Example sentences of "which [modal v] give a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chemical analysis is usually employed to determine the materials from which an object is made , and often to identify trace elements which may give a clue to the origins and date of the object . |
| 2 | Other world-wide eustatic causes of sea level change include sedimentary infilling of ocean basins which could give a sea level rise of 4 mm/100 years equivalent to 40 m in a million years ( Higgins , 1965 ) ; orogenic eustasy whereby orogenic uplift creates ocean basins of different size ; geoidal eustasy whereby the ocean surface reflects the variations in the geoid surface due to the earth 's irregular distribution of mass which can give a difference between lows and highs of as much as 180 m . |
| 3 | Translated into seats , the result of the Norris poll shows that the Tories will be unopposed in the Commons throughout the next Parliament with a working majority of 650 , though psephologists may quibble about the low sample size — 30 — which could give a margin of error of about minus 60 per cent . |
| 4 | In the 1790s Britain was still primarily an agricultural country ; it still appears to be so in the novels of Jane Austen twenty years later , and , after all , even today one could choose a route from East Anglia to Cornwall which would give a foreigner this impression . |
| 5 | There was a magazine called Kine Weekly , which would give a showman 's award for the best stunt . |
| 6 | Within the hour the camera , the film and the physical chemistry became so clear that with a great sense of excitement I hurried to the place where a friend was staying to describe to him in detail a dry camera which would give a picture immediately after exposure . |
| 7 | This will enable you to make a thicker yarn by twisting several yarns together which will give a tweed effect when knitted up . |
| 8 | I want to reserve the publication of these works for a book which will give a view of Modigliani which is much closer to reality , and very different from that which you might get at present from what has been published so far in France and abroad ’ . |
| 9 | These include the wavelet transform , which can give a measure of the fractal qualities of a given sound , and something called the granular synthesis model , which considers sound as consisting of quanta localised both in time and frequency . |
| 10 | Other world-wide eustatic causes of sea level change include sedimentary infilling of ocean basins which could give a sea level rise of 4 mm/100 years equivalent to 40 m in a million years ( Higgins , 1965 ) ; orogenic eustasy whereby orogenic uplift creates ocean basins of different size ; geoidal eustasy whereby the ocean surface reflects the variations in the geoid surface due to the earth 's irregular distribution of mass which can give a difference between lows and highs of as much as 180 m . |