Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may mean ‘ The Spirit of God has made me ’ , but in view of the parallel ‘ and the breath of the Almighty gives me life ’ it is just as likely to mean that the Spirit is the animating principle of life . |
| 2 | This challenge to the state-centric outlook shared by Idealism and Realism ( and Behaviouralism ) was not a novel one , but the world of the 1970s gave it a new strength . |
| 3 | The conjunction of the two gives us such singers of whom there occur perhaps half-a-dozen in a generation or even in a century . |
| 4 | In anthropology the world-wide connections of the British gave them a notable advantage . |
| 5 | Detachment from the everyday gives us a higher view of our lives . |
| 6 | In this case you subtract a total of six from the eighty to give you the correct total of 74 . |
| 7 | He showed Horsley and Everett politely round the castle , explaining how parts dated back to the fifteenth century , and telling the preposterous , but true , story of how the building , formerly the family home of the Fenwicks , had been shifted stone by stone from the foot of the hill in the 1930s to give it the spectacular view it now enjoyed . |
| 8 | He made eight consecutive pars , missing putts of 6ft and 4ft for birdies at the second and sixth respectively , before a bogey at the ninth gave him an outward half of 37 and took him back to level par overall . |
| 9 | But there was no denying Miss Higgins and a par five at the last gave her the trophy she had her heart set on . |
| 10 | Two birdies in his first three holes and another at the sixth gave him a flying start but it was not all so straightforward . |