safe journeys , or the safe birth of a baby . |