Example sentences of "giving them the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am grateful , and can only show my gratitude by giving them the text to criticise under more agreeable conditions . |
| 2 | At the same time , I have noticed that women academics can be ruthless bullies of girl students , with the possibly laudable motive of giving them the equivalent of a good shake . |
| 3 | If I 'd had control over everything I would have had a full Wales tour in the summer and then we would n't have needed to have the practice games , but as it is we are giving them the advantage and I wanted to try to do something about that . ’ |
| 4 | The key issues for the future of the Association are sustaining the number of voluntary welfare workers and their helpers and giving them the financial and other support they need to deal with both increasing and more complex welfare needs . |
| 5 | She enjoyed giving them the slip , as she sometimes succeeded in doing . |
| 6 | The idea is to invite youth workers to ring up onto a party line on a certain night , giving them the theme for discussion beforehand , linking them up with other people to talk about their work . |
| 7 | Through the successive phases of his career — at Gainsborough , Gaumont-British and then at his own Ealing Studios — he was to show that his talent lay in finding the most talented people available , giving them the best context to work in , inspiring and stimulating their efforts and intervening where necessary to ensure that the best possible film came out of the production process . |
| 8 | The Spastics Society has begun Alternative Lifestyles courses for disabled school leavers , ‘ providing positive alternatives to paid employment and giving them the confidence to take charge of their own lives ’ . |
| 9 | She was a very nice girl named Eugena , I think , and there were guards at the end of the hotel corridors , I remember giving them the slip and wandering around Khabarovsk on my own in a snowstorm , only to be told the next day that there was quite a bit of excitement in the city during the night because a Siberian tiger had come into the city and was wandering the streets at the same time I was ! |
| 10 | ‘ I know it sounds bizarre to say that when someone has made an awful lot of money and had a lot of fame and adulation , but you can wreck their minds , you can wreck their self-ego and esteem by giving them the whole wrong picture of themselves by pretending they are good at one thing when they are not and boosting other things . |
| 11 | Britain can not get the best performance from our employees by giving them the worst treatment . |
| 12 | It is in the management of effective communications that ‘ parents know best ’ and this is the area where we need to be giving them the very best of our attention . |
| 13 | Writing Radio Drama — A practical course aimed at getting women started on writing plays for radio and giving them the inspiration to carry on . |
| 14 | Finally , reward those who have read the papers by giving them the most opportunities to talk about the material and to express their views . |
| 15 | Confident of winning the ball , Hove brought their full-back into the line , thereby giving them the overlap , but their rather mediocre handling and some excellent shadowing by Godwin prevented them from capitalising on this for much of the half . |
| 16 | It was n't until 1880 with the passing of the Ground Game Act , giving tenant farmers protection against their landlords and giving them the right to kill hares and rabbits , that the laws were even modestly relaxed . |
| 17 | And at only 70 calories per generous serving of plain boiled rice , you know you are giving them the healthy option . |
| 18 | But even now , I still believe that if you trust someone you 're giving them the chance to prove that they are trustworthy . |
| 19 | To care for , teach and train a child , giving them the love and discipline they need in a secure home , requires all the intelligence and skill a woman possesses . |
| 20 | But I just hope Rugby League bosses will help the rest of the British talent by giving them the right set-up in which to play and train . ’ |
| 21 | Postal clerks and refrigeration engineers became passable guerrillas , giving them the added confidence they needed when men from this camp faced Japanese attack . |
| 22 | On that morning I was giving them the latest news of Nigel . |
| 23 | The gods breathed ‘ vitalism ’ into living creatures , thereby giving them the quality of life . |
| 24 | Your baby will love the taste — and you can be happy in the knowledge that Robinsons concentrated juices are giving them the goodness that they need . |
| 25 | The young people we surveyed felt completely let down by teachers and parents who are n't giving them the facts of life . |
| 26 | It aims to provide the boys with a good education , in a caring environment , while giving them the opportunity to train towards the specific goal of reaching the top 50 in the world , as professional tennis players . |
| 27 | Some of these patriarchs grow magnificent beards and moustaches , the whole effect giving them the appearance of an Old Testament prophet . |
| 28 | Recent researchers , such as H.L. Miles ( 1983 ) , claim to have had more luck but even then , giving them the benefit of every doubt , ‘ there remains a large gap between the signing of these trained apes and the speech of children who have vocabularies of approximately the same size ’ ( Griffin 1984 : 199 ) . |
| 29 | We need to offer an education that enables them to play a positive role in society by giving them the opportunity to use their talents . |
| 30 | The expense of improving the standards of qualification and training of both categories of investigator was high , but these days newly recruited Inspectors ( Ops ) usually have a current qualification on modern aircraft and the cost is concerned merely with maintaining their currency on these types and giving them the opportunity to fly light aircraft regularly . |