Example sentences of "be [verb] give [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 However the Tube is not designed as anything more than a temporary tent so it should n't be expected to give normal tent performance .
2 Traffic lights can be reprogrammed to give public transport instant priority over other road users .
3 Should you arrive at a delicatessen counter when a salame is just being started or finished , you may be lucky enough to collect the end chunk which can be used to give extra flavour to spaghetti sauces or risotto-type dishes .
4 Its pectoral fins , freed from the job of providing lift , could be used to give great refinement to the fishes ' control of movement , and their swimming skills reached near-perfection .
5 The temporary building will be used to give additional space for church activities .
6 Much of this chapter will therefore be concerned with the two major types of photoelectron spectroscopy ( PES ) , though we shall note how electronic excitation spectroscopy can be used to give structural information about some molecules .
7 Copies notes of all such telephone conversations will be needed to give comprehensive feedback to our client .
8 Expert decision support can be employed to give consistent advice to maintenance engineers ensuring that risk is correctly assessed and minimised .
9 Linkage lift depends on engine power and hydraulic capacity , and should be sized to give spare capacity over the heaviest item on the farm — allowing for extra wet-soil loading where appropriate .
10 It may be communicated to the court in the following ways : ( a ) Oral testimony Witnesses may be called to give oral evidence to the court .
11 Although in the normal course the maker of any written statement filed at court will be called to give oral testimony this may not always be the case .
12 How such decade section windings can be interconnected to give fine subdivision of an alternating potential difference is illustrated in figure 7.11 for a three-decade divider .
13 These values should be increased to give optimal response and so adapt to the overall machine loading on the host system .
14 An earlier proposal that solicitors employed by foreign lawyers in England and Wales should be allowed to give legal advice to clients of the practice as well as doing non-reserved work for such clients has been dropped , at any rate for the time being until some adequate system of regulation can be devised .
15 Under the presidential ruling , industry would no longer be required to give public notice of plans to make minor changes to plant operations which might result in an increase of polluting emissions .
16 Unless collective pressure is to be treated as democratic by definition , the only ground for specially associating it with democracy is that democracy might be held to give collective pressure an exceptional legitimacy .
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