Example sentences of "while the [noun pl] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lie of every feather is indicated , and while the plates give great aesthetic pleasure , their object was to help identify birds hit by a collector . |
| 2 | The response from the people he talks to gives him a grassroots view of the questions being asked throughout the Company , while the meetings give the staff the opportunity to put their own points to him straight from the shoulder . |
| 3 | But while the critics gave the ABC network points for taking such an expensive programming risk , most predicted the show was too slow moving , too strange in short , too good to woo America 's couch potatoes . |
| 4 | While the figures given presumably refer to the state of play in 953/1546–7 , the note in the summary that the original salary for teaching was 15 akce and the reference to teaching in the section concerned with the stipulation(s) laid down by the founder sart-i vakif ) suggest that the medrese figured in the original . |
| 5 | Thus the first of Turan 's lists notes that it is nine years since the death of " sultan al- " ulema Muhammad Shah Pasha , Mevlana Shams al-Din Fenari-oglu " ( which therefore would have occurred in 840 ) , while the lists given by Menage record the death of " sultan al- " ulema Muhammad Shah Pasha " in 839 . |