Example sentences of "would give " in BNC.
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| 1 | By leaving £5,000 to ACET , however , the taxable value of your estate is reduced to £135,000 and this would give a tax saving of £2,000 . |
| 2 | If you came from Mexico , he said , you would give up this shallow cynicism and understand just how important it is to keep the bookshops open , to keep the galleries open , even to keep the opera houses open . |
| 3 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I want simply to tell you that work on your notes connected with the Big Glass is at last under way and that I have remained scholarly and impartial throughout what has not been an easy task , in view of what you say about me and especially about my family , and which you must have known would give offense . |
| 4 | The public clearly believed that this ‘ restoration ’ would enhance the building 's interest despite destroying an historic element ; he must also have felt that a new timber framed facade , despite its inauthenticity , would give the pub an ‘ historic ’ character that was more readily recognisable and instantly attractive to potential customers . |
| 5 | ‘ Constable Bewman here pointed out that each guest had their plate handed to them by Edith but I ca n't see how that would give the murderer any scope . ’ |
| 6 | That would n't be time enough to think but at least it would give me a chance to calm down . |
| 7 | The lime was mixed with flowers of sulphur so that the walls would give off sulphurous fumes when they got warm . |
| 8 | Cameron passed it by , the man could stew in his choler for a while , and when the dark came on and his servants and womenfolk grued at every owl-call or salmon-splash from the river , his defiance would burn lower and he would give his name . |
| 9 | ‘ Do you think the speakers would give a better quality of sound if I moved them further apart ? ’ |
| 10 | The snaps these machines took never portrayed her at her best , but they would give the general impression . |
| 11 | This echoes the statement in their second encounter that he , Porfiry , has no intention of making an immediate arrest because by doing so he would give the murderer somebody to be : ‘ I 'd give him , so to say , a definite position , I 'd give him psychological definition and peace . ’ |
| 12 | Another member of the quintet , one Lyamshin , a post-office clerk , gets himself asked to parties where ‘ he would give imitations of a pig , a thunder storm , a confinement , with the first cry of the baby , etc. , etc. ; that was what he was invited for ’ ; and later we hear of him ‘ mimicking , when requested , various types of jews , a deaf peasant woman making her confession , or the birth of a child … ’ . |
| 13 | It was estimated that a lattice network of sone 80 transmitters would give nationwide coverage , with more than 80% of road traffic covered from only 20 stations . |
| 14 | Buying Pearl would give AMP a further market share of over 2 per cent . |
| 15 | He said this summer that as he gradually wound down his involvement in sport , Henley would be the last thing he would give up . |
| 16 | No one who was at the Brewery Field ( perhaps not even the selectors ) would give twopence for their ability to do so . |
| 17 | A sad tale about a man who died at the age of 103 because no one would give him any money . |
| 18 | Portugal announced earlier this year that it would give up to 130,000 passports to people born in Macao before 1981 . |
| 19 | ‘ For some children it would give them the opportunity to wreak mayhem , while other , more sensitive children would be deeply affected out of all proportion to what they had done . |
| 20 | He refused to elaborate , but is known to have expressed dismay at a proposed increase in prize money for doubles which would give singles only a 70-30 advantage . |
| 21 | Licences are needed for other types of brokerage and she argues that it would give her business respectability . |
| 22 | Earlier , Lord Donaldson had commented that the £600,000 would give Mrs Sutcliffe a permanent income of some £60,000 a year for life — and when she died the £600,000 would still be intact . |
| 23 | Any controversy over the new legal framework would give ammunition to Mr Meacher 's critics within the party . |
| 24 | The deal , which would give British Airways a 15 per cent share in United , is already threatened by new US government restrictions on foreign ownership of American carriers . |
| 25 | He was satisfied the reasons which the mother advanced against adoption were not ones a reasonable mother would advance in the circumstances and were not reasonable reasons and that a reasonable woman in her position would give her consent . |
| 26 | On existing membership figures that would give constituency parties 26 per cent of the vote , and the unions 74 per cent . |
| 27 | They would give equal rights and opportunities to all qualified Nigerians to participate in the political process in the run-up to when the military hands over to civilian rule in 1992 , the President said . |
| 28 | For such occasions Milton had perfected an immaculate form of rapid-fire introduction in which he would give his guests both their potted biographies and list of credits . |
| 29 | The Widnes forwards especially would give the Kiwis some punch ; the present pack is simply unable to dominate . |
| 30 | It would ensure that the tunnel was completed and would give the banks much more direct access to the project and its long-term rewards . |