Example sentences of "gives [pron] [adj] idea " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the theory of universal grammar , children start outlife with a universal grammar or language ‘ blueprint ’ in the mind which gives them some idea of the form that any language will take . |
| 2 | This is probably nowhere near as long as your list but it gives you some idea of how much detail is needed in recording items . |
| 3 | This simply gives you , it 's only a two page handout , it gives you some idea of the sort of motivations from what people have written about them . |
| 4 | Erm but of course to provide erm electricity on a larger scale , you ca n't put these things too close together , you need about er a thousand of those to , for example , to replace say a power station like Didcot and er and a thousand of these windmills would o occupy about three hundred square miles , and this is what three hundred square miles looks like er it 's , it 's the major part of , of central L you would n't put them in central London of course but erm gives you some idea of the sort of area you 'd have to devote to wind farms if you were to use this particular type of er of energy . |
| 5 | So that just gives you some idea and it 's up to your parents if they want to . |
| 6 | I hope it gives you some idea of what happened . |
| 7 | So it gives you some idea of what the salaries were like in those days . |
| 8 | The enclosed copy of our annual report gives you some idea of the full scope of our work . |
| 9 | Erm it 's important to not these figures because that gives you some idea er usually the size of the practice will determine the number of doctors of course . |
| 10 | Are you w so it gives you some idea , if you 're gon if you 're not gon na revise the whole syllabus , shame on you , erm then it gives you some indication of how to spend your revision wisely . |
| 11 | That gives you some idea of his ability . ’ |
| 12 | Michèe Barrett refers in her essay to the ‘ turn to culture ’ in recent feminist work , and Griselda Pollock 's long essay in the volume Painting , Feminism , History gives us some idea of why culture ( in this case the visual arts ) has come to be so central . |
| 13 | That perhaps gives us some idea of what the regional taxation profile will look like . |
| 14 | Going back in history , however , gives us some idea of the often contentious and problematic relationships between childhood and sexuality . |