Example sentences of "this give [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 D. H. You have said that your family moved in and out of illness : did this give you the position to turn breast cancer and person-centred health issues into political photography ?
2 Does this give us the clue we need ?
3 Does this give us the answer we need ?
4 This gave her the entrée into many whispering galleries of politics and the drawing-rooms if not the corridors of power .
5 This gave her the opportunity to bleat even more madly , puffing noisily between bleats to prove how sorely she was being tried .
6 This gave me the opportunity of using homoeopathy in a general practice setting , while at the same time dealing with more chronic cases at the hospital where we had a consultant gynaecologist , an ENT surgeon and a consultant general surgeon , each operating once a week .
7 also , I was able to work at the painting knowing I could obliterate any unwanted areas ; this gave me the freedom I needed .
8 This gave me the chance to see many different military aircraft .
9 This gave him the idea of developing a method of switching on the fountain automatically , every time the pond was approached by a predator : easily achieved by adapting a passive infra-red detector .
10 This gave him the opportunity to study Ballet , Pas de Deux , Repertoire , History of Ballet , Stagecraft and Lighting , and Ballet Music .
11 All this gave him the confidence to state clearly what America 's interests were .
12 This gave them the chance to sign against experiments with animals in the development of such products as perfumes .
13 ‘ Some of the lads had been feeling it and this gave them the chance to pay some of the bills that had been piling up .
14 This gave them the key to predicting both the location and approximate intensity of the earthquakes , with a delay of between 7 and 11 hours from the prediction to the event .
15 This gave us the chance to offer a comprehensive service and also to develop FPC in its own market . ’
16 We 'd been heavily blitzed and this gave us the opportunity to think big and boldly and to think philosophically .
17 This gives me the chance to have a last word on the World Cricket Cup final .
18 This gives one the chance to focus and shoot , taking care to keep the camera pointed at a small angle to the aquarium glass .
19 So it 's an attempt on , on , on the second level to minutely reconstructing historical , the lost , the truest but what really happened and in that on that level , it 's important for Freud to establish that Moses was not Jewish but Egyptian , because this gives him the link with Egyptian monarchism and the events of the exodus and explains it as well .
20 If you happen to know that it is the Prime Minister personally who advises the Queen to dissolve Parliament , you will realise that this gives him the whip hand over other members of the Cabinet — who fear the cataclysm of an untimely election as much as back-benchers do .
21 This gives him the chance to escape at night while The Count of Monte Cristo is on the radio .
22 This gives everyone the chance to find out what 's going on and voice their views .
23 This gives it the versatility of a Strat or Les Paul and with the power of the untapped HFS pickups it really is the best of both worlds .
24 This gives it the feel of a heavy craft knife or pencil , making fine texturing easier on the elbow .
25 This gives it the ability to read and analyse difficult forms such as facsimile copies and folded or smudged paper , and to learn .
26 RIGHT Dogs may be less enthusiastic to perform where they are on the leash but this gives you the opportunity to guide them to the appropriate spot .
27 This gives you the freedom to move back and forth and swing your arm — you must feel free !
28 This gives us the opportunity to compare their results with MLC targets and actual results from recorded farms , before suggesting general advice on the options available for improvement . ’
29 Corp Ainsworth , of the REME 's 15 squadron workshops , said : ‘ Something like this gives us the opportunity to put our equipment through its paces .
30 Well this gives us the ability er , for a tidying up operation but the finance director will give more details .
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