Example sentences of "give the [adj] [noun pl] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the right conditions the growth of the foliage will be quite fast and as the days get longer the flower buds will start to appear . |
| 2 | The two weeks of training on the Soltau-Luneberg Training Area had given the Royal Scots the opportunity to test to the full those operating procedures and ideas that had been developed since the conversion to Warrior had started in the new year . |
| 3 | Being surrounded by a supportive network of friends has always given the Happy Mondays the edge in the bullshit world of the music industry . |
| 4 | ‘ I have never given the Olympic Games a thought I am just plodding my way through the season , racing here and there , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ We only release bitches who have been spayed and if they are still only puppies we give the new owners a date to take them to the vet . ’ |
| 6 | Give the new faces a chance ! |
| 7 | It 's time to stop supporting Linfield , John , and give the other clubs the credit they deserve . |
| 8 | Some foxes , mongooses and weasels are capable of this type of defence and doubtless give the hungry predators the sensation that perhaps , after all , the food object they are pursuing is not so tasty . |
| 9 | Charles Leece , of Ferranti , emphasised industry 's need for resists that give the same results every time , and that are free of impurities larger than 0.1 micrometres . |
| 10 | You know the score , give the urban kids a slice of country life . |
| 11 | I think we need to give the current players a chance this year . |
| 12 | When I was at school I was so good that I was n't allowed to answer the questions , but had to give the other girls a chance . ’ |
| 13 | Even though his first impressions have not been positive he is prepared to give the new laws a run for their money . |
| 14 | He used his final speech to appeal to voters to give the Liberal Democrats a mandate to ‘ unleash the power of the British people ’ . |
| 15 | This was a liberal middle-class reformist cop-out guaranteed to give the right women a step up in the power stakes as well as provide appeasement for male consciences which were getting a bit ragged at the edges from the constant battering of Irish feminists . |
| 16 | Ferranti carried on with the contracts because it did not want to give the purported customers an excuse not to pay back the credit . |
| 17 | To give the farcical complications a kick-start , Poiret asks us to believe that a man , finding himself in this predicament , would try to pass the bimbo off as his daughter from a former marriage , and that the girl , required to account for her surprise visit , would blurt out that she was pregnant . |
| 18 | Cooper 's method was to give the three groups an inventory of questions dealing with obsessional traits and symptoms ; his results showed that the mean symptom score of the houseproud women fell between those of the normal women and the group of obsessional patients . |
| 19 | Mr. Gilbert deliberately hung around at closing time to give the three men a chance to go away . |
| 20 | Time to give the old legs a rest on a steep descent into the beautiful Farndale Valley |
| 21 | Several indicated they would be looking to Mr Lawson to give the Tory voters a reason for enduring the pain of higher mortgages . |
| 22 | And let's not forget Western Samoa , Canada and Italy — with the last two really giving the All Blacks a fright — and Ireland , who were so near to bringing off a great quarter-final victory . |
| 23 | The shareholders had clearly manifested an intention to sell their shares and could not continue with the sale without giving the other shareholders a right to exercise their option under the articles . |
| 24 | Natives also stalked Australian patrols and then stood up , giving the Japanese mortars the range and location of ambushes . |
| 25 | These results were tested again by giving the 30 informants the passage that opens Arthur C. Clarke 's 2001 : a space odyssey , a novelisation of the film screenplay written by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke ( 1968 ) . |
| 26 | For the cyclist however it was a ‘ challenge ’ in more ways than one , partly because the distance was much greater than is usual in such events , thus giving the motorised modes a head start on the outer-suburb uncongested sections , and partly because traffic was lighter than usual on that particular day . |
| 27 | That will be achieved in one of two ways : ( 1 ) by providing for its automatic accruer in consideration of or linked to an appropriate payment ; or ( 2 ) by giving the continuing partners an option to acquire the share at an ascertainable price . |
| 28 | It is no good giving the United Nations a role and wanting it to carry out these measures on our behalf but not giving it the means to do so . |
| 29 | British companies rarely welcomed headhunters positively ; they engaged them out of desperation , but it gave the good firms the chance to rise to the occasion . |
| 30 | The State Council gave the armed groups an ultimatum to lay down their arms by March 30 and to open transport routes . |