Example sentences of "[pron] would give [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Federation of Small Businesses said it was a ‘ lifeboat Budget ’ which would give £500m to business ratepayers . |
| 4 | According to Mr Punch ‘ kicking out teeth ’ was a regular pastime among the good citizens of Oldham , and Salford — which would give birth to the Scuttlers at some later point in the 1880s — was already on the boil . |
| 5 | Yet a combination of gut anti-European prejudice and some strange part-ideological , part-mystical belief in a largely bogus economic sovereignty ( witness the events of last week ) prevents her from taking the one step which would give credibility to the fight against inflation . |
| 6 | Villagers are angry over a proposed deal which would give owners of a gravel pit the right to build thirty houses . |
| 7 | The reformers ' ideal was a world ordered by intellectual logic ( which would give rise to fully blown scholasticism ) , by law and jurisdiction , by a centre at Rome . |
| 8 | However , firms already have to face uncertainty in the context of UCTA and the criteria used to assess whether a duty of care which would give rise to liability in tort is owed . |
| 9 | The merchant explained there would be a tableau which would give honour to the king as well as reflect the glory of the Goldsmith 's Guild , with huge screens on which the carpenters and masons had carved elaborate scenes . |
| 10 | And now GPs in affected areas are advising patients to consider having a vaccine , which would give immunity for up to six months . |
| 11 | But this approach seems unnecessarily rigid in cases where the matters which would give grounds for judicial review could also be resolved by the alternative process . |
| 12 | A working group of senior parliamentarians broke the deadlock at the talks by endorsing a charter which would give equality in parliament to the majority Muslim population and transfer powers now enjoyed by the Maronite presidency to a cabinet headed by a Sunni Muslim . |
| 13 | But he did n't have time to speculate now as he strode across the office with the others following , down the ‘ corridor ’ between the screens and towards the double-doors directly ahead which would give access to the secondary staircase . |
| 14 | She would give money to them to have their hair done . |
| 15 | In Genesis , Sarah 's reaction to the news that she would give birth to a son in her old age is a good example . |
| 16 | For a terrible moment Shannon thought she would give way to tears , and knew it was because of his fury on her behalf . |
| 17 | Witnesses would be called who would give testimony about the effects of such concussion upon the brain physiology . |
| 18 | In view of the current economic crisis , I would be grateful if you would give consideration to the following figures : |
| 19 | It is almost certain that an offer of mediation from you would give rise to an irresistible movement in favour of negotiations … . |
| 20 | The NABC has never fostered a North/South divide and the suggestion from Mr Atkinson that we would give preference to the views from southern counties , as against northern counties , is totally without foundation . |
| 21 | The presence of words that form a compound in consecutive positions other than by intention is improbable , hence from knowing the existence of a compound tennis courts one would give priority to these individual words over their alternative candidates . |
| 22 | It is to him that the most certain benefit of holding more surgeries would accrue : they would give proof of availability and sympathetic concern and increase the number of his personal contacts . |
| 23 | Well I think an awful lot of people think of Oxfam and think of the shops , er and the shops have been terribly important to us for such a long time , but we 've found a few years ago that er people who , er were asked said that they would give money to Oxfam , but that they were n't necessarily always asked . |
| 24 | They may provide for the position of the institutional equity investors in respect of warranties on a flotation , in particular , whether or not they would give warranties in the offer for sale agreement to the merchant bank leading the flotation . |
| 25 | How does the hon. Gentleman square his enthusiasm for the right of veto on that occasion with the decision of the leader of his party that he would give way at Maastricht on all the issues that are now being discussed ? |
| 26 | He would give £5 to my mum for all the cooking and £5 to my father and £5 to my uncle . |
| 27 | It has also been said that if a member of a court announced that he would give expression to his views by voting against every licence , he would be disqualified : McGeehan v. Knox ( supra ) , Lord Mackenzie at p.696 . |
| 28 | He talked wildly about shame and guilt , and how he would give part of the money he 'd inherited to his wife and to you , and use the rest to escape from England with the girl he loved . |
| 29 | He announced that if ‘ the House would sanction such a plan ’ , he would give notice in the Autumn for the preparation of an Act of Parliament to acquire the necessary property . |
| 30 | Another member of the quintet , one Lyamshin , a post-office clerk , gets himself asked to parties where ‘ he would give imitations of a pig , a thunder storm , a confinement , with the first cry of the baby , etc. , etc. ; that was what he was invited for ’ ; and later we hear of him ‘ mimicking , when requested , various types of jews , a deaf peasant woman making her confession , or the birth of a child … ’ . |