Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new issue market is not a distinct and separate organization within the Stock Exchange , rather it is merely a tag given to the collection of processes by which companies acquire both a listing on the exchange and new equity capital . |
| 2 | The latter pulls down a menu giving you the option to ‘ maximise ’ the window . |
| 3 | Simply by filling in a form giving a few details such as variety of wheat to be grown , date of planting and previous cropping in the field , Davies and his colleagues can , with the addition of weather data fed in 365 days a year from 45 centres around the country , predict with unerring accuracy exactly when the farmer should spread his ‘ Nitram ’ to get the best results . |
| 4 | ‘ I filled in a questionnaire giving details of my previous lender and my bank . |
| 5 | That poverty persists despite these efforts is less a reason to give up than a reason to learn from what works and what does not . |
| 6 | Having beaten the Royal Navy , who then defeated the RAF , the Army needed only a draw to give them their 29th outright title , but they seldom generated the cohesion necessary to trouble what was a disciplined RAF team . |
| 7 | CDs are literally a certificate given by a deposit-taking institution like a bank or building society to acknowledge the existence of a deposit made . |
| 8 | Things like Doc Martens and Air Jordans are included in the cabinets — unfortunately , this is not so much an attempt to give genuine examples of successful design , more a sign of the current infatuation with popular culture . |
| 9 | There is talk , too , of Kenny McKinstry putting in an appearance to give his Subaru a pre-Donegal work-out following its trip to Barbados . |
| 10 | Thus a LECTURER gives a number of MODULES and a COURSE consists of a number of MODULES . |
| 11 | The proposal to transfer Chinon , Loudun and Mirebeau to a mere child was surely just a trick giving Henry II an excuse to keep these three important castles in his own hands for many years to come . |
| 12 | Labelling a particular SBU as a ‘ dog ’ should be seen as a challenge to the people involved with it to search out and propose new SBUs and not just a signal to give up and die . |
| 13 | it 's just a speech given and this is |
| 14 | Four qualifiers gone , and not a goal given away . |
| 15 | He was not a man to give way easily and he had clearly set his heart on making her recognise her father . |
| 16 | Franco , however , was not a man to give way to this kind of pressure . |
| 17 | It was after the finding that the real work began , and Pascoe was not a man given to anticipating events . |
| 18 | But Dawn Run was not a horse to give in meekly , and as the four came round into the straight she stuck resolutely to her guns . |
| 19 | ‘ My daughter is not a woman to give up easily , ’ Mrs Barrantes said . |
| 20 | Already a boy given to solitariness and a certain economy of words , he found in poetic diction ( thanks , not least to Wordsworth ) the most congenial vehicle for comprehension and self-expression . |
| 21 | I therefore cabled the Burma Section of the India Office asking for a loan of £1000 to publish the book as it stood in Burmese , also a much shorter book , and finally a leaflet giving the gist of its arguments . |
| 22 | Now , however , consider what happens if we take pragmatics to be the study of the contribution of context to language understanding : suppose normally an aunt gives her nephew T , but on an occasion switches to V , then in order to predict the intended ironic or angry meaning , a pragmatic theory must have available the detailed recipe for usage that tells us that V is not the normal usage , and thus not to be taken at face value . |
| 23 | This is not an invitation to give the whole history of the jury system : the question is whether the jury is a historical anachronism . |
| 24 | As for the argument that money would follow patients and so make it possible for hospitals to treat more of them , that was always a non-starter given that the total amount of cash available to purchasers was not going to be increased . |
| 25 | Cannonball Shearer cracked home a gem to give Blackburn a face-saving 1-1 draw in Wednesday 's Coca Cola Cup-tie at Huddersfield . |
| 26 | ‘ Too high a priority has been given to placating the unions and too low a priority given to hearing the voice of the public . |
| 27 | ‘ Good job you do , ’ she went on , ‘ because I cook it once a week to give the tins a good clean out . ’ |
| 28 | There is of course a fine line between ‘ direct support ’ and ‘ regular monitoring ’ but the main distinction is that people in the previous category were visited at least once a week to give support or help , whereas people in the ‘ monitoring only ’ category were visited about once a fortnight or once a month so that the development officer could ‘ see how things were going ’ . |
| 29 | I make his bed once a week to give it a good puff up in the sheets . |
| 30 | Cleaning your tack properly once a week gives you the vital opportunity of checking that stitching is in good order and that the parts where metal rests on leather ( such as reins and stirrup leathers ) are not too worn . |