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 .
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