Example sentences of "give [noun] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it can give ideas about research design , key issues , and methods of data collection . |
| 2 | On Thursday , some of the Secretary of State 's officials will give evidence about Trident to the Select Committee on Defence . |
| 3 | Can give evidence about trial ? |
| 4 | This event will also give advice about equipment , routes and safety and will involve trying out new skills on a cycle orienteering course . |
| 5 | The Scottish Transport Group will give advice about which body it should go to . |
| 6 | I leap outside into the snow , stand ankle deep in the snow and strain frantically at the same time trying to remember which direction I am pointing so that I can give instructions about where not to get the snow for tomorrow 's tea . |
| 7 | For the majority of human existence , therefore , only archaeological evidence can give clues about the past . |
| 8 | Schumm ( 1968 ) also demonstrated how knowledge gained from contemporary denudation rates could give clues about the rates in geological time and suggested that with the appearance of grasses in the Cainozoic , the relations between climate , vegetation , erosion and runoff became much as today except for the subsequent influence of man . |
| 9 | Witnesses would be called who would give testimony about the effects of such concussion upon the brain physiology . |
| 10 | Since the images are slightly different , particularly for nearby objects , a comparison of the two versions can give information about distance . |
| 11 | Hotels do n't give information about guests easily . ’ |
| 12 | The manufacturer 's quotation will give information about the price of the product and any special terms ( eg discount for cash payment within seven days ) . |
| 13 | The booklet should also give information about bus connections from Alton to local hospitals in that area . |
| 14 | Credit Data told us that their policy was that only information about people under the same name should be passed where there was any possibility of multiple occupancy at a given address , but we felt that at least at the time of our visit this policy might not be clearly understood by the operators themselves , who might give information about people with other names at the given address , too . |
| 15 | At its most basic , the message sent from a small dashboard display would give information about the make and model of car , its registration number and position — but there 's no reason why it could n't also relate that the driver was a woman alone or a disabled person . |
| 16 | These messages , it is widely believed , can give information about the future , the remote past or things taking place in distant parts of the world ; at a more down-to-earth level , psychologists and especially psychoanalysts think that analysis of dreams can reveal details of a person 's mental state , and have concocted numerous systems relating objects or events seen in dreams to aspects of the human psyche . |
| 17 | The Treasury and Civil Service Committee ( Second Report , 1987–8 ) recommendation that departmental reports should give information about the costs of major publicity and advertising is to apply for departments who spend £½ million or more a year on paid UK publicity . |
| 18 | In 1924 he published work on the parachor , a function of surface tension which could give information about the structure of molecules . |
| 19 | In the same way , the electronic spectra of molecules can give information about their electronic structures , and have helped to establish our present understanding of chemical bonding in molecules . |
| 20 | The analysis of such spectra can give information about the sample , but for our present purposes we are concerned only with the unperturbed signal , which must be derived from atoms near the surface . |
| 21 | A study of the changes in absorption spectrum of a system in the course of a reaction can give information about the mechanism , as well as about the nature of the product(s) , the rate of the reaction and how the rate changes with concentration , with temperature and with the presence of other potential reagents . |
| 22 | In my application I had to give the names of two people who could give references about my work . |
| 23 | This does not conform to the rules of normalisation ( attributes must give facts about all the key ) . |