Example sentences of "of the [noun pl] [pers pn] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humans do not just react to fire , they act upon it in terms of the meanings they give to it . |
| 2 | In the hitherto unpublished Leeds University evaluation of the 1991 Key Stage One National Curriculum Assessment , teachers rated the tasks they gave to children as rather more challenging than did observers , and were rather more generous than the observers in their estimates both of the frequency of open questions and of the opportunities they gave pupils to volunteer opinions . |
| 3 | The rewards for those working in BP come in the quality of the opportunities it gives us for the future . |
| 4 | He stated : " Haughey had retained all but one of the tapes I gave him , and at no stage indicated disapproval of the action that had been taken . " |
| 5 | And this makes sense to Freud , because he believes that people believe in , in religion because of the gratifications it gives them . |
| 6 | Some of the interviews he gave were probing and worth further investigation . |
| 7 | It was while she was reading one of the books they gave her — by a philosopher called Christ — the next day by the lamp-light that she suddenly realized what that gemmed necklace had said . |
| 8 | We're4 not treating the whole window but by doubling the pieces together of the details it gives some feel … restores some interpretation to the original work of art |