Example sentences of "an [noun] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with other invertebrates the combination of brachiopod types in an assemblage gives a quick clue to the age . |
| 2 | It was almost as though such an experience gave the initiated a glimpse of a deeper level of reality than the allegedly shallow analysis of contemporary society by those who had not faced at first hand the traumas of modern warfare . |
| 3 | An appendix gives guidance on the types of projects which may require assessment including larger intensive poultry , pig and fish breeding units , new deep mines , larger open cast mines , motorways and industrial estates over 20 to 30ha . |
| 4 | The ragged edges and surfaces of the freshly inflicted wound become smoothed out within an hour to give a more regular cellular organization that persists until the wound is closed . |
| 5 | It took me more than an hour to give out the medicines . ’ |
| 6 | He gathered about him a technical staff of diverse talents , whom he inspired with an enthusiasm to give of their best . |
| 7 | In Spain , we took Hal Hambra from a loss to a profit and the award of the Albanta Prize by the Spanish government and this is an award given to the best new text book in , in the Spanish educational system each year . |
| 8 | John Redding , 21 , picked up a trophy donated by former Teesside County Borough engineer Jim Radcliffe , while 18-year-old John McGuckin received an award given by Garth Drabble , retired county surveyor and engineer . |
| 9 | It is an opportunity given to few to lead in the creation of a new Department of State , especially one which has so much to contribute to your own vision of improving the quality of life in this country . |
| 10 | Some hospitals utilise temporary ward closures as an opportunity to give staff annual leave . |
| 11 | If a requirement is made , pursuant to section 7(3) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 , for a specimen of blood or urine , is the constable making that requirement under a duty , by virtue of section 7(4) of the Act , to : ( a ) convey to the suspect that the specimen to be provided may be of blood or of urine ; and/or ( b ) give to that suspect an opportunity to consider which type of specimen he would prefer to supply , if the choice was his ; and/or ( c ) give , expressly or otherwise , to that suspect an opportunity to give any reasons ( including non-medical reasons ) in support of any expression of choice ? |
| 12 | Does he not think that , with a general election coming , if he is confident in his position , the least that he could do would be to put that forward in a general election so that at least people will have an opportunity to give a view before they are committed by the right hon. Gentleman 's signature of a treaty of this magnitude ? |
| 13 | An ambulance gave him his last race to Paso Robles Hospital . |
| 14 | This is very different from the Common Law procedure , which will never compel , or even allow ( at that time ) , one of the parties to an action to give evidence ; but it is a procedure , and the only procedure , which is suitable for trying such questions as uses and trusts , for which no open public acts , no formal documents may be available as evidence . |
| 15 | Are all sockets or your mains unit covered by an RCD to give added protection ? |
| 16 | They were well aware that before the English visit , and in an attempt to give himself some room for manoeuvre , Napoleon III had wooed the Tsar . |
| 17 | For our purposes , the distinction could be that a diary is written at the time of the event , memoirs are a writer 's recollections of a particular period ( perhaps aided by diaries ) in which he was not necessarily the central character , while an autobiography is an attempt to give a systematic and chronological record of the author 's life , with himself at the centre of the story . |
| 18 | The Milky Way , presumably a translation of Ludwig Kuhn 's earlier German text of 1978 , is an attempt to give an up-to-date view of the Galaxy and to compare it with other galaxies . |
| 19 | 1977 , however , brought a big failure with ‘ Jazz ’ , an attempt to give a contemporary slant to old jazz tunes . |
| 20 | Yet Elizabeth had been a widow for over ten years , and her children were very nearly off her hands ; it is quite possible that her brief sojourn in the workhouse was part of an attempt to give her life a new direction and meaning — perhaps she was there as a helper , a visitor , a counsellor to those in need , or even as a missionary spreading the gospel of Christianity in general or that of the Lady Huntingdon 's Connexion in particular . |
| 21 | Things like Doc Martens and Air Jordans are included in the cabinets — unfortunately , this is not so much an attempt to give genuine examples of successful design , more a sign of the current infatuation with popular culture . |
| 22 | In an attempt to give them what they like , mothers can overload the child with their favourite food until satiation is reached and the child does n't want it any more . |
| 23 | There must also be an attempt to give students insight into perceptions of school held by children and their parents . |
| 24 | They turn Miller 's ( 1969 ) plea for psychologists to give psychology away , into an attempt to give psychology away to all women . |
| 25 | His suggestion that his intervention persuaded the Khmers Rouges not to disrupt the voting may be an attempt to give himself some importance . |
| 26 | Witnesses and documents located there are required to be taken out of that country for production before the authorities of the United States or before persons acting with the backing of the courts of that country ; it must appear to be an attempt to give world-wide application to the procedural rules of the United States . |
| 27 | Kuhn 's theory of science was subsequently developed as an attempt to give a theory of science more in keeping with the historical situation as he saw it . |
| 28 | In the past few weeks the government has once again blocked an attempt to give disabled people legal protection against discrimination . |
| 29 | As described by Friedgut ( 1979 , pp. 249–56 ) , these were an attempt to give social norms the force of law and to make citizens accountable to each other . |
| 30 | However , what follows is an attempt to give powerful currency to the notion that such an addition to the list of significant textual features is nonetheless crucial since it raises our awareness of the cultural paradigm within which our critical perspectives are themselves shaped , and goes some way toward making visible an otherwise invisible dimension of our teaching . |