Example sentences of "[noun] can give [pron] " 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 | What Miandad 's 59 did yesterday was to frustrate England 's struggling bowlers and to set a platform from which Pakistan can give themselves a match-winning lead today . |
| 3 | Unless the agent can give you figures showing that it really will pay you to cash in your present policy and take out a completely new one , keep it on and top it up with another , smaller policy . |
| 4 | Nurses : Your district nurse , health visitor or continence adviser can give you practical advice on how to manage . |
| 5 | ‘ Few clients can give us a breakdown but historically we 've burnt up a lot of fuel . |
| 6 | Only such anthropology can give us the all-round vision of primitive man and primitive culture . ’ |
| 7 | There are four areas in particular where new research and established practice can give you a good framework and background knowledge for your care . |
| 8 | If you are disabled , the Social Services Department can give you gadgets to enable you to operate various appliances . |
| 9 | Barnardo 's ‘ Positive Options ’ or a social worker from the home finding unit of your local social services department can give you more information about how this might work . |
| 10 | The most voiced reason for having a baby is that the parents can give what was not given in their own lives , to compensate for their own emptiness . |
| 11 | I had literally had everything possible that a judge can give you . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We need the information the injured girl can give us when she comes round . |
| 14 | This year , punters can give themselves half a chance by watching today 's ‘ consolation ’ race over the straight mile for horses eliminated from tomorrow 's Lincoln . |
| 15 | The seller can give his instructions to the person in actual possession of the goods , but it may be difficult for him to discover who that is , if , for example , the goods are on the railways . |
| 16 | ‘ But I really do n't think your voodoo can give me all the things I want in life . ’ |
| 17 | Richard Dorment of the Daily Telegraph said : ‘ What a pity a dealer did not take him aside and tell him the work he proposed to exhibit was unexhibitable … a visual boredom so total that no amount of metaphor or allusion can give it the kiss of life ’ . |
| 18 | Bogue and Buffa ( 1986 ) also show how an understanding of the experience curve can give one a quite different perception of what is happening in the market . |
| 19 | Movement , scent and sound can give you away when you 're heading in for a close up shot . |
| 20 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 21 | If you want a clean start , Jesus can give it to you ! |
| 22 | This browsing can give you a broad view of the subject you are studying . |
| 23 | Hundreds of organisations have realised that an independent weather service can give them exactly the information they need , when they need it and for a realistic cost . |
| 24 | To do this they will need not only a knowledge of the vocabulary of steps through which dancers communicate , but an ability to explain their design so that dancers can give it depth of feeling ( see page 78 ) . |
| 25 | Yes , well if I can do a few two ounces worth I put them all together and then Adam can give her a little bit . |
| 26 | I say their contemplation can give no-one pleasure ; they are there because their absence would be resented by the average man who regards a large amount of futile display as in some way inseparable from the conditions of that well-to-do life to which he belongs or aspires to belong . |
| 27 | Miss Matlock can give you her address . ‘ |
| 28 | A woman can give something special too but there 's no reason why that should be the only thing that 's given . ’ |
| 29 | If Yggdrasil can give itself a human-seeming external form , then surely Daine could mimic an AI 's physical body . |
| 30 | 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 . |