Example sentences of "can give the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | can give the services in the church , I knew they 'd be on today because it 's the first Sunday in every month |
| 2 | Quinn can give the bookmakers a caning today if he scores the first goal of the game . |
| 3 | 3 Aural aids can give the students the opportunity of listening to and imitating native speakers . |
| 4 | ‘ We think we can give the vegetables a clean bill of health , sir . ’ |
| 5 | They let all the big companies go round digging holes in the road , and when people fall in and complain they say it 's all for their own good , and after a while they hope the people will revolt so they can give the police guns and thin out the population , and then they 'll have a police state — which is what they 've always wanted — and the rich will be able to live in peace . ’ |
| 6 | Peter Walker advises on the latest court ruling on how much information the liquidators can give the police |
| 7 | The computer is very fast ; it can be set to scan the text of journal articles and print out the titles of all which use significant key words more than a stated number of times , and it can be set to tell us how many times Shakespeare used a particular expression , and in each case it can give the results quite astonishingly quickly . |
| 8 | The pace is often dilatory and this , reinforced perhaps by the nineteenth-century costumes and setting , can give the proceedings an at times bizarrely Checkhovian cast . |
| 9 | If if we can give the lists in it just makes it easier . |
| 10 | No amount of American subsidies can give the Haitians a decent government , a disciplined army or the prospect of any economic activity whose profits would remotely approach those to be earned by trans-shipping cocaine . |
| 11 | Tutors can give the pupils more individual attention , and encourage them to ask questions they might be reluctant to ask the teacher for fear of being thought stupid . |