Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] give them " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are two reasons for giving them only the most tangential treatment here . |
| 2 | Trustingly she slipped a small hand into one of his , and she would have gone with him anywhere , but he detached her fingers after giving them a reassuring squeeze . |
| 3 | She paused as if turning over in her mind her next words before giving them substance . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The court will not , however , read an ambiguity into clear words by giving them a strained or tortured meaning . |
| 6 | Dealers have talked their companies ' financial administrators into giving them an advance , then have left . |
| 7 | That did n't stop the enthusiastic chaps from giving them a sneak preview of three tracks hot off the tapes , so to speak . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He brought undue pressure to bear on his parents by giving them an entirely misleading account of the documents . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We will encourage victims to report sexual offences by giving them statutory anonymity . |
| 13 | For six years up to the war , they had raised millions to help their German cousins and had absorbed over 60,000 refugees , not all of them living off charity by any means , but with the great majority owing thanks to Jewish organisations for giving them a new start . |
| 14 | As more of their advertising budget was diverted into promotions , consumer-goods firms strengthened retailers by giving them far more discretion over pricing . |
| 15 | This implication will be made upon the basis that Parliament is not to be presumed to take away parties ' rights without giving them an opportunity of being heard in their interest . |
| 16 | He went on to criticize the Holy Office for acting as judge and jury when it condemned theologians without giving them an opportunity to know what they were accused of , or of responding . |
| 17 | He paid compensation to the monks by giving them ten years ' revenue from an archiepiscopal estate worth £30 a year . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Once you 've finished with the Steamatic , allow your carpets to dry for 1–2 hours before giving them a good vacuum to remove any remaining dirt particles . |
| 27 | erm we have developed over in the university , in the arts area especially , for arts undergraduates who do n't have mathematical or scientific training , ways of giving them erm training in computer programming , and they come out really both full of fun about it and with a lot more confidence than they could possibly have imagined they would have when they began . |
| 28 | At the university here we have got two or three groups in which we do know how to do that and especially the work that I 'm associated with , again the arts undergraduates , we have developed over a period now of something like six years , ways of giving them confidence , and it 's amazing to see what happens . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |