Example sentences of "the [noun] gives them " in BNC.
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| 1 | The budget gives them a get-out option but the CPL and Marjorie Roberts are grinning like Cheshire cats to have extracted such a promise . |
| 2 | For many of the students the course gives them their first stage experience and this is something which in itself produces a lot of concentrated work . |
| 3 | The North-East gives them room to expand and offers their employees a higher quality of life . |
| 4 | ‘ They need booze because the stink from the engine gives them the runs . |
| 5 | It is failing to make it clear to parents that the law gives them full rights to withdraw their children from religious instruction and religious observance . |
| 6 | At a pinch , indeed , Labour and Meretz could rule on their own : the automatic support of two small Arab factions in the Knesset gives them 61 votes in the 120-seat chamber . |
| 7 | Fine songs such as ‘ Mean To Me ’ or ‘ I Ca n't Get Started ’ appear to be close to perfect here but such trifles as ‘ With Thee I Swing ’ and ‘ You 're Too Lovely To Last ’ are just as charming because the singer gives them the same sensitive treatment . |
| 8 | They can see that the UN gives them a position at the bargaining table . |
| 9 | The work-relationship gives them drive and commitment . |
| 10 | But the devil gives them work to do . |
| 11 | And I think another reason why we do so well educationally is that the baby gives them a sense of direction and purpose and they may not want to get 16+ exams but they want to for their baby . |
| 12 | I have always found councillors very approachable — very different from the image the media gives them . |
| 13 | Such decisions relate primarily to satisfaction of the contribution conditions , but the legislation gives them competence on specific questions at many points . |
| 14 | Here the storyteller gives them his full attention . |
| 15 | The killing is repeated on ritual occasions , perhaps at first because the protection the totem gives them is not enough , or because they need to band together again to re-enact the crime which binds them all together , although they use a surrogate for the crime , not the actual father again . |
| 16 | The supermarket gives them to me to bring my wife 's shopping home in on Fridays . ’ |
| 17 | And the earth gives them the O.K. |
| 18 | In the public sector of the economy , Sellier ( 1978 ) has shown that the influence of French unions is particularly strong since the high concentration of workers within that sector reduces the costs of organisation , the bureaucratic tendencies of large undertakings encourage trade union membership , and the official role accorded by government to the unions gives them a greater authority than they possess in the private sector . |
| 19 | Nor could the citizens of Northern Ireland claim that the agreement gives them a legal right ( although possibly a moral or political right ) to a referendum before the British Parliament passed pertinent legislation . |