Example sentences of "[noun pl] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Computer spies give thanks to Personal computers |
| 2 | The re-cycled bricks give the brand new pond a pre-aged look . |
| 3 | ‘ All hens give me asthma , ’ said Mrs Totteridge with finality . |
| 4 | Our new world industry correspondent , Richard Feast , casts a critical eye over recent motor show offerings , and concludes that Japan 's ‘ lean ’ production methods give them the opportunity to offer imaginative and stimulating new models |
| 5 | These methods give functional approaches an affinity with the selective approach to assessment that will be considered later . |
| 6 | Dictionary look-up methods give impressive error correction but require much greater storage and computation . |
| 7 | The Poisson distribution is increasingly used for count data , and efficient fitting methods give better results than ordinary least squares . |
| 8 | It may be thought disturbing that the two methods give different answers ; however , the real argument against both is clearer when they are applied in a situation where the purchases are of different commodities , e.g. coal ( in tons ) , electricity ( in kilowatt hours ) , matches ( in boxes of 50 ) . |
| 9 | unc and further steps give unc and so on . |
| 10 | Baptism entries give name , date of baptism , parents ' Christian names and surname , abode , and occupation of the father . |
| 11 | Burial entries give name , abode , date of burial , and age at death . |
| 12 | Rugby Union : Day-trippers give Cornwall firm backing ADT COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP |
| 13 | The currents to these probes give a measure of the density and temperature of the plasma 's electrons . |
| 14 | Today the three main candidates give their answers AS an international trading nation suffering from a consistently declining balance of trade , which must be paid for , exports are vital to our prosperity . |
| 15 | So it was that on a golden autumn evening , towards mid-September of 1937 , I came to write my -30- to a career of journalism cum radio , and sat watching the flatness of the prairies give way to rising foothills as the twin-engined CPR ‘ Dominion ’ crawled westward up the slopes of the mountain . |
| 16 | According to Rohlen ( 1973 ) , drawing on fieldwork in a Japanese bank , about a third of Japanese organizations give their employees ‘ spiritual training ’ , akin to techniques of religious con-version , therapy and initiation rites , which emphasize social co-operation , responsibility , reality acceptance and perseverance in one 's tasks . |
| 17 | In retailing and entertainment some organizations give no holiday pay at all . |
| 18 | Many of these songs give opportunity for pupils to mime or perform actions while seated at their desks . |
| 19 | Hornets give youth a fling |
| 20 | As most of us watched the Rodney King verdict and its horrifying aftermath on TV , journalist James Ryan and photographer Andrew Macpherson drove separately into South Central LA to record their views of the riots ; meanwhile , KRS-One , Heavy D , NWA and other rappers give their comments |
| 21 | That , that 's open to the general public but where I stand you have to have a membership card to go in there now , and er you pay two pound before the season started and er local traders give you a discount and things erm it 's just one way of er segregating the supporters if you like , but there does n't seem to be so much trouble since they 've done this , but at the same time there does n't seem to be as much atmosphere |
| 22 | The Fat and Fibre Counter later in the book lists the fibre in all the major foods but the following lists give a general idea of high and low fibre contents in some of the main foods : |
| 23 | A party 's most loyal supporters give all of their higher preferences to all of its candidates . |
| 24 | less reliable supporters give away one or more of these to candidates of other parties who are better known to them . |
| 25 | The mare 's head and tail held high would provide clear alarm signals to any other horse , but her forward-pointing ears give the game away — she 's not running away from anything . |
| 26 | But the eyes give him away : sometimes they are all-seeing , giving the impression that he is quietly dissecting one 's soul . |
| 27 | It has been known for some time that eyes give out bioelectric signals — the retina has a positive charge , the cornea is negative . |
| 28 | Goldfish ca n't turn their heads around but their slightly bulging eyes give them a wide field of vision . |
| 29 | Upon closer inspection , only her eyes give her away , quick with the flicker of paranoia , scanning the room like marbles . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , some 33,000 faithful pack into Fenway , probably the loveliest old ballpark left in the country as the traditional grass arenas give way to Astroturf colosseums . |