Example sentences of "can [adv] [adv] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | unfortunately , but , I , I would give you one of these , but I ca n't even give you one of these |
| 2 | ‘ At the same time , you ca n't just give a heap of numbers . |
| 3 | ‘ But , Apricot , ’ protested Brenda and Belinda , ‘ you ca n't just give up and do nothing . |
| 4 | assume that if you give them a population that owned seventy eight percent of the land and find out fifty percent of the land , then you , you know , you ca n't just give land , everyone 's not just gon na have land , you have to increase production to make everyone better off . |
| 5 | So obviously if er if Mississippi wants some federal money for a project they 're not gon na get it unless there are civil rights provisions built into the , into the project that is , you know , you ca n't just give dole out to white people and refuse it to black people erm that there has to be equal opportunities and so on . |
| 6 | and erm , and then every time the poor women went to get off stage he says oh Joan you ca n't go , come here , let's , he said we ca n't just give you that so he , he called her back and they bought give her a rabbit |
| 7 | ‘ It 's the kind of thing that a busy expanding company like Rothmans ca n't always give as much time to as it would like . |
| 8 | Well thing is that I mean a lot of these jobs , I mean er yeah they recognize that , I mean a lot of them yo they think you 're as thick as shit and treat you like you 're as thick as shit just because you 're doing a thick as shit job but you know they ca n't necessarily give you more |
| 9 | they ca n't necessarily give you more er erm do n't suppose you want to get me a cloth do you ? |
| 10 | Because of him being a rescued dog I ca n't ever give him a slap |
| 11 | Well of course I ca n't possibly give you any figure of how often , but bullying occasionally happens in the Army . |
| 12 | I ca n't obviously give my Noble Friend an assurance that this will be done , but in due course er I would very much hope that it would be and when it is my Noble Friend will then be able to refer to that Act with total simplicity and find his way through it and with all the original Acts amended as they were and will be after this Act has been passed . |
| 13 | I ca n't actually give it to you because it will amuse suspicion from the guard . |
| 14 | It 'll take about two weeks for the refund to go through , we ca n't actually give it you |
| 15 | Occasionally you can say you think they 're being stupid or have they thought about other things but at the end of the day people are answerable erm for their own decisions I feel and , if I have an opportunity I 'll tell them what I think , but er if people are n't wanting your opinion then you ca n't really give it |
| 16 | And I ca n't really give you a satisfactory explanation as to why that is . |
| 17 | We can only freely give ourselves to someone else when we are ‘ real persons ’ — just as Harry was beginning to see in the play . |
| 18 | Radiocarbon results can not therefore give a true measure of age and we need some method by which to convert them to calendar dates : this is the process of calibration ( seep.124 ) . |
| 19 | For inorganic systems , especially those involving transition metals , there are special techniques which are used to predict ( d-d ) transition energies , for example , but even those with adjustable parameters can not always give unambiguous interpretations of the observed spectra . |
| 20 | The sweep rate must be very low and an ordinary scope can not then give a steady display . |
| 21 | If the submission is unsuccessful the person making it can not then give or call any further evidence . |
| 22 | The issue is not whether the UK should back nuclear safety research at Ispra ( those of us in the field in the UK are all in favour of that ) , but whether the majority of the resources ( and even an increase in the planned budget ) should be concentrated on a single project which can not possibly give results until late 1986 . |
| 23 | If , however , the examiner can not read the words , he can not possibly give you the credit that should be yours . |
| 24 | Note that for a book written by more than two people your textual reference can normally just give the first of the names , followed by " et al. " |
| 25 | The use of role-play can similarly often give the impression that facades are more important than being oneself , acting a part more significant than reflective evaluation . |
| 26 | Optical systems can also sometimes give quantitative information about temperature fields ; however , these will be considered under the heading of flow visualization . |
| 27 | Changes in the deflated total output figures , therefore , can really only give us an estimate of the true changes in the nation 's physical output . |
| 28 | Such signals of transcendence can often consciously give rise to an awareness of the need to use a different kind of vocabulary . |
| 29 | ‘ With the Cold War over , and the Communist Party divided , we can no longer give excuses for the shortcomings of the system , the lack of accountability . |
| 30 | as if this were not enough , I now realise that I can no longer give Jacob children . |