Example sentences of "[to-vb] people the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is a matter of choice , and I am sure that the hon. Gentleman would not wish to deny people the opportunity of employment . |
| 2 | We reject the compulsory route that is favoured by the Labour party , which will never understand that the way forward is to motivate and to encourage and to give people the incentives that they need to make the most of the opportunities that are available to them , not simply to rely on the dead hand of compulsion . |
| 3 | He also stressed his belief that ‘ people should have the right to express their views through the ballot box , and he would continue to look for a way to give people the chance to exercise their democratic rights , ’ the department 's spokesman said . |
| 4 | We decided we ought to give people the opportunity to see some of the water meadow . |
| 5 | We need to fight drug addiction in the first instance and I do n't want to give people the paraphernalia to continue using drugs . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Before , we used to give people the tools and let them get on with the modelling , ’ Mr Wise explains . |
| 7 | They hoped to lubricate this process by issuing an action guide for pedestrians , described as a ‘ tool kit , to give people the means and the skills to create a better environment . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ In order to get bums on pews you 've got to give people the feeling they will have a tremendous experience and make a contribution . ’ |
| 9 | Of Sir Leon 's aims , the hardest to realise will be to give people the right to join a foreign fund . |
| 10 | I can if necessary put the achievements and remaining problems of my writers into words to save people the trouble of making up their own minds . |
| 11 | Trying to convince people the project was worth pursuing was not easy , and over a long period personal time had to be carved out to work on the project from time allocated to a variety of other activities ranging from textile fibres to films and even to electronics . |
| 12 | Erm then we wonder whether to offer people the chance of , you know , offer them a resit year or whether we want to ask them to withdraw asking people to withdraw is very rare actually , I have n't seen that done very often |
| 13 | The British Medical Association said the bill failed to offer people the assurances they wanted . |
| 14 | It was as if all creation conspired here to show people the mystery and the marvel of love . |
| 15 | For prison staff , opening their doors has been a chance to show people the reality of a modern jail . |
| 16 | We spent hours on the phone Thursday evening working through the guest-list to tell people the party was cancelled . |
| 17 | And why , as tellers , when we want to tell people the truth , do we do so by telling them instead what we believe ? |
| 18 | And yet , when I want to tell people the truth , what I will in fact do is try to get them to believe what I believe . |
| 19 | So that ca n't be why , when we want to tell people the truth about what 's going on , what we actually do is try to give them our own beliefs about what 's going on . |
| 20 | The " atmosphere of ideological domineering " had been replaced by freedom of thought and glasnost , and leaders had at last begun to tell people the truth . |