Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb mod] give a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Chemical analysis is usually employed to determine the materials from which an object is made , and often to identify trace elements which may give a clue to the origins and date of the object .
2 There were one or two comments made in the June issue which may give an insight to the British problem .
3 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 .
4 Translated into seats , the result of the Norris poll shows that the Tories will be unopposed in the Commons throughout the next Parliament with a working majority of 650 , though psephologists may quibble about the low sample size — 30 — which could give a margin of error of about minus 60 per cent .
5 In the 1790s Britain was still primarily an agricultural country ; it still appears to be so in the novels of Jane Austen twenty years later , and , after all , even today one could choose a route from East Anglia to Cornwall which would give a foreigner this impression .
6 There was a magazine called Kine Weekly , which would give a showman 's award for the best stunt .
7 Within the hour the camera , the film and the physical chemistry became so clear that with a great sense of excitement I hurried to the place where a friend was staying to describe to him in detail a dry camera which would give a picture immediately after exposure .
8 But representatives from AFHQ were to visit Eighth Army on 25 May , which would give an opportunity for these conflicts finally to be resolved .
9 introduce a comprehensive disability income scheme , which would give an income to those who could not work , or whose work was interrupted or restricted by disability .
10 a ) Work out three possible pairs of lengths and widths which would give an area of 16m .
11 There remain the possibilities that all left handers have bilateral speech representation ( which would give an EUL of 100 per cent ) or that some left handers have bilateral speech and others have unilateral speech .
12 This will enable you to make a thicker yarn by twisting several yarns together which will give a tweed effect when knitted up .
13 I want to reserve the publication of these works for a book which will give a view of Modigliani which is much closer to reality , and very different from that which you might get at present from what has been published so far in France and abroad ’ .
14 ls the opening to generate atmosphere and mood , to establish the location , time of day and/or period which will give an air of reality ?
15 The Optimum Income Trust , which will give an income return of 8.5 per cent , is to be marketed to financial intermediaries as well as stockbrokers .
16 There are several tried and tested arrangements of units and appliances which will give an idea of the use you can make of a given shape : The one-wall kitchen , the U-plan kitchen , the L-shaped kitchen and the galley kitchen .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
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