Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [vb infin] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the most it may mean giving up a job . |
| 2 | It may have given its decision in bad faith . |
| 3 | The eruption which probably had the most far reaching effect on civilization was that of Santorin ( Thera ) in the Aegean , in about 1470 B.C. This abruptly extinguished the highly-developed Minoan culture centred on Crete , and , because the eruption caused the submergence beneath the sea of a large part of the island of Santorin , it may have given rise to the age-old legends of Atlantis , the ‘ lost ’ or ‘ drowned ’ continent . |
| 4 | In Anisminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission ( N. L. , 1969 ) Lord Reid described various ways in which a body might abuse its powers : " It may have given its decision in bad faith . |
| 5 | Yeah , but the thing is right , they , that 's because they 're criminally insane any way , it may have given them an idea but it does n't mean that that women or whoever it might not of died any way . |
| 6 | I have made some tests , and it may help to give the results , though observers with keener eyes than mine will be able to do better . |
| 7 | At Liverpool it should pay to give Jack Banks ' Mizyan another chance in the Oddbins handicap Hurdle as he was probably an unlucky loser last time out . |
| 8 | ‘ It must have given you a shock finding this , after yesterday and everything . |
| 9 | Obviously with that number of weeks that you were in hospital , it must have given you plenty of time too , to think about future prospects in a fairly dangerous industry in the North Sea . |
| 10 | It might have given him some small comfort to know that , 75 years later , hydro-electric power was successfully produced a few miles away at Coaley Mill . |
| 11 | It would 've given us another month to play with at least . |
| 12 | No but you were saying before that had it worked it would 've given them a problem . |
| 13 | Intel told it that running a current SCO binary on Pentium would win it only twice the performance of SCO Unix on the 80486 , compared with a fourfold increase it could expect with code recompiled for Pentium , although it would mean giving up on backwards compatibility . |
| 14 | The matron of a residential home , talking about a doctor who she felt was reluctant to visit said it would have been helpful if the person who died had been visited more often : ‘ It would have given her a lot more comfort and the staff a lot more confidence . ’ |
| 15 | It would have given us a base at least to operate from , a place where we could be contacted , and where we might even meet some of our fellow producers . |
| 16 | ‘ I had n't hit the wickets for a while and I was n't going to throw it because it was a rather tense moment and it would have given away at least one run if I had missed ’ Rhodes recalled . |
| 17 | It would have given WPC Harrison a fighting chance . |
| 18 | I mean , it would have given , would n't it , or been squashy . |
| 19 | Guglielmi acknowledges this but says that if his company had ignored the market it would have given competitors free rein . |
| 20 | Guglielmi acknowledges this but says that if his company had ignored the market it would have given competitors free rein . |
| 21 | Guglielmi acknowledges this but says that if his company had ignored the market it would have given competitors free rein . |
| 22 | Dowd had stayed out of the Retreat all the time he 'd waited for Godolphin ( a wearisome three days ) even though it would have given him some measure of protection against the bitter cold . |
| 23 | She could have had my right arm if it would have given her any pleasure . |
| 24 | I wanted her to have an abortion because it would have given us more time to get ourselves sorted out and get our life going together before bringing another person into it . |
| 25 | If she 'd had the abortion it would have given us time to do that sort of thing . |
| 26 | If we 'd have gone for plc status first , then it would have given us the chance to work as a proper company . |
| 27 | At least it would have given me the prospect of seeing Mary Shelley again . |
| 28 | It would have given her an excuse to be searching for a particular room , but she had been so frightened … |
| 29 | It would have given a similar sort of chance to the one he missed in the first minute . |
| 30 | If earlier national and local links still existed it would have given a helpful criterion to governors to know whether their school was being managed well . |