Example sentences of "[pron] can give [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I can give a couple to the goats as well |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I can give an illustration of what I mean . |
| 4 | NOW that we have come back — with our half-used tubes of Factor 20 sun-cream , the remnants of a jar of Arnica ( for bruises ) , and the broken paper umbrella that decked my son 's wiener schnitzel for our last supper — I can give the lie to all those Doubting Thomases who said that five small boys on skis was a recipe for disaster , not a holiday . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They see the tiny , vivacious Chicana poetess as someone who can give a voice to their experiences of LA . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Now , you can give the answer in this form you need n't write it out in full . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Being able to find out for oneself has a number of contributory sub-skills attached to it , and in planning resource-based programmes for our classes we must take into account such sub-skills so that we can give the chance for them to develop and mature . |
| 15 | They can give no time for this appointment . |
| 16 | Parliament is sovereign and in theory it can give the task of determining the legal meaning of whatsoever it chooses to whomsoever it likes . |
| 17 | He can give no lecture to us on unemployment . |
| 18 | The subjunctive in French allows the speaker to adopt this purely imaginary position from which he can give a verdict on whether a happening should have occurred or not . |
| 19 | This will necessitate a visit to the local newsagent for the papers and you will have to ask your new next door neighbour if she or he can give a note to the milkman for you or contact the local dairy yourself . |