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

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1 I should 've given this some thought .
2 Motivating employees is another issue to which Laing has given much thought .
3 Meanwhile , the government has given much .
4 We were really gratified , and the chapel has given much pleasure .
5 We were really gratified , and the chapel has given much pleasure .
6 It is a pity about Gray because he has given much to the club over three years .
7 For many years now it has given much pleasure to both young and old .
8 He has given each one of us a ministry .
9 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 . ’
10 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 . ’
11 In many cities the names are still interchangeable , a fact that has given many a visitor a mystified look .
12 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 .
13 It is the first time that the organization has given such a direct warning , however .
14 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 .
15 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 ’ .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 On the whole , however , the left has given little priority to these issues .
19 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 .
20 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 ) .
21 The government has given few details of its hoarding scheme .
22 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 .
23 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 ) .
24 This chapter has given more space to the anti-rather than to the pro-classical themes that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s .
25 BRITISH Telecom has given another £25,000 to help the innovative Botanic Centre lay down firm roots in Middlesbrough .
26 ‘ I do not think any publisher has given any journalist that chance before in the United Kingdom . ’
27 Bates also wonders if anyone has given any thought to the glare these lamps give off .
28 None of the members of the Russian delegation has given any ground for premature celebration .
29 As I understand it , Kitto J. is saying that the mere availability to the payee of summary remedies for non-payment may amount to sufficient compulsion on the payer to entitle him to recover irrespective of whether the payee has given any indication that he proposes to exercise such remedies .
30 Neither side has given any estimate of the extent of the anticipated cuts but the expectation is that hundreds of the 2,200 jobs , which add up to a monthly £2 million pay bill , will have to be sacrificed .
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