Example sentences of "a [adj -er] [noun] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lower setting gives slight orbital movement for harder materials , while the third setting allows the orbital action to be switched off for a straight reciprocating movement for filing or rasping , or fine cutting in hard materials . |
| 2 | While responses to the Kirklees Report were being discussed , a further incident gave impetus to more precise anti-racist policies . |
| 3 | Barnes added a further penalty to give Portadown a comfortable 10-0 lead at half-time . |
| 4 | If , for example , all you wanted to do was to reduce the sleeve length , you could ( provided an alternative length was given ) use a shorter length given for a smaller size . |
| 5 | Got one with a bigger bit gave . |
| 6 | In both tasks the most common error , given by around 20 per cent of pupils , suggests that a larger unit gives a larger numerical answer than a smaller unit . |
| 7 | This episode has not changed my attitude to the job of managing Celtic and I will be going before the board at a later date to give them my plans for the immediate future . ’ |
| 8 | However , it is well worth using in dishes which require the wine to be added at a later stage to give flavouring . |
| 9 | More often , of course , separation involves a younger carer giving up the role , about which there is often profound ambivalence . |
| 10 | Stella tried to imagine a younger Lily giving Uncle Vernon cause for jealousy . |
| 11 | Further — but more debatably — if we feel that our own moral values are based on relatively restricted experience and inadequate consideration of alternative values , we might concede that the lawmakers are in a better position to give due and adequate consideration to all morally relevant factors which bear on the critique of moral values . |
| 12 | At er well this week you sort of look back and say yeah but erm in about ten years time if you come and ask me the same question I would be able be in a better position to give you an answer . |
| 13 | She is not impressed at the concept of working for dole money and says it might be a better idea to give people a minimum wage for doing community work . |
| 14 | Love also revealed that it had been decided not to include Iain Philip and Alastair Storie , as they had been playing overseas and it was a better option to give the others some match practice . |
| 15 | This was foreshadowed by the appointment of Major-General Timothy ‘ Bull ’ Creasey as General Officer Commanding in Northern Ireland in late 1977 , along with the increasing use of SAS forces and a freer hand given to the RUC police . |
| 16 | That would have reduced exposure ; but it is so small a step from cutting the level to removing it altogether that perhaps that is now a wiser move given the shift in public opinion . |
| 17 | The second concerns a love for God which is a gift and has nothing to do with learning ( c.5-7 ) ; this itself has two aspects covering that which is experienced sporadically by both actives and contemplatives , and a stabler devotion given after a long process of discipline in which the contemplative feels a " grete rest of bodie and of soule " ( 7.282a. – 81 ) . |
| 18 | Tyrion is even capable of slaying a greater daemon given a modicum of luck . |