Example sentences of "of [noun] [modal v] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also ventured a definition of hegemony , ‘ the totality of all laws and other arrangements by means of which the leading power of a union of states can give the community the desired direction and the stamp of its own spirit . |
| 2 | Most sets of values would give rise to universes that , although they might be very beautiful , would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty . |
| 3 | In the same way , the electronic spectra of molecules can give information about their electronic structures , and have helped to establish our present understanding of chemical bonding in molecules . |
| 4 | Of course , this kind of technique can give only approximate results . |
| 5 | If so , it is perhaps surprising that a threat of a mere breach of contract should give rise to liability . |
| 6 | 12–10- There was a proposal that it was desirable to have " an assistant to labour in the district by preaching and visiting " and it was thought that Mr Findlay of Dunlossit would give assistance towards this object . |
| 7 | At the time I was talking to the magistrate I had no doubt at all that the Duke of Marlborough would give evidence for me , if necessary . |
| 8 | So I just do n't think that lots of money will give you anything other than an empty wallet and a sound that 's already there . |
| 9 | It is to the netting of that protean reality that Joyce now bends all his energies , and my mixing of metaphors can give no more than the faintest hint of what that strange act entails . |
| 10 | All server versions of CICS should give programmers the same familiar application development environment and rich set of programming interfaces to hide the underlying machine and network — it 's easy to see why this will aid downsizing , but it is not going to do much for IBM 's hardware sales . |
| 11 | Such ‘ ownership ’ of plans would give the school a clearer and more unified sense of purpose and direction and reduce the stress felt in such a time of educational change . |
| 12 | The Spirit , then , is fully involved in the anguish of our world-in-the-making , and of us Christians-in-the-making ; and he points towards the day when the pains of travail will give way to the joys of birth . |
| 13 | But his candidacy was naturally unacceptable to Henry I of England , who feared that the wealth and military power of Flanders would give Clito an unassailable advantage in Normandy ; and the risk of antagonizing Henry was not one which the cloth towns cared to take , because they feared disruption of the wool supply . |
| 14 | The opportunity to go away from the school and work in a different atmosphere and with people who might have a different perspective on the management of organizations would give me the chance to look back into the school more objectively and question some of the assumptions I had grown to accept . |
| 15 | Lots of shops will give you a few quid for a computer which an be added to their ‘ loaner ’ stock . |
| 16 | Voorhies ( 1969 ) suggested that much of this difference is due to body size differences and that differences in sorting of bone by ease of transportation might give an indication of distance travelled . |
| 17 | But that is simplifying it too much ; for it is like learning how to ride a bike : you can read about the technique , but only lots of practice will give you a feel for it and the essential balance you need . |
| 18 | Sharpe knew the panic could not be controlled here , where the French columns filled the air with menace , but perhaps the sturdy walls of Gemioncourt would give these gunners some necessary reassurance . |
| 19 | The two parts are not always interchangeable ; the small difference of 0.08mm can give rise to a cumulative error which could mean that a metric pitch part will not necessarily fit an 0.1″ pitch p.c.b. , and vice versa . |
| 20 | The different scales of manufacture can give products which behave differently on stability tests . |
| 21 | Limiting the range of bills will give all the protection that London and the south-east needs . |
| 22 | Any number of circumstances may give rise to a fluctuation in workload thus upsetting staffing predictions . |
| 23 | increase in robberies on Merseyside in the past 13 years , does the Minister agree that the freeing of police officers through the civilianisation of posts should give Merseyside police the chance to put more policemen back on to the beat ? |
| 24 | If they would not or could not , at the request of a Government sympathetic to them and their aspirations , give sufficient support to the economic policy advocated by that Government in the general interest , it could not with confidence be supposed that trade union representatives on the boards of companies would give sufficient support to the policies of those companies . |
| 25 | He thought this kind of work could give him what he most valued , independence and freedom to think . |
| 26 | The current polarity is important in the permanent-magnet motor ; the rotor position illustrated is for positive current in winding A , a switch to positive current in winding B would produce a clockwise step , whereas negative excitation of B would give anticlockwise rotation . |
| 27 | Unlike Bacon , who supposed that his method of inquiry would give certainty , he concluded that judgement on such matters ought to be suspended . |
| 28 | Attempting to read beyond the current end of file will give rise to an " End of file " error . |
| 29 | Tyson 's legal team predicted that the Indiana Court of Appeals would give serious consideration to the boxer 's request for a new hearing . |
| 30 | His hope has been that better use of woodlands will give the trees greater value , and so farmers and landowners will have an economic reason for managing their woods . |