Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [pron] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are implemented through pop-up buttons which give the section or topic name ( Figure 5 ) . |
| 2 | As president of the Federation of University Women she gave much time near the end of her life to compiling the register of university women for war work . |
| 3 | THE last bogeyman but five or six , in that line of third-world menaces who give the United States a sense of purpose , lives uncomfortably close to home . |
| 4 | Of course , it was the oligopolistic character of product markets which gave those who ran the company discretion to pursue goals other than profit-maximization . |
| 5 | It was a continuation , in effect , of the 1930s Special Areas policy ( which had received further impetus from the Barlow Report on industrial location ) and from the carry-over of wartime controls which gave the government far more effective power in its sphere than it had ever possessed [ Brown , 1972 ] . |
| 6 | Patrick O'Brian , surely the most closely related of Marryat 's successors , understands very well that rare concomitant of the adventure story , the effective partnership of mind and body in action , and displays this in a continuing group of adult novels which give a notable unlaboured picture of the Nelson era . |
| 7 | Later eighteenth and nineteenth-century cellars are prime candidates for tunnel status ; they are usually stone built in the form of barrel vaults which give the end walls the appearance of plugs which seal off long tunnels — a common feature of such myths . |
| 8 | Legal rules are mediated by the intervening interpretative processes informing the actions of enforcement agents which give substance to the vague aspirations of statute . |
| 9 | The renaissance of ley research coincided with the disintegration of establishment archaeology 's ‘ woad and skins ’ attitude to British prehistory in the face of new findings within archaeology itself and unexpected material from other sources , such as Professor Alexander Thom 's studies of stone circles which gave new cause for inquiry into astronomical and metrological knowledge in prehistoric Britain . |
| 10 | These workers reported the effects of various potencies of silver nitrate ( Argentum nitricum ) on the growth of wheat seedlings which gave reproducible results over an experimental period of about a year . |
| 11 | It is rare to find clauses in relocation policies which give employees the right to appeal against relocation decisions or the level of allowances payable . |
| 12 | In material terms it gave only modest returns . |
| 13 | The British Government , seeing that this practice clearly violated the spirit of the agreement on fishing quotas which gave some protection to the British fishing industry , passed the Merchant Shipping Act of 1988 restricting British registration of fishing vessels to British individuals and companies . |
| 14 | If the requirement for in situ hybridization to chromosomes is to probe for the completely unknown localization of unique sequences in the mouse genome , existing techniques are limited to tissue samples which give a plentiful supply of both slides and mitotic cells . |
| 15 | At traffic lights she gave it a wary smile , slid into gear and played Nina Simone 's ‘ I need a Little Sugar in My Bowl ’ . |
| 16 | In elaborating such proposals there is admittedly a strong temptation to indulge in political rationalism : they are by nature proposals which give an important role to action on the part of a ‘ socialist government ’ or the ‘ state ’ within which a socialist government is installed , yet it is often unclear what such a socialist government would look like , how it might come into being and from where it would draw its mass support . |
| 17 | Most of the organisations listed area run by volunteer enthusiasts who give up their spare time to painstakingly restore and operate these fascinating survivors from the great age of steam . |