Example sentences of "[coord] [det] give " in BNC.

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1 It is sometimes a way of endowing a person with a responsibility that trains him to fulfil various roles in the future , or that it is hoped will change his character for the better , or that endows its holder with prestige , or that gives him a certain hold on other people and makes them more likely to act in his interests .
2 Sufferers from diabetes and epilepsy , or those given counterfeit antibiotics , could be particularly at risk , said the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry .
3 If it is argued on the basis of this reply that even a maniac is not beyond redemption and that given the right kind of treatment he might be able to take his place again within society , the argument only serves to show the different moral considerations that can be brought to bear on situations of moral dilemma .
4 Shelley smiled back , but she was well aware that he meant it , and that given half a chance he would stay the night .
5 Whoever wrote it or designed those basic garments knew that you would be struggling to learn all you could in the shortest possible time and that to give you concise diagrams and stitch and row numbers would cut down any need for extra calculations by you .
6 Gloria 's huge brown eyes sparkled as she twisted her head this way and that to give a better view of the elaborate blond topknot from which floated multi-tinted spiral streamers .
7 To a boy who declares himself stuck about what colour to use , he says : ‘ Well , Sickert said that when in doubt put a little of the last colour into the next colour you use , and that gives harmony : it does n't work to use a colour in isolation — white and black are the two parents , red in isolation can appear like a wound in the picture — it 's like friendships , we all know the awful consequences if a new person joins a group and the friendships are n't mixed through , it 's the same with colours . ’
8 ‘ 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 .
9 ‘ Yet every time drugs are mentioned it 's about athletics and that gives the impression that it 's all about track and field competitors .
10 Multiply the length by 2.7 using a pocket calculator and that gives the number of needles to use for seaming .
11 ‘ Criminals are able to listen in to our car and personal radios with them and that gives them an early warning of our approach . ’
12 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 ?
13 The equation is represented as natural , and that gives it the force of commonsense .
14 And that gives you , something called , specific rotation which will be a constant for those conditions indicated and for that substance .
15 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 .
16 He 'll be a little less adventurous for a while , and that gives us an advantage . ’
17 And that gives you the right to do dirty , perverted things , does it ? ’
18 Okay , you just multiply the number of men , times the number of hours , and that gives you the man hours .
19 And that means that from then on your life is n't your own , you do n't do what you want to do , you do what you believe God is telling you to do and you try to live by what the bible says and you pray about any important decision you make and then , when God has shown you what the right thing is to do , even when you 're going through very hard times , you know that you 're there because that 's where God wants you to be and that gives you faith to carry on .
20 Just think of how long you can stay without any protection before you 'd burn ( for example half an hour ) , multiply that by the SPF rating on the cream ( for example SPF 4 ) and that gives your sunbathing time ( in this case , two hours ) .
21 Indeed , the modern Greeks use that word for an engagement ring , and that gives not a bad idea of the Holy Spirit 's work as ‘ earnest ’ in Paul 's thought .
22 And that gives you the other minor interval .
23 Think of them in groups of threes and that gives you four dotted ?
24 questionnaire , and that gives us another reading .
25 And that gives opposing teams an edge . ’
26 And that gives them the right to try and maul me ? ’ she flared , unable to contain her hurt and anger .
27 And that gives you some sort of hold over me ? ’
28 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 .
29 First of all the local authority 's S S A as you know , has not been as we would have wished it to be , and that gives us less headroom for er , manoeuvring as it were er , with the various committees , and secondly the community care money is now solely distributed through the S S A whereas last year fifty percent of it came relating to usage .
30 We approached it on the basis of er , collecting information on the Children in Need definition which a , er , a paper came before you when the Children 's Act was implemented , and that gives local discretion to authorities to , to define Children in need .
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