Example sentences of "[noun sg] give [pron] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it that we help publishers to clear their excess stock to give them more space and money to print something else ? |
| 2 | Are the 4 cylinder engine mounts suitable to take a Perkins engine without chassis welding and will this engine give me more torque for towing than the present engine . |
| 3 | This depends upon whether the Appeal Committee decides that it will have to adjourn the hearing and carry on with it later because some new and important information has been produced , or because the Committee want you or the Council to give it more information . |
| 4 | And Joe 's mum give me mostly pound coins and get it changed for a ten pound note . |
| 5 | I shall invite Roirbak and Malamute here for a meeting to give you more freedom . |
| 6 | The long cooking time will give a brown skin but you could brush the turkey with brown seasoning or tomato purée to give it more colour . |
| 7 | " Leading from start to finish gives it more credibility . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , I 'd never done weights before I came to Chelsea , and my wife gives me better things to eat than bananas . |
| 9 | Where the phrenologists went wrong was to be too arrogant about their pronouncements ; they were also wrong to suppose that the human skull gives us much information about the brain it was designed to protect . |
| 10 | Fully 77 per cent of our panel throughout the campaign rated these issues as ‘ extremely important ’ for their voting choice , but television news gave them less coverage than defence , though more than unemployment and inflation . |
| 11 | They say to do that they need the Government to give them more money . |
| 12 | The Holst work is played in an unusually emphatic manner , which in the end gives it more stature than it sometimes achieves in performance ( the composer himself recorded this work with rather similar regard to rhythm and accents , but used faster tempos ) . |
| 13 | The Supergrid gave them more freedom to optimise their siting by these criteria . |
| 14 | We can even see pseudo-ethnic groups being invented for political purposes , as in the attempt by some of the British left to classify all third-world immigrants as ‘ black ’ in order to give them more leverage within the Labour Party for which most of them vote . |
| 15 | His painting gives us much pleasure — he did splendidly to find his way so well with his painting — and I am sure that he must have responded to being appreciated for his work as well as for his teaching . |