Example sentences of "[noun sg] have give us " in BNC.
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| 1 | The onward march of technological progress has given us the user-friendly sealed cassette , much more difficult to damage or tamper with — or to intervene in ( and to recreate on modern machines ) . |
| 2 | The programmer has given us a production concept which will spread to every aspect of the teaching process . |
| 3 | Had he worried about the possibility of atomic warfare when he was attempting to split the atom , he would never have gone on ; and we would have lost the many benefits nuclear physics has given us , such as freely available power and treatment of disease . |
| 4 | ‘ This result of this case has given us hope and will give us confidence in bringing more investigations to the fore . |
| 5 | ‘ The case has given us confidence in bringing more investigations to the fore , ’ said Mr Fox . |
| 6 | Martin O'Neill , Wycombe 's manager , said : ‘ The result has given us a real chance of the championship as long as we can keep the momentum going . ’ |
| 7 | The growth of AIDS has given us some early warnings of the dangers . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've both been working so hard that this break has given us the opportunity for a second honeymoon , ’ he told her smoothly . |
| 9 | A north-west gale had given us a good shaking up crossing from Peterhead to Wick resulting in a cracked cylinder head . |
| 10 | Its omnifont recognition algorithms teamed up with the use of the dictionary have given us a recognition rate we 'd estimate at between 98% and 99% , and all without having to teach the program what any letters are , which we consider to be very good . |
| 11 | The Scottish Office Agriculture and Fisheries Department have given us three Amstrad PCs , which were surplus to their requirements . |
| 12 | ‘ Your excellent work has given us the answer to that question , Watson . |
| 13 | Er the County Council 's given us a figure of roughly about twenty five , twenty six thousand . |
| 14 | We choose to be attractive , or dowdy , to enhance what nature has given us or to play it down ; we can dress in a way that we feel accords with our essential character or choose to create a fantasy image which bears little resemblance to the personality . |
| 15 | On May 31 the ANC secretary-general Cyril Ramaphosa told the press that the " conference has given us our battle orders " and that campaigns would focus on the release of all the remaining political prisoners , the election of a sovereign constitution-making body , the establishment of an interim government of national unity , and the creation of the conditions for free and fair elections . |
| 16 | Sir Colin Marshall , BA 's chairman , said last night : ‘ We are delighted that Secretary Pena and his team have given us the opportunity to offer our customers the facility to travel on a global network with simplified booking and check-in procedures . ’ |
| 17 | The figures generated by the snowball sample itself and by the nominations of this sample group have given us two sets of ratios of the hidden to known sectors . |
| 18 | I am glad that my hon. Friend has given us that opportunity . |
| 19 | Evolution has given us the Canaletto whose complex city perspectives recede infinitely away and now it is itself seen regressing as |
| 20 | As it turns out , our long way round through the deaf community , its history , sign language , memory and interpreting has given us an understanding of the concept of Total Communication and of how it might fit into the world of deaf people . |
| 21 | This development has given us the opportunity to organise our business to focus again on the changing needs of our customers . |
| 22 | Propaganda had given us indigestion , and reports of how many aeroplanes had been destroyed and how many ships had been sunk were becoming monotonous if not unbelievable . |
| 23 | TELEVISION has given us the dramatised documentary Last week The Sunday Telegraph , in its report ‘ Cambridge blues as Oxford bags title ’ , gave us the dramatised book review . |
| 24 | THE contemporary women 's movement has given us a language with which to describe and understand patriarchal oppression . |
| 25 | A police spokesman said : ‘ The assistant has given us some vital information even though it must have been embarrassing for her . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Using natural gas has given us the flexibility to run domestic heating from the same boilers , plus leaving the opportunity to heat other outlying areas of the castle at a later stage . ’ |
| 27 | Though by nature we Gentiles are ‘ without Christ , aliens from the commonwealth of Israel , strangers from the covenant of promise , having no hope and without God in the world ’ , the Holy Spirit has given us access , through Christ 's self-sacrifice for us ( Eph. 2:12–18 ) . |
| 28 | The break-up of Pangaea ( Fig. 2.16 ) generated a considerable length of passive continental margins and analysis of the palaeomagnetic record of the continents and the subsequently created ocean floor has given us a fairly good idea of the timing of most of these rifting episodes . |
| 29 | Prof Biddle , of Hertford College , Oxford , said : ‘ What this excavation has given us is the idea of scale . |
| 30 | Similarly , Greek has given us ‘ catalogue ’ , ‘ analogue ’ , ‘ dialogue ’ , ‘ monologue ’ , in which the prefixes ‘ cata- ’ , ‘ ana- ’ , ‘ dia- ’ , ‘ mono- ’ are recognisable . |