Example sentences of "[v-ing] that give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people had come to understand the danger posed by Hitler 's Germany ; but they decided to delude themselves into believing that giving him Austria and Czechoslovakia would buy him off . |
| 2 | It is then not so much the distinction between names and descriptions as the distinction between the function of naming and the function of describing that gives some indication as to what is involved in positing something as an ontological existent . |
| 3 | It was boarding that gave solidity to the schools , turning them into total societies — often in rural and inaccessible surroundings — and reinforcing both achievement and a potent sense of cohesion . |
| 4 | The leaders try to reconcile these contradictory tendencies by arguing that given the freedom of choice , the masses will want a technical expert over a political ideologue . |
| 5 | The UK , in particular , is fundamentally opposed to the idea of compulsory employee participation , believing that this is an area best left to individual company policy and fearing that giving in on the issue in this context could lead to similar measures becoming a compulsory feature of EC company law . |