Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [pron] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | So long as there is a need for collective decision-making and for policies which give direction to a whole community or society , and so long as or whenever unanimity can not be achieved , it is hard to see what alternative there can be to the minority being compelled to go along with the decision of the majority . |
| 2 | Again Yorkshire and Humberside er Scotland and Wales tending to lead that erm all of them as I said have got strong output trends erm in terms of Yorkshire and Humberside the orders er seem to be very much domestic rather than export but widely spread between sectors which gives |
| 3 | Instead , people are developing other problems are developing other problems such as cancers which give rise to the need for long-term community support . |
| 4 | For a couple of minutes she gave in to another uncharacteristic fit of temper . |
| 5 | After a couple of minutes he gave up the attempt , left the tool box by the cottage wall and walked to the edge of the cliff then slithered down to the beach . |
| 6 | If we get first division people I 'll do it a different way to him if I had to end up with second division people and the responsibilities they take on board will very much reflect that and the same surely should happen to the field sales force erm their abilities are reflected in in what sort of activities we give them and by looking at the people we have we then put together a team to most accurately attack whatever we want to do . |
| 7 | Dr Macdonald was consulted on a series of cases which gave him clues to what was to become an accepted theory . |
| 8 | The process is simply to find the combination of variables which gave the best fit in the past and then to extrapolate the equation to make predictions . |
| 9 | Cases of transactions which give , at any rate , a moral right , but a right which the Common Law Courts can not or will not protect . |
| 10 | ‘ To the preparation of both courses of lectures I gave far more attention than I had latterly been giving at Durham . ’ |
| 11 | The place itself , the arrangement of those low , recently rebuilt stone farms and the few mud and wattle cottages , the eternal comfort of the lake 's shape and colours which seemed not to mirror but to temper her mood , the rise of fells which gave her sensibility its reach . |
| 12 | More importantly , from a very early age he assisted his father in his optical workshop , and also in the courses of lecture-demonstrations he gave in the recently established Liverpool Mechanics ' Institution . |
| 13 | Lindon Singers practice , group of singers who give concerts for charity , 14 Beech Road , Oatlands , Harrogate . |
| 14 | Again although there will be occasions when the bare lexical item will suffice to indicate meaning , when the context or the convergence of knowledge of those concerned will provide the specificity required , it will generally need to be supplemented by the addition of elements which give the word a more precise conceptual focus . |
| 15 | New proteins are now synthesized which provide the muscle 's contractile machinery and it becomes organized in the cell into a highly ordered array of filaments which gives muscle its striated appearance . |
| 16 | Erika was ready for a treat and a moment later , surrounded by a forest of plants which gave the café an Amazonian aspect , they were seated and ordering coffee and cakes . |
| 17 | I want to welcome obviously particularly er the order relating to Wales because it confers on Wales er one additional seat , giving us five altogether because of the rise in the Welsh population over the last ten years and that er although Wales was under represented under the previous erm er you know distribution of seats which gave us only four we will be slightly over represented when we have five because you simply ca n't have four and a half seats , it 's got to be one or the other but since the Welsh population is continuing to rise very rapidly then it is likely that that will be put right . |
| 18 | There is thus a contractual element in Moscow 's authority — a state of affairs which gives Eastern Europe 's conservatives a potential veto on reforms and experiments which the USSR might be tempted to support . |
| 19 | We filed VFR so as to be able to fly over Tui , on the basis of a sheet of actuals which gave a 3,000-foot cloudbase at Porto . |
| 20 | Conditions ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) alone clearly are not enough and there can only be a limited number of ways of thinking of conditions which give the same results as ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) . |
| 21 | So they devised a lot of things themselves to give them a a a helping hand . |
| 22 | The minutiae of naval , political and social life are introduced with the utmost literary tact so that the reader can enjoy the piquancy of surprise and can sense the author 's secret enjoyment of allusions which give the books their total authenticity . |
| 23 | But then of course the kind of stories I give and the ones that most people like generally speaking are the accidents I have . |
| 24 | Student members who have successfully completed Part A or holders of qualifications which give entry to the Professional Diploma are eligible to apply for Intermediate Membership . |
| 25 | The authors report the number of occurrences of the surface form done , rather than presenting their information in terms of percentages which give a proportion of possible occurrences . |
| 26 | When I confirmed that it was called the Skein of Geese , she pulled out one of those little books of matches they give away in such places and said : ‘ The same as this , you mean ? ’ |
| 27 | We opt for The Baker 's Wife at the Phoenix and all vote it a definite winner , and I wonder again at the jaundiced palate of critics who gave it a fair old drubbing when it first trotted out . |
| 28 | ( ii ) Awareness of the medical ethical code and the general professional relationships between members of the medical and nursing professions , as well as the delicate position of doctors who give expert evidence against their colleagues . |
| 29 | MODULES/ — provides a list of modules which give this user an interest in the DC . |
| 30 | A church was first consecrated there in AD 649 , but the present cathedral dates from the thirteenth century and is a monument to the Split school of architects who gave new life to the Romanesque style in Dalmatia . |