Example sentences of "giving [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note that if there are eight data planes in each memory bank ( giving 256 levels per colour ) then the number of combinations is 256 3 or 16 777 216 . |
| 2 | Commercial firms , especially those concerned with pharmacological and nutritional products , employ a limited number of veterinary advisers both in this country and overseas ; and there are opportunities for giving technical assistance to developing countries under the auspices of either the Overseas Development Administration or one of the United Nations external aid agencies . |
| 3 | The skin care expert Clarins will tell you how to take care of your skin during and after your pregnancy , and will be giving mini treatments and consultations throughout the day . |
| 4 | Dace hard to find , even the Llynfi tributary at Glasbury is giving little . |
| 5 | Open to all the influences of Nature and man , but giving little : running like a senseless stream … |
| 6 | Even though Rome was giving little in return in terms of moderating its claims to be the only true Christian church , faint liberal breezes had been blowing through the Vatican since the second Vatican Council . |
| 7 | giving little whistling whispers to reassure the budgie . |
| 8 | Occupying their own apartments at the palace and giving little heed to the prevailing rumour that the king was unwell , neither she nor Joan was prepared for the tidings they received on that April afternoon . |
| 9 | What is more , at this stage they were concentrating on what they knew best , namely the heat measurements , and were giving little attention to nuclear effects , though some search for tritium — which can be done by a chemical process — was made on a 1 mm rod that produced heat . |
| 10 | Work experience , on the other hand , was seen by employers as part of the school 's discipline and as giving little information about the pupil as an individual . |
| 11 | The others watched him as they played , Francie giving little grunts of encouragement , Aunt Margaret nodding her head . |
| 12 | Although he was initially delighted to be a father , Keith was totally unable to cope with the responsibility and came and went in their relationship as he pleased , giving little help or support . |
| 13 | As he did so , he kept darting his eyes nervously back to his little room and the manuscript on the desk ; but when he got back in , puffing a little , he was smiling and giving little mutters of pleasure : ‘ Well , this sure is nice of you , real friendly … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Just me ? ’ she queried when he 'd finished talking , her face giving little away of the tangled emotions behind its passive façade . |
| 15 | Our sample appears to confirm that collective bargaining practice has followed the initial approach of union policy in giving little weight to the less quantifiable changes in working conditions from application of new technology and systems , especially in job design and its effects on the quality of working life . |
| 16 | But the judges from those countries were were giving little away . |
| 17 | And work colleagues were giving little away about the man they knew . |
| 18 | The Milton Keynes-based group , which kills 4,000 cattle and 25,000 sheep a week in the season , is expected to take an initiative in that area later this year , and Mr Canvin was giving little away in his address to the Safeway-sponsored Strathclyde Food Project seminar . |
| 19 | Erm keeps giving little bits erm It was when he was a child apparently , he claims to have been aware of it , you know ? |
| 20 | She was so happy , she could n't help giving grateful thanks out loud for such a quick answer to her prayer . |
| 21 | The present study was done to establish a dose response relationship for the trophic effect of gastrin on the enterochromaffin like cells by giving exogenous gastrin in graded doses . |
| 22 | Things are bad enough now but if there is no sign of progress towards a settlement , the people who are still giving friendly waves to UN troops are likely to start throwing stones as they do in Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | For example , the GRAPE record ( giving carbonate-opal variation ) generally shows excellent correlation between equatorial sites . |
| 24 | More than 275,000 recipe leaflets have been produced and mailed to key catering customers , giving eight new recipe ideas . |
| 25 | She now made a living giving private lessons in English . |
| 26 | We heard that a Quaker lady , Miss Maud Gurney Tyler , was giving private shorthand classes for one shilling and sixpence a lesson . |
| 27 | As a matter of common courtesy , for example , a teacher would avoid giving private coaching to child in a colleague 's class . |
| 28 | From 1929 to 1936 he was librarian of the philosophy faculty , supplementing his income by giving private tuition in mathematics and philosophy . |
| 29 | It is good for business , giving private firms new opportunities to market their services . |
| 30 | His visit ended in controversy when a group of senior Palestinians cancelled a meeting with Hurd on Oct. 17 , after Israeli journalists had reported him as giving private assurances to Israeli politicians that he did not favour the creation of a Palestinian state . |