Example sentences of "a [noun sg] can give " in BNC.
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| 1 | FAR RIGHT The gift of reading is one of the most important a parent can give to a child . |
| 2 | In the last resort all that a test can give is a relation between two or more quantities such as load , displacement , time and temperature from which it is inferred that this is the general relation connecting these quantities throughout the body , for the assumption of such a general relation is at the basis of elasticity theory and continuum mechanics . |
| 3 | I had literally had everything possible that a judge can give you . |
| 4 | A study of the changes in absorption spectrum of a system in the course of a reaction can give information about the mechanism , as well as about the nature of the product(s) , the rate of the reaction and how the rate changes with concentration , with temperature and with the presence of other potential reagents . |
| 5 | For example , leakage of charged particles into the upper atmosphere of a planet can give rise to emissions of em radiation called aurora . |
| 6 | The quantity of finds on a site can give an idea of the wealth of the people living there , although since most possessions would have been removed if people left the site , this too can give a distorted view . |
| 7 | You and a friend can give each other a call . |
| 8 | The use of faeces as a sample can give false negative results as a variety of chemicals from the stool will prevent Taq polymerase from working and inhibit a PCR . |
| 9 | A court can give or withhold a consent or authority such as might be given or withheld by a patient or a child 's parent . |
| 10 | The thread of continuity is also a gift that a woman can give to a man . |
| 11 | With a few words a woman can give meaning to a whole day 's struggle , and a man will be very grateful . |
| 12 | A woman can give something special too but there 's no reason why that should be the only thing that 's given . ’ |
| 13 | Whether yours is a family garden which has to sustain the rigorous attentions of children , a more sedate garden for entertaining al fresco , or a small city garden with little room for more than a couple of raised flowers beds , a patio can give your home and lifestyle a whole new dimension . |
| 14 | The gift of love is the greatest gift a man can give himself . |
| 15 | Because a man can give something special . |
| 16 | Since the poetic structure includes only those elements which evoke a response in the reader , it is this response that must be taken as the analyst 's starting point ; the linguist as such can not tell us what is interesting or important about a work ( ‘ No grammatical analysis of a poem can give us more than the grammar of the poem ’ ( p. 213 ) ) . |
| 17 | It is not always necessary to have the entire object — a broken piece of the rim of a plate can give us nearly as much information as the entire plate could have done . |
| 18 | Erm , putting images into words is not always easy , a colour in a painting can give you a way in and the brown of Van Gogh 's jacket erm affected me with this one particularly and the sun flower I felt was inappropriate misplace , in a vase to , to small , erm and it gave me an image a very strong image of suffering and this poem is in its very early stages and its literally just a list of images and I wanted to be able to show you how I start off which is with a series of images and then I have to put some filler in and open them up a bit and , and make them more accessible and understandable , but this is just a list form . |
| 19 | The religion of a culture can give insights into its members ' behaviour . |
| 20 | Cystic fibrosis consultant nurse Fran DuncanSkingle said : ‘ A transplant can give a new lease of life because the cystic fibrosis does not reappear in the new lung . ’ |
| 21 | It will reveal the limitations to the interpretation a player can give , say , Bartok 's ‘ Mikrokosmos ’ without the long hours of practice and thought which are currently necessary for the mastery of both the piano and the music itself . |