Example sentences of "the [adj] [conj] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the clearest indication possible that it regards the MVS mainframe as doomed , it has produced a colourful flyer that explains that Osiris was an ancient Egyptian king who after painful adventures became a god , and chose to act as an intermediary between the living and the dead , looking after the souls of the departed and giving the living the hope of eternal happiness in the other world ; ‘ In providing a quality solution which integrates open systems with existing System 370 and 390 environments , ’ the company says , ‘ HDS provides the best of both worlds ’ ( the living and the dead , that is ) . |
| 2 | Yes but why did Hitachi Data Systems Ltd choose the name Osiris for its new mainframe Unix combination ( see front ) : in the clearest indication possible that it regards the MVS mainframe as doomed , it has produced a colourful flyer that explains that Osiris was an ancient Egyptian king who after painful adventures became a god , and chose to act as an intermediary between the living and the dead , looking after the souls of the departed and giving the living the hope of eternal happiness in the other world ; ‘ In providing a quality solution which integrates open systems with existing System 370 and 390 environments , ’ the company says , ‘ HDS provides the best of both worlds ’ ( the living and the dead , that is ) . |
| 3 | Backless Hill , to the north of the loch , was the eighteenth-century lair of a Caithness ‘ Robin Hood ’ , said to have robbed the rich and given to the poor . |
| 4 | The classic response to this situation is to take from the rich and to give to the poor on the grounds that the poor spend their money much faster than the rich . |
| 5 | Taken as a whole , the tax and transfer system takes money from the rich and gives to the poor . |
| 6 | A progressively tax and transfer system takes most from the rich and give most to the poor . |
| 7 | Did he from the rich and give to the poor ? |
| 8 | Next remove all the old putty from both parts of the joint and give the metal surfaces a good rub down with a wire brush and , if necessary , abrasive paper before applying two coats of bitumastic paint . |
| 9 | Change the following metric measures into the units shown : unc Work out the following and give answers in the units shown : unc |
| 10 | This sets him apart from the ordinary and gives him a reason for living . |
| 11 | Edward Miall argued in the 1840s that giving the vote to the working class would give them that sense of citizen responsibility which they were said to lack , and that as a result the middle class would be able to " lead them almost whithersoever they please . " |
| 12 | A brass vase commemorates one of the three and gives the date of the fateful accident . |
| 13 | Er there 's another book which is similar to the other one in the sense that it made up of some papers by Phillips , Steel and Tants and that has some information about Mexicano in it , er and you find that some people er were giving Mexican language a low a low prestige rate whereas other group in the community were doing the opposite and giving a high prestige rate or certainly a less low one , er in favour of spanish a lot of the Because it was in I think it 's in South America I guess , er you find that a lot of the locals were switching to spanish because it was coming the dominant language er because of societal pressures and constraints and so on . |
| 14 | It kept out the cold and gave strength and comfort beyond its natural powers . |
| 15 | Now here you got minus six plus four take the smaller from the larger and give it the sign of a larger . |
| 16 | When the signs are the same if they 're two pluses you add them and it 's plus if they 're both minus you add them and it 's minus here you take the smaller from the larger and give it the sign of a larger . |
| 17 | It is sufficient to say that in broad definition the former term applies to the language used up to the twelfth century , and the latter that given to the language between the twelfth and the fifteenth , when Modern English started to emerge . |
| 18 | Andrus just pops in to see Sesostris and they have a bit of a chat , not a long one , they do n't even have a cup of coffee , mean bastards , both of them , and then Andrus goes on to the Cashier presumably with Sesostris 's authorization and the Cashier takes the money out of the safe and gives it to him . |
| 19 | Patrick first cut her hair into a soft convex bob before Kerry , using a spatula and slide technique , coloured the hair with a selection of blonde and soft brown shades from Wella 's Koleston 2000 range to help disguise the grey and give a variegated effect . |
| 20 | All the loving and giving of small luxuries and necessities that she had not thought of herself , and the expected regularity of their attendance at those sumptuous Sunday luncheons , encroached dangerously on the precious isolation of life at Kileady . |
| 21 | I 've given you the two , er , the one that gives you the most space for the day , on the basis that if you have too much space for daily planning , it 's maybe irritating . |
| 22 | Diet : The food given to this fish is the same as given to the Emperor Peckoltia |
| 23 | Modigliani needed encouragement himself and he enjoyed the admiration of the two and gave them his ageing clothes when he could . |
| 24 | The pupils of this generation of sociologists are people like Howard Becker and Erving Goffman , and it was their work in the 1960s that gave a new lease of life to ethnographic research after it had fallen into some disuse , in British sociology at least , in the 1950s . |
| 25 | We gave our permission that the women should gather up the dead and give them burial according to the fashion of this people — ‘ t is said they strip the flesh and griddle it for a delicacy beforetimes , but I for one do not give this credence . |
| 26 | What collapsed was the idea — which emerged in the 1950s and gave cultural shape to the 1960s — that ‘ youth ’ is a community . |