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

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1 Sugar have provided the right vehicle for Mould to tether his current world-view to , providing ( with Mould 's guitar and the tightness of the rhythm section ) a set of beautifully hard-knuckled rock arrangements that give him the clout he needs to reinforce the feeling inherent in his vocals .
2 Recruitment into the trials depended on patients satisfying the entry criteria and giving their informed consent .
3 Any account of English book illustration would be inadequate without a tribute to Edmund Evans ( 1826–1905 ) who brought to a wonderful peak of success the revival of the art of colour printing from wood blocks and gave us the delightful colour plate books of Kate Greenaway , ’ Richard E. Doyle , Randolph Caldecott and Walter Crane .
4 He then scattered it on pub floors or gave it to friends to buy drugs .
5 Fulcrum Technologies Inc , Ottawa , Canada reckons that it has the industry 's first suite of SQL-based tools that enable corporate information professionals to access text information and make it available throughout an organisation for use as a strategic resource : Fulcrum says SearchTools offer the first means by which corporate developers , working within an open client-server environment , can build text-retrieval applications for accessing large text applications and give them a way to integrate text-intensive data into existing corporate information management , image or database systems ; the tools feature an applications programming interface based on the SQL Access Group 's Call Level Interface ; the tools will initially be available for Microsoft Corp Visual Basic and Windows developers , as well as for C developers working in other environments , such as OS/2 and Unix ; initial Unix support will be under AIX/6000 , HP-UX and Solaris ; the SearchTools development kit starts at $7,500 per copy and the indexing and retrieval component , SearchServer , will be from $1,000 per user .
6 ‘ It was stupid , and I suppose I did a bad job of it , but it was not easy , offering to set aside my rigid Old-World principles and give you the freedom you wanted . ’
7 Suspicious of voluntary admissions , social workers regarded court orders as giving them more control : yet the perverse outcome of more adversarial methods was to introduce an increased element of crisis .
8 After last year 's recession-strapped event , a bloc of disgruntled dealers asked organiser John Wilson to increase marketing , freeze booth prices and give them a voice in gallery selection .
9 Because if we actually can address th those real concerns , you know , you know the point that brother just made about why should he leave you to join unison try and crystallize that out in a Northumberland way , if that 's possible , it may not be , it may be difficult on , on a short punchy A five leaflet it will probably service because I mean it c it can be photocopied , there 's nothing wonderful , I mean it does n't have to be sort of the most wonderful printing techniques and giving them desktop publishing .
10 Erm we 've done mileage and expenses claim forms and given you the bits and pieces .
11 I found the main control lines and gave them to Esmerelda , showing her how to hold them , and where .
12 Cut off two , inch long pieces of gummed tape and , moistening no more than one-quarter of an inch on each strip , stick them on the top edge of your cartridge paper by holding the brown paper hinges and give it a good shake .
13 Name the BCR engines and give their wheel arrangements .
14 Capitalist economic relations were established in the countryside through the ‘ enclosures ’ , where land became the private property of landowners and the rural work-force was stripped of the land-use rights that gave them an independent source of subsistence .
15 Sinn Fein spokesman Martin McGuinness said the party would discuss the letter from the church leaders and give them a considered response in the near future .
16 It is becoming an annual tradition for Hazel French , a loyal class member of Elsie Streek 's and a Kent team member , to open her house and garden to Medau friends and give them the opportunity to chat , swim , walk , play tennis , do a Medau work-out , eat , drink and sunbathe ( sun guaranteed , of course ) .
17 Judy our new Director will lead her team , of Simon , Richard and To and er Tony and I think it seems particularly er , appropriate and important that Judy at her first appearance here as Director , although many of us present , I know , would remember her wearing other hats , should have this opportunity of speaking the Councillor members and giving us some idea of how the Management Team see the future before us in the years to come .
18 He called Directory Enquiries and gave her name .
19 Foujita , the Japanese artist , swore that the dealer bought the artists drinks and gave them a contract to sign when they were drunk .
20 Pieces of pine from apple cases became cricket bats , tennis rackets or hockey sticks and gave them endless hours of pleasure .
21 ‘ We will cash their Travelers Cheques and give them free advice .
22 ONCE the planning is done we must meet with Parish and County Councils and give them a complete briefing — BEFORE we approach residents .
23 Aunt Lilian had invented the Game when I was at school in order to increase my knowledge of world events and give me a sense of history .
24 Add Bolo 2 to your collection of brain teasers and give your brain a good work out .
25 It was quite simply we we were taking the business away from the high street erm glossy type travel agents and giving it to the back street travel agents .
26 He was listening to old Legion marching songs and giving himself the Nazi salute in the mirror .
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