Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] that [noun] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | The justification of the invaders , based partly on the doubtful assumption that proximity gave sovereign rights , but more specifically on the claim that the islands had belonged to them at some time in the past , bears comparison with the Zionist claim to Palestine . |
| 2 | But , the old ones that Tom gave me originally they 've not flowered now for about three months yet they 're not dead . |
| 3 | This is one of the few indications that Eliot gave of the fact that , in the periods between illness when he carried on with his ordinary duties in London ( as much as anyone 's life was " ordinary " then ) , he experienced the horror of the German raids : the nightly bombings , the streets blocked with rubble , the glow in the evening as fires burned throughout the city , and the peculiarly dank smell of ruined buildings : it was this which provoked fear , precluded concentration on other things , and destroyed the will to work . |
| 4 | No one can fault the absolute loyalty that Willie gave to Ted and then Margaret . |
| 5 | The one thing that pots give you above everything else is versatility . |
| 6 | The opening in Paris at the Grand Palais is scheduled to take place on the centenary of the one-man show that Vollard gave Cezanne in September 1895 , the only major exhibition of his work during the artist 's lifetime . |
| 7 | Peter Wagner defines the gift of the evangelist as ‘ the special ability that God gives to certain members of the Body of Christ to share the gospel with unbelievers in such a way that men and women become Jesus ’ disciples and responsible members of the Body of Christ ’ ( Wagner 1979b:173 ) . |
| 8 | He was convinced that it was only to the true Catholic that God gave the power to write ‘ authentic and inspiring music ’ . |