Example sentences of "[conj] it give them " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people prefer to work their male ferret on a line , saying that it gives them control over its movements . |
| 2 | Bacteriologists immediately recognised that it gave them a unique opportunity to study the evolutionary processes governing bacterial resistance — as a synthetic antibiotic it could not be influenced by preexisting resistance genes . |
| 3 | Opposition Sajudis members objected , without effect , to the timing of the election on the grounds that it gave them inadequate time for preparation . |
| 4 | The New Towns Act , 1946 , provided for the designation of sites for New Towns ; the setting up of development corporations for their development ; and it gave them the range of powers they would use . |
| 5 | The ten-point margin reflected the Police 's overall superiority and it gave them a deserved triumph in only their second appearance in the final . |
| 6 | It was sweet revenge for Flintshire , who lost out in the corresponding fixture last season , and it gave them the perfect start as they bid to recapture the North Wales county crown . |
| 7 | Someone had something some function of X here they differentiated it and it gave them X squared no what did they differentiate ? |
| 8 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 9 | But the ideal is asserted in all areas of psychological method : in observations , questionnaires , interviews , and projective tests , as well as experiments ; and it gives them all a claim on scientific reliability . |
| 10 | The girls are required to plan their own day , and when they are used to this system , most prefer it to the structure of school and it gives them some control over their daily lives . |
| 11 | It gives students access to another source of spoken English and it gives them one or two hours ' exposure to the language . |
| 12 | Barbara at the end of the day , at the end of the day Lance let me ask Barbara this question , at the end of the day , everyone 's been saying if th if they feel good doing it , and it gives them that much confidence and they feel great about it , whatever it looks like , why object ? |
| 13 | If it gives them some real advantages , then it will get used . |
| 14 | ‘ But it gives them a fighting chance . |
| 15 | No it does n't , but it gives them the means to promote it . |
| 16 | Through that , Red Rhino came up with a matching deal which was not very high in terms of money or anything but it gave them some status , certainly with promotion . |
| 17 | Not only did this save the horses the pull up the hill through the village , but it gave them the occasion for one more glimpse of Tamar and the children , who stood on the steps , waving . |
| 18 | The Aunts always used to say she was selfish because of this , but her argument was that as she never wanted anyone to do anything for her unless it gave them pleasure , she never did anything for anyone unless it gave her pleasure . |
| 19 | Tenderness is just something that women like because it gives them the upper hand . |
| 20 | Both sexes like the idea that women pretend , men because it confirms their suspicion that their partners are basically frigid and devious manipulators , women because it gives them a delicious sense of power to think that the delirium which men fondly ascribe to their virile prowess is no more than a hollow civility , like laughing at Grandpa 's jokes . |
| 21 | ‘ The crews have reported that they actually prefer the air system because it gives them more control over the trains as they come down the hill . ’ |
| 22 | The hon. Member for Foyle ( Mr. Hume ) has , much more eloquently than I could , told us of the damage that it does and the effect that it has on the young people of Northern Ireland because it gives them a future of either migration or unemployment . |
| 23 | Now in those circumstances , and I can think of a number of schools where that works very well , the governing body is a very powerful force , for links out from the school into the outside world , not only into business and industry , but also into the L E A , and it 's actually quite a lot of schools quite like to have a County Councillor on their governing body because it gives them an in to the L E A at a policy-making , or an individual decision-making level . |
| 24 | They joined in our events for young women , and devoured our publications , because it gave them the springboard for taking action themselves . |
| 25 | The Act was welcomed by many old people because it gave them a regular income free from the taint of poor relief ; though many , rightly , criticized it for giving ‘ too little too late in life ’ , that little was more than had been given before . |
| 26 | Indeed , Eleanor Rathbone condemned what she viewed as the selfishness of middle class women who , having got ‘ all they wanted for themselves out of the women 's movement when it gave them the vote , the right to stand for Parliament and the local authorities , and to enter the learned professions ’ , then sat back . |
| 27 | They particularly enjoy dealing with Orcs as it gives them a chance to outwit their larger and more brutal cousins . |
| 28 | They 're usually happy to help out , as it gives them extra pocket money . |