Example sentences of "[pron] can give a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I can give a few pointers to anyone just starting up . |
| 2 | ‘ If I can give a player an extra metre it 's the difference between winning a ball and losing it . ’ |
| 3 | I can give a commitment to the hon. Gentleman that we shall consider Edinburgh 's bid with great care before making the final allocations to local authorities . |
| 4 | As to my hon. Friend 's comment that the security forces should be allowed to operate without constraint from political considerations , I can give a categorical assurance that no such restraint for political reasons will be imposed . |
| 5 | Oh I can give a couple to the goats as well |
| 6 | I can give an illustration of what I mean . |
| 7 | I know of my hon. Friend 's interest in the matter , following the report of the Select Committee on Employment , and I can give an assurance that if the consultants ' report to which I referred has not yet reached the Department of Employment , it will do so as soon as possible . |
| 8 | My Lords , I I 'm not sure that I can give an absolute answer to that , it would be wrong for me to , to guess . |
| 9 | One special type of reflector lamp is the PAR ( parabolic aluminised reflector ) , which can give a very defined beam , and has the advantage that it is resistant to changes in temperature , making it ideal for use outside . |
| 10 | These include the wavelet transform , which can give a measure of the fractal qualities of a given sound , and something called the granular synthesis model , which considers sound as consisting of quanta localised both in time and frequency . |
| 11 | On some islands , there is a lethargic variety of sea-snake which lies on the sand in the shallow , and which can give a nasty poisonous bite when stood on . |
| 12 | Other world-wide eustatic causes of sea level change include sedimentary infilling of ocean basins which could give a sea level rise of 4 mm/100 years equivalent to 40 m in a million years ( Higgins , 1965 ) ; orogenic eustasy whereby orogenic uplift creates ocean basins of different size ; geoidal eustasy whereby the ocean surface reflects the variations in the geoid surface due to the earth 's irregular distribution of mass which can give a difference between lows and highs of as much as 180 m . |
| 13 | weather conditions , things like that , so he ca n't increase the scale of production at his own will , and therefore ca n't exploit the economies of scale which can give an increase in production . |
| 14 | The inch-long spiders , which can give an unpleasant bite , are thought to have arrived on fruit boats and are now common in Portsmouth and Worthing . |
| 15 | Valuable coaching can often come from drama school tutors who can give a fair assessment of the possibilities you may have prior to auditioning . |
| 16 | They see the tiny , vivacious Chicana poetess as someone who can give a voice to their experiences of LA . |
| 17 | So erm and another thing I was going to suggest erm I need help really erm for the meetings , I need somebody who will help , a social secretary say somebody who will help with the raffles and somebody who will organize meetings , what 's going on at meetings because it 's getting , the job is getting most difficult and I work part-time and it 's , it 's , I 'm not getting any younger and I 'm finding it a struggle to try and get everything fixed , the raffles and the what 's going on and everything organized , so if you , if you if you could see the way clear , perhaps we could create a social secretary or an assistant secretary where we could have somebody who can give a hand with the organization of the meetings |
| 18 | For someone who can give an object as plain and manageable as a book all the symmetry and neatness of a loosely wrapped food blender , the prospect of getting cumbersome gardening tools into a parcel terrifies me . |
| 19 | Matters have to be handled on a basis of equal awareness between numerous potential peers in the management task but it is the school alone , led by the head , who can give an assurance of quality . |
| 20 | Elongated cables are similar to the classic cricket sweater cables but by both making them narrower and alternating the crossovers you can give a more fashion conscious look to a garment . |
| 21 | Forget about DOS 's weedy eight/three character limit , you can give a file a meaningful description , up to 68 characters long . |
| 22 | So that 's , that 's , I mean you can give a very precise mathematical definitions of what we 're talking about . |
| 23 | In our study we find , where you can give a fairly reliable diagnosis , people will know the situation and can plan . |
| 24 | And becau , that 's one of the most valuable benefits you can give a customer time and control . |
| 25 | ‘ He asked if you can give an extra two hundred and fifty millilitres . ’ |
| 26 | Huh , er just , please help us , you know we get on much better , of course you can give an explanation , all Mr wants , you requested is said whether you did raise it , of course you could say , we did n't , I did n't because erm of so and so , because there was n't an opportunity or whatever , but do tell us whether yes or no whether you raised it surely that 's possible Mr is n't it ? , is n't it ? , am I trying to assist you , during my people are just not answering the questions , put it again in blunt form Mr would you please |
| 27 | Now if we can give a sense to a residue of basic rules which qualify as human rights , as I have argued , then a respect for life would certainly be one of them . |
| 28 | Suppose that , in the first case , we can give a detailed account of how expansion occurred , and in the second can recount the calculations and decisions of the firm 's executives . |
| 29 | The room itself is an object , with all its elements , carpets and hangings included , constituting an authentic whole , through which we can give a lesson in the development of style and taste . |
| 30 | I think that if today we can give a little help to those who are carrying on the race the money will not be wasted , ’ ( House of Commons Debate , Vol. 300 , col. 1634 ) . |