Example sentences of "that [pron] gives " in BNC.

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31 The reward for encouraging all members of staff to be active participants in the decision-making process , so helping them to develop an ownership of the final policy , is that it gives the policy a greater chance of being fully implemented across the curriculum .
32 For the Governor , though , the main benefit has been that it gives prison officers ‘ permission to be concerned ’ in a structured and consistent way .
33 As he rushes hither and thither , his note-books become crammed with an amazing collection of miscellaneous information which is so diverse and uneven that it gives colour to and so in a way explains Robert Lowie 's famous definition of culture as a ‘ thing of shreds and patches ’ .
34 The rationale is that it gives artists a share in the value of their work as and when it is resold by dealers and galleries .
35 Public relations is thus concerned with a company or brand reputation which must be such that it gives people confidence in the company , providing the company with total credibility .
36 The effect of making them arrestable is that it gives the police certain powers of entry and search under section 17 and 18 while investigating the offences in question .
37 The definition is adopted , of course , not merely for the reason that it gives us a further explanation of the difference between causal items and their effects .
38 Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ?
39 alright and if you look at the diagram on page thirteen and you look at the little arrow diagram you 'll see that it gives it quite nice and clearly there is that alright ?
40 The strengths of the theory are , first that it explains the perceptual phenomena I have just described , second that the brain has a real need for the operation it postulates , and third that it gives a role to a prominent but hitherto unexplained anatomical characteristic of the neocortex .
41 Its attraction would seem to lie in the fact that it gives a formalized account of some of the popularly held impressions concerning the character of science , its explanatory and predictive power , its objectivity and its superior reliability compared with other forms of knowledge .
42 Kuhn 's demarcation criterion has been criticized by Popper on the grounds that it gives undue emphasis to the role of criticism in science ; by Lakatos because , among other things , it misses the importance of competition between research programmes ( or paradigms ) ; and by Feyerabend on the grounds that Kuhn 's distinction leads to the conclusion that organized crime and Oxford philosophy qualify as science .
43 The huge advantage of fame is that it gives me , for no proper reason , access to people that I would never otherwise have .
44 The attraction of the book is that it gives clinicians an easily readable albeit superficial overview that will serve as a useful introduction : and even specialists in the field are likely to find useful information in one or more of the chapters .
45 The problem of mental disorder is a considerable one , both numerically and in the range of needs that it gives rise to .
46 I 've told you that it gives me a terrific edge in any sale where Kemp 's a bidder .
47 The big advantage of film or video in teacher training is that it gives trainees access to a range of classrooms they could not otherwise enter .
48 Try a recording in which the camera looks at the class the whole time so that it gives you the teacher's-eye view .
49 The only trouble is that it gives me an American accent .
50 I hope , like Zen , that it gives people the feeling that they need not be cut off from the great intellectual and philosophical questions .
51 Certainly , one of the organisational reasons for centralising the buying function in a company is that it gives senior buyers more clout .
52 A realization that it gives us rights that we do n't have as well as some sharing , some loss .
53 This dietician saying that the architect w wants to know all about endoscop what it involves , so that it gives him an idea as to what is about .
54 It must not be so different that unity is destroyed , or so similar that it gives no feeling of change .
55 The motion of the ions and electrons in the sheet is such that it gives rise to a net current around Jupiter .
56 But the advantage of this program is that it gives the job hunter a degree of direction and discipline which the pen and paper approach does not .
57 The advantage of a Tender is that it gives the defender the initiative in placing responsibility for further action on the pursuer 's agent .
58 One of the particular benefits of receiving such an accolade as Scotmedia Magazine 's Best Scottish Business Magazine 1993 is that it gives the chance to pay tribute to the hard work of the people you see listed in the blue panel adjacent to this as well as of the contributors and others instrumental in our success .
59 ‘ The most important thing about the Prince of Wales Initiative is that it gives the opportunity for other industries to share their knowledge of environmental protection , ’ she says .
60 Admittedly , this is a Treasury matter , but it can not possibly be beyond the ability of Treasury Ministers to work out an effective formula to ensure that the Ministry of Defence is properly rewarded for any help that it gives .
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