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

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1 Completion of a certificate will give students a half credit towards a master 's degree and we are in the process of developing a half-credit MA module on Research Methods to complement this .
2 The religion of a culture can give insights into its members ' behaviour .
3 The introduction of a telephone will give the railway more opportunities to advise visitors of steam dates ( every Sunday until the end of October ) and forthcoming special events like the Santa Special trains running this year on December 8th , 15th and 22nd from 12 until 5pm .
4 Where the realisation of a hazard could give rise to significant consequences to people and the environment , then specialist advice should be obtained if necessary .
5 Since the poetic structure includes only those elements which evoke a response in the reader , it is this response that must be taken as the analyst 's starting point ; the linguist as such can not tell us what is interesting or important about a work ( ‘ No grammatical analysis of a poem can give us more than the grammar of the poem ’ ( p. 213 ) ) .
6 ( 7.3 ) unc Divergence in one operand of a PAR may give rise to divergence in the complete construct , since an implementation may choose to run one argument until it can proceed no further before running another .
7 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 .
8 If you need more hot water at any other time , just one touch of a button will give you a tank-full of hot water at any time you need it .
9 A video recording of a meeting could give practice in taking notes of main points .
10 Interlinking raised beds , each built to a different height , look interesting , and a raised bed that runs along the side of a path will give a strong design line — if the wall curves round with the path , the effect will be even more striking .
11 For example , leakage of charged particles into the upper atmosphere of a planet can give rise to emissions of em radiation called aurora .
12 It is not always necessary to have the entire object — a broken piece of the rim of a plate can give us nearly as much information as the entire plate could have done .
13 A child who does not understand the nature of an oath may give unsworn evidence if in the opinion of the court : ( i ) he understands that it is his duty to speak the truth ; and ( ii ) he has sufficient understanding to justify his evidence being heard ( s96(1) and ( 2 ) ) .
14 I am afraid of many things ; that we will run out of petrol , that we will get lost amidst the velvety nowhere , that my slug of an engine will give way at last and abandon us to our own feebleness .
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