Example sentences of "they give to " in BNC.

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1 It is also structured by the biographical situation of the person using the term and the definitions they give to their work role .
2 Nothing is more characteristic of churches than their attitude to assurance and the place they give to it in their preaching and systems of doctrine .
3 If that is the sense they give to the word ‘ Panslavism ’ , oh ! then I am a Panslav .
4 ( The authors ' respect for children is further demonstrated by the attention they give to misreadings — ‘ miscues ’ — and blocking .
5 Many Home Helps become very fond of the elderly people they visit , often doing all kinds of extra jobs for them when they have the time , and the moral support they give to lonely old people is invaluable .
6 It also provides a useful example to journalists bored with adding the suffix ‘ -gate ’ to the names they give to all political scandals , regardless of whether they have anything to do with break-ins in Washington : by adding ‘ -dome ’ hacks can bring a new sense of variety to their reports , regardless of whether they have anything to do with teapots .
7 Teachers of English will differ in the weight they give to each of these views of the subject .
8 The counsellor , in a variety of ways , has to feed back to counsellees the impressions they give to others , and the way they ‘ come across ’ to other people .
9 Given half a chance they would ‘ retrobolt ’ ( what curious technical names they give to hearsay these days ) everything we hold dear .
10 It is a book that focuses on the questions that psychobiologists ask , rather than on the answers that they give to them .
11 Up at HM Systems Plc in North London , they innocently ran a letter through the thing , and once they had stopped chortling , they rang us to advise that people should stick to calling the new chip the 80586 in any correspondence they give to their secretary unless they 're confident that , in the words of Larry Hart , she 's a broad with a broad , broad mind .
12 However , it remains possible that people do see the support which they give to elderly relatives as part of a two-way pattern which stretches over time and across generations , and where they themselves will benefit ultimately from the support of someone in a younger generation .
13 Another similarity between control theory and classical criminology is in the kinds of answer they give to the question ‘ why do we conform ? ’ .
14 Faeces are used by young children as a ‘ gift ’ , and sometimes their stools are wrapped up in parcels which they give to a significant person .
15 The principal interest of these court appearances is in the confirmation they give to the portrait of the National Socialist League in the last months of peace .
16 Accounts vary in the emphasis they give to events and the order in which events happened .
17 Because these appear at about the same level in adjacent fibrils they give to the whole fibre its characteristic cross-striated appearance .
18 To understand this process , we have to look at the experiences of students themselves , and the meanings they give to their education .
19 Humans do not just react to fire , they act upon it in terms of the meanings they give to it .
20 Procedural fairness does not require him to identify his advisers or the advice they give to him .
21 They give to others what they want for themselves .
22 The dilemma can be expressed as follows : the more accessible teachers seek to make themselves to all their pupils as individuals , the less time they have for direct , extended and challenging interaction with any of them ; but the more time they devote to such extended interaction with some children , the less demanding on them as teachers must be the activities they give to the rest ; and the less demanding an activity is of their time and attention as teachers , the more the likelihood that the activity in question will demand little of the child .
23 The real breakthrough will come when the pot plants grown from rainforest seed are sold as such — when customers in down- town LA choose their purchases for the help they give to commercial community-based conservation as much as for their leaf colours .
24 Financial management advice and services has continued to be provided by Napier University Ventures Limited and I would take this opportunity to thank Ed Angus and all his staff for the hard work and support they give to the Enterprise Centre .
25 We begin this chapter , accordingly , by looking at the different types of literary essay it is possible to write , considering first the variety of focus they give to their subject matter and the different modes of argument they adopt .
26 In achieving this end , essays follow certain general patterns of development and direction , which are definable in terms of the focus they give to their subject matter and the different modes of argument they adopt .
27 Erm , one other thing that I want to make about erm , the victims , erm , I am very much er , involved with erm , victim support Wiltshire , and one of the problems with victim support Wiltshire is their work is increasing all the time because the crime rate goes up , and every time there is more crime there is more victims , but the , the Government has not yet said that they will put the money up that they erm , that they er , the grant up that they give to the victim support .
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