Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [adv] give [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mums who struggle for 12 hours or more to give birth look with envy on those lucky women who have short labours of two to three hours . |
| 2 | Travel agents are more conscious of the risks and usually give travellers a list of vaccines or medicines that they should obtain before they go . |
| 3 | For individuals requiring income , an investment in convertibles can bring a higher return than an investment in equities and still give scope for some capital appreciation . |
| 4 | One successful type of sponsorship that not only creates a more accurate impression of modern teaching methods but also gives parents something back in the way of entertainment is the sponsored Krypton Factor type event . |
| 5 | Most of York 's old central pubs have fallen victim to drastic recent remodelling with yawning spaces , often indistinguishable from one pub to another , replacing the old rooms and idiosyncratic nooks and corners that previously gave individuality and preserved genuine historic character . |
| 6 | The insults or stresses which cause the imbalances and so give rise to disease can be of two types : |
| 7 | At first it was filled with gases that modern organisms would find highly toxic , such as ammonia and possibly hydrogen cyanide — though these are the gases that probably gave rise to organic life . |
| 8 | Team spirit was much in evidence though , with the fitter people helping the strugglers and always giving encouragement . |
| 9 | But it is damage wrought on the international competitiveness of American firms that really gives pause for thought . |
| 10 | Fortunately some soldiers felt real responsibility for their officers and often gave gifts in kind if they did n't have any spare cash . |
| 11 | The lack of oxygen may cause occasional trouble with easily reduced substances and possibly give conditions where anaerobic corrosion could occur . |
| 12 | The debate over the classification of the duck-billed platypus — which lays eggs but also gives milk — arose out of this issue , with the serialists trying to use it as a link between the reptiles and the mammals . |
| 13 | Where are they now corner … in the wake of the current ORANGE JUICE resurgence , we hear that former bassist DAVE MCCLYMONT is currently employed making rice balls in an ethnic restaurant of some description in Sydney , while MALCOLM ROSS works in a hospital shop in Southend selling bottles of Lucozade to visiting relatives but still gives guitar lessons in the evenings . |
| 14 | Please contact ( ) with offers for other stalls and please give names of persons organizing the stall . |
| 15 | They are , as I have emphasized , highly organized political formations , which tend to develop a life of their own , to some extent independent of the social interests that originally gave rise to them and of their changing environment , and may acquire the character ( or at least the appearance ) of permanent elements in the political system . |
| 16 | As such , the ethnic minorities represent a major demographic strength for parts of urban Britain , though at the same time their presence may have hastened the exodus of better-off whites and certainly gives rise to a very difficult set of policy issues ( Chapter 8 ) . |
| 17 | Back beyond the Oligocene there is evidence only of archaeocetes , the rather large ancestral toothed whales that apparently gave rise to both the Odontoceti and Mysticeti . |
| 18 | The company helps the farmers to grow better tobaccos and also gives advice and help in the important task of producing better food crops . |
| 19 | Some American centres identify carriers and then give prophylaxis during labour to those at increased risk . |
| 20 | Erm Well not that I 've come across yet I 'd rather do something that 's getting the facts and then giving examples . |