Example sentences of "give the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if we are to reduce the number of new infections and protect our young people , they must be given the facts about AIDS/HIV and given the opportunity to discuss the issues openly . |
| 2 | But if we are to reduce the number of new infections and protect our young people , they must be given the facts about AIDS/HIV and given the opportunity to discuss the issues openly . |
| 3 | Viewers wishing to help were given the address of AI at the end of the programme : over 1,500 letters were subsequently received at the AI office . |
| 4 | Twenty years ago it was expected that if you trained you would surely be accepted into the membership of your trade union and be given the chance to compete for the roles that were suitable . |
| 5 | The importance of the protestant variant should not be underestimated given the extent of religious practice and the power of religious men within the protestant — loyalist bloc and the grave importance of conceiving of one 's position as absolutely irreproachable , depending as it does on a divine source . |
| 6 | Which is not to say , he wrote , that the present project has any value over and above the others , mine and those of everyone else , I have been into the question of value already and will not return to it now , has any value or that its outcome has any value , I have to repeat this , simply that now , for me , today , after the things I have done and given the time left me , it is the most important thing , it is what , from the time I first picked up a pencil and made a mark on a piece of paper , everything has logically led up to . |
| 7 | I mean that the novel has always given the impression that third person narration can narrate what it is I am feeling . |
| 8 | Given the propensity of many modern breweries and their designers to impose an overall , single-period ‘ look ’ , however , the Georgian fabric that does exist is often the first thing to be swept away — to make way for a sham-Victorian world of clumsy stained glass and ugly stained hardwood . |
| 9 | Given the changes in the film industry world wide , do critics have an influence in determining box office , taste and value ? |
| 10 | Given the current debates around cultural diversity and the exciting nature of work being produced by black artists in the U.K. this is an excellent moment to introduce Adrian Piper to a British audience . |
| 11 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 12 | Given the choice , and assuming that precious few of us are blessed with the ideal soil type , it is probably better for garden land to err on the heavy side . |
| 13 | Given the variety available there are enough to fill most of our summer and early autumn days with colour , bold foliage and , let's not forget , happy memories . |
| 14 | Added to this , it is regarded as a special treat by snails and slugs who will soon polish it off given the opportunity . |
| 15 | Mere observation and reporting is inadequate , given the limited scope of things which can be truly observed ( Holy 1984 : 25 ) . |
| 16 | Jay 's heart knew better , was utterly sure , given the picture of the swing , that Lucy was poised for a recklessly brilliant let go . |
| 17 | The prince is given the freedom of the garden if only he does not kiss the fairy . |
| 18 | ‘ Given the known sympathies of yourself and your associates with the ‘ republic ’ in France , you would clearly be eager to counsel young men against warring with that country — ‘ ‘ Associates ’ ? |
| 19 | Up to that time their lives had been appallingly difficult , given the savage treatment their fellow-Poles meted out to them . |
| 20 | The generation that rediscovered the existential was precisely the one best fitted to look and think ‘ within ’ , which is not unrealism , but a different form of realism — and one unavoidable to such as Leonard , given the horrors inflicted on his own people by the most ‘ culturally advanced ’ nation of the day . |
| 21 | Rodney was discussing with Veronica whether people should be given the choice of English or French mustard . |
| 22 | He works as an odd-job man or possibly , given the nature of the work , as a husband . |
| 23 | As I argued , given the holism of the mental , we are not going to succeed in analysing these conceptions in terms of some complex causal interplay between determinate representations . |
| 24 | This is a necessary condition for a reductionist view of the mind but , particularly given the absence of any effective demonstration of a causal connection between the mental and the neural , it is certainly not a sufficient condition . |
| 25 | Secondly , a failure to perceive the pattern may also occur because we lack within our theoretical base the conceptual framework that would enable us to grasp the structure that is potentially available , given the observations that we have made already . |
| 26 | For one thing it has prompted a full-scale review of all the carving at Hampton Court and given the restorers the opportunity to reverse years of general neglect . |
| 27 | The relative or person who has been given the medical certificate by the doctor must see the Registrar of Births and Deaths for the district where the death occurred , in order that the death may be registered . |
| 28 | Given the choice in such circumstances , many of InterCity 's customers on low or fixed incomes — in particular students and senior citizens — preferred the cheaper but slower coach option . |
| 29 | The decision to press ahead with new builds on a large scale was based on Provincial 's conviction that it could reduce its losses if given the freedom to operate cost-effective diesel-mechanical rolling stock , allowing shorter but more frequent trains , than having to take on InterCity 's weary cast-off locos and hauled stock . |
| 30 | Commuting became fashionable again in the 1980s , and BR responded with new suburban electrification schemes , over a thousand new electric passenger vehicles and ( when replacement finance was not available ) 1950s units given the asbestos-removal treatment and a mid-life facelift . |