Example sentences of "[noun sg] they give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal interest of these court appearances is in the confirmation they give to the portrait of the National Socialist League in the last months of peace . |
| 2 | Teachers of English will differ in the weight they give to each of these views of the subject . |
| 3 | In a footnote he does point to the aid they gave with money through the various aid-Spain funds but also derides this contribution , emphasising that ‘ the sum raised … would not equal five per cent of the turnover of the football pools during the same period . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ They never offer us the help they gave to TV . ’ |
| 5 | The aim is to raise money for any former resistance workers who 've fallen on hard times and to say thank you for the help they gave to our servicemen : |
| 6 | The aim is to raise money for any former resistance workers who 've fallen on hard times and to say thank you for the help they gave to our servicemen : |
| 7 | The real breakthrough will come when the pot plants grown from rainforest seed are sold as such — when customers in down- town LA choose their purchases for the help they give to commercial community-based conservation as much as for their leaf colours . |
| 8 | Up at HM Systems Plc in North London , they innocently ran a letter through the thing , and once they had stopped chortling , they rang us to advise that people should stick to calling the new chip the 80586 in any correspondence they give to their secretary unless they 're confident that , in the words of Larry Hart , she 's a broad with a broad , broad mind . |
| 9 | Nothing is more characteristic of churches than their attitude to assurance and the place they give to it in their preaching and systems of doctrine . |
| 10 | The backbenchers ' unrest was underlined by the rousing ovation they gave to Chancellor Nor-man Lamont at a private meeting yesterday . |
| 11 | One feature of Tukey 's techniques is the degree of insight they give into the data . |
| 12 | ( The authors ' respect for children is further demonstrated by the attention they give to misreadings — ‘ miscues ’ — and blocking . |
| 13 | That eighteenth-century generals and governments were justified in the attention they gave to this problem is clear . |
| 14 | We begin this chapter , accordingly , by looking at the different types of literary essay it is possible to write , considering first the variety of focus they give to their subject matter and the different modes of argument they adopt . |
| 15 | In achieving this end , essays follow certain general patterns of development and direction , which are definable in terms of the focus they give to their subject matter and the different modes of argument they adopt . |
| 16 | Transactions differ in the strains they place on decision-making ability , the scope they give for opportunism , and the degree to which they involve human dignity . |
| 17 | For George Eliot , the charm of similar objects inheres in the evidence they give of use : |
| 18 | The key to an understanding of the farmers in the survey lay in the emphasis they gave to enjoyment of and satisfaction with their work . |
| 19 | Accounts vary in the emphasis they give to events and the order in which events happened . |
| 20 | From such observations they generalized to a theory of The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map , the title they gave to their 1978 book . |
| 21 | Procedural fairness does not require him to identify his advisers or the advice they give to him . |
| 22 | While DCSLs do not appear actually to veto specific requests , the advice they give on the relative quality of alternative publications — through direct comment to the teacher responsible for submitting the school 's list — can be persuasive . |
| 23 | Council , although , the amount of money they give for this kind of research is pretty sparse ! |
| 24 | ‘ In the main , the church and its leaders drew their importance from the support they gave to the existing powers and from their multiple involvements in education , social welfare and administration . ’ |
| 25 | THE Mervyn Brown Memorial Game organising committee wishes to take this opportunity to thank the soccer public throughout the province for the tremendous support they gave to this memorable occasion and for the spontaneous and genuine reception accorded to both teams prior to the commencement of the game . |
| 26 | Many Home Helps become very fond of the elderly people they visit , often doing all kinds of extra jobs for them when they have the time , and the moral support they give to lonely old people is invaluable . |
| 27 | The importance of the miracles is the teaching they give about Jesus to the modern Christian . |
| 28 | If that is the sense they give to the word ‘ Panslavism ’ , oh ! then I am a Panslav . |
| 29 | But what is most striking about both books is the sense they give of how desolate and enclosed an adolescence could be , at opposite ends of the society . |
| 30 | The value of the heavy minerals is in the information they give on a sediment 's provenance , although their dissolution during diagenesis may result in modification to the original assemblage ( Morton , 1985b ) . |