Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] give [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Thinking of badness gave her one of her ideas .
2 We must not only abide by a precise form , but also build up the right waves of emotion to give it full human significance .
3 The gentlemen in Virginia were in no position to do this ; they had very little money to spend in a gentlemanly way and no particular experience of colonization to give them any other claims to respect and obedience , as nothing got done and about 60 of the 100 initial settlers died in 1607 .
4 Given a large enough supply of machine catalogues and enough flexibility of mind to give yourself different problems , an inventive woodworker could spend the entire winter playing this game .
5 Apart from the counties a number of urban areas had grown up and many of these had been granted Charters of Incorporation giving them varying powers of local administration .
6 Night Goblin shamans are allowed to gobble pieces of mushroom to give them extra power , while Forest Goblin shamans are immune to ‘ Eadbangin ’ thanks to the spider venom flowing through their veins .
7 A foal requires about one pint of colostrum to give it sufficient antibiotics to help fight neonatal infections .
8 ‘ Methinks its motion in this hush of nature Gives it dim sympathies with me who live Making it a companionable form , Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling spirit By its own moods interprets , everywhere Echo or mirror seeking of itself , And makes a toy of Thought .
9 The first is , where is Lincoln going , Lincolnshire going to left after the local erm , government commission put their proposals forward and the government have a look at them , and then secondly , what our , as we note from Item Eleven , a fuller report will be brought to this sub-committee when the local government staff commission or the Secretary of State to give us definitive advice .
10 On the programme , she commented that her excursions into the world of night give her some very special insights and material which she is then able to use in her novels .
11 Fifty pounds worth of petrol gives you one pound off .
12 Nails liked her company better than that of his father ; his new way of life gave him considerable satisfaction .
13 The archers have a lighter corselets of scale mail and powerful bows constructed of alternating layers of wood to give them great power and range .
14 But ‘ For A Child ’ only has a slight tempo shift , a trumpet solo and a blast of flugelhorn to give it some extra zest , and it 's simply not enough .
15 Huge expanses of fertile land and unlimited supplies of water give it enormous productive potential .
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