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

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1 Since ‘ compliance ’ is an administrative definition and since production or treatment processes can constantly give rise to changes in water quality , field men must be ever-vigilant in the face of uncertainty .
2 The income arising to the trust can only be taxed under Schedule D , Case IV or V. Payments from the trust can only give rise to a new source under Case V. Those Cases give the taxpayer the benefit of the remittance basis .
3 In fact , the text can only give bones to the story .
4 I can only give evidence and if they do n't believe my evidence , he 's innocent .
5 My recollection was that it was £250 for a great deal of work and endless consultations with courteous BBC representatives who were terrified by my refusal to produce a total text ( since I can only give plausibility to anything I say when there is at least an element extemporised ) and refused to accept my positive assurances that I was as unlikely to dry up as the Thames .
6 The discovery of it outside the groups identified as apparent risks can only give cause for concern .
7 Yet literature can only give access to the values entertained by the members of literate communities and in these only for persons able to apprehend what they read .
8 On another occasion , I would want to argue that , despite the problems , comparisons with the English system can only give ground for encouragement and that we should be thinking of extending the Scottish system beyond the age of 16 to include offenders under 21 .
9 These modes can thus give rise to an Ikeda instability ( which will now have a period rather than 2tR ) provided these modes are resolved into two gain peaks : a high-finesse resonator is thus required for this version of the Ikeda instability , which gives rise to chaos via a period-doubling cascade in parameter regions corresponding to the upper branch of optical bistability { 23 } .
10 Again , it has been held that the Prison rules are merely ‘ regulatory ’ and that breach of them can not give rise to a cause of action for damages although it may found an application for judicial review .
11 A general term can not give rise to zeugma in this way :
12 It must be stressed that although a natural condition can not give rise to liability under the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher it may still constitute a nuisance for which an occupier may be liable if he has knowledge or means of knowledge of its existence and if it is reasonable to require him to take the necessary steps to abate it .
13 The examiner can not give credit for irrelevancy , because that would be unfair to others who have answered only the question that they were asked .
14 A spokesman for FISA said yesterday : ‘ This is a very important issue and at the moment the French Federation can not give guarantees to safeguard the cars — so the race may have to be cancelled . ’
15 With regret , I can not give way to the hon. Gentleman on this occasion .
16 The guardian must continue to perform his other duties but can not give instructions to the child 's solicitor .
17 To ask questions to which people can not give answers is a waste of time for everyone — but one does , from time to time , come across schedules which include questions which require such feats of memory or such difficult calculations that no reasonable person can be expected to give an answer .
18 I can not give credence to the 17 per cent .
19 Two separate people are essential for any exchange to take place : you can not give presents to yourself , just as you can not give yourself to yourself .
20 Persons who do not understand the nature of the act can not give consent .
21 The benefits offered by the AA are not as substantial as they may , at first sight , appear since the free legal representation scheme may be withheld altogether at the discretion of the Association ; the AA will not negotiate in respect of the defence of claims made against members ; the AA can not give advice or act where the Association or any of its subsidiary companies may be involved .
22 Notwithstanding , the firm has backed all the way , and has continued to work for Bell Lawrie , even if he can not give advice to clients .
23 The Home Secretary has told the Commission that he can not give advice on the matter .
24 The majority of this book consists of quotations from informants but , because of the derogatory nature of many entries , she can not give names .
25 ‘ I think it is very peculiar that someone can just give evidence , like Sir Hal Millar , and not be cross-examined on it at all . ’
26 And somebody had said to her erm said something about him and her , and she says well , she said he he 's , he 's I 've got the brains , he has n't got nowt , she said , he can just give money and I 'll be sitting and spending it .
27 Actually , resistance is more likely to occur with prolonged exposure to large dosages which leave only a few ‘ resistant ’ individuals to form the nucleus of the next generation ; and it is one of the characteristics of pests that a few individuals can rapidly give rise to large populations .
28 Then you can gradually give way to your instinct for describing the purely ridiculous event that can seem extraordinarily funny .
29 Companies seem happy to talk to him and he can still give advice internally .
30 In formal situations roles can clearly give people special rights , but even in conversation — where according to our definition unequal power is suspended — it is unlikely that knowledge of participants ' social office or status will be wholly forgotten .
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