Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] give [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Choose styling products formulated to give a natural-looking hold for casual styling . |
| 2 | The Ministero dei Beni culturali has given a firm ‘ no ’ to the latest plans from the office of architect Renzo Piano , co-designer of the Pompidou Centre in Paris , for the restoration of the Palladian Basilica complex in Vicenza . |
| 3 | The US Justice Department 's Merger Guidelines and Vertical Restraints Guidelines are examples of rules designed to give an initial screen , and are obviously extremely helpful to firms and their advisers . |
| 4 | It is easy to show that these two steps combine to give the required result . |
| 5 | This left the adults without children ( ‘ possibly they had been taken off at the Dutch border ; the SS guards liked to give a lasting impression of their authority ’ ) and a few veterans of earlier Kindertransporte who returned to Liverpool Street — sometimes , like Martha Levy , three or four times a week , on the off chance of spotting friends from home . |
| 6 | fewer than half the drivers questioned gave the correct answers of 70mph and 60mph when asked what the UK speed limits are for dual and single carriageway roads . |
| 7 | What the blustering and bullying of Henry VIII had failed to do in the 1540s , the gentler approach of Henri II had now achieved triumphantly ; the Scots had given the French king what they had refused to the English one , control of their queen and , it seemed , control of their country . |
| 8 | If the parties wish to give an ordinary word some special meaning , an express definition clause should be included . |
| 9 | Individual B -factors were then refined and 509 water molecules added to give a final R -factor of 15.7% for all data between 20Å and 2.8Å ( 32,020 reflections ) . |
| 10 | So we talk of five hundred redundancies is totally wrong and I think erm in the circumstances calculated to give the wrong impression I hope I will urge that you do not accept the resolution and that we accept in . |
| 11 | In the light of the excessive technicality seen here , it is little wonder that Lord Wilberforce in Reardon Smith Line Ltd , and the House of Lords in Ashington Piggeries proposed giving a narrower scope to s13 , confining it to matters of identification . |
| 12 | The Berne Convention is the principal copyright convention , to which eighty-four countries are signatories , and by which the adherents undertake to give a minimum copyright recognition to creators within their jurisdiction . |
| 13 | The relatively cheap and rapid transportation it provided and the elasticity of capacity the companies boasted gave a powerful boost to the mass holiday-making industry . |
| 14 | Sometimes parents fail to give the true reason why something upsets them because they think the youngster is not old enough to know about such things . |
| 15 | It quoted him as saying that " if the Iraqis had given a positive response to our call sooner , the situation would be different now " , but also as adding that it had become " evident " that " the USA and its allies are pursuing wider aims than Iraq 's withdrawal from Kuwait " . |
| 16 | ‘ Parents need to give the right guidance ’ , she said . |
| 17 | Nothing came of it in 1545 , though in June French troops arrived to give the Scots temporary assistance against the English . |
| 18 | In sCD2 , as in CD4(D1D2) , the domains abut to give a rod-like molecule , which for sCD2 has approximate dimensions of 20x25x75 . |
| 19 | The idea of housing classes does give a rudimentary sense of groupings of potential housing competitors , however , even if the categories may differ somewhat or be less clearly defined in rural areas . |
| 20 | The [ draft ] FRS applies to all financial statements intended to give a true and fair view of a reporting entity 's financial position and profit or loss ( or income and expenditure ) for a period . |
| 21 | The answer is that they all are , because they apply to all financial statements intended to give a true and fair view , so they should be followed by societies . |
| 22 | A statement of source and application of funds with comparatives is required in financial statements intended to give a true and fair view of the financial position and profit or loss , except for enterprises with a turnover or gross income of less than £25,000 The statement should show the profit or loss for the period , together with the adjustments required for items which did not involve the movement of funds . |
| 23 | A statement of source and application of funds with comparatives is required in financial statements intended to give a true and fair view of the financial position and profit and loss , except for enterprises with a turnover or gross income of less than £25,000 . |
| 24 | Complaints sent from Malaysian businessmen to government officials have given an unprecedented insight into the extent of illegal rainforest logging in country . |
| 25 | The danger is to exaggerate their importance , as it seems clear that their actions tended to give the final blow to communities which were already in decay rather than to destroy those which were flourishing . |
| 26 | The difficulty is that the applicability of such general principles is subject to divergent interpretations ; in the absence of any authoritative international bodies entitled to give an impartial view , Cassese argues that ‘ the implementation of the general principles on weapons turns on the military strength of belligerents : strong States can dodge the bans without fear . |
| 27 | The digital thermometer on the front of your magazine is the result of many new technologies combining to give a simple , effective , low cost ( in this case free ! ) , accurate and long-life product . |
| 28 | The whips agree to give a certain amount of time for private members ' bills and private members ' motions , but they then encourage all their own backbenchers to ballot for these opportunities . |
| 29 | Yes , those ladies had given a useful fillip to his prestige . |
| 30 | European political leaders need to give a clear explanation of where the Community stands — a requirement which the MacSharry proposals simply do not meet . |