Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] giving [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PC Pick said : ‘ The Freeman Hospital have been exceptionally good in giving us two heart valves to take over . ’ |
| 2 | The vacancies came to light as the Department of the Environment announced a reorganisation of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution , prior to giving it new powers in the ‘ green ’ Bill . |
| 3 | The perceptive executive search consultant ( a ) keeps in contact with clients , both actual and prospective , and ( b ) is very effective at giving them this sort of information . |
| 4 | He laid a small bet with himself that Fishbane had been responsible for giving her this photo-opportunity . |
| 5 | There was no way she could prove her innocence , and he was certainly not open to giving her any benefit of the doubt . |
| 6 | I 've been so frightened of giving her all my love . |
| 7 | Well it 's just that for that , I mean that 's all , it 's all relative for those conditions there are , there is too much labour on the land , you erm , if you could increase agricultural productivity in a way that would displace labour and that 's very difficult to do , well you can , you can do it er most , most capital is labour displacing but not all , not all capital , erm so you could , whereas I see , I see what you are saying is that , why well the you could g you could , you could do it right even though that there are a lot of people on the land er you could still make them wholly productive by giving them more capital that was n't labour that was n't labour displacing , like you give them better seeds for example , like that would increase the productivity of the land , there would n't be so much you know population pressure on the land er because everybody would have enough to eat and we could er actually sell something , right . |
| 8 | By itself such music would be shattering with its evocation of primordial universality , but the Apolline particularity of the tragic myth makes the evocation bearable by giving us sublime individuals to feel for and to satisfy our sense of beauty . |