Example sentences of "of [noun pl] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , however , the Chancellor was hoping for a variety of opinions to give him maximum freedom of manoeuvre in next month 's Budget , he will be only too happy with the report . |
| 2 | We have resisted the temptation to link up with any beauty product firm simply because we want our panel of experts to give you nothing but honest , impartial and wholly unbiased advice . |
| 3 | Gardening and agricultural production , unlike trading , were safe from government intervention , and his mixture of activities gave him some security should his job or his shop come under threat . |
| 4 | Could you give guidance on the important matter of confidences given us by constituents ? |
| 5 | The Syrian foreign minister who , after meeting Douglas Hurd , evoked the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 in which the British and the French secretly carved up the Middle East between them ( later using the League of Nations to give them the so-called Mandates as a cover ) , was not making some arcane and irrelevant allusion . |
| 6 | Bangkok is well supplied with ‘ shooting galleries ’ where pushers go down lines of addicts giving them all a fix with the same needle . |
| 7 | And the recently discovered structure of atoms gave them the idea that they could make helium out of hydrogen . |
| 8 | One thing for certain , Sanders , you wo n't be coming here to the Mother of Parliaments to give us all the benefit of your profound wisdom . |
| 9 | So I I I mean , but I do n't know whether to take it today or you know because she 'll get a lot of things given her today . |
| 10 | At either end of the village two long avenues of trees gave it a friendly air . |
| 11 | To belong to the Communion of Saints gives us a sense of deep communion . |
| 12 | They searched my whole flat before they took me , looking for things like Durex , and to see whether I kept any books of accounts , of girls giving me money , all this sort of thing . |
| 13 | ‘ Unfortunately I 'm fresh out of medals to give you , but — ’ |
| 14 | The consolidation of results gave me , on one page , an overview of the ledger by risk category and was very effective in resource planning . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll have a couple of drinks to give me Dutch courage , then I 'll join you . |
| 16 | Enjoying a variety of foods gives you all the nourishment you need . |
| 17 | Enjoying a variety of foods gives you all the nourishment you need . |
| 18 | She had discovered , too , one good source of decent clothing : periodically , churches and chapels would hold a sale of garments given them by their better-off parishioners . |
| 19 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |
| 20 | But the equally necessary professional detachment of undertakers gives them a valuable view of human reactions . |