Example sentences of "[noun] could give " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tail became long and strong enough for sculling quickly through the water , and the hind legs could give powerful kicks to the river bottom . |
| 2 | Mr Smith said he feared that opt-out schools could give rise to a two-tier education system . |
| 3 | The lesser charge of hijacking vehicles to form roadblocks during the general strike collapsed when the soldier called as a witness could give only vague and imprecise descriptions . |
| 4 | There was no comfort her priest could give Philip . |
| 5 | FEARS are mounting that increasingly sophisticated electronic calculators could give some pupils an unfair advantage in GCSE and Advanced level exams . |
| 6 | Miners are thus a high risk group for the development of gastric cancer and gastroscopic screening could give a significant yield of early gastric cancers . |
| 7 | Er what I need er er and is helpful er , it would be helpful if Professor could give some confirmation of this . |
| 8 | These are reluctant hunters , ill at ease and inexperienced , wary lest a nervous glance could give flesh to fear — the fear of coming face to face with a cowering countryman , the fear of finding the loaded chamber in a game of Russian roulette . |
| 9 | It should be noted that where readers could give more than one answer to a question , percentage results may add up to more than 100% , and that the rounding of figures to the nearest whole number may also , on occasion , have produced a total of slightly more — or less — than 100% . |
| 10 | Chester manager John Lang could give new keeper John Dunn , signed from Boldon CA , his debut , while Chad Bone and Joe Calvert are expected to return . |
| 11 | National influence could give a lord a local following greater than his land alone would warrant , as Gloucester 's own career was to demonstrate . |
| 12 | National influence could give a lord a local following greater than his land alone would warrant , as Gloucester 's own career was to demonstrate . |
| 13 | Many heiresses could give him dollars , few could offer him the appearance and manner of a lady — it was that which had attracted him after the cruder charms of such as Maybelle Foy . |
| 14 | It may be doubted , for example , that a single act could give rise to a sensation of harassment ; it would be an unusual use of language to say that a person was harassing another by a single act ( such as a wolf whistle ) , since that term generally connotes an element of persistence . |
| 15 | A mind could not be read any more reliably than keys could give up the name of a killer . |
| 16 | DEADLY sharks could give a lifeline to cancer victims . |
| 17 | He thought this kind of work could give him what he most valued , independence and freedom to think . |
| 18 | Influence over the machinery of the law could give a politician additional means of gratifying friends and intimidating enemies , for a word in the right place could greatly ease the problems of those who came into conflict with the laws . |
| 19 | Law could give his party a new image , but the reality would remain much as before . |
| 20 | My return could give them a lift . ’ |
| 21 | The more isolated rural Free City population gave its support to the NSDAP at an early stage , but by and large the city dwellers could give the lie to much Nazi propaganda . |
| 22 | Surely it is possible that a jury might decline to convict of murder a person who intentionally killed under gross provocation , even though they knew that the judge could give a lenient sentence , because they wished to signify the reduction in the defendant 's culpability by using the less stigmatic label of manslaughter . |
| 23 | Not even the best vintage champagne could give this feeling of exhilaration . |
| 24 | Why , oh why , was n't it Harry who could offer her the life Pogo could give her ? |
| 25 | And if Third World countries defaulted together , the very size of their combined debts could give them massive bargaining power . |
| 26 | Who else but Runcorn could give an impromptu hour-long lecture on any geophysical topic and probably have just the right slides in his pocket to support it ? |
| 27 | Poor Madame Moulton found that Princess Metternich had acquired a quantity of corn on the cob which she had persuaded the Empress to have cooked and served so that Mme Moulton could give a demonstration of how it should be eaten . |
| 28 | Smoking could give you cataracts , according to American scientists . |
| 29 | United manager Jim McLean revealed that he deliberately took off Michael O'Neill six minutes from the end so that the travelling support could give him a personal ovation . |
| 30 | When it really mattered , Kelly could give great phone . |