Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] give an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think there 's one other thing that 's worth thinking about , and that is that many of our students come into the University for one-day schools , for lectures , for activities of this kind , and this gives an opportunity for a kind of reciprocal traffic , if you like , so that people outside who often have very odd ideas of what universities do and what they 're about and what they 're like , can actually see your University , participate in its activities , and we can see ordinary folk who sometimes ask the shrewdest questions and make sometimes what seem to be the most penetrating kinds of points about the sort of things that we take for granted . |
| 2 | The rise in equity prices during the 1980s , made it relatively easy to float new issues , and this gave an impetus to equity financing . |
| 3 | Material culture and aesthetics are outwards manifestations of a culture , and these give an indication of how consumers in a particular culture behave . |
| 4 | Both characterize connections in reality and both give an account of the character of our beliefs about them . |
| 5 | In these populated areas , fieldworkers concentrate instead on looking for scatters of finds , such as sherds of pottery and worked stones , because these give an indication of where previously unknown archaeological sites lie buried : the finds are usually brought to the surface as the sites are damaged by ploughing . |