Example sentences of "[noun] gives [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most reliable data gives its size as 60cm ( 2″ ) , so do n't consider a tank of less than 4′ , and be prepared to go up to 6′ as the fish matures . |
| 2 | Rhythm gives your playing focus . |
| 3 | Because of the way in which our sample of interviewees was structured , the proportions are not representative , but another more random sample of 54 service users in the same three districts gives their key workers as 61 per cent community psychiatric nurses , 15 per cent social workers , 7 per cent each hospital nurses and group-workers , 6 per cent psychiatrists and 4 per cent others ( psychologist , community nurse — mental health ) . |
| 4 | Chief executive Sipko Huismans gives his view from the top in this interview with Courtauld News . |
| 5 | Fr McKenna gives his fee ( less than half Alan Ball 's , and a sixth of Emlyn Hughes 's ) to charity . |
| 6 | Bearing in mind Ireland 's First test performance against New Zealand in May Danaher gives his team a fighting chance against the Wallabies if they can gain an even share of possession . |
| 7 | esteem that arise from unwitting acceptance of the injunctions may be mirrored and compounded by assaults on public esteem , if the community in which people work gives its collective assent to the same injunctions . |
| 8 | The sun gives her two shadows to one shape |
| 9 | Marriage gives her domestic independence in the form of access to the other women of the neighbourhood . |
| 10 | More importantly , his idea that narrative grammar may be transformed or subverted by individual texts gives his grammar far greater analytical power , since elements which might fall outside the scope of a more rigid model may now be read as transformations of it . |
| 11 | Well , the other day someone who was explaining how AEA gives its customers a ‘ competitive edge ’ came up with a simple , yet brilliant clarification of the phrase using a tale about two friends . |
| 12 | In the discussion document , the committee gives its opinion on the extent to which the provision of these reassurances is the responsibility of boards of directors , the extent to which it is the responsibility of external auditors and the extent to which these reassurances can not be provided by either boards of directors or external auditors . |
| 13 | But it is again the home to which Saunders gives his prime attention . |
| 14 | Tennessee Williams gives her character an ironic twist by calling her ‘ Blanche ’ . |
| 15 | Thus it was that a caddish cub reporter from the Cricklewood Cricket drew the following response : ‘ A quarter of my age in years multiplied by a fifth of my age in years multiplied by a forty-fifth of my age in years gives my age in years . ’ |
| 16 | Thus Don Wilson gives his view of the legacy he believes he left when his 13 years as MCC coach at Lord 's came to an end in 1990 . |
| 17 | And there , in exactly the manner I have recommended for putting in clues in the traditional whodunit , Hammett gives his readers their clue , full-out and in the open but made to look as if it was there as part of the particularly laconic , cool conversation the two men are having over the newly-slain body . |
| 18 | He is freed by Britomart , his betrothed , whose chastity gives her great military powers . |
| 19 | If , as is more likely , the seller gives his instruction to that person 's employer or principal , he must allow reasonable time for the instructions to be communicated to the person in actual possession before delivery is made to the buyer . |
| 20 | And the money bags of the IMF and the donor countries have cannily accepted this notion clapping with one hand , because their approval gives their own faces a human mask . |
| 21 | Zimbabwe 's Andy Ferreira gives his boys the low down … |
| 22 | What a rant — the hon. Gentleman gives his well-known imitation of the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , East ( Mr. Prescott ) , but without the charm and lightness of touch . |
| 23 | Next Sunday , Willie Lamont gives his approach to history , when |
| 24 | Germain Viatte , new Director of France 's national museum of modern art gives his first interview |
| 25 | Poor lose out in tough balancing act My View : Gavin McCrone gives his view of the Budget |
| 26 | Lamont leaves room to manoeuvre GAVIN McCRONE gives his view of the Budget |
| 27 | But my best friend gives her wee boy chocolate all the time and does n't see anything wrong with it . |
| 28 | But my best friend gives her wee boy chocolate all the time and does n't see anything wrong with it . |
| 29 | The concluding song , Murder in the Market , brings a hilarious stanza sung falsetto when the murderess gives her defiant answer . |
| 30 | Jesus gives his life as a ransom . |