Example sentences of "[conj] have given [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is ‘ the West ’ that has given both existence and identity to ‘ the Orient ’ . |
| 2 | The reason being that having given up ten percent of their blood roughly , er in the blood donation if they then continue to erm smoke afterwards , they they 'll knock another ten percent of what 's left out . |
| 3 | It had been his mind , not his feet , that had given up at Royston — the mind which foolishly recognized the right of the feet to protest . |
| 4 | There was much wrath that he had been meaninglessly sacrificed and a Test career that had given so much pleasure needlessly brought to a premature end . |
| 5 | The unit reports to IBM president Jack Kuehler with the mission to retain as customers those users worldwide that have given up on mainframes altogether and are moving to open systems . |
| 6 | What we 're doing is showing them the colour of light , the hydrogen spectrum that 's given off and asking them to make some measurements on it which give a clue to the nature of what is happening in hydrogen . |
| 7 | One is to include corporate dummy variable of the intercept and see whether it 's T ratio or significantly different , is , sorry it 's greater than two right or we can use an F test , right , now that F test that 's given me that formula in the middle of the page is a very important test which was developed by a chap called Chow and as a result it become known as the Chow test and it 's a , it 's a test for parameter constancy , er do we have constant parameters in our model now it tells you how to compute this Chow test , in this particular case we 're only dummying the intercept , the Chow test gives exactly the same results of T tests , right , erm we wo n't bother going through it , if you want to go through this er sheet in your own time calculate that , that Chow test and essentially what it involves is splitting with the s the whole sample now into two sub-samples , right , the first sub-sample , right , is peacetime , the second sub-sample wartime , right , and you just compare the residual sum of the squares on the unaccounted for variation , right , between actual and fitted values , just compare the residual sum of squares between these two sub periods , right and if you use the formula that 's given there that will come out with exactly the same result , well in actual fact you can square , if you square the F statistic you get calculating one formula you will get T value , got from er the computer right , the er , the sheet goes on to say how we can er use dummy variables in slightly more complicated ways , right , we could see actually see whether the income or price elasticities of demand changed . |
| 8 | On the other hand , critics claim that the government has allocated too few resources to housing and has given too little emphasis to the needs of those ‘ at the bottom of the pile ’ in the housing market — the homeless and those on low incomes . |
| 9 | He had exhibited work every year since 1847 , and had given about three of a series of lectures on mediaeval architecture to students at the Academy , which he had started the previous year . |
| 10 | Mr and Mrs Jones would like Olwyn in bed by 8pm but they have never managed to achieve this and have given up trying because , when they did try , Olwyn flew in a violent temper and then ran away . |
| 11 | A large number are incapable of heavy work , and have given up their farms . |
| 12 | In the past , Chelsea teams have not been so disciplined , and have given away silly goals . |
| 13 | The Recreation Ground was saturated but having given up hope the hot sun came out , covers were unravelled and a suspiciously soft pitch was revealed . |
| 14 | Dalgliesh remembered a surgeon once telling him that Miles Kynaston had shown promise of becoming a brilliant diagnostician , but had given up general medicine for pathology at registrar level because he could no longer bear to watch human suffering . |
| 15 | One had tried using a hand-held scanner for the job but had given up because it made too many mistakes . |