Example sentences of "and [adj] gives [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1 You 'd go in and see him and he 's sitting down , so I 'd stay stood up , so I 'm above him and that gives me a psychological advantage straight away , does n't it ?
2 send the photograph and that gives me an idea whether it 's worth going to look at it at all .
3 And that gives them the right to try and maul me ? ’ she flared , unable to contain her hurt and anger .
4 ‘ Criminals are able to listen in to our car and personal radios with them and that gives them an early warning of our approach . ’
5 These days we can do it much easier and we do it electrically , so we can use a relationship between conductivity which has to be er compensated for temperature and pressure at which you 're doing your readings , and that gives us a measure of our chlorinity and then that gives us a measure back to our salinity .
6 He 'll be a little less adventurous for a while , and that gives us an advantage . ’
7 ‘ Of course , there 's a way you can work around playing a minor blues in a major tuning — in open G , for instance , you just play the top three strings at the third fret and that gives you a B flat major chord that you can use as a G minor — but it still felt pretty limiting .
8 And that gives you a very good opportunity if you can think of something different , to actually put this forward .
9 And that gives you the right to do dirty , perverted things , does it ? ’
10 Okay , you just multiply the number of men , times the number of hours , and that gives you the man hours .
11 And that gives you the other minor interval .
12 I 've given you an A for participation B plus for written work and that gives you an average of B which is good or excellent .
13 The equation is represented as natural , and that gives it the force of commonsense .
14 John Watson tends to regard himself as Mike 's adopted father , but Mike has inherited the substantial Lester shareholding and this gives him a considerable amount of independence ( which is not always to John Watson 's taste ) .
15 Brachiopods have two valves , and this gives them a superficial resemblance to bivalved molluscs .
16 You will notice no definite article before the word ‘ sacraments ’ and this gives me a little liberty to begin my address reasonably broadly .
17 Note that there are no half-steps within this set of scale degrees and this gives it a very rounded and open flavour .
18 And this gives you an outline of what we do .
19 ‘ There is a record number of MSF members — 83 — standing as Labour candidates in this election and this gives us an important stake in what is going on . ’
20 And this gives us the final say .
21 As far as Kuwait is concerned we 'd like to see our country free again and this gives us the type of hope we have been wanting for the past six months , and I am sure for the people inside Kuwait — because I was there for about three weeks prior to the after the invasion I was there and I had to escape that country .
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