Example sentences of "gives [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programme gives absurd powers to the central government . |
| 2 | Construction : Ideally polyethylene — a material which gives indestructible qualities often at the expense of weight . |
| 3 | The 42-clause Bill gives pregnant workers the right to a minimum of 14 weeks ' maternity leave . |
| 4 | As to this , Eadmer gives strong hints that he failed to prevent the encroachments of powerful tenants , but the details of these aggressions are lost : they seem to have had no important effect on the general prosperity of the Church of Canterbury . |
| 5 | To save you time this newsletter gives concise details of important new developments from the Olympus Scientific Products Division . |
| 6 | The termination of a benefit or a payment or a service is a sharp , specific assault upon identifiable individuals ; it gives political opponents something solid to talk about ; they can actually produce the bodies and point to the wounds . |
| 7 | This gives regional activists the chance to confer with colleagues in other areas ; two-way calls would mean they spoke mostly to head office . |
| 8 | The following reading , from the final part of Pearson 's book , gives specific examples of how changes in the way in which the law is enforced makes historical comparisons of the rate of criminality virtually impossible . |
| 9 | 1978 ) and this also gives specific recommendations for programmes to encourage the use of vision in a range of tasks which tap different areas of visual activity . |
| 10 | Article 3 gives broad definitions of the less-favoured areas that can be assisted . |
| 11 | Adding water to a drawing gives subtle washes and blends , whilst intense colour is achieved by drawing into wet paper or lifting off the pencil tip with a wet brush ; flicking the wet brush across the pencil tip gives a spattered , textural effect . |
| 12 | An Australian survey gives eight years . |
| 13 | This process gives eight synonyms ( 00 , 02 , 02 , 04 , 08 , 10 , 10 , 10 ) . |
| 14 | In this poem , as in 85 , the Poet claims that his Muse is ‘ tongue-tied ’ ; in 76 , 102 , 103 and 105 he gives conflicting reasons , all ingenious , why he writes such repetitive or uninspired poetry . |
| 15 | Table 1 gives hypothetical figures for consumption , savings , taxes , imports , investment , government spending and exports at different levels of national income for a simple economy . |
| 16 | It gives interested parties a chance to buy in cheaply . |
| 17 | In places , it escapes from confining boulder slopes and low cliffs and gives uninterrupted views across a wild moorland interspersed with sheets of water to the distant mountains soaring abruptly skywards in complete isolation as though not on speaking terms with each other . |
| 18 | A useful section at the back of the book gives clear instructions for carrying out various DIY tasks . |
| 19 | And vaginal ultrasound — a technique which gives clear pictures of the Fallopian tubes via a probe inserted into the vagina — also makes diagnosing an ectopic pregnancy easier . |
| 20 | Often parents sit on pupils ' chairs facing the teacher across the teacher 's desk , a situation which gives clear messages of status and power . |
| 21 | Photograph by Dave Manby , who gives further reasons for staying away . |
| 22 | Rasbora caudimaculata the Red Scissortail can be a trickly fish to acclimatise to aquarium life , but once well established it rarely gives further problems . |
| 23 | The overall regression equation , calibrated by ordinary least squares , relating population to the carrier variables is Table 5.3 gives further details . |
| 24 | Another form , GV 79A , gives further details of the proposed goods vehicle operation and is filed in support of the main form of application . |
| 25 | An attached note gives further details : — |
| 26 | Which one it puts forward can not be decided until Government gives further clues about what it would like : ‘ Once this has happened , the board will move rapidly to implement its preferred option , recognising as we do that the timetable set for us by Government is relatively tight . ’ |
| 27 | The referral of a set of questions under Article 177 EEC by the House of Lords in Webb v EMO Air Cargo ( UK ) Ltd raises the issue of the ambit of anti-discrimination law in relation to pregnant women under the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and Council Directive 76/207/EEC and also the scope of the protections offered under Council Directive 92185/ EEC ( OJ L 348/1 ) which gives improved rights to pregnant and breast-feeding women in the United Kingdom . |
| 28 | A light prism gives a practical example of how the same object viewed from different standpoints gives different images : one person may see only white light while others see all the colours of the rainbow , yet both perceptions are true to reality and not figments of distorted imagination . |
| 29 | Furthermore , the greater commitment to undergraduate teaching gives English studies in Britain a different character . |
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