Example sentences of "[noun] can give we " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , I shall not try to determine what kind of phenomenon consciousness is ; the task here is rather to see whether the machine analogy can give us a way of talking about it , whatever it is .
2 ‘ Few clients can give us a breakdown but historically we 've burnt up a lot of fuel .
3 Only such anthropology can give us the all-round vision of primitive man and primitive culture . ’
4 And , his answer to that , is that psychoanalysis can give us a very interesting and unique insight into , into religion , and this was an insight which had emerged in the course of , the nineteen twenties , following the developments of psychoanalysis that occurred after the First World War , which we 've already looked at and is essentially the concept of transference .
5 We need the information the injured girl can give us when she comes round .
6 If the Commonwealth War Commission do n't know how to get hold of the War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission can give us the information we want provided we can give them the christian name of the person and the regiment .
7 And for us to go forward that is the first major thing we need to do and I 'm appealing today that if people can give us two hours on Saturday morning or a Friday afternoon , we need people , we do n't need two people on a street corner cos we 've done it and it is it we do n't get the effect we want , because most people walk past us .
8 Since the poetic structure includes only those elements which evoke a response in the reader , it is this response that must be taken as the analyst 's starting point ; the linguist as such can not tell us what is interesting or important about a work ( ‘ No grammatical analysis of a poem can give us more than the grammar of the poem ’ ( p. 213 ) ) .
9 The concept derives from an assertion by an individual against the rest of society , ; since we are social animals and essentially interdependent , we voluntarily ( or is it involuntarily ? ) surrender some of the autonomy of solitary existence in return for the support which society can give us .
10 erm I take refuge in the fact that this is what Proust says , and I report , erm I think this amounts to claiming that the artist can give us privileged insight into life .
11 It is not always necessary to have the entire object — a broken piece of the rim of a plate can give us nearly as much information as the entire plate could have done .
12 If the Minister can give us any example from the privatisation programme , in which the Government have been engaged since 1979 , of a Secretary of State coming to the House in order to bring in check private owners who have subsequently done away with the right of the employees of former public companies , I should be extremely interested to hear about it .
13 On the one hand , coins can give us the only information we have about some buildings , such as the vanished Roman Temple of Augustus and Livia between the Palatine and Capitol which was restored by Antoninus Pius in AD158-9 .
14 These broad categories can give us an over-all perspective from which to view , handle and resolve our specific doubts .
15 Boltwood believes that psychic energy can give us the power to alter subconsciously our perception of the situation .
16 Visual information helps us interpret the audio signals we receive by reinforcing them with additional clues : a beckoning finger reinforces the words " Come here " ; at the same time the expression on the face of the beckoner can give us a clue as to the nature of the summons .
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