Example sentences of "have give [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I should 've given this some thought .
2 Sponsorships by the Bergeson shipping line and Norwegian Salmon has given financial security .
3 The revolution , through state control , has given agricultural labourers greater security and better wages by turning them into state employees .
4 THE impressive performance of Paul Mercurio and Tara Morice in the marvellous , low-budget £125,000 Australian film Strictly Ballroom has given vast new encouragement to ballroom dancing societies .
5 The House of Lords has given useful guidance in this respect .
6 The very existence of such a high-profile federally-sponsored project has given greater confidence to planners elsewhere to adopt their own solutions to local problems .
7 A businessman has given five thousand pounds to a dying man so that he and his family can stay in their home .
8 Glasnost has given Soviet Jews new freedoms , new confidence and new fears .
9 Taiwan banned rhino horn imports in 1985 but has given traditional medicine shops until 1994 to sell existing stocks [ see ED 65 ] .
10 Hatty , Finance Minister in Whitehead 's liberal Cabinet , London-born , is a thoughtful man who has given outstanding service ; he was largely responsible for starting Marimba Township , where Africans working in Salisbury were enabled to build and own their own houses .
11 Motivating employees is another issue to which Laing has given much thought .
12 Meanwhile , the government has given much .
13 We were really gratified , and the chapel has given much pleasure .
14 We were really gratified , and the chapel has given much pleasure .
15 It is a pity about Gray because he has given much to the club over three years .
16 For many years now it has given much pleasure to both young and old .
17 He has given each one of us a ministry .
18 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 . ’
19 In extensive trials throughout Europe this method of control has given good results and may well be the forerunner of other similar devices .
20 This method has given good control of ostertagiasis , but many farmers are unwilling to continue housing and feeding calves when there is ample grazing available .
21 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 . ’
22 In many cities the names are still interchangeable , a fact that has given many a visitor a mystified look .
23 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 .
24 It is the first time that the organization has given such a direct warning , however .
25 Clive Barker ( 1977 ) of Warwick University has given new substance to the use of games in the training of actors and Brian Watkins ( 1981 ) has evolved a theoretical framework conceptually linking drama and game in a way which I shall attempt to build on in the next chapter .
26 The retreat from professional standards which marked the period of industrial action has given new impetus to those politicians and administrators who seek to define the teacher 's role .
27 The break-up has given new regimes in Ukraine , Belorussia and Kazakhstan a say in what will become of the nuclear weapons on their soil .
28 THE role of Harry Thomason , Friend of Bill and TV producer , in the Case of the White House Travel Office ( see above ) has given new edge to a month-long spat between Washington and Hollywood .
29 Although a number of Directives were adopted in the 1970s on various aspects of employees ' rights , it is the passage of the Single European Act which has given new impetus to the evolution of EC social policies .
30 So unfortunately Geoff wo n't be able to repeat the service he has given other friends when he eventually retires .
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