Example sentences of "[noun] gives them [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At the same time many among them are sympathetic to the Greens , whom their second vote gives them the opportunity to support .
2 They not only make an income from their paintings , and the cards from them , but their work gives them the challenge to succeed despite handicap .
3 ‘ They need booze because the stink from the engine gives them the runs .
4 But if electoral reform gives them a state they can respect , popular enthusiasm for all things European may ebb .
5 They can see that the UN gives them a position at the bargaining table .
6 This new process gives them the confidence to experiment with the 240 test shades available .
7 Those aged above 60 have a pedestrian casualty rate per head of population which is nearly double that of the 20–39 age group , whilst their greater likelihood of dying from a particular accident gives them a fatality rate six and one half times higher .
8 The club is chasing trophies on three fronts and today 's FA Cup tie gives them a chance of a quarter-final place and another money-spinning match against a big club .
9 Her dry observations on race , class and gender in the Caribbean are made almost in passing , but her knowing smile gives them a ring of authority .
10 This behavioural pattern gives them the chance to avoid detection initially by staying very still .
11 At light-speed , however , their very velocity gives them the ability to exert pressure .
12 And I think another reason why we do so well educationally is that the baby gives them a sense of direction and purpose and they may not want to get 16+ exams but they want to for their baby .
13 Mmembers themselves say being part of a national union gives them a voice to fight for their rights .
14 The budget gives them a get-out option but the CPL and Marjorie Roberts are grinning like Cheshire cats to have extracted such a promise .
15 When they 're still children a mother or a whore gives them a piece of broken mirror in which they trap a ray of the sun and reflect it into one of the Palace windows .
16 What Trudy and Juanita and the rest of them are trying to say , it seems to me , is that Tod gives them the creeps .
17 With a U-form structure , in which the functional basis of decomposition is preserved all the way up the hierarchy , more of top management 's time is devoted to these operational matters , whose pressing need for resolution gives them an urgency not usually attached to issues of a more long-run , strategic kind .
18 A fly on the dressing room wall suggests Alex Miller was furious with his players ' performance but the trip to Glasgow gives them a chance to atone .
19 The degree show gives them a chance to exhibit their work publicly in central London .
20 Conrad and Philippa think they are real , and their reality gives them the right to doubt mine .
21 The impact of the National Curriculum and all the changes it brings with it gives heads a pressing reason — just as Mr Baker 's off-the-peg allocation of incentive allowances gives them an opportunity — to review the structures and responsibilities of management in their schools .
22 Shelter gives them the confidence to come out in the open .
23 They may not have a reason to prefer one way of going about things to another , but the fact that they chose to do it in a particular way gives them a reason to prefer that way from now on .
24 Rail privatisation gives them the shivers .
25 This system gives them an accommodation of 50 dioptres , the greatest focusing range of any animal .
26 The level of tuition fees charged to students gives them the right to expect a professional standard of service , particularly with regard to test-marking ; the Education Service is judged , to a considerable extent , by that criterion .
27 Having a spill gives them a thrill , and it 's something for them to talk about afterwards . ’
28 Their agility gives them the edge , not so much in dispossessing an attacker but in evading attempts to win back the ball and in creating time and space for passing and regenerating their own offence .
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