Example sentences of "[noun sg] give them [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's very hard to explain , but these people are all on the extreme left and were seeking a poet to give them some sort of standing . |
| 2 | Only when the children feel less threatened will they be able to relax , and it 's up to you and your husband to give them that security . |
| 3 | The gentlemen in Virginia were in no position to do this ; they had very little money to spend in a gentlemanly way and no particular experience of colonization to give them any other claims to respect and obedience , as nothing got done and about 60 of the 100 initial settlers died in 1607 . |
| 4 | In the long term , alternative political and policy positions can be weakened — there will be no government framework to give them any institutional voice or credence . |
| 5 | Local authorities are to be given the leading role in the organisation of community care , but the decision to give them this responsibility was taken with the greatest possible reluctance and only after every other possibility had been explored . |
| 6 | ‘ Many of these have not yet been registered as charities and we will be asking local authorities to check deeds , take legal advice and , if appropriate , register these pieces of land with the Charity Commission to give them some long-term protection . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Workers looked to the national state , over which democracy gave them some influence , to protect them against the ravages of an unregulated world economy . |
| 9 | In 1907 , however , the Bondholders had a great deal more at risk than in the 1960 's and the 2:1 arrangement gave them some protection and rights over their own investments and the Club 's destiny . |
| 10 | Against the background that people expected support for an elderly person to be reciprocated in some fairly immediate way , the pressure to exclude older people from the labour market was accompanied by a pressure to give them some independent means of support which would prevent their having to rely on their children or other relatives . |
| 11 | I guess if they are reasonable there is no reason to give them any shit . |
| 12 | It is a pejorative conglomeration of selected perceptions that characterises the field and its practitioners as bizarre , irresponsible , and unscientific , lacking any reason to give them any credibility . |
| 13 | There 's other associates who like to know beforehand roughly how much they can provide for people by way of life cover and living assurance , so that they can give the people some idea , or maybe want to sit in front of them and use the rate book to give them some idea . |
| 14 | When we have resolved the matter we shall be in a position to give them all the reassurance they can ask . |
| 15 | In this regard , the teacher will know the pupils who need more help , and , as in all classes , will be in a position to give them any extra help needed in order to achieve the learning outcomes . |
| 16 | She preened her elegant nose , turning her head slightly in order to give them all the benefit of her profile . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But as you said if it is your responsibility you 'll have to do it all yourself , there are lots of resources and lots of other people who can actually help you out who have the knowledge and you can use because you can use it as a development tool ca n't you for some of your members of the section to give them some training expertise . |
| 19 | Here , they find the light they need in the spring , but as the sun gets hotter the growth of surrounding vegetation gives them some welcome shade . |