Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] give the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 50 per cent of social workers gave the questions in all dimensions a rating of 4 or 5 . |
| 2 | In last month 's issue , the page one article on EC regulations governing the restitution of cultural property gave the incorrect conversion rate for the ECU . |
| 3 | Finally on the limestone of Chapel Head Scar , now open for traffic , John Gaskins placed four bolt runners in the shallow groove right of Phantom Zone to give the extremely hard surfing With The Alien , ( F7c/8a ) . |
| 4 | THE DISTRIBUTION of personal property gives the most comprehensive overview of the wealth of the English people in the sixteenth century , because almost everybody must have owned a certain amount of goods and chattels , and , as required , a value was assigned to ‘ every man 's substance ’ , if only a few shillings — commonly reduced to a curt ‘ nil ’ — representing the clothes on their backs and other personal effects . |
| 5 | Pensionable pay is basic salary/wages and pensionable emoluments in whichever of the last 3 years of reckonable service gives the highest figure . |
| 6 | Row upon row of Alternative Youth give the barely visible figures onstage a rousing reception just for ( virtually ) existing . |
| 7 | The wage-money economy of capitalist society gives the |
| 8 | The justification for such bare-faced cheek is in the recorded sound , which even the most jaundiced critic would have to admit is strikingly vivid for its age , the piano sound clear and articulate , and the orchestral detail as immediate as the day it was recorded — perhaps even more so — with just a tiny hint of brassiness and a slight shortfall of orchestral power to give the game away . |
| 9 | Contamination of environmental surfaces within the Edinburgh outpatient clinic did not appear to be of clinical significance given the scarcity of evidence for nosocomial spread . |
| 10 | The rule-based approach proved to be too unwieldy and fragile to be of practical use given the current state of computer hardware and linguistic theories . |
| 11 | Blue carpets and curtains against a backdrop of whitewashed walls give the bedrooms a peaceful and calming air . |
| 12 | They have recognised the necessity of temporary working given the particular circumstances of the enterprise concerned , and have sought , where possible , to ensure , that temporary workers otherwise enjoy the same terms and conditions as regular workers . |
| 13 | AT THEIR giant Hamtramck assembly plant in Detroit , employees of General Motors give the robots they work alongside typically American names like Joe or Bob . |
| 14 | The elastic network of tiny family businesses and the high proportion of self-employed workers give the whole labour market a greater degree of fluidity than other leading capitalist economies . |
| 15 | There are separate oil pressure gauges for each engine and a battery of rectangular instruments giving the usual Ts and Ps . |
| 16 | Even small amounts of out-of-hours work are disruptive of one 's home life , the quality of which is of vital importance given the stressful nature of the team 's regular work . |
| 17 | In the context of international bond markets , such difficulties are of particular importance given the efforts at deregulation made by other centres in recent years , which could attract euromarket intermediaries to the relevant financial centres . |
| 18 | Such a requirement of unanimous voting gives the individual Member States , represented in the Council , more power than a requirement of majority voting , which opens the possibility of the views of one or more Member States being overridden by a majority of the others . |
| 19 | The politicising of Western art gives the existence of a manifesto special relevance . |
| 20 | The basis for such profits , it is argued , are the high disposable incomes of employed Tynesiders given the low level of house prices . |
| 21 | At this time of the year , if Napoleon had not returned , Sharpe should have been thinning the apple crop , stripping away basketloads of young fruit to give the remaining crop a better chance of ripening in the autumn , but instead he was riding a dusty road in Belgium and searching for an enemy . |
| 22 | Such expansion in a small business is particularly dangerous at this stage of its development in terms of potential survival given the number of small firms that fail in the first two years . |