Example sentences of "give any clue " in BNC.

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1	The central London postmark did n't give any clues , nor did the good quality envelope .
2	First , he draws a distinction between phonological phrases ( composed of clitic phrases ) and intonational phrases ( composed of phonological phrases ) but offers no theoretical grounds for the distinction , nor do any of his examples give any clue as to what it is .
3	Personally , I 'd not have made any heavyweight preparations but avoided giving any clues until the last moment .
4	I 'm not giving any clues away I 'm balancing as best I can .
5	The report also draws upon research presented to it by Professor Cyril Greenland ( reported in full in Greenland , 1987 ) and comments as follows : Thus not only are we not given a definition but we are not given any clue as to which of all the cases that come to social worker 's notice are not high risk .
6	There was nothing of interest or value , nothing that gave any clue as to why the scientist had been killed .
7	‘ That 's the only thing which gave any clue about her . ’
8	The only detail that gave any clue to his character , his description of his hobbies as ‘ the pleasures of Lawrence 's prose and vintage port ’ , did little to endear him to her .
9	Neither Taskopruzade nor Mecdi gives any clue concerning the date of Molla Arab 's appointment to the Muftilik ( beyond the fact that it is implicit that it occurred in the reign of Bayezid II ) , although both state that he died as Mufti of Istanbul in 901/1495–6 .
10	She 's mentioned frequently but he never gives any clue as to who she is or the nature of their relationship . ’
11	If this structure gives any clues as to what kinds of words the missing ones are — if one can deduce from the structure that one missing word is a verb of action , another is an animate noun , and so on — the patient can insert very general content words by using such deductions ( words like did , person , thing ) .

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