Examples
“The label gives instructions for cooking rare: "2 ½ to 4 minutes each side… Always check that the product is cooked throughout, and no pink colour remains.”
The Guardian: Cheers! English wine challenges champagne with sparkling results
“The label gives the actual number of yarn skeins or balls needed and the appropriate-sized knitting needles required for the pattern.”
“The title gives a nod to A Single Summer with L.B.”
“A genre mash-up no greater than the sum of its expensive, largely second-hand, parts, this summer spectacle corrals its cast and cliches into a plot loopier than an 11-dimensional lasso – though the title gives you a fair idea.”
“I have not spoken but something in my expression gives him pause.”
Simon & Schuster: Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
“Coming four months after the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and weeks of bungling by the nation's leaders in response, the title gives the struggling, weary country a tenacious national symbol to rally around.”
“Associated Press Coming four months after the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami, and weeks of bungling by the nation's leaders in response, the title gives the struggling, weary country a tenacious national symbol to rally around.”
“The name gives puttanesca a residual taste of sex—this, it says, is a sauce for working women.”
“The Queen and I by Sue Townsend imagines a post-republican queen living in a council flat in the Midlands, while Townsend's Queen Camilla posits ... well, the title gives a lot away.”
The Guardian: Tackling real-life characters in fiction is fine – as long as you do it well
“The title gives insight into the thesis, but one must read the entire book to understand the subtlety and thoroughness of Channing's argument.”
The Washington Post: John Marszalek: What motivated South Carolina to secede so quickly?
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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now, next, in the world, were you thinking, a wonderful world, do you know, would jesus do, else is new, the heck, evil lurks, if, ever and 17 more...
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