Example sentences of "[noun sg] that give [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above all , it must be a national curriculum that gives all our children a guaranteed entitlement to higher standards in education . |
| 2 | What is needed is a performance measure that gives some idea of how well a machine performs on non-maths applications ( such as text editing ) and on maths intensive applications ( Spreadsheets etc . ) |
| 3 | On the right of the path Halling field is continued and when we get to the Plough there is a building shown behind the inn and this is most certainly the dwelling that gave this field its old name Burnt House field . |
| 4 | Our negativity may have sent the fire brigade on strike , or even made them uncouple their hoses from that hydrant that gave all that lovely , cool life-giving water that would have quenched the fire and instead couple them to the nearest petrol tank . |
| 5 | There is nothing within official NACAB policy that gives any support whatsoever to a distinction between paid and voluntary staff , but traditional British attitudes may be responsible for differentiation . |
| 6 | ‘ Of all the stupid , careless — ’ Flinching beneath contemptuous anger that gave each word the force of a blow , Polly could only watch as he made a visible effort to control himself . |
| 7 | Being unwritten , the constitution also encourages a piecemeal approach to politics ; an approach that gives little protection against a determined , authoritarian state . |
| 8 | It would seem as if people were ready to write about every aspect of higher education — its aims , policies , governance , finance , organization , staff , students — except the one thing that gives all these their raison d'être . |
| 9 | And having accepted it , let us admit that the book that gives this experience to the individual young reader who needs it or will benefit from it , may not be what we ( outside the experience ) might recognize as a ‘ classic ’ . |
| 10 | The daughter who lives round the corner that gives most of the support [ PC ] is heading for a breakdown herself , she 's under considerable stress about Mum , but ca n't get cooperation from her brother and sister as to what should happen regarding the mother 's future … |
| 11 | However , their influence on the Demoiselles is not the only feature of this painting that gives some indication of what Cubism was to achieve . |
| 12 | The only detail that gave any clue to his character , his description of his hobbies as ‘ the pleasures of Lawrence 's prose and vintage port ’ , did little to endear him to her . |
| 13 | None of the writers realized that the Cubism of this date relied on a balance between abstraction and representation to achieve its effects , and that it was this balance that gave each work a significance on more levels than one . |
| 14 | I do n't mind the sort of the use of language that gives this or that impression if that 's what contemporary politics demands , I 'm as guilty of that as er the next man . |
| 15 | Because you get that silence in the room and mmm you want to fill it so but you 're right the use of the pause effective and particularly with a variation in pitch that gives that emphasis the two combined together can be very very effective . |
| 16 | How much better to introduce a discipline that gives these benefits on a daily basis . |