Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb mod] give " in BNC.

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1 In a perceptive question , one of our committee members , Russell Mulford , asked whether the scheme was a bad thing for Shropshire — because it might attract the funding that could otherwise be used to electrify the Wolverhampton — Shrewsbury line — or a good thing — because of the boost it will give to rail travel generally .
2 That is not in doubt , because no one can actually imagine that ‘ we ’ are not going to ‘ win ’ , though nobody ever analyses exactly what ‘ winning ’ would in fact mean out there in the real world of the Middle East , beyond the political and economic leverage it will give the United States .
3 I ca n't tell you how much pleasure it would give us to make them eat their words .
4 If you use mirror from floor to ceiling and at right angles to a window or opposite a window it will give you twice the light and twice the view .
5 I can understand some of the exclusivity it would give us by our undertaking
6 Newtown Coaches , from Reeth Place , Newton Aycliffe , was told by Durham County Council it must give up running the route from Darlington to Bishopton after complaints about the service .
7 I 'm glad of it — for the confidence it will give me at home .
8 In a classroom it can give you the students ' view of the teacher , it can give you the teacher 's view of the students or it can be an observer which sits at the side of the class and looks from one to the other .
9 If Professor Benson here were to make a very brief precis of the lecture he gave us in the wardroom this evening it might give them something more to think about . ’
10 It is refusing to say how much cash it will give this year .
11 At best in a major conflict it would give allies time to reach agreement on how to use nuclear weapons .
12 It is priceless in terms of the knowledge it will give us ’ .
13 In long-term use it should give a good biological action , the sponge having a surface area of 113cm 2 .
14 Parliament is sovereign and in theory it can give the task of determining the legal meaning of whatsoever it chooses to whomsoever it likes .
15 Others long for the new horizons , the flexibility and choice it will give them .
16 Were they given this breathing space it would give them a chance to be less edgy about Olwyn .
17 After Mr Coleby 's visit , she needed the relief it would give her .
18 If this is a success it will give Video Conferencing a considerable boost .
19 If the Consortium eventually wins the case it would give other embattled communities and planning authorities fresh confidence to challenge outstanding IDO claims , rather than compromise .
20 The computer is very fast ; it can be set to scan the text of journal articles and print out the titles of all which use significant key words more than a stated number of times , and it can be set to tell us how many times Shakespeare used a particular expression , and in each case it can give the results quite astonishingly quickly .
21 The court can either grant the application or fix a hearing date , in which case it must give the parties at least one day 's notice .
22 In addition it must give the names of all persons who at any time during the financial year were directors of the company and describe the principal activities of the company and its subsidiaries and any changes therein during the course of the year .
23 But his conscience it may fail him and his heart it may give way ,
24 I say with caution on slip and punch lace , since doubling the width of slip can give very long messy floats with some patterns , while with punch lace it can give too many stitches , side by side , knitted only with the fine yarn .
25 If you look at the scale of a ruler it will give you an idea of the amount of magnification .
26 If a slightly boggy area can be created next to a garden pool it will give you the opportunity , as here , to include one or two moisture lovers such as caltha and astilbe .
27 erm it does n't give an answer , but if you could the only answer it could give is that what my tables say is wrong .
28 With its 1Mb of display memory it will give you a maximum resolution of 1,280 by 1,024 in 16 colours as well as provide non-interlaced video at 72Hz in 1,024 by 768 mode .
29 The Officers are about to do a new review , and a the moment all costs of erm residents ' parking is borne centrally , and we the Conservatives think that if erm there was a charge on permits to cover the cost it would give a change to other areas of the City , and the majority of people would be prepared erm to pay , and I think this is coming up in the Officer 's Review .
30 Well it 's higher on electricity it 'll give me an electric shock .
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