Example sentences of "that give " in BNC.
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| 31 | Furthermore Mr himself has said to me on more than one occasion that given the history of the situation it 's unlikely that we would get anybody of sane mind to take over the running of the two centres . |
| 32 | Conference , I ask you , with that response what does that hold for our social services within our communities and how hopelessly helpless we must feel that given we will certainly not ? |
| 33 | ‘ Thou shalt remember the Lord thy God : for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth , that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers ’ ( Deut. 8 : 18 ) . |
| 34 | Now let that give you an idea how serious things are . |
| 35 | But you 'll start feeling better quite soon ; a more balanced diet , a little more activity , and a positive attitude are all things that give you a sense of well being and vitality . |
| 36 | Only an idealized observer could see both the inner processing and the causal relations of the symbols to outside objects that give them meaning : no one could actually be that idealized observer , because each observer is confined to operating on the symbols that are within his computational machinery , and this excludes their external causal relations . |
| 37 | At the Stella Artois Grass Court Championships , he showed once again , that give him grass , a ‘ bat ’ , and he is surely the best striker of a ball in the world . |
| 38 | Dance is a language which contains verbs ( or steps ) that give continuity and lead up to , through and from the nouns to create a design in movement . |
| 39 | These are the full stops to a paragraph that give the audience an opportunity to sum up — as it were — how the Bride 's hair is cut ; why the men convey the Groom to the Bride 's house ; how the Bride and Groom are blessed by their parents ; and so on . |
| 40 | Identifying customer needs can enable a company to develop a product and marketing mix that give the company a competitive advantage over its rivals . |
| 41 | By the time they are mature , hedgehogs can have several thousand of the modified hairs that give them their prickly appearance and an ideal form of defence against attackers . |
| 42 | With peace , some returned to Pau , to build the villas in the big gardens that give the town its green and spacious air . |
| 43 | It has usually cost them less than 0.5% to raise capital by issuing dollar-denominated warrants ( ie , Eurobonds with warrants that give the buyer the right to buy the shares at fixed prices in four or five years ' time ) in London and then using swaps to get the money back into yen . |
| 44 | Only the finest and wiriest of grasses will do ; brown-top bent and ‘ Chewing 's Fescue ’ to form the tufts that give the turf its bounce , and creeping red fescue to knit the whole lot together . |
| 45 | It is part of the great skill of the storytellers and the compilers of this material that they repeat events or speeches , but with subtle changes that give the larger narrative not just variety , but tension and further layers of meaning . |
| 46 | In fact , Broderick seems to have shown a nicely calculated amount of daring in trying to pick roles that give his bland fresh-faced prettiness a spin . |
| 47 | Not only of its fastnesses and vastnesses but also of the minute detailing of existence upon our own planet : its climatic patterns and the plate tectonics that give rise to earthquakes , volcanoes , fold mountains and the oceanic ridges . |
| 48 | In my experience schools are very bad at teaching the exam techniques that give this sort of child confidence . ’ |
| 49 | She believes many English actors lack the performance skills that give Complicite its continental flavour . |
| 50 | Plants that give us both outstanding flowers and foliage are usually the first choice . |
| 51 | As he progressed over the cobbled stretches of roads that give the race its title ‘ Hell of the North ’ , he was cheered on by police and public alike . |
| 52 | Some of the characteristics of primates are flexible fingers with nails rather than claws , and forward facing eyes that give binocular vision and are vital for judging distance . |
| 53 | In this particular instance it is representational , as the ‘ performance mode ’ is , for the child is required to describe in action whatever the teacher suggests ( as in the example above , ‘ So you go to the bathroom and turn the doorknob ’ ) , but the ‘ exercise mode ’ has other characteristics that give it a special mental quality . |
| 54 | Britain has a massive advantage in natural resources that give it the potential to be at the forefront of renewable energy generation . |
| 55 | Above all it is the sheer variety and abundance of brachiopods that give shallow water Palaeozoic assemblages of fossils their distinctive ‘ feel ’ . |
| 56 | The leaves of this tree are rather common fossils , striped with longitudinal veins that give it a superficial resemblance to the leaf of an iris . |
| 57 | There are schools that give parents detailed questionnaires to complete on their first visit . |
| 58 | Other advantages for registration as a charity are that those parents and friends who can be persuaded to make covenants to the association will be able to gain tax relief and companies that give donations will find it easier to convince the tax man that their gift was entirely for charitable purposes . |
| 59 | The second kind of moral value involved in the justification of different ways in which persons mould their moral world is the value of forming and pursuing projects that give shape and content to one 's life . |
| 60 | For many viewers , the most important parliamentary programmes are those that give live coverage to the debates in the Chamber or to committee hearings . |