Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [conj] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | They echo the theme set in last year 's CBI Business Agenda for the 1990s with the emphasis on controlling inflation , public spending , strengthening the Department of Trade & Industry and giving it responsibility for the National Economic Development Council and opposing a national minimum wage . |
| 2 | The methods of testing varies from kit to kit , but most consist of taking a sample of water and adding a few drops of the special reagent or tablet and giving it a shake . |
| 3 | ( 3 ) A notice under this subsection shall give such information identifying or assisting in the identification of the person who committed the act or default or gave the information as is in the possession of the person serving the notice at the time he serves it . |
| 4 | 2.2 Section 1(2) ( c ) of the 1934 Act expressly stated before amendment that where the act or omission that gives rise to the cause of action results in death the damages are to be calculated without reference to any loss or gain to the deceased 's estate consequent on his death , except that a sum in respect of funeral expenses may be included . |
| 5 | All you or your workmen have to do is supply a concrete base and clad the outside walls in brick or stone and give it the finishing touches . |
| 6 | It makes it very difficult for women to take that first step on the ladder of actually becoming economically active , because they 're caught in an impossible position between the needs of their children and their own personal needs , and until we actually look at the important and validate and give financial support to the caring role that women play , both in terms of looking after the children and looking after elderly relatives , this community care that is being talked about — community care is car on the backs of women , and it 's unpaid and undervalued . |
| 7 | I love honesty and freedom and giving . |
| 8 | Although short-term courses such as intensive care training , bereavement and other counselling , improvement of inter-personal skills , control and restraint — to name but a few — do not lead to specific qualifications , they are still significant aspects of a nurse 's training and advancement and give nurses an opportunity to refresh their skills . |
| 9 | The Osiris myth embodied this cycle of birth , death , and rebirth and gave the promise of immortality . |
| 10 | Furthermore , certain commercial practices such as ‘ meeting competition clauses ’ , ‘ most favoured nation ’ ( MFN ) clauses , and tie-ins that release the buyer if she can find a lower price supplier elsewhere can serve both to ensure information-sharing about discounts and price-cutting and to give ( in the case of MFN clauses ) an incentive not to cut price ( see Salop , 1985 ) . |
| 11 | Please believe in my loyalty and friendship and give my best wishes to your wife . |
| 12 | Given information represents the common ground between speaker and hearer and gives the latter a reference point to which s/he can relate new information . |
| 13 | The sayings of country people , sometimes tinged with poetry , always rich in concrete images and braced with the vigour and rhythm that gives them long life , are worth revealing . |
| 14 | " Together we have resisted the trap of appeasement , cynicism and isolation that gives temptation to tyrants . |
| 15 | If evil stalks abroad they will stand and fight it , not turn and run or give in and live with it . |
| 16 | I know somebody here who got very good marks for his lab work and he 's good on computers , and he just programmed the computers in random errors and stuff that give him set results and nice graphs , and they were n't perfect so nobody noticed them , but he fiddled them , and that way he did n't have to do any lab work if he did n't want to . |
| 17 | There is a walk that takes iii two of these sites of history and legend and gives you grand views across the Dales to the third . |
| 18 | It is not difficult to calculate the exact proportions of hawk and dove that give an equilibrium , if W < D. The calculation proceeds as follows . |
| 19 | He looked down at the manuscript and locket and gave a little shudder . |
| 20 | As an extra once- weekly thirst-quencher , Philip Kingsley has also formulated an intensive Elasticising Conditioner , steeped with nourishing properties to improve the hair 's flexibility and suppleness and give a healthy shine . |
| 21 | In this country where the same vicious law which imprisoned Wilde still operates one looks to those with pretensions to a scientific approach not to be victims of prejudice and intolerance but to give a lead for at least a saner and more comprehensive attitude towards the homosexual in society . ’ |
| 22 | Using the slogan ‘ Switch onto the New Clydesdale ’ to capture the company 's new image , Clydesdale devised a marketing strategy which improved staff skills , service levels and motivation and gave it a more upmarket profile in tune with the width and quality of its product range . |
| 23 | ( 3 ) If any constable reasonably suspects any person of committing an offence under the foregoing provisions of this section , he may if requested to do so by the chairman of the meeting require that person to declare to him immediately his name and address and , if that person refuses or fails to so declare his name and address or gives a false name and address he shall be guilty of an offence under this subsection . ’ |
| 24 | While the springs or foam give support , it 's the padding and upholstery that gives the mattress its softness . |
| 25 | The landlord of the other pub comes in occasionally , orders and ½pint and give him this note . ’ |
| 26 | An advanced control panel that accurately controls the hotplate and grill and gives precise responses and fully-automatic cooking when you 're baking and roasting in the oven . |
| 27 | Through the country 's long years of repression , artists , intellectuals and students met each other in the cafes , to swap ideas and information and to give each other solidarity . |
| 28 | In this particular case , the interviewee had been admitted to hospital with hepatitis and pancreatitis and given a methadone reduction course whilst recovering from the operation : |
| 29 | They help with the provision of housing , food and employment and give continuing support with money , perhaps to set up a business , go on a visit to Pakistan or to cope with unforeseen disasters . |
| 30 | I beg to move , That this House , noting that the ten million people today living on or below the income support level of less than £40 a week for an adult represent the greatest numbers in poverty in Britain since the war , and that the Government has as a deliberate policy over twelve years further impoverished the poorest one third of the nation to make the rich richer , calls on the Government to reverse its policies of increasing poverty and unemployment and to give priority to the growing millions excluded from the rights and opportunities of real citizenship by increasing pensions by £5 per week for a single pensioner and by £8 a week for a married couple , by re-instituting the pension link with earnings which the Government broke twelve years ago , and by restoring to families the losses in child benefit from three years of government freeze . |