Example sentences of "a [noun sg] would give " in BNC.
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| 1 | A referendum would give the membership views but Council , whilst spending madly on the Hay Report , would no doubt object to spending money on a democratic exercise which might upset cherished opinion . |
| 2 | A loss would give momentum to the idea of dumping him at the party convention in July . |
| 3 | A second would give patients a guaranteed right of access to the hospital of their choice , and general practitioners a right to refer patients to the consultant of their choice . |
| 4 | She was shrewd enough to understand that the way he had been treated as a child would give him the added drive and determination to better himself . |
| 5 | The rental of such an office could not have been great , but it was little things which often had a quite disproportionate impact upon burgh councillors , for such a move would give tangible proof that the party which could arrange it had the ear of government and could thus effect other , and perhaps more far-reaching , changes . |
| 6 | EC Fisheries Commissioner Manuel Marin said that such a move would give IWC regulations the force of EC law . |
| 7 | Such a right would give a monopoly in the program , thus protecting the underlying ideas more effectively than copyright , but the right would last for a shorter period than a patent , say 5 or 7 years maximum . |
| 8 | During the strike , there were allegations that the police used binding-over orders in cases which they knew could never result in convictions but in which they wanted to avail themselves of the opportunity for the imposition of bail conditions which they knew such a charge would give them ( Christian , 1985 : 133 ) . |
| 9 | The company insists that a takeover would give it only 22 per cent of the total market for white and brown goods — everything from washing machines and fridges to video recorders and hi-fi — and small electrical appliances . |
| 10 | That would mean a takeover would give Kingfisher over 26 per cent . |
| 11 | His sentence was the maximum a court would give . |
| 12 | If they beat the scousers tonight , I 'm afraid I 'll concede the title to the B******s especially with the boost such a victory would give them . |
| 13 | After each paragraph of information , which is introduced by a dash , the sentence written in italics gives the kind of explanation a supervisor would give the new assistant . |
| 14 | Such a debate would give right hon. and hon. Members — particularly those whose constituents , like mine in the north-west , are suffering from the loss of their MGN pensions — an opportunity to ask the Opposition to account for the way in which some of their members who were trustees of the MGN fund behaved in a wholly negligent way . |
| 15 | Such a debate would give the hon. Members who have raised those points of order an opportunity to participate , and for a Minister to respond . |
| 16 | They did not hope for any tangible support for their undertaking , but a charter would give them some standing in England , allow them to create a legal government , and possibly convince any enquiring Spaniards that they were not simply setting up a pirate base . |
| 17 | Holding a fund would give us a clear and continuing incentive to maximise the extent to which our patients took out and used private health insurance . |
| 18 | A Yes , a perm would give your hair more manageability . |
| 19 | This morning I telephoned my agent from the kiosk on the corner of the road to make sure that he had received the first fourteen or fifteen thousand words of my novel and , hopefully , to hear him say that , yes , he thought a publisher would give me a worthwhile advance ( much needed ) on the strength or promise of this sizeable chunk . |
| 20 | Such a deposit would give interest of : |
| 21 | One was configuration — that is , the right size with the right payload from the routes on which a jet would give an airline the greatest advantage . |