Example sentences of "[conj] giving a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are several reasons why an overflow pipe may be dripping or giving a steady stream of water . |
| 2 | This also applies to a person who is incapable of understanding questions or giving a proper answer by reason of mental incapacity or permanent or temporary disability . |
| 3 | It is fairly clear what sorts of conditions are singled out from their fellows as causes , although giving a systematic account is not easy . |
| 4 | Protagon believes that , by offering its string adjustment facility , that it is ‘ raising the stakes ’ , so to speak … setting the trend for the nineties , and giving a new meaning to the term ‘ user-friendly ’ . |
| 5 | The structure of the book was based upon the distinction of four types of medium-scale systems each showing distinct but complementary properties and giving a progressive sequence to higher levels of integration and sophistication . |
| 6 | Poor care is likely to be given throughout the inpatient stay thereby increasing the actual mortality and giving a higher SMR . |
| 7 | The best way to treat special damages is to deal with each item of special damage in a separate paragraph and to have a final paragraph totalling them all up and giving a global figure . |
| 8 | The Government are fully committed to placing the emphasis on employment-lead standards of competence and giving a major role to industry lead bodies both in the development of competence based occupational standards and in ‘ ownership ’ of them . ’ |
| 9 | If your dry garden borders on to paving , many of these plants will spill over and even colonise the cracks , softening up hard lines and giving a mellow feel . |
| 10 | Taking an example from the social level , one can have a great deal of fun , and even work a bit of mischief , through planning and giving a small-scale party . |
| 11 | Internationally , this did no harm whatever , relieving as it did part of the burden on the social services , leaving prices unaffected and giving a better standard of living to existing residents and the newly-employed alike . |
| 12 | One simple and obvious way of eliminating the authorial voice and giving a realistic effect to the novel is to make a character the narrator , as in Robinson Crusoe or Jane Eyre or David Copperfield . |
| 13 | Er there 's another book which is similar to the other one in the sense that it made up of some papers by Phillips , Steel and Tants and that has some information about Mexicano in it , er and you find that some people er were giving Mexican language a low a low prestige rate whereas other group in the community were doing the opposite and giving a high prestige rate or certainly a less low one , er in favour of spanish a lot of the Because it was in I think it 's in South America I guess , er you find that a lot of the locals were switching to spanish because it was coming the dominant language er because of societal pressures and constraints and so on . |
| 14 | Oval wash is suitable for watercolour techniques , carrying a large amount of colour and giving a soft edge . |
| 15 | She did so , leaning slightly towards him and giving a surreptitious sniff . |
| 16 | ‘ Mama — ’ she said — and giving a little cry , ran towards the low wooden bed . |
| 17 | I 've done everything from working on a building site for a week and promising to bring me cards in and giving a false name , to er potato picking erm doing hay , anything . |
| 18 | Then , raising his hands and giving a piercing shriek , he added : ‘ Actually , I think I 'd rather like the lead role in Home Alone 3 . ’ |
| 19 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |
| 20 | There was a fitted wardrobe , with a row of suits hanging in it , and drawers containing shirts , pyjamas , socks , handkerchiefs and underclothes — everything clean and ready , but giving a curious impression of not being in use . |
| 21 | With this information , the second colour mock-ups were produced , still lacking fine details but giving a good idea of the overall appearance of the final charts and the position of each species . |
| 22 | They were as they always were : thick enough to conceal those within while giving a perfect view out . |
| 23 | A management consultant 's study has found that office and warehouse space around the port and former burgh of Leith offers the best potential for growth , while giving a further boost to the area 's development plans . |
| 24 | The results were interpreted as giving a continued endorsement to the efforts of the non-party President Georgios Vassiliou to pursue UN-backed talks with the Turkish Cypriots — something which had been the key issue of the electoral campaigns . |
| 25 | We can quote one as saying ‘ We see it as giving a distinctive edge to our marketing image amongst a predominantly business clientele . ’ |
| 26 | The statute in pursuance of which the challenged action was done would provide guidance to the court as to what grievances were to be considered as giving a genuine cause for complaint . |
| 27 | However , he does see the life of one who really understands his situation as giving a central place to what he calls ‘ the intellectual love of God ’ . |
| 28 | The collapse of the communist regimes of eastern Europe prompted the formation of new regional groupings and alliances as well as giving a new lease of life to existing organizations which straddled the former east-west divide . |
| 29 | But Agatha Christie frequently used two murders , and in her An Autobiography ( another book you ought to read , if only to see what direct , simple writing can do ) she recommends a second killing as giving a useful fillip when there is a danger of a story flagging . |
| 30 | On this basis imitation tasks ought to be regarded as giving a conservative estimate of the child 's grammatical knowledge . |