Example sentences of "be [adj] which give " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you will no doubt agree that the very best staff plans are those which give clear margins of error to allow for those days when an employee is ill or for one reason or another below par . |
| 2 | Function words are those which give structure to a sentence , such as articles , pronouns , prepositions , etc . |
| 3 | Atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons produces global contamination , and the most important radioisotopes of fallout are those which give an external gamma-ray dose and those which become internally deposited in the body , either by direct absorption or via a food chain . |
| 4 | Firstly , before documents are available which give a general comparison and assessment at one date across an area ( like Domesday Book or a medieval Lay Subsidy ) it is very difficult to know whether all the sites we are comparing as part of our settlement pattern are contemporary . |
| 5 | The fair futures price is that which gives a zero arbitrage profit relative to the CTD bond from a cash-and-carry transaction involving the purchase of the CTD bond in the cash market ( with borrowed funds ) and selling it into the futures market on the delivery day . |
| 6 | It is this which gives ethical demands , such as those forbidding incest , their sacred character : |
| 7 | In each of the above examples the children have been asked to take on the role of " people who know " ; and it is this which gives them their stake in the drama . |
| 8 | The river was generally utilised to make water defences and it is these which give to the châteaux the picturesque quality which so many possess . |
| 9 | It was that which gave him locus standi . |
| 10 | Under normal circumstances the bulk of government patronage in Scotland would be distributed through the agency of ministers familiar with local politics , and it was this which gave the crown its commanding influence in the country . |
| 11 | It was this which gave the family its peculiar importance in the surveillance , and control , of sexual behaviour . |
| 12 | In fact each department submitted a list of important topics and noted those in which library resources were deficient , and it was these which gave substance to the final spending plan . |