Example sentences of "[indef pn] giving " in BNC.
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1 | Police estimate that a large proportion of these crimes are a direct result of someone giving the criminal an open invitation — leaving a door unlocked or a window open . |
2 | Why was Roger Seelig told by someone giving medical advice several months after his trial began that he was on the verge of a mental breakdown , yet last week he was roaring up the M4 in his Porsche to look after his two properties ? |
3 | The teacher can take on a role and introduce the information in role — as a messenger , as a member of the group , as an outsider , as someone giving orders . |
4 | She was crying and meaning in the wind , sir , up there on her owny-oh with nobody giving a blue damn about her . |
5 | Jack and Jill did not tumble down the hill without somebody giving a push . ’ |
6 | That 's why Lisabeth thought he might be a musician or maybe somebody giving you work or something . |
7 | At both Peter hit cracking drives , the first one giving me no trouble over agreeing with a long iron second shot . |
8 | For the sales model , for instance , we used to have three 3-megabyte files , each one giving us one type of output . |
9 | Subsection ( 3 ) ( of which paragraph ( a ) is the critical one giving rise to the present notice ) provides : |
10 | The system uses two " Beams ' , one giving directional guidance to the runway , the other giving height guidance . |
11 | For suppliers and contractors of equal standing , the one giving greater consideration to environmental issues will be preferred . |
12 | So while some understanding of these perspectives must form an essential part of social theory , one giving greater credence to people 's own actions , theories and understandings , we must insist that these instinctive ( biotic ) processes are mediated by social ( cultural ) processes and relationships . |
13 | Manchester Computing Centre has reprinted the SASPAC91 manual produced by the London Research Centre , which comes in two volumes , one describing the language and one giving outlines of the tables . |
14 | Each entry should include ten news stories or features , three of which should be 350 words or more with one giving a pupils ' view of what the next government 's policies should be . |
15 | The Old Testament idea of the spirit of God breathing into human beings something of his own life , or sometimes it 's something giving a extra quality of living . |
16 | To the crowd who assembled , the Provo Sergeant announced that anyone giving credit to members of the regiment which had just arrived did so at their own risk . |
17 | It has something to do with the extent of a pupil 's knowledge ; for example , anyone giving 50 feet as the height of a door can not know very much about the size of a foot . |
18 | She did n't want anyone giving her sympathy , otherwise she 'd be blubbing all over the stage . |