Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun sg] give the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite a £750,000 Government campaign , only 31,942 overseas residents have taken advantage of legislation giving the vote to expatriates who have lived in Britain at any time during the past 20 years . |
| 2 | The existence of money gives the consumer greater freedom of choice than could ever exist under a barter system . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , but this kind of thing gives the Government a bad name . |
| 4 | She was expecting to be pinned down by a concentrated bout of gunfire to give the German a chance to retreat but instead the second sniper swung his FN FAL on the unsuspecting German and gunned him down . |
| 5 | In 1926 an Act of Parliament gave the Survey powers of access to the logs and specimens of all boreholes and sinkings over 100 feet deep . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , we should not lose sight of the fact that even such relatively immature communicators in terms of message evaluation — as the seven-year-olds are able to progress with a substantial degree of success given the opportunity to use their negotiating powers . |
| 7 | The performances are certainly very competent , but this is n't quite the vintage Kantorov we 've come to expect from some of his later Denon recordings ; a degree of blandness gives the playing a slightly ‘ automatic ’ quality . |
| 8 | Flows may well be exogenous as they are likely to be known with a reasonable degree of uncertainty given the contractual nature of many savings policies . |
| 9 | In a very different , but no less brilliant way the compiler of Genesis gives the Abraham narrative a final twist by following the story of the binding by one concerning Abraham 's purchase of a burial plot . |
| 10 | The requirement of leave gives the court control over the proceedings from the very start , and because the respondent does not have to appear at the leave stage , it is relieved of the need to take any steps to get a weak claim struck out . |
| 11 | Its part is written in the treble clef but by a curious quirk of transposition gives the actual notes sounded if the bass clef is thought of as displacing the treble . |
| 12 | At Gurnard 's Head , Rowland has climbed the stunning arête right of Shark to give The Silence of a Lamb , E5 6b , and a candidate for two , if not three stars methinks . |
| 13 | However , the Court of Appeal gave the plaintiff his costs of the appeal because it was unlikely that the defendant would have allowed him to take out from the sum paid into court an amount equal to the increased amount the Court of Appeal eventually awarded him . |
| 14 | As the context in which many mothers experience poverty , the gendered organisation of care gives the experience a particular edge . |
| 15 | It is important to remember , therefore , when comparing returns on short-term instruments that a rate of discount will always be slightly less than the rate of interest giving the corresponding reward . |
| 16 | Wedgwood firmly believes that its wide choice of merchandise gives the right marketing mix and enables the Group to provide products that appeal to a broad section of the world public . |
| 17 | Roxburgh summed up the occasion by saying his team had ‘ everything to gain and nothing to lose ’ , an ironic choice of phrase given the fact that the national coach had been up since 6.30am figuring out ways to compensate for loss . |
| 18 | Can the Secretary of State give the fabrication start date , an important issue for the progress of work for the yard and for the timetabling of entry into service ? |
| 19 | It is not necessary that the prisoner should be further protected by compelling the Secretary of State to give the reasons for his decision . |
| 20 | On 11 June the Secretary of State gave the council a direction under section 68 , requiring them to implement their predecessors ' plans , and on 18 June the Divisional Court ordered the council to comply . |
| 21 | In this way , the combination of light-plus-colour gives the animal a flat , undifferentiated appearance and renders it much less conspicuous to predatory eyes . |
| 22 | A schedule attached to the statement of claim gives the names and , in most cases , the addresses of the investors of whom the S.I.B . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , Scott clearly believes that the upper classes have a disproportionate amount of power given the tiny percentage of the population that they make up . |
| 24 | His violent death was only a matter of course given the way he lived . |
| 25 | In this context the question of jobs being created by West Belfast people themselves inevitably arose , but there was a general lack of hope given the effect of political vetting on community economic initiatives . |
| 26 | Pressed on the justification for killing non-combatant musicians at Deal , he added : ‘ Your Minister of Defence gave the answer to that when he said they were marines first and musicians second . ’ |
| 27 | The election to the office of councillor gives the councillor great responsibilities towards his electors . |
| 28 | Richard Hoggart , for example , notes in 1951 that the adult tutor is necessarily forced to face challenges to the self evident value of literature given the types of student involved . |