Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] give [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Tom Drake or Anne Galloway of the Assessment Department will be happy to discuss any aspect of the college 's assumption of responsibility for assessment or to give information on the systems which other centres are adopting .
2 The central idea of ethnomethodology is that the orderliness of social life is not the result of people obeying social norms or giving way to social pressures , but rather that orderliness is attained by all those involved working to achieve it .
3 ( g ) To lend and advance money or give credit on any terms with or without security to any person , firm or company ( including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing any holding company , subsidiary or fellow subsidiary of , or any other company associated in any way with , the Company ) , to enter into guarantees , contracts of indemnity and suretyships of all kinds , to receive money on deposit or loan upon any terms , and to secure or guarantee in any manner and upon any terms the payment of any sum of money or the performance of any obligation by any person , firm or company ( including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing any such holding company , subsidiary , fellow subsidiary or associated company as aforesaid ) .
4 ( g ) To lend and advance money or give credit on any terms with or without security to any person , firm or company ( including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing any holding company , subsidiary or fellow subsidiary of , or any other company associated in any way with , the Company ) , to enter into guarantees , contracts of indemnity and suretyships of all kinds , to receive money on deposit or loan upon any terms , and to secure or guarantee in any manner and upon any terms the payment of any sum of money or the performance of any obligation by any person , firm or company ( including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing any such holding company , subsidiary , fellow subsidiary or associated company as aforesaid ) .
5 The rangers are always happy to answer queries or give advice about the best walks and trails to follow when you are out and about so please feel free to approach them and ask for their help .
6 24 , cases of wives becoming sureties or giving security for their husband 's debts .
7 Despite Wilson 's inclination to adopt what he considered to be a conciliatory approach to the shipowners he found himself , whether pioneering new branches or giving support to the work of the union 's organizing delegates , in the role of agitator .
8 " Together we have resisted the trap of appeasement , cynicism and isolation that gives temptation to tyrants .
9 In particular , we would not know what it was about consciousness that gave rise to its falling under the given kinds of statement .
10 Smithers was an English publisher who got his sexual kicks from deflowering virgins , an obsession that gave rise to Oscar Wilde 's celebrated remark that ‘ Smithers loves first editions ’ .
11 It is now appropriate to consider the extension of the solution into the prior regions I , II and III which describe the approaching waves that give rise to this particular interaction .
12 One hundred and fifty-five years on from Darwin 's marital dilemma , the major pre-occupation that gave rise to the organization of the conference to which this paper is submitted , is a marriage of a different sort : the study of history and the use of information technology .
13 Meditation is that process of mental digestion that gives rise to understanding which integrates the energies of mind and will in a desire for God which is prayer .
14 Although crustal collisions may involve intra-oceanic as well as continental-margin island arcs , it is the convergence and eventual collision of continental crust that gives rise to intercontinental collision orogens ( Fig. 3.15 ) .
15 It was probably this practice that gave rise to the popular image of witches flying on broomsticks .
16 It was screwed to the jamb of a doorway that gave access to the premises of Henson & Burbidge , Fat and Bone Dealers .
17 Oldham was the scene of a great building boom in the second half of the nineteenth century , and many ordinary working folk bought shares in the great cotton industry that gave rise to it .
18 Not only of its fastnesses and vastnesses but also of the minute detailing of existence upon our own planet : its climatic patterns and the plate tectonics that give rise to earthquakes , volcanoes , fold mountains and the oceanic ridges .
19 A vegetable rinse disguised any grey hairs and gave shine to her new style .
20 She went into the bedroom and gave way to a burst of weeping .
21 The Labour councillors voted to overturn the officers ' recommendation and give permission for the works to be demolished .
22 The more active occupied some post offices and gave evidence to the House of Commons Select Committee , part of which is reproduced here ( Fleming , 1973 ) .
23 His grandson , John Burden Blandy , was a great public benefactor and gave land for building the sea wall .
24 Mr. Gordon stumped off the field , holding the two pieces of broken club and giving vent to language ill-befitting the lay-reader son of a clergyman — ‘ my best bloody driver , my best bloody driver . ’
25 Examines the problems of conserving medicinal plants , suggests an appropriate national conservation programme and gives advice on international collaboration .
26 The recordings , which are brought to life through a variety of voices and sound effects , aid fluency and give confidence with pronunciation .
27 They announced their willingness to co-operate with Roh in the formation of a truly neutral administration and gave notice of their intention to end the legislative boycott .
28 Provided that the purchaser did not have actual or constructive notice of the prior assignment at the time the asset sale agreement was completed , the purchaser is not prejudiced , if between completion and giving notice to the debtor , the purchaser discovers the existence of a prior assignment by the vendor ( see Mutual Life Assurance Society v Langley [ 1886 ] 32 Ch D 460 ) .
29 Charles Caldwell , the leading phrenologist in the US in the 1850s , called on women to stop wearing corsets , as they stopped the circulation of the blood and gave rise to ‘ many forms of painful and annoying diseases ’ .
30 In this region , as in many others , the intruded rock is more resistant than the surrounding country rock and gives rise to prominent topographic features ( Fig. 7.26 ) .
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