Example sentences of "[verb] and give [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Time which might have been devoted to instructing deaf children in the acquisition of English grammar , arithmetic and other school subjects was , in the view of many leading deaf people including deaf businessmen like A.J.Wilson and George Edward , being curtailed in order to try and give deaf children speech training .
2 His dedication to the subject was complete and he continued to write and give high quality papers at various conferences .
3 Top Scot fined and given stern warning
4 We found HEp-2 cells were easy to grow and manipulate and gave reliable results in the adhesion studies ; this is the cell line recommended for adhesion assay of enteropathogenic and other pathogenic E coli .
5 NHS professionals normally perceive day hospitals as a possible alternative to hospital admission for people who are acutely ill and can not be treated as outpatients or at home , as a place for recently discharged short-term in-patients to attend for a period while settling back into normal life , and as a place to treat , monitor and give social support to long-term patients who would otherwise live isolated lives .
6 We do n't always have to agree ; we should be open to both receive and give positive comment and challenges .
7 PPA members sought to have their ‘ referral schemes ’ adopted and given high priority within the county plan .
8 They are very comfortable to wear and give excellent support to the arch of the foot , as well as allowing a better fit around the heel .
9 If proceedings are commenced by the wrong originating process , eg by summons rather than by originating application , such a breach of the rules is not necessarily fatal — thecourt may set the proceedings aside or it may allow them to be amended and give such directions as it thinks fit ( Ord 37 , r 5 ) .
10 Thus Dewey 's policy of integrity of numbers has found great favour : an undertaking has been made that a piece of notation will not be revised and given another meaning .
11 This in effect recognized and gave official sanction to the thriving black market .
12 They elbowed and fought and gave each other tongue-sandwiches , and spat at passers-by and in each other 's faces , there in the cold and rain of decaying London , with the indifferent police looking on .
13 The record came to an end and everyone clapped and gave high-spirited whoops and whistles .
14 It is , in fact , relatively obvious and uncontentious to argue that in some societies or sub-cultures the distinction between ‘ objective ’ and ‘ context-dependent ’ is more consciously drawn and given more weight than in others ( cf.
15 Mr. Farr then had her stuffed and gave poor Bess to me .
16 Under the Communist regime , orphans were treated as mentally handicapped and given little help .
17 Good subjects are large cichlids or catfish , since the camera needs to be further away to capture the whole fish , making it easier to focus and giving greater depth of field .
18 The United Kingdom and France in particular argued that refugees should be accommodated and given appropriate assistance as near as possible to their place of origin .
19 Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ .
20 The colorimetric test in which sodium diethyldithio-carbamate is used is extensively employed and gives satisfactory results when tartaric acid is added to remove interference from iron , calcium , and magnesium .
21 All departments involved will be notified and given detailed schedules .
22 Could I firstly start by thanking those delegates who after Congress yesterday have expressed support about the two rule changes that we lost and to give some encouragement to new delegates here that even if you get up here and you lose it , there 's some one hell of a lot of support out there on the floor .
23 A team of six engineers were hired and given great freedom in assessing user needs , and generating , developing and exploiting the ideas .
24 The first pitch used to employ a point of aid to cross the overhang , but an alternative way round this was found and gives good jug pulling to the belay .
25 This includes many trekking centres , who , too often subject to disparaging remarks , can be well run and given decent horses often provide the best way to explore rugged terrain , highly unsuited to fasts riding .
26 The special Latin status of ‘ Italian-ness ’ is especially evident in the extensive build-up to the Mondiali , which displays the extravagant aspects of a nation which exalts and gives equal value to cultural institutions like football and opera .
27 So a leisure card 's been introduced now and will be I hopefully will be expand and give that sort of financial reward to people who live in the town .
28 As they left the Springall mansion and waited in Cheapside for an ostler to bring their horses round from the stables , Athelstan sensed Cranston was furious with him but the coroner waited until they had mounted and moved away from the house before stopping and giving full vent to his fury .
29 The talent he has encouraged and given much time and effort to , includes the 1986 Club Champion , 20-year-old Simon Barrington who was twice Junior Champion ; Michael Orris , the Joint Course record holder and County Alliance player ; Guy Phillips , still 17 , the Junior Champion and Captain ( handicap 5 ) and who whilst competing in the Daily Express Ford qualifying round at Royal Mid-Surrey in 1986 played to level par and went on to play in the finals in Spain ) ; Henry Bareham , also handicap 5 , who played for English Schools and Graham Booth , the Thames Valley League Junior Champion .
30 Ten days later she was admitted and given intravenous steroids , and died of presumed septicaemia shortly after a laparotomy ( day 38 ) .
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