Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] [pron] give " in BNC.

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1 The report , in paragraph 480 , records that all the professional bodies which gave evidence recommended that patients aged between 16 and 18 should be able to give an effective consent to treatment and all but the Medical Protection Society recommended that they should also be able to give an effective refusal .
2 Start by playing these combinations with one note then apply some of the melodic permutations I gave you in part 1 of this series .
3 The fact remains that the debate on contemporary art seems to have entered a new dimension , with doubt being cast wholesale on the quality and content of recent trends , and on the good faith of the public institutions which give them space .
4 Tall , white-painted window frames , subdivided by many glazing bars , were placed under segmental arches of red brickwork and the most prominent features were the high gables which gave the buildings a varied and lively skyline .
5 Green sets out the climatic conditions which give rise to the different degrees of ‘ air ’ .
6 Although it is the hereditary peers who give the House of Lords its raison d'être , it is the life peers who give the place its intellectual distinction and who produce the most impressive arguments in examining the details of legislation .
7 Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude .
8 These broke away sharply on seeing the British fighters which gave chase but were unable to catch them .
9 Alan Williams made a special steel flywheel , and this was then bolted to the standard Cummins one to give the two halves of the clutch .
10 Myogenic control is related to the intrinsic excitability of gastrointestinal smooth muscle cells , and particularly to the constant rhythmic polarisation and depolarisation of the plasmalemmal membranes which gives rise to the electrical slow wave or electrical control activity .
11 MAY I thank the following persons who gave their services free at a recent function held by the Royal Victoria Heart Club : Barnbrack , Sylvia Paris , Yvonne , Mary Ann , Bobby Crowthers , David Patterson ; the committee and staff of the Ulster Sports Club , High Street who gave their premises free ; the prize donors ; and , finally , those who attended .
12 It means describing the sound wave in numbers ( the binary digits which give the process its name ) and transmitting these instead .
13 Many of the ordinary Panamanians who gave the general such a stinging defeat in May 's annulled elections were astonished that the US allowed the coup to collapse when it had 12,000 troops stationed around the canal .
14 Such inverted commas are often called SCARE QUOTES , and are used especially in philosophically-inspired criticism which is sceptical about the customary senses we give to words .
15 Pakeezah nodded her head : ‘ I find it is the little things which give you away if you are royalty : how you eat , how you talk , how you welcome people .
16 All around him , squatting on the ground , were his followers ; and beyond them , around the outskirts and blocking up the mouths of the little streets which gave on to the square , was a wider , more disinterested audience .
17 Lee is typically miffed ; he liked playing the acoustic guitar , and the soft textures it gave off , but then he was beat when it came to playing lead breaks .
18 Passengers liked them for their smooth ride , comfortable seating and the good views they gave from their many windows .
19 Some of the older clubs were narrowly evangelical , but Russell wanted to see religion used ‘ to comprehend all the impalpable influences which give a club a grip on its boys and tend to awaken their higher nature or further their spiritual development ’ .
20 The majority of the vast Kazakhstan region was a no man 's land , but it formed a deep buffer zone between the populated areas of the North-Western USSR and the Mongolian deserts which gave way to the Chinese border .
21 One of the major problems which gave carbohydrate foods in general the reputation of being fattening would be described by doctors as ‘ rebound hypoglycaemia ’ .
22 It was , however , unfortunate that he could not save the resultant penalties which gave Sidcombe an undeserved 3–0 win .
23 Wonderfully intense , concentrated in feeling , this performance brings one closer than almost any rival to the awesome times which gave birth to this extraordinary work .
24 Journalists can do little about legal costs and insurance , but they should be well versed in the legal defences which give them more latitude than is commonly thought .
25 Or is it that you 're worried about having to work a bit harder for the grand wages I give you … wages that 's been strangled out of me by that bloody woman o ’ yours ? ’
26 ‘ We must live our earthly lives in obedience to Him but also in the service of the great possibilities He gives us .
27 Jane Lucas explains how you can gain an insight into horses ' feelings by the physical signs they give out .
28 However , if mind-reading is beyond your ability , you can gain a real insight into horses ' feelings and moods by the physical signals they give out .
29 Having obtained an exact solution in region IV , the question now is to find the initial conditions which give rise to it .
30 This can be observed particularly for some of the small fragments which give a very weak signal suggesting they contain very few repeats .
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