Example sentences of "they [vb mod] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Handling and using them may give a sense of the past . |
| 2 | ‘ These are enormously strong roots and the melding of them may give us an organisation far more formidable than either could be on their own . ’ |
| 3 | People of opposing political views can live together , as can people of different religions , until something happens to make them meet head-on , and then one of them must give way . |
| 4 | Such a transfer will be appropriate whether the property was held by the husband and wife as beneficial joint tenants or as tenants in common : in the latter case , as the transfer to the husband and wife will not have contained a declaration to the effect that the survivor of them could give a good receipt for capital monies , a restriction will have automatically been entered on the register to the effect that no disposition by a sole proprietor of the land ( not being a trust corporation ) under which capital money arises is to be registered except under an order of the registrar or of the court ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s58(3) and Land Registration Rules 1925 , r213 as amended by Land Registration Rules 1989 ( SI No 801 ) ) . |
| 5 | Even when I said I was family — well , yes , I know it was n't true but it seemed near enough the truth to use to persuade them neither of them would give her away . ’ |
| 6 | They may give out scents of citrus , mint , pine or rose , and most make wonderful patio plants . |
| 7 | A second role of coins in the study of portraiture lies in the help that they may give in the identification of other portraits , particularly sculptures , since it is only very rarely that the latter 's accompanying inscriptions have survived to identify them . |
| 8 | However , people often take umbrage and start disagreeing or , if you persist with difficulties , they may give up and go and find someone more positive to talk to . |
| 9 | However , they may give another business a licence , or franchise , to sell that product or use the name , in return for a percentage of the takings ( a royalty ) . |
| 10 | Yet again , they may give rise to conflict , with one seeking to dominate the other either through conquest or infiltration . |
| 11 | Ubiquitous , often cruel , jokes about mothers-in-law underline these ; how much pain they may give to some in the audience as they roll off the tongues of comedians . |
| 12 | They may give up and try to avoid asking the child anything or feel angry before they even start to ask the child . |
| 13 | When parents are overstressed and have little energy or patience they may give in quickly to be left alone . |
| 14 | To them you are just a very large creature who for some unknown reason feeds them , and for that , and that alone , they may give you a grudging sort of respect , if owls have any idea what respect is . |
| 15 | Or they may give the impression that they are not quite sure if you are the right candidate , i.e. they have not done their homework . |
| 16 | Churches often remain , either complete , ruined , or only in part ( e.g. tower or chancel ) , and , together with the extent of the graveyard , they may give useful information about a site . |
| 17 | For all people , that they may give glory to God for the gifts of speech , hearing and sight which make communication possible , and for the audiovisual media which nourish these gifts in new and marvellous ways . |
| 18 | However , they do not give doctors legal justification for a particular course of action but they may give them greater moral authority ’ . |
| 19 | They may give different interpretations of the same piece of lower-level information . |
| 20 | They may give the purchaser some assurance before incurring professional costs but the courts will not order the vendor to negotiate . |
| 21 | They may give you the creeps , but not Ray Gabriel . |
| 22 | They may give the impression of being lazy but founder member Iain Harvie says it 's more due to craftsmanship . |
| 23 | Many will be familiar with Graham Gibbs ' Twenty Terrible Reasons for Lecturing or Donald Bligh 's What 's the Use of Lectures ? ( see Suggestions for further reading at the end of this chapter ) and most will have been intellectually persuaded that they ought to give fewer , better lectures and devote their remaining teaching energies to small-group learning — i.e. tutorials and seminars . |
| 24 | They too wish to display their dancers ' bodies at their fullest extension , therefore they must give them time , rhythm and space in which to move . |
| 25 | Some 30 named attendees heard a long and detailed speech from the Mayor in which he hinted that ‘ for reasons which he need not go into they must give up all idea of the links becoming the property of the town ’ . |
| 26 | Animals again can easily be accommodated at this level but it will not follow from this that they will be capable of the conscious distress or anxiety of a parent at an injury to their child , or of the hamstrung athlete warned by the doctor that they must give up running . |
| 27 | However , once they learn the conventional term for a specific meaning , they must give up their own coinage and begin instead to use the conventional term . |
| 28 | By May 1915 Unionist leaders were convinced that they must give up some independence if they were to influence the war ; the liquor issue seemed to show the danger of staying aloof , and the shell scandal seemed to show that they were needed inside . |
| 29 | It was a local concern , employing whole families , and everyone knew that in order to flourish they must give it their all . |
| 30 | ‘ They must give him a chance . |