Example sentences of "[noun pl] by give them " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a great worry to us and we believe we can help to prevent these losses by giving them something to distract them from smoking like liver , bacon , eggs , or steak and onions . |
| 2 | The court will not , however , read an ambiguity into clear words by giving them a strained or tortured meaning . |
| 3 | The aim of this policy was to define parental rights and incidentally , mobilise parents by giving them more influence within the schools their children attended . |
| 4 | He brought undue pressure to bear on his parents by giving them an entirely misleading account of the documents . |
| 5 | Mr Clarke and Mr Hunt told MPs the decision to break the law by dispensing with a 90-day consultation period was taken because of ‘ special circumstances ’ and in order to help the miners by giving them the best redundancy terms . |
| 6 | The restored Stuarts also encouraged companies by giving them charters , and two or three trading companies did a lot to expand English interests , although settlement of land by commercial companies never regained its initial importance . |
| 7 | We will encourage victims to report sexual offences by giving them statutory anonymity . |
| 8 | As more of their advertising budget was diverted into promotions , consumer-goods firms strengthened retailers by giving them far more discretion over pricing . |
| 9 | He paid compensation to the monks by giving them ten years ' revenue from an archiepiscopal estate worth £30 a year . |
| 10 | Cope argued for a new theology in which the Creator has delegated His power to living things by giving them the ability to shape the future through their purposeful response to the environment . |
| 11 | Now , to do that , it means you tax the polluter , you make the polluter pay and you encourage people to do good environmental things by giving them grants or subsidies , but they are financial mechanisms and there is no proposal in here that allows any financial mechanisms . |
| 12 | FRANCE pursues a single-minded policy to promote families by giving them a large tax deduction for each child , in addition to an allowance for mothers who stay at home . |
| 13 | Throughout human history , disabled people have constantly confounded the low expectations of others , and how much better it would be for special educators to raise the expectations of disabled children and their families by giving them an understanding of this , by helping them to accept their disabled identities with pride , by helping them to understand their place in the world and their rights as well as giving them the practical skills to deal with these issues . |
| 14 | The programme , which began in the early 1970s , aimed at helping students to reassess their own assumptions by giving them first-hand experience of the life and social conditions in which many children grow and develop . |
| 15 | History has played a cruel joke on the Somalis by giving them a culture of internal clan divisions in a world of centralised government and bureaucracy . |
| 16 | The package , called Hippix and developed at the university 's Center for Software Science , includes Unix commands and libraries that Hippo maintains will let Unix users cost-effectively integrate PCs into their Unix networks by giving them identical tools for both platforms . |
| 17 | They protect the managers by giving them some overall security of employment and a remuneration package , usually including a pension , a car and other benefits . |
| 18 | A planned policy in relation to retirements from the firm is also more likely to strengthen the loyalties of junior partners by giving them sight of a clearly defined career progression within the firm . |
| 19 | Calling upon Congress to honour the nation 's veterans by giving them " an America where it is safe to walk on the streets " , Bush challenged Congress to pass his proposed crime bill within 100 days . |
| 20 | The reforms which might be expected from this theoretical starting-point are moves towards market mechanisms or some surrogate for them which can be used both to influence the behaviour of bureaucrats by giving them a different set of incentives , and to increase the range of choice available to the consumers of public — in this case particularly local government — services . |
| 21 | By the turn of the century , which was only ten years since his first professional engagement , John Tiller had amassed a great fortune for himself whilst changing the lives of working-class girls by giving them good wages and a career . |
| 22 | Most manufacturers classify the warmth of their bags by giving them season ratings . |
| 23 | The semantic net does not have a particular linear version burnt into it and must distinguish different history subsections by giving them distinct names . |
| 24 | Finally , reward those who have read the papers by giving them the most opportunities to talk about the material and to express their views . |
| 25 | The 1977 Housing ( Homeless persons ) Act ( now consolidated in the 1985 Housing Act ) responds to pregnancy of single women by giving them priority for rehousing by the local authority . |
| 26 | The seminar took the view that the timber trade helps preserve forests by giving them economic value . |
| 27 | As Debord has commented : ‘ This society signs a peace treaty with its most outspoken enemies by giving them a spot in the spectacle . ' |
| 28 | Imagine introducing young people to molecules by giving them wooden cubes as atoms and dowel rods as bonds . |
| 29 | Britain can not get the best performance from our employees by giving them the worst treatment . |
| 30 | Few use licenses , for fear of creating future competitors by giving them a ‘ free ride ’ on ideas that can not adequately be recovered by the fee ( Magee , 1977 ) . |