Example sentences of "of a [noun] [noun sg] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , it was this rule on which the Revenue rested its argument that the taxpayer should be taxed on the full amount of the benefit , even though it was aware that at the time the 1976 Finance Bill was being debated , the then Financial Secretary to the Treasury , Robert Sheldon , expressly stated that the benefit of a school place given at concessionary rates to the child of a teacher at that school would be ‘ assessed on the cost to the employer , which would be very small indeed in this case ’ . |
| 2 | I could see the open french windows of a first-floor room giving access to it . |
| 3 | The ability to suggest — and then buy — a two-and-three-quarter minute spot at midday on Sunday for the chairperson of a hotel group to give a message to all the hotel staff on every ITV station simultaneously is an important part of a media person 's skills . |
| 4 | Analysis of a water supply gives much useful information and is essential when a new supply is being considered for textile processing . |
| 5 | The not very exacting demands of a theology degree gave him time to make a lot of useful Anglican friends . |
| 6 | So when you go into the groups , you 're , you will have these two tasks , produce two press releases , one on the basis of a bit information given you , and the second on whatever you want to do , and you just , feel free to devise a , a situation , hopefully a real one , and describe it . |
| 7 | One possible explanation lies in the way in which charge carriers move between crystal lattice planes : the build up of charge carriers on alternate planes of a graphite lattice gives rise to local electrical fields that oppose the main field and generate the out-of-phase conduction . |
| 8 | Alongside Barnsley and Beverley , Doncaster and Driffield , there are literally hundreds of clubs throughout the English counties who would relish the challenge of a knock-out competition to give the added zest and new contacts that such competitions bring . |
| 9 | Underfoot , a soggy tiger-trap of a burrow roof gives in like brown sugar . |
| 10 | The March meeting consited of a talk/slide show given by Mr John Massey . |
| 11 | They are such loving , wonderful dogs and I am writing to encourage anyone thinking of a rescue dog to give a Greyhound a home . |
| 12 | Not so long ago , Western man believed that the Earth was flat , that the Earth was the centre of the universe , and that God had created the Earth in seven days according to a literal interpretation of a creation myth given in an old Jewish book . |
| 13 | With reference to figure 11.8 , their distance along the negative real axis of an s-plane plot gives the degree of damping while their separation from the real axis in the imaginary direction constitutes the ringing pulsatance . |