Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] [vb mod] give [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Since the legal rules about the control of water pollution are expressed through the discretion of field officers it is important to understand their working definitions of pollution in terms of the kinds of events , activities , or social settings which could give rise to action on their part , whatever its ultimate conclusion .
2 My reason for not having done it myself and my father 's reasons for not having done it with the National Gallery is that , in the case of Yale , I 'm looking forward to the day when there 'll be other people interested in English art who will give paintings or money to the Center for British Art just because it is the Center for British Art , where they would n't do it if it was the Paul Mellon Center for British Art .
3 TODAY is all in favour of pressing ahead with the great public works which will give jobs in the construction , building and engineering industries , all of which have been badly hit by the recession .
4 Each client is matched with a trained volunteer who will give support , advice and companionship to that young person through meeting them regularly .
5 she has opposed every new European law which would give women more justice .
6 On the practical side all members are offered a free portfolio consultation with a professional consultant who will give advice on your strong and weak points as well as make suggestions about the most suitable clients and agents to approach for your particular type of work .
7 The dietician is consulted and provides a commercially made liquid diet which will give Mr Reynolds the nutrients he needs and is high in calories and protein .
8 Elderly people and their families who wish to ‘ go it alone , so far as obtaining outside help is concerned are , of course , quite at liberty to do so , and four of the large organisations who can give advice on a great variety of problems are :
9 Despite his human limitations he managed to retrieve the underwater thorn which would give immortality , although it was stolen from him on his journey back to Uruk by a serpent .
10 So what can snappy families do to resolve the frustrations in their interpersonal relationships which may give rise to verbal fights , bitter conflicts and destructive hostilities ?
11 This historical fascination inspired their limitless appetite for novel titbits of information on savage customs which would give substance to the shadowy forms of their own distant ancestors .
12 At best in a major conflict it would give allies time to reach agreement on how to use nuclear weapons .
13 no more than the embodiment of administrative arrangements which would give order to a confused system and some of which had been recommended and accepted as desirable during the previous two decades .
14 So let us take one of the two decision variables and try to create a possible argument which might give rise to the observed comparative static effects ; this argument is partly backed by some of the questionnaire responses .
15 Mrs Thatcher should do either as the Mail demands and replace Mr Lawson with a Chancellor of whose policies she can wholeheartedly approve or , as Mr Heseltine urges , lift her veto against the only course which could give credibility to an exchange rate policy .
16 She and other women , Protestant and Catholic , are working to establish a string of small businesses which will give jobs to kids who might otherwise join the terrorists .
17 He devised passages containing critical sentences which could give rise to several possible inferences .
18 Whatever the economic and administrative problems of crofting , it has a social and sociological value which should give pause to those who seek to destroy it , or who see no virtue in enabling it to survive .
19 The time seemed ripe for a cabinet and prime ministerial intervention which would give Britain a higher profile space policy .
20 And you will do so by listening to all the other officers who will give evidence in the case .
21 Council lawyers are currently drafting a scheme based on a new bye-law which will give police the power to arrest anyone drinking in public places .
22 Villagers are angry over a proposed deal which would give owners of a gravel pit the right to build thirty houses .
23 By Aug. 24 , when the Security Council Military Staff Committee met , the USA had drafted a proposed resolution which would give UN legitimacy to the use of the necessary force to maintain a blockade , but which would leave the decision on such interventions to the naval command ( i.e. to the US Navy , in practice , or the British or French , since it was expected that those other countries which had contributed naval forces on a smaller scale would wish to avoid this controversial step ) .
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