Example sentences of "[indef pn] [conj] [vb mod] give " in BNC.

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1 Do nothing that may give it a bad name .
2 If you expect to be arrested , you clear out everything that might give a clue or be used to incriminate you .
3 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 .
4 Following an appeal by UN Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar for a cease-fire over civilian-populated areas , this was accepted by both sides and the secretary-general now sought to widen it into something that would give effect to the Security Council resolutions , call for an end to the fighting altogether .
5 Sometimes an observant parent will notice something that will give us a clue ; after a child recovers from one of those high fevers that ‘ lay it very low ’ for a short time it is sometimes seen that the child is more ‘ well ’ than before it became ‘ ill ’ , provided the illness has not been inappropriately treated or interfered with in some way .
6 First you require a second enlarger , an old anything with a lens , together with something that will give you a reasonably diffused light .
7 First you require a second enlarger , an old anything with a lens , together with something that will give you reasonably diffuse light .
8 It 's one of the principal forces at the core of the universe , perhaps not the main force , but something that can give us immediate enlightenment if we … ’
9 They ( and East Germany 's communists ) argued throughout the election campaign for a slower road to unity , one that would give East Germans the chance to negotiate some safeguards for their livelihoods .
10 He persuaded the Board in 1970 to recognise that a new kind of qualification was now required , one that would give status to the more ‘ creative ’ approach to drama in schools .
11 Most politicians , and probably most of the general public , whatever their political party , regard it as in principle a sensible innovation , certainly one that will give parents a better notion of what they ought to expect , in whatever part of the country their children may go to school .
12 There is no one that will give you the keys to paradise .
13 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 .
14 By middle age I had discovered that everything I wanted to do , every attitude I announced , every desire I expressed , anything that might give me joy appeared to contradict the wishes of someone else .
15 ‘ We do n't like anything that might give someone the idea to stick a poor fish in beer .
16 ‘ Now let me have your own passports and anything that might give a clue to your true identities . ’
17 " Somebody 's gone to a lot of trouble to remove anything that might give a clue to his identity , " Redpath said .
18 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 .
19 Even so , I thought it was worth persisting , trying to get her to remember noises , smells , anything that would give us a clue to where they were taken .
20 Anything that would give him his bearings again .
21 With several newly qualified teachers and many more awaiting initiation , they literally ‘ Swung ’ all over the place — adult institutes , local church halls , fetes , in fact in or on anything that would give them a few square feet of space ; one Essex teacher even did a two year S-T-R-E-T-C-H in H.M Prison , Holloway and got time off for good behaviour ( a class of course ! ) .
22 All morning the world 's top cyclists will have been reconnoitring the course , selecting their gear ratios and the most suitable of their many bikes , looking at the route for the best way through corners , testing the strength and direction of the wind — looking for anything that will give them that little extra in this first trial of strength , which will be clocked in tenths and hundredths of a second .
23 ‘ Anything , anything that will give the impression that you can think .
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