Example sentences of "gives [pers pn] some [noun] of " 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 | I hope it gives you some idea of what happened . |
| 6 | So it gives you some idea of what the salaries were like in those days . |
| 7 | The enclosed copy of our annual report gives you some idea of the full scope of our work . |
| 8 | That gives you some idea of his ability . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Do you think that gives you some kind of hold over me ? |
| 10 | which gives you some suggestions of what . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ And that gives you some sort of hold over me ? ’ |
| 13 | I mean I , what you 're saying 's quite valid I mean , i if you 've got a situation where you have been successful and you 've got an accumulation of stuff that 's been recovered from robberies , at least it gives you some method of returning it to it 's previous |
| 14 | The World Bank in Washington DC has placed an order with Reading , Berkshire-based Racal-Redac ( UK ) Ltd for 154 of its CadStar printed circuit board design packages and 57 advanced MS-DOS routers : the products will be used by participants in India 's Impact programme , set up with the help of the World Bank , to provide the country 's leading educational institutions with electronic design automation tools and other software ; Racal-Redac reckons the deal gives it some 50% of the Indian printed circuit board design software market . |
| 15 | But if you 're religiously inclined , then clearly the universe looks a bit different , because the universe has a creator , and having a creator gives it some kind of meaning . |
| 16 | That gives us some kind of motive if there is , but there 's damn ’ little evidence . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That perhaps gives us some idea of what the regional taxation profile will look like . |
| 19 | Going back in history , however , gives us some idea of the often contentious and problematic relationships between childhood and sexuality . |
| 20 | And that 's , I think , important because it gives us some concept of how far we would have to go to get there , as it were , apart from seeing it . |
| 21 | Despite its many inadequacies , it gives us some picture of Sussex life as the Normans strengthened their hold . |
| 22 | The fact that one of the Bill 's triggers was the Channel 4 Screening of Derek Jarman 's Sebastiane gives us some indication of the possible threats to homosexual images on television . |
| 23 | Because we 've got sixties all over the place so maybe it was n't a brilliant one to try but it gives us some indication of what 's going on . |