Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] give [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SELLING THROUGH ADKIN GIVES YOU DISTINCT ADVANTAGES |
| 2 | If , however , the Chancellor was hoping for a variety of opinions to give him maximum freedom of manoeuvre in next month 's Budget , he will be only too happy with the report . |
| 3 | A foal requires about one pint of colostrum to give it sufficient antibiotics to help fight neonatal infections . |
| 4 | Gardening and agricultural production , unlike trading , were safe from government intervention , and his mixture of activities gave him some security should his job or his shop come under threat . |
| 5 | Night Goblin shamans are allowed to gobble pieces of mushroom to give them extra power , while Forest Goblin shamans are immune to ‘ Eadbangin ’ thanks to the spider venom flowing through their veins . |
| 6 | Apart from the counties a number of urban areas had grown up and many of these had been granted Charters of Incorporation giving them varying powers of local administration . |
| 7 | The archers have a lighter corselets of scale mail and powerful bows constructed of alternating layers of wood to give them great power and range . |
| 8 | ‘ Methinks its motion in this hush of nature Gives it dim sympathies with me who live Making it a companionable form , Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling spirit By its own moods interprets , everywhere Echo or mirror seeking of itself , And makes a toy of Thought . |
| 9 | Othello 's vision of Iago gives him total credit : With the vision of Iago , Othello also takes over his language , as critics have long noted , with its bestial images , but also his attitudes , especially a generalized distrust of women . |
| 10 | Nails liked her company better than that of his father ; his new way of life gave him considerable satisfaction . |
| 11 | Fifty pounds worth of petrol gives you one pound off . |
| 12 | The first is , where is Lincoln going , Lincolnshire going to left after the local erm , government commission put their proposals forward and the government have a look at them , and then secondly , what our , as we note from Item Eleven , a fuller report will be brought to this sub-committee when the local government staff commission or the Secretary of State to give us definitive advice . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll have a couple of drinks to give me Dutch courage , then I 'll join you . |
| 14 | Then , like a host who becomes most animated when his guests are leaving , this leader of the campaign against garrulousness gave me succinct directions to Old Aberdeen . |
| 15 | Religion acts as a restraining force on human nature , and er , raises people , as it were , to a higher , to a higher level , by for example giving them more proscriptions , like the ten commandments . |
| 16 | Eventually , though , they got their man , and the wait was worth it because the greatest vocal stylist in rock gave us two hours of inspired Gaelic mumbo-jumbo that was tough , joyful , sometimes sad , but ultimately fluid , festive and free , a celebration , a party for 1,800 delighted fans . |
| 17 | But , but , he did win four tournaments , he did finish second to Norman on the money list , and he did end his season with a startlingly brilliant final round , an 8-under par 63 at the Champions course in Houston to give him third place in the rich Nabisco Championships . |
| 18 | Boudiaf had met the leaders of eight opposition parties on Feb. 9 in order to give them prior notice of the measures . |
| 19 | They begged him to desist , in order to give them some words of edification , and for two consecutive hours he proceeded to give them excellent exhortations , while at the same time never ceasing his writing — and all the while what he was writing was not the same as what he was speaking . |
| 20 | In order to give you some idea of the boundaries of the propositions these are numbered in the extract given above . |
| 21 | The doctors have a word for that misery ; they call it anhedonia , which only means an inability to feel enjoyment , and that 's what it is , but it feels like hell , like true hell , and it 's a hell you ca n't even escape from in sleep because overdosing on cocaine gives you chronic insomnia . ’ |
| 22 | From the script it tells you that after this nuclear war the creatures are supposed to have decayed into these horrible shapes , almost armless and legless , dependent on machines to give them any mobility . |
| 23 | He considered that Liza was behaving disgracefully , maintained that Harriet was encouraging her daughter in what he called ‘ selfish laziness ’ and that , sorry as he was about the death of John Carrow , surely Harriet had not long lost her own husband and it was up to Liza to give her more support . |
| 24 | Nevertheless because they are supposed to be men of wide experience and outstanding capability the bishop may from time to time give them particular tasks to do in connection with parish priests . |
| 25 | ‘ What on earth gave you that idea ? ’ |
| 26 | What on earth gave you that idea ? |
| 27 | When you to this your are making use of internal muscles which can be strengthened by exercise to give you greater control . |