Example sentences of "[noun] we give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One particular incident which sticks in my mind which brought home to me how ill he was occurred when my mother sent me one morning to ask my father what he wanted for breakfast , to which he replied in a very vague and confused manner " hen mush " ( the term we gave to the vegetable matter we cooked up for the chickens ) . |
| 2 | However , the figure we gave for the annual input of carbon into the soil ( 1.2 tonnes of carbon per hectare per year ) include the carbon contributed by algae and photosynthetic bacteria . |
| 3 | Such inverted commas are often called SCARE QUOTES , and are used especially in philosophically-inspired criticism which is sceptical about the customary senses we give to words . |
| 4 | ‘ It can not be irrelevant to evangelism that so many unbelievers think the place we give to women in the Church is frankly absurd . ’ |
| 5 | It can not be irrelevant to evangelism that so many unbelievers think the place we give to women is frankly absurd . |
| 6 | The picture we give of them is still that of Posidonius . |
| 7 | He deserves the support we given from the Treasury and from Europe . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ These measures have added nearly another £600m a year to the support we give to those over retirement age . |
| 9 | If all that money we gave to Band Aid did n't do the trick , it must be because there are just too many of them . |
| 10 | Bishop David has already appealed to us to double the money we give to the Church wherever we can . |
| 11 | It is ironic , I think , that the release which out of the compassion of our hearts we give to old , sick animals , we deny to old , sick human beings . |
| 12 | Salim can be designated a Kenya Asian : the name we give to those hard-working aliens who have been driven out of African countries , and who include the shopkeepers and merchants expropriated in Uganda by Amin . |
| 13 | ‘ The Created God is the name we give to all that is good ’ , is a statement which makes no demand on the credulity of a young mind . |
| 14 | For the latter , the term God is the main religious symbol for the Ground of Being while , for the former , God is the name we give to the mysterious power that pervades the universe and not a symbol in the Tillichian sense . |
| 15 | So grammar is the name we give to the knowledge of how words are adapted and arranged to form sentences . |
| 16 | A third witness , you understand , adds no further dimension but only spreads it thinner , and a fourth thinner still , and the more witnesses there are the thinner it gets and the more reasonable it becomes until it is as thin as reality , the name we give to the common experience … |
| 17 | But th the problem is all the shortcuts are g gon na reduce the quality of service we give to the client . |
| 18 | At The Royal Bank of Scotland , we constantly seek to improve the quality of service we give to our customers . |
| 19 | We would hope that the Highways Department as a whole can unite to face the future and that both conditions for Highways staff and the service we give to the public can be maintained . |
| 20 | ‘ We are always looking for new ways to improve the service we give to customers and this was one of them , ’ said Mr David Gettings , store manager . |
| 21 | Erm one of the things we guaran well the guarantees er er several guarantees we give to our our self employed consultants and that is that we will pay all commissions earned the following week |
| 22 | Training within the home in an informal ‘ conference ’ situation greatly benefits the development of the awareness that time to listen is one of the greatest gifts we give to those we love . |
| 23 | What is important is to tell your readers that the Safety Authority is quite independent of the influence of Eurotunnel and of the Government when it comes to the advice we give on safety standards of the tunnel and its railway system . |
| 24 | As a result , happiness and fulfilment in our lives never come ready-made , but the emotional environment we give to our children can contribute enormously to their growth . |
| 25 | We saw in Chapter 8 that Garrett 's model of sentence production does contain these two components ; and the examples of spontaneous speech by aphasic patients we gave in sections 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 illustrate the two patterns which occur if one of the components is damaged and the other spared . |
| 26 | From our union we gave of ourselves in what way we could to those who sought or needed our support . |
| 27 | Yeah , yeah , it 's the reason we give to the paper , or whatever . |
| 28 | And this is the lesson we give to you . |
| 29 | The importance of knowing why we do things and not just what to do has altered many of the concepts and shattered many long held perceptions about the effectiveness and quality of care we give to patients . |
| 30 | At present the most accessible personal means we have of assessing the standard of care we give to patients is the UKCC 's Code of Professional Conduct . |