Example sentences of "[noun pl] it give " in BNC.
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| 1 | They argued that the rapid movements involved in a star 's collapse would mean that the gravitational waves it gave off would make it ever more spherical , and by the time it had settled down to a stationary state , it would be precisely spherical . |
| 2 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 3 | The rewards for those working in BP come in the quality of the opportunities it gives us for the future . |
| 4 | As a result , more than 70 per cent of the population now have a Current Account and are enjoying the many advantages it gives them — cheques , instant cash , Standing Orders and Direct Debits . |
| 5 | Normally it is of the second magnitude , just about equal to the Pole Star , but every 2½ days it gives a long , slow wink , taking four hours to fade down below the third magnitude and remaining at minimum for a mere 20 minutes before starting to recover — after which nothing more happens for the next 2½ days . |
| 6 | It 's fun to see the no-nonsense , motor-bike-riding heroine beating up on the men in true fantasy-heroic style , but her attempts to encourage her young protege in self-defence end in disaster , making the messages it gives out totally confused and its solutions seeming no more realistic than Ms 45 storing her rapist in the fridge and blowing male scum off the street . |
| 7 | I know a lot of us have done terms for a long term , but to be together closely and observe each other reacting and doing things it gives a better idea of how people think , being in this together . |
| 8 | Accordingly , the Agricultural Training Board , like similar organisations , needed to consider the priorities it gave in these areas . |
| 9 | Lee is typically miffed ; he liked playing the acoustic guitar , and the soft textures it gave off , but then he was beat when it came to playing lead breaks . |
| 10 | This argues that there was a drift away from the union after the strike , although it did not , apparently , happen immediately ( and there are some discrepancies between the figures it gives and the 1870s records ) . |
| 11 | We're4 not treating the whole window but by doubling the pieces together of the details it gives some feel … restores some interpretation to the original work of art |
| 12 | The tribunal also ruled that a 1982 McBride article in the Australian Journal of Biological Sciences was false and misleading in the details it gave about rabbits used in an experiment with another drug . |
| 13 | Traditionalist to the core , the Legion fully encouraged the romanticism of escape from ‘ real life ’ and forgetting , because in practical terms it gave them that much more control over their members . |
| 14 | In material terms it gave only modest returns . |
| 15 | In other situations it gives no guidance . |
| 16 | Here , I 'd like to say that I , I do very much welcome the abandonment of the two wayside routes it gives me particular satisfaction because you recall earlier in the year there was some irresponsible press comments on the subject which greatly upset a lot of people |
| 17 | and on one side and yet inside the instructions it gave , you know |
| 18 | Physics is interesting in having connotations of both : as a physical science , its discoveries ( and the skills it gives to its graduates ) have obvious uses for industry ; while its status as a ‘ pure ’ rather than an ‘ applied ’ science gives it the appearance of being removed from the uses to which it may be put . |
| 19 | In severe cases it gives rise to the condition known as spina bifida . |
| 20 | We normally suppose that our experience is a reliable guide to the nature of those parts of the world which we are not observing , and that in favourable cases it gives us knowledge . |
| 21 | In all cases it gives the teenagers taking part a chance to see if engineering and the motor industry are for them . |
| 22 | [ Since much of the value of this chapter must depend upon the concrete illustrations it gives , I have been forced to assume the reader 's knowledge of a certain amount of elementary law . |
| 23 | Raving resembled a huge , religious ritual , and like other such rituals it gave many people an insight into a transcendental state . |
| 24 | And this makes sense to Freud , because he believes that people believe in , in religion because of the gratifications it gives them . |
| 25 | It is no good offering an alternative cooking means to the traditional methods if the chef is not happy with the equipment or the results it gives . |
| 26 | ‘ Now we are selling 50,000 vehicles it gives us encouragement that European consumers will forget the past and give us another chance , ’ said Mr Miller . |
| 27 | I mean you could start by saying , ‘ Canborough has , has been well known for the number of grants it gives , you know , as , as the means of saying , ‘ Up to now we 've been the good people . ’ |
| 28 | For while by enfranchising the new towns it gave the commercial middle class , and with it the master-manufacturers , a say on the conduct of Government , it totally disenfranchised the working man . |