Example sentences of "that give [pron] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I think is happening , I find this interesting , people are rejecting the idea of the aesthetic , and I 'm not quite sure why ; I do n't know whether they think it 's elitist or whether they 've got no taste of their own , or what , I do n't know , but people read poems not as poems which convey aesthetic emotion , which is the way I tend to think about poems ultimately , but simply as ideological statements and political texts , or at least , things that give you some understanding of the way people thought or so on at the time … . |
| 2 | It was the Royal College for the Blind at Hereford that gave him new inspiration by teaching him how to sculpt . |
| 3 | That night he slept in an old cardboard box that he 'd found , and that gave him some protection from the chilling morning dew . |
| 4 | There were fairly obvious warnings here for a man contemplating the future independence of his own country , but , if he was shocked by what he saw here , it was the land freed by Toussaint Louverture , Haiti , that gave him most food for thought . |
| 5 | Somehow if I could only know what he was doing and who he was seeing , that gave me some kind of control over the situation . |
| 6 | These problems require very different sorts of action ; together their requirements conflict in a way that gives him little room for manoeuvre . |
| 7 | These problems require very different sorts of action ; together their requirements conflict in a way that gives him little room for manoeuvre . |
| 8 | You should aim to strike a deal with your employers that gives you real peace of mind . |
| 9 | ‘ Do you think that gives you some kind of hold over me ? |
| 10 | Realistically the championship was never quite on the agenda this year , but setting up a system that gives us regular qualification for Europe and the occasional cup run/win will be satisfactory IMO . |