Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] giving " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company makes it quite clear that giving younger people career opportunities may mean moving older employees down the status ladder . |
| 2 | But giving £10,000 credit for one month can be less risky than giving £5000 of credit for six months . |
| 3 | Giving credit for extended periods is always more risky than giving it for shorter periods . |
| 4 | ‘ Raising average class sizes from 26 to 30 and giving teachers more preparation time would improve performance . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I must thank you for all this and giving me food in the week and I 'm sorry for what I said , it 's just that I 'm not used to people being nice to me . |
| 6 | On healthy hair the cuticle scales lie flat , reflecting light and giving hair a healthy sheen . |
| 7 | They second-guess the other side 's reaction , guessing wrong and giving too much . |
| 8 | The two largest of these were especially fine — one representing the Patron Saint as a Roman Soldier on horseback , cutting his cloak in half and giving a half to a beggar . |
| 9 | The schoolmaster then spent an endless period fussily sorting out his things — extracting a folded newspaper and a small bag of plums from his case , arranging the case on the rack , examining the seat minutely for anything unpleasant and giving it a brush with the back of his hand , folding his jacket and his jumper with ritualistic care , adjusting the window in consultation with the lady , but without reference to me or to the young Swede , getting his case down again for some forgotten item , checking his hankie , readjusting the window . |
| 10 | illustrations should be clear and attractive and , as well as being well-matched and giving helpful cues to the text , should enhance it by providing additional information , for example about the characters or setting ; |
| 11 | We interpret this as giving an upper flux limit of 0.15mCrab for these regions . |
| 12 | Be concise and clear when giving information . |
| 13 | So , naturally we started to feed them separately and became more careful when giving them titbits . |
| 14 | Since both n6 and n3 EFAs may possess this property , it is possible that giving both together will have a synergistic effect . |
| 15 | Giving £10,000 credit for one month is always riskier than giving £5000 credit for one month . |
| 16 | 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 . " |
| 17 | You 're so very different from the man you once were … warm and giving , enjoying the rewards which your hard work brought you . |
| 18 | ‘ You were warm and giving in my arms until , in an understandable moment of shyness , you backed away . |
| 19 | Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated . |
| 20 | She knows that even something that seems so simple as giving a wash has to be thought about and done in a sensitive way . |
| 21 | If you have had any experience of Aids-like illnesses in dogs , please write to us enclosing as many details as possible and giving a daytime telephone number . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | I think the bravest thing I ever did in my life was sing solo at that pantomime , I , I think that was braver than giving birth or having my wisdom teeth out . |
| 25 | But it was obvious that giving way , by either yelling or dissolving into tears , was n't going to get her anywhere in this awful place . |
| 26 | It was the Princess at her best ; completely natural and giving each child her undivided attention . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The Committee opposed these as giving the US airlines an added advantage . |
| 29 | She could n't be at all sure that giving in to such an impulse would have the desired effect . |
| 30 | But it 's better than giving handouts to the real mother in the first place , because with kids round her apron she ca n't find herself a job . |