Example sentences of "them the benefit " in BNC.
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| 1 | And some companies are of such eminence in the world that , for an appropriate emolument , retired politicians , diplomats and higher civil servants are more than happy to bestow on them the benefits of the business acumen and personal probity for which they are rightly renowned . |
| 2 | Thus the implementation of the Maastricht Treaty is seen by Northern and Central Europeans as an earnest of the will and capacity of the West Europeans to extend to them the benefits of European Union . |
| 3 | To give them the benefit of the doubt , this may well be necessitated by their unique position , but at times it appears alarmingly like arrogant behaviour . |
| 4 | The career support scheme , which would be voluntary , would put people seeking advice in touch with others who had already experienced their particular problem and could give them the benefit of their knowledge . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | He would give them the benefit of his theories that letting their hair down at pop concerts and football matches would be a therapeutic and profitable use of their leisure time . |
| 7 | Houseplants , like the rest of us , enjoy a summer holiday , so give them the benefit of a spell in the fresh air — they 'll love it . |
| 8 | He indicated that , without specific application to children 's hearings , the nature of the children 's hearings system ‘ leaves [ it ] outside the benefit of this Bill ’ , and he added : ‘ It would be wrong to deny them the benefit of the Bill when , if they had committed serious offences and appeared before the courts , they would have had its protection . ’ |
| 9 | A good example of this is provided by the reaction provoked by the influx of the Palatines , fleeing religious persecution in Germany , and the Whig ministry 's decision to allow them the benefit of naturalisation in 1709 . |
| 10 | We get to know people by accepting them , by trusting them — the opposite of doubt — and by " giving them the benefit of the doubt " indeed , unless exceedingly strong evidence to the contrary presents itself . |
| 11 | Why deny them the benefit of self respect and a sense of purpose , which training on such a scheme would create . |
| 12 | And perhaps because of Chrysler 's ignominious retreat from our only volume car manufacturing plant , we spared the cars nothing — never once gave them the benefit of the doubt in the sort of conditions which could tear a wheel off a less rugged vehicle . |
| 13 | They said they 're going to take ten days to make up their mind Lynda so we 'll give them the benefit of the doubt . |
| 14 | There at the start of the working day , giving you , you 've got ta say that next step and tell them , okay , if you can say so what , you have n't told them the benefit . |