Example sentences of "[vb -s] give [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Sponsorships by the Bergeson shipping line and Norwegian Salmon has given financial security .
2 The revolution , through state control , has given agricultural labourers greater security and better wages by turning them into state employees .
3 The House of Lords has given useful guidance in this respect .
4 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 .
5 Glasnost has given Soviet Jews new freedoms , new confidence and new fears .
6 Taiwan banned rhino horn imports in 1985 but has given traditional medicine shops until 1994 to sell existing stocks [ see ED 65 ] .
7 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 .
8 Motivating employees is another issue to which Laing has given much thought .
9 We were really gratified , and the chapel has given much pleasure .
10 We were really gratified , and the chapel has given much pleasure .
11 For many years now it has given much pleasure to both young and old .
12 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 .
13 In extensive trials throughout Europe this method of control has given good results and may well be the forerunner of other similar devices .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 So unfortunately Geoff wo n't be able to repeat the service he has given other friends when he eventually retires .
20 By passing on his skills he has given other youngsters the incentive to go on to achieve greater things .
21 The Government has given two orders to the House of Commons for their approval .
22 The Education Secretary , John Patten , has given two schools forty days to present a plan for how they 're going to improve their standards after failing Government requirements .
23 Until then Darlington Health Authority has given one member of nursing staff extra training in diabetic problems .
24 But , what Freud had realized by the nineteen twenties was that there are lots of different ways of doing that , and has given one example .
25 He has given one apostle Gaudi 's face , and his robot-like Roman soldiers are copies of chimney-pots the architect designed .
26 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 .
27 Nevertheless the structure of the planning process within the district health authorities ( DHAs ) of the NHS has given wide scope for public interests to be admitted .
28 The social fund has given extensive help to people in real need .
29 The EC 's overseas aid directorate has given conditional approval to a funding proposal for a southern African ivory trading centre , which would flout the existing provisions of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) .
30 Insistence on instant cause and effect was particularly prevalent among sects such as Plymouth Brethren , and Edmund Gosse , in recording his early life , has given revealing examples of his father 's inflexible thinking .
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