Example sentences of "[that] [modal v] give [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who tells Nestle not to promote the bottle feeding that may give a slum child fatal diarrhoea ? |
| 2 | ‘ Now let me have your own passports and anything that might give a clue to your true identities . ’ |
| 3 | If you expect to be arrested , you clear out everything that might give a clue or be used to incriminate you . |
| 4 | " Somebody 's gone to a lot of trouble to remove anything that might give a clue to his identity , " Redpath said . |
| 5 | Erm , would there be anything else on your tapes that might give the game away ? |
| 6 | Junior and Senior cataloguers participate in a profit-sharing scheme that could give a salary uplift of up to 12% . |
| 7 | After a careful examination of all these factors , the Layfield Committee concluded : ‘ a local income tax ( LIT ) on personal incomes , levied according to where people live , is the only serious candidate for a new source of local revenue that could give a substantial yield and at the same time maintain or enhance accountability ’ ( Layfield 1976 : 190 — 1 ) . |
| 8 | There is not the amount of direct questioning that could give an interview the air of a lawyer/witness relationship . |
| 9 | WHEN director Alan Rudolph cast cute couple Bruce Willis and Demi Moore in his suspense drama Mortal Thoughts , little did he know the pair would do over $200 million of business this summer ( with Die Hard 2 and Ghost ) , an unexpected boost that could give the arthouse auteur a much-needed hit |
| 10 | Largest aircraft to leave the Museum and the one that could give the most problems when it comes to moving it , is former Spanish Dornier Do 24 flying boat HD5-1 . |
| 11 | The little terraced houses , with gardens front and back , that Loudon advocates have now doubtless been demolished as substandard , for each floor could measure as little as 12 feet by 12 feet ; but they were not only a great advance on the slum housing in industrial towns ; they provided interiors that could give the domestic virtues at least a chance of growth . |
| 12 | In any case , I did not linger long enough — as I was obliged to explain to his lordship shortly afterwards — to hear anything that would give a clue as to M. Dupont 's attitude to Mr Lewis 's remarks . |
| 13 | Do you have an enclosed unlit porch that would give a housebreaker some cover while working on the front door lock ? |
| 14 | I had to achieve an impression of London ; to find a series of marks that would give a visual cue rather than deliver a mass of topographical detail . |
| 15 | After years of industry — and the country — being almost paralysed by strikes and restrictive practices , the country was crying out for a Government that would give a lead . |
| 16 | Leslie Henry concentrated on secondary sources that would give a bookseller the insight he or she might need on current and potential buyers . |
| 17 | In his West Berlin speech on a New Europe and a New Atlanticism , Mr Baker , who had earlier held talks with Chancellor Helmut Kohl , proposed strengthening Washington 's links with the EC , possibly through a new treaty that would give the US a formal presence in EC institutions . |
| 18 | He did not believe in the 1952 Global Strategy paper 's concept of a period of ‘ broken-backed war ’ after an indecisive nuclear exchange in Europe that would give the Navy a worthwhile role in the Atlantic in global war . |
| 19 | It had to be something that would give the prospective punter some idea of the staggering depth and scope and thoroughness of Henry 's work . |
| 20 | Chesarynth gritted her teeth , her lips clamped on half-formed phrases that would give the game away , knowing she was n't good enough to deserve the shining wonder the meanings sang inside her . |
| 21 | This being the case it was seen as essential to set a financial qualification for the franchise that would give the vote to " decent " farmers and shopkeepers whilst excluding the lower social orders who might use their votes to plunder the public purse for their own advantage . |
| 22 | There is a concern to increase the independence of members and to devise institutional relationships to facilitate a balance of powers that would give the Commons a more effective checking , choosing , and legislating role of the kind it enjoyed prior to the extension of the franchise and the organising implications of political parties in the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | New feminism stressed the importance of women 's role in the home , not to argue the case of female uniqueness and social maternalism , but rather in order to demand reforms that would give the individual mother control over her ‘ conditions of work ’ and ‘ her product ’ . |
| 24 | Let us turn to another definition that would give the context-dependent nature of such phenomena more centrality : ( 12 ) Pragmatics is the study of the relations between language and context that are basic to an account of language understanding Here the term language understanding is used in the way favoured by workers in artificial intelligence to draw attention to the fact that understanding an utterance involves a great deal more than knowing the meanings of the words uttered and the grammatical relations between them . |
| 25 | By Ian Hargraves TRANMERE Rovers have won Football League backing for a resolution that would give the league power to order a match that has been abandoned , to be restarted at a later date at the point it was called off . |
| 26 | Through the generations they will be repeated and there will be a response in some poetic soul , and the idea will be reborn in a poem that will give a new impact to the ancient idea . |
| 27 | To sum up , positive body language that will give a good impression includes : |
| 28 | This is the minimum that will give a reverberation effect . |
| 29 | A DIY design that will give a 5V to 15V supply , with a maximum output current of 5A |
| 30 | On curtains , cushions , tiebacks , blinds , lampshades and even tablecloths , trimmings can create a tailored look that will give a special finish to enhance any room . |