Example sentences of "would give [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guarantees on income and paid benefits advisors would give real assistance to those wanting to become self-employed . |
| 2 | Broadly , the compromise reached was extended but not unlimited insurance benefits , the operation of strict and quite unrealistic tests to ensure that people were ‘ genuinely seeking work ’ , the use of additional means-tested benefits known then as ‘ doles ’ , and acceptance that the poor law authorities would give extensive ‘ outdoor ’ relief to the unemployed . |
| 3 | A percentage misguidedly based on either would give two widely different figures , namely 25 or 35 per cent . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Roosevelt would give two agents several hundred thousand dollars out of a substantial slush fund the CIA had established in Teheran . |
| 5 | Charles Ryder , whom he introduces first to the enchanted world of the great English house and then to Venice , would give all he ever had , and far more , to live in such high ceremonial heavens — ‘ I was drowning in honey , stingless ’ — and is forever shut out . |
| 6 | I would give all my life for that to happen . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ He said he was poor , but that he would give all his money to bring us together . |
| 8 | Well of course the branch secretary would give all the data , information regarding that , you see , and why s as a protest why he should n't have been superseded you see . |
| 9 | If she went down in trousers he would give one of those sardonic smiles . |
| 10 | The proposed Commonhold system would give flat buyers greater control over their homes . |
| 11 | The current polarity is important in the permanent-magnet motor ; the rotor position illustrated is for positive current in winding A , a switch to positive current in winding B would produce a clockwise step , whereas negative excitation of B would give anticlockwise rotation . |
| 12 | Tyson 's legal team predicted that the Indiana Court of Appeals would give serious consideration to the boxer 's request for a new hearing . |
| 13 | ‘ The students came up with a sound idea for an instrument that would give digital readings , which was developed by our technicians , ’ commented Paul . |
| 14 | ‘ It would give great pleasure , signora , if you would allow me . ’ |
| 15 | This year , the second on from the Festival is still proving to be a bumper one for individual membership ; we are now well in to the 900 's and it would give great satisfaction and joy to all if the magic figures ‘ 1000 ’ could appear in the membership book lovingly kept by the Treasurer and Secretary . |
| 16 | In any case , it is doubtful if its present followers would give much support to such an extension , for it is a religion which claims to confer privileges , including territorial ones , and privileges , by definition , can not have universal application . |
| 17 | We would give much for a few case histories , like that of the fourteenth-century merchant of Prato , of how a medieval household actually worked . |
| 18 | So now they walk in finest silk which many a woman in England would give much to obtain . |
| 19 | Few people , excepting a few insatiable car-racing and real-life murder fans , would give much to see again such monsters of eyestrain as Grand Prix ( 1966 ) or The Boston Strangler ( 1969 ) which chopped up the screen mercilessly into segments that seemed as much clashing as complementary . |
| 20 | But I would give much to get away from that house ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I would give much to be able to do so … to have a home . |
| 22 | One would ‘ ring-fence ’ or protect the grants to be given to local authorities so they could not be used for other purposes ; the other would give elderly and disabled people in local authority residential homes the same social security rights as those in private or voluntary sector homes . |
| 23 | The rental of such an office could not have been great , but it was little things which often had a quite disproportionate impact upon burgh councillors , for such a move would give tangible proof that the party which could arrange it had the ear of government and could thus effect other , and perhaps more far-reaching , changes . |
| 24 | I would n't suppose that a cross-section of their neuroses would give similar patterns . ’ |
| 25 | It would give legal force to these Advance Directives . |
| 26 | would give 5 ( with a " remainder " of 1 ) . |
| 27 | In the US , thanks to an agreement that major distributors would give eight films annually a full circuit release , pictures such as The 49th Parallel , Target for Tonight and In Which We Serve had done remarkable business . |
| 28 | Despite the blow to Hewitt , McHale said the injury would give former Leeds United and Northern Ireland star Phil Hughes the chance to re-establish himself in the side after being axed last week . |
| 29 | Such a ‘ Black-Red ’ combination would give strong government , provide a basis for tackling Germany 's economic problems and allow the SPD some much-needed experience of power . |
| 30 | A camera with higher resolution would give various advantages . |