Example sentences of "[adj] give [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | D. H. You have said that your family moved in and out of illness : did this give you the position to turn breast cancer and person-centred health issues into political photography ? |
| 2 | Does this give us the clue we need ? |
| 3 | Does this give us the answer we need ? |
| 4 | He was not free to give her the untrammelled life that she deserved . |
| 5 | Then in September , Sue announced that she was leaving the BBC after 20 years to join Granada Television which , she said , was fully prepared to give her the freedom necessary to put together the type of programme she truly wanted to make . |
| 6 | While I am pleased to report that this particular source has not been replaced with high-quality material , suppliers of this and other ‘ green ’ materials should be warned that I am quite prepared to give them the widest publicity they 've ever had if they try fobbing gardeners off with sub-standard goods . |
| 7 | However , she was prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt . |
| 8 | I 'm still prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt because he is a decent manager who knows the ropes and who has been there before . |
| 9 | I 'm , no , I 'm prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt for the moment . |
| 10 | Yes , but particularly with reference to John Major , I think he 's had an amazing honeymoon and people are prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt as you were about his quote treatment of women unquote , and I suspect that the media have been particularly sympathetic and wearing kid gloves with him , and I find that the role of the media is to probe and to pry and |
| 11 | The company selling you a new machine should be prepared to give you the names of others who are using it . |
| 12 | that is the hardest objection you can get , right , we 're not prepared to give you the decision on the night , I wan na think it over , it 's the same objection , right |
| 13 | Even those who did not endorse the company 's claim to produce ‘ The Best Car in the World ’ were prepared to give it the benefit of the doubt . |
| 14 | He had honestly believed he could take the place of everything she had ever known if only she was willing to give him the chance . |
| 15 | ‘ Essentially they did n't know me from a hole in the ground when I first approached them and were willing to give me the benefit of the doubt . |
| 16 | They are very willing to give her the chance she needs and deserves . ’ |
| 17 | do n't be afraid of P M you 're right there you 'll find do n't be afraid to give him the C C Q , it 's no big deal . |
| 18 | This gave her the opportunity to bleat even more madly , puffing noisily between bleats to prove how sorely she was being tried . |
| 19 | This gave her the entrée into many whispering galleries of politics and the drawing-rooms if not the corridors of power . |
| 20 | This gave me the opportunity of using homoeopathy in a general practice setting , while at the same time dealing with more chronic cases at the hospital where we had a consultant gynaecologist , an ENT surgeon and a consultant general surgeon , each operating once a week . |
| 21 | also , I was able to work at the painting knowing I could obliterate any unwanted areas ; this gave me the freedom I needed . |
| 22 | This gave me the chance to see many different military aircraft . |
| 23 | At 19 miles I was greeted by some close friends from college and again this gave me the extra energy I needed . |
| 24 | This gave him the opportunity to study Ballet , Pas de Deux , Repertoire , History of Ballet , Stagecraft and Lighting , and Ballet Music . |
| 25 | This gave him the idea of developing a method of switching on the fountain automatically , every time the pond was approached by a predator : easily achieved by adapting a passive infra-red detector . |
| 26 | All this gave him the confidence to state clearly what America 's interests were . |
| 27 | This gave them the key to predicting both the location and approximate intensity of the earthquakes , with a delay of between 7 and 11 hours from the prediction to the event . |
| 28 | This gave them the chance to sign against experiments with animals in the development of such products as perfumes . |
| 29 | ‘ Some of the lads had been feeling it and this gave them the chance to pay some of the bills that had been piling up . |
| 30 | We 'd been heavily blitzed and this gave us the opportunity to think big and boldly and to think philosophically . |