Example sentences of "[verb] give [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should 've given this some thought . |
| 2 | I mean given that you 've got a , oh I do n't know , a pound you 're going to spend a week in gambling entertainment , if I could put it that way , you 'd do better to go in for the pools , because if you did have a win you might have a big one , than to put it on a horse — am I right ? |
| 3 | So far as boilerplate conditions are concerned , the draftsman can add these to the extent that they seem appropriate and necessary , although he should be sparing given that the aim of the exercise is to produce a relatively short set of commercially acceptable terms and conditions . |
| 4 | Well I got given these when I was a rep at when I started , ten years ago and I 've still got half a dozen of these you know . |
| 5 | I think both principles remain given this system . |
| 6 | Then do n't you think given that case , we should set up a whole inter international thing , which oversees all the governments ? |
| 7 | Another factor was raised in a case in which the government did not properly consult local authorities ( as required by statute ) before making some regulations : by the time the application to revoke the regulations was heard , they had been in operation for some time and to revoke them would have caused considerable administrative inconvenience which could not be justified given that no real complaint was made about the substance of the regulations . |
| 8 | This is to be expected given that most of the initial investors were actively involved in the regional economy and anticipated wider gains . |
| 9 | Motivating employees is another issue to which Laing has given much thought . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , the government has given much . |
| 11 | We were really gratified , and the chapel has given much pleasure . |
| 12 | We were really gratified , and the chapel has given much pleasure . |
| 13 | It is a pity about Gray because he has given much to the club over three years . |
| 14 | For many years now it has given much pleasure to both young and old . |
| 15 | He has given each one of us a ministry . |
| 16 | Listen well when he tells us what happened out there to him and respect him for what he has done , and honour him , for at least he has given each of us hope and proof that escape is possible . ’ |
| 17 | and one which , as he has noticed while walking through the great houses of the world , ‘ has given many an anonymous carver a little power over the grave . ’ |
| 18 | In many cities the names are still interchangeable , a fact that has given many a visitor a mystified look . |
| 19 | The development of occupational pension schemes , and the rapid increase of owner-occupation since the 1950s , has given many elderly people far more economic security in old age than they ever had when they were reliant on the sale of their labour power . |
| 20 | It is the first time that the organization has given such a direct warning , however . |
| 21 | The ecological disaster created by the diversion of water from the Aral Sea for the sake of a better cotton crop has given that sort of thinking a severe knock . |
| 22 | Jim never escapes the torment of self-doubt , even when in the remote kingdom of Patusan he has given all his energy and his intelligence , as well as his physical courage , to settling internal feuds and establishing prosperity — when , in fact , he has become to his people ‘ Lord Jim ’ . |
| 23 | But for 40 years her use of electricity to make objects move , speak , walk , spin , shine , click , rotate and perform has given all of these objects a special autonomy . |
| 24 | Although SunSoft — indeed Sun as a whole — has given little or no ground on the issue of direct support for the Open Software Foundation 's Motif graphical user interface on its own Sparc systems , Watkins says the company is more than happy for third parties to supply it . |
| 25 | On the whole , however , the left has given little priority to these issues . |
| 26 | In modern times the Spanish aristocracy has given little cultural leadership : in the late eighteenth century the few esprit forts who corresponded with Voltaire or Rousseau were swamped by the traditional formality and tedium that made Madrid society a nightmare for intelligent ambassadors . |
| 27 | The method that has given most results has now become known as the ‘ de Broglie-Bohm formulation ’ , after Louis de Broglie and David Bohm , professor of physics at Birkbeck College , London ( New Scientist , 11 November , p 361 ) . |
| 28 | The government has given few details of its hoarding scheme . |
| 29 | Another problem is that the administration has given few details on the cash that it will put up to induce mining companies to begin new ventures . |
| 30 | This programme has given more coverage to committees than any other programme , with 25% of its attention being given to select committees and 6% to standing committees ( compared with 9% and 3% respectively , in Parliament ) . |