Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] give " in BNC.
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1 | At the beginning of 1990 , Jennifer Kelsall helped a deaf woman give birth to her first child at Wythenshawe Maternity Hospital in Manchester . |
2 | ‘ What a pleasant way to give out Christmas boxes , ’ Sarah said . |
3 | There must be asserted , in some form or other by the Government , a reserve power to give the necessary control and organising authority , and to make sure that everyone , of every rank and condition , men and women , shall do their fair share . |
4 | A friendly encounter gave a glow which lasted through the night . |
5 | At the bottom a one-way mirror gave him a view of the corridor outside . |
6 | He bought up a farm complex and converted it into a private lab to give specialised service to his medical practice . |
7 | In the subsequent weeks leading up to Christmas , Liza saw Freddie Nash only twice : once at a private party given by two officers who rented a small cottage in the district , the second time at a dance organised by a certain county grande dame , who seemed to think she was destined to introduce the opposite sex to one another as her personal contribution to the war effort . |
8 | The following day , a Spanish lady gave us a guided tour of Cartiera , a partly excavated Roman town only three miles from Gibraltar . |
9 | In my judgment , therefore , the court exercising the inherent jurisdiction in relation to a 16- or 17-year-old child who is not mentally incompetent will , as a matter of course , ascertain the wishes of the child and will approach its decision with a strong predilection to give effect to the child 's wishes . |
10 | Yet it was also wealthy and powerfully organised , a strong weapon given a strong hand . |
11 | Churchmen must always have been aware of family loyalties , and when these became involved in politics there may often have been a strong temptation to give active support . |
12 | A badly-sorted deposit gives a low , broad curve , whereas a well sorted deposit , which has exactly the same range of fragment sizes , gives a single very well-defined peak . |
13 | Here a narrow gully gave a long , powdery glissade almost to the shores of the frozen lock , which gave an easy highway to within five minutes of our night 's accommodation . |
14 | Got a bloody assignment to give in and I forgot I lost the bloody address ! |
15 | It is a specific provision giving protection in a limited field , as opposed to the generality of the terms of section 433 of the Act of 1986 . |
16 | The main conclusion to be drawn from this discussion is that a software-based System gives detailed control of the velocity profile up to medium stepping rates ( 1000 steps per second ) , but may limit high-speed performance , and is therefore well-suited to applications in which acceleration/deceleration operations predominate . |
17 | When Robert Burrows first became a Christian he had been working on a banana plantation , but some time after his conversion a Salvationist family gave him work on their dairy farm . |
18 | Similarly , others have argued that the matrices make little allowance for risk and in their early application this was true , but , if one undertakes a Porter-type analysis to give a solid foundation to industry attractiveness and competitive strengths and the derivation of the appropriate strategies , that will take into account a risk assessment . |
19 | Some have waited for a booming voice to give direction and are still waiting after years of meditation and prayer . |
20 | Combining the character candidates across a complete word gives a number of candidate strings . |
21 | In mid-August a dozen members paid an evening visit to the Bridgnorth area , not this time to see the Severn Valley Railway , but to see the Oldbury Live Steam Museum , a complete garden given over to a variety of exhibits , mainly around a railway theme , but also with models of vintage buses , ships and aeroplanes . |
22 | Although a descriptive grammar gives detailed coverage of the facts about a language , it is not written in a form which can be used directly to acquire speaking control of the language . |
23 | This is the story of how a woman made of iron emerged from the depths of a grocer 's shop in Grantham and , speaking with a strange tongue given to her by the God of Graven Images , Sir Gordon Reece , held a nation under her spell . |
24 | This little band are know as the Medieval Heritage Society , a re-enactment group with a strange desire to give people a glimpse of life in the 1450's . |
25 | Having you family portrait done by a professional photographer gives you more than just a reminder of what your children looked like as they grew up , because a professional has all the best equipment necessary for a top-quality portrait . |
26 | Given the growing acceptance of the view that education represents the basic condition for future economic success , partnerships are surely well placed within their localities to begin the task of building the structures and confidence necessary to establish education investment banks or funds where there is a professional approach given to venture capital for educational development . |
27 | the , the in-house , friendly at atmosphere we 've had up to now , er non-competitive , across to what we 're gon na see in the future , in the future , which is competitive with a professional client giving a professional remit to a number of tenderers , which will be us . |
28 | And a stable currency gives industry a chance to realise the potential released by the reforms of the 1990s . |
29 | On Oct. 30 a controversial measure giving blanket immunity to anyone who had committed a politically motivated crime before Oct. 8 , 1990 [ see p. 39037 ] was approved by the President 's Council and thus became law , despite its having been rejected on Oct. 20 by the House of Delegates , the Indian chamber of the tricameral parliament . |
30 | The habit of a daily routine gives a comfortable feeling , a feeling of emotional reassurance , of security . |