Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] that [vb mod] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is not the amount of direct questioning that could give an interview the air of a lawyer/witness relationship . |
| 2 | After a careful examination of all these factors , the Layfield Committee concluded : ‘ a local income tax ( LIT ) on personal incomes , levied according to where people live , is the only serious candidate for a new source of local revenue that could give a substantial yield and at the same time maintain or enhance accountability ’ ( Layfield 1976 : 190 — 1 ) . |
| 3 | With any luck that will give you some help . ’ |
| 4 | His smile deepened as he added , ‘ I have been told that I am a good lover and I can think of nothing in this world that would give me greater pleasure than to teach you the plaisirs d'amour . |
| 5 | There is little or nothing in recent history that would give Britons cause to distrust their compatriots . |
| 6 | Let us turn to another definition that would give the context-dependent nature of such phenomena more centrality : ( 12 ) Pragmatics is the study of the relations between language and context that are basic to an account of language understanding Here the term language understanding is used in the way favoured by workers in artificial intelligence to draw attention to the fact that understanding an utterance involves a great deal more than knowing the meanings of the words uttered and the grammatical relations between them . |