Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [adv] give [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The tree-lined city embankments , riverside walkways and yuppiefied warehouse flats soon gave way to deserted shipyards .
2 Announcements on college noticeboards often gave details of students who had been involved in ‘ inappropriate conduct ’ and dismissed from their studies .
3 It is also worth reiterating that traditional rape laws frequently give rise to light sentences for lesser offences .
4 The Co-operation System Framework Libraries now gives programmer access to the framework services from Smalltalk/V Version 2.0 and Micro Focus Plc Cobol .
5 In this regard , the ISS proposals for units and unit credits were consonant with other changes in secondary schools which were being developed at the same time : graded assessment , where the initial belief that it was simply a matter of devising achievement tests soon gave way to much more fundamental re-thinking about allied development work on curriculum content and teaching method ; and also work on profiles/records of achievement .
6 Few library authorities now give allocations to individual service points , since the benefits of gearing stock provision to a larger geographical area are widely recognized .
7 They show that animals pre-exposed once to vinegar before a conditioning trial with this flavour consumed more vinegar on the test trials than did control subjects not given pre-exposure .
8 In addition her action outside the assessment procedures also gave Mrs Jones the power to negotiate with other participants .
9 Coconut and banana trees quickly give way to a dim still forest .
10 The attempt of the Communist Party to implement Comintern decisions naturally gave rise to the most widely publicized of the movements for some kind of co-operation on the Left .
11 County councillors yesterday gave permission for every roundabout to be given an official identity , if possible that of the name already used locally .
12 Health care professionals constantly give patients information , clarify treatment options , and help people to adjust to new , and sometimes unwelcome , circumstances .
13 Gentle , rolling countryside of wooded glens and tumbledown cottages gradually gives way to a dramatic landscape of magnificent mountains towering above luminous lochs .
14 Why do golf clubs not give pitch repairers away free ?
15 Falling sea levels periodically gave mainland species , isolated on islands for thousands of years , the opportunity to join up again .
16 Older associationist models gradually gave way to interpretations based on concepts of language learning .
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