Example sentences of "and [adj] gives [pron] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | And that gives you a very good opportunity if you can think of something different , to actually put this forward . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Brachiopods have two valves , and this gives them a superficial resemblance to bivalved molluscs . |
| 7 | You will notice no definite article before the word ‘ sacraments ’ and this gives me a little liberty to begin my address reasonably broadly . |
| 8 | Note that there are no half-steps within this set of scale degrees and this gives it a very rounded and open flavour . |