Example sentences of "[noun] give them [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goldfish ca n't turn their heads around but their slightly bulging eyes give them a wide field of vision . |
| 2 | Naturally we have had a number of people who have not renewed this year , and I am enclosing a list of those to all Teachers who are involved — please , if these people do return to your class this term give them a gentle reminder . |
| 3 | There was a full social programme to give them a good impression of Scotland and its people . |
| 4 | The Syrian foreign minister who , after meeting Douglas Hurd , evoked the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916 in which the British and the French secretly carved up the Middle East between them ( later using the League of Nations to give them the so-called Mandates as a cover ) , was not making some arcane and irrelevant allusion . |
| 5 | Bernice gave them an encouraging smile , which they returned weakly , and detached herself from their embrace with one last squeeze and one last pat on the shoulder . |
| 6 | The pose of the bald egg-shaped heads , the jointed arms stiffly flexed in a parody of benediction , the staring eyes and curved arrow-like lips gave them the hieratic look of a couple of painted deities . |
| 7 | So their own minister held a service at the station , and the agent gave them a good dinner cheering them on in Gaelic , at which they wept , and they went on to settle at Moosomin , where they lived happily ever afterwards . |
| 8 | But working-class discontent was fierce and the ability of the industrial proletariat to paralyse large plants and even whole areas by strike action gave them an immediate power of disruption which the peasantry lacked . |
| 9 | Frankie gave them a wide berth . |
| 10 | Apart from primates , some of the best known tool users among the mammals are the African and Asian elephants , whose prehensile trunk gives them a considerable advantage when it comes to holding and manipulating objects . |
| 11 | When asked which of all their various roles gave them the greatest satisfaction , 47% opted for being a mother , 22% simply being themselves , 15% being a partner/lover and just 10% being a working woman . |
| 12 | City had not won a League game at Portman Road for 30 years , and had not scored in their last seven visits , but the jinx looked to have come to an end when Gary Flitcroft 's first senior goal for the club gave them a 37th minute lead . |
| 13 | " The prosperity and technology of the developed countries give them the greater possibilities and the greater responsibility " . |
| 14 | Runners are more conservative , instead of their heads they look to their shoes to give them the competitive edge . |
| 15 | Holland has Gullit and Van Basten , England have Barnes and Lineker , Argentina will rely almost exclusively on Maradona to give them a cutting edge . |
| 16 | ‘ You could have special pots made — delicate pots for the nobility , hand-painted with a lake scene to give them an extra value — and on the larger pots you could paint ‘ The Fish ’ — no , ‘ The Char ’ , Buttermere , the Hidden Heart of the Famous Lakelands ' . |
| 17 | For maximum volume and root lift , turn your head upside down — the special ‘ fingers ’ inside the cup will help life and separate curls giving them a fuller look . |
| 18 | Carrefour gave them a wide grin , and stepped down the shadow path to their leader . |
| 19 | The bachelor gave them an angry look . |
| 20 | Her soldier companion urged her forward along a gully , which they crawled along until a gap between two boulders gave them a clear view of the landscape . |
| 21 | Their strictures on the ‘ maximalism ’ of the Bolsheviks , on the ‘ premature ’ nature of the October revolution , and on the backwardness of Russia gave them a broad area of common ground with the liberal view . |
| 22 | Although elderly persons , on the whole , are less geographically mobile than other age groups , the spatially selective nature of their migration gives them an important impact ( Law and Warnes 1982 ) . |
| 23 | It enables adaptation of plants and animals to human purposes that would be beyond the reach of traditional breeding techniques ; an example is the insertion of toxin genes from bacteria into plants to give them an in-built system for poisoning pests . |
| 24 | Instead , they were taken over for institutional use , sometimes in a public-spirited move to give them a new lease of life , sometimes for exploitation as large areas of relatively cheap floor space . |
| 25 | Consequently , the result is a dull plod , a sort of po-faced mini-series in which a whole bunch of set-pieces go begging for some cinematic tricks to give them a proper build-up and punchline . |
| 26 | I went on tour frequently from Simla to most of the main cities of India , speaking to Indian audiences and getting together groups of refugees from Burma to give them the latest news and to encourage them with hopes of victory and return . |
| 27 | Shower heads should be cleaned regularly with a nail brush ; every so often use a descaler to give them a good clean . |
| 28 | The folk at Fanmore gave them a good fight last week , and drove them off with five men dead , and they 've not been seen since . |
| 29 | This self-reliance gives them a competitive edge when the base rate ( set by the Bank of England ) , is high , while when it is low , societies can switch to these wholesale funds to cut costs . |
| 30 | The apparent simplicity of polar land ecosystems gives them a special value for modelling and quantitative studies . |