Example sentences of "[noun] give [det] " in BNC.

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1 For example , support given some years ago to a postgraduate in Theoretical Chemistry , Mark Bayley , led to offers of collaboration between Bristol , Yale and a German University .
2 It should be apparent from the brief description given that a contract audit is capable of providing a means for improving the management and control of a contract .
3 Does he agree that the cut of £19.9 million from £262 million in the 1992-93 budget is a dramatic reduction given that the proposal for the programme of building and house repairs in Northern Ireland agreed by the Government was already the lowest in the history of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive ?
4 Mind you , there wo n't be too much muttering about top-roping from other Scottish climbers given that almost every ascent of Fated Path ( on the same crag ) has been top-roped prior to leading , despite that route having fixed protection all the way up !
5 That methodology , some members argued , might enhance the Scottish budget given that Scotland was currently paying for a share of some centralised services which it neither used nor needed .
6 Then the distribution of the number r ab of clones which hybridise to both probes conditional on n ab clones hybridising to either probe is binomial B ( n ab , 1- d ab ) , since the clones are independent and the probability that a clone hybridises to both probes given that it hybridises to one is 1- d ab .
7 Dwyer said : ‘ I think we can develop into a handy side given another three or four games .
8 A living system such as opal , granite , or quartz , is capable of responding to human consciousness given enough time and subjected to sufficient stimuli .
9 The difference in recognition memory-test performance between subjects given these two forms of verbal pre-training has been amply confirmed in several other experiments ( e.g. Ellis , Bessemer , Devine and Tafton 1962 ; Ellis and Feuge , Long and Pegram 1964 ) .
10 Kurtz 's own experiment demonstrated positive transfer ( to a verbal paired-associate task ) in subjects given same — different pre-training , but unfortunately the comparison was made only with a group given no pre-training at all .
11 But when light-food pairings were given in the test phase , latent inhibition was observed ; subjects given this treatment acquired the CR no more rapidly than control subjects that went straight from pre-exposure to conditioning without an intervening retention interval .
12 Subjects given this test ( group SM-21 ) now show a strong aversion .
13 A sufferer from alcoholism given any one of these cross-addictive sub-stances will tend to revert to using his primary drug of choice , alcohol .
14 On the ‘ beefed-up ’ engine front we have Genicom making more of the speed advantage than their increased resolution while Agfa are hardly making any noise at all about either of their 400dpi devices — although they may feel the same anxiety pangs as AM Varityper given that they also own Compugraphic .
15 RAY HAD a knack for singing a peppy tune , an impressive talent given that he 'd been blind since the age of six ( one of his last sights was the drowning of his brother ) and a heroin addict for most of his adult days .
16 ( b ) ( i ) Calculate a value for the gas constant , R stating the units given that the density of argon atom at s.t.p. is ( ii ) Use your value from ( i ) to estimate the average kinetic energy of an argon atom at 273 K , given that for 1 mole of gas the total kinetic energy of the gas molecules equals
17 Is the Minister aware that the people of Dumbarton and Renfrewshire are sick and tired of paying the toll given that , after 20 years , the promise to abolish it has not been fulfilled , even though local business men , the local community councils and even some Tories wish it to go ?
18 There seems no real reason why managerial bonus schemes of the Finsinger and Vogelsang ( 1981 ) type can not be introduced in order to provide incentives to greater efficiency , and in fact these are more relevant than profit-based bonuses given that the firms concerned have monopoly power .
19 As for the argument that money would follow patients and so make it possible for hospitals to treat more of them , that was always a non-starter given that the total amount of cash available to purchasers was not going to be increased .
20 On the oil services division are there likely to be any further technology transfers this year and er secondly could David give some idea of the impact of the proposed B T U Tax in the United States ?
21 A party 's most loyal supporters give all of their higher preferences to all of its candidates .
22 The authors give enough information about the bases of their judgements , showing their open-mindedness , for me to feel that they can be trusted .
23 The relevant legislation ( Schedule 1 , Part 2 , Trade Union and Labour Relations Act , 1974 ) and the provisions of the Code of Practice give little guidance to tribunals as to how they should approach the problem of dismissal following on a conviction , and it is to be questioned whether firm guidelines would be beneficial .
24 That is , policing is experiential : it is based on the common sense that is built up from doing the job , and senior constables have some influence on the meaning which new recruits give this ‘ common sense ’ .
25 We must again try to understand not only the instinctive bases of people 's understanding of politics and the state , but the way in which this is constructed by social relations , including the class relations to which Marxists give such prominence and the relations between governments and people emphasised by Weberians .
26 They are just as real as the class relations to which Marxists give such prominence or to the state bureaucracies which Weberians emphasise .
27 For more advanced students , on the other hand , you may be looking for material where the pictures give less support and the comprehension challenge is correspondingly greater .
28 Within such broad frameworks as these it also seems likely , however , that political sociologists will in future give more attention to the distinctive cultural traditions and historical experiences , and the specific conditions and problems , which a particular state , or group of states , confronts .
29 The books give all the insider know-how for staying and getting around a country on a shoestring budget .
30 Deals of this nature are not uncommon because , for example , the CIA and KGB give each other the right to approve the appointment of their station heads and can use their veto if the opposition proposes someone unacceptable .
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