Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] it give them " in BNC.
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1 | The hon. Member for Foyle ( Mr. Hume ) has , much more eloquently than I could , told us of the damage that it does and the effect that it has on the young people of Northern Ireland because it gives them a future of either migration or unemployment . |
2 | Now in those circumstances , and I can think of a number of schools where that works very well , the governing body is a very powerful force , for links out from the school into the outside world , not only into business and industry , but also into the L E A , and it 's actually quite a lot of schools quite like to have a County Councillor on their governing body because it gives them an in to the L E A at a policy-making , or an individual decision-making level . |
3 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
4 | The ten-point margin reflected the Police 's overall superiority and it gave them a deserved triumph in only their second appearance in the final . |
5 | The Act was welcomed by many old people because it gave them a regular income free from the taint of poor relief ; though many , rightly , criticized it for giving ‘ too little too late in life ’ , that little was more than had been given before . |
6 | Indeed , Eleanor Rathbone condemned what she viewed as the selfishness of middle class women who , having got ‘ all they wanted for themselves out of the women 's movement when it gave them the vote , the right to stand for Parliament and the local authorities , and to enter the learned professions ’ , then sat back . |
7 | The girls are required to plan their own day , and when they are used to this system , most prefer it to the structure of school and it gives them some control over their daily lives . |
8 | It gives students access to another source of spoken English and it gives them one or two hours ' exposure to the language . |
9 | Both sexes like the idea that women pretend , men because it confirms their suspicion that their partners are basically frigid and devious manipulators , women because it gives them a delicious sense of power to think that the delirium which men fondly ascribe to their virile prowess is no more than a hollow civility , like laughing at Grandpa 's jokes . |
10 | ‘ The crews have reported that they actually prefer the air system because it gives them more control over the trains as they come down the hill . ’ |
11 | They particularly enjoy dealing with Orcs as it gives them a chance to outwit their larger and more brutal cousins . |
12 | Opposition Sajudis members objected , without effect , to the timing of the election on the grounds that it gave them inadequate time for preparation . |