Example sentences of "[vb -s] that give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before entering battle , the warriors stripped to breech-cloth and moccasins , some donning war-bonnets , then prepared their medicine bundles and applied sacred body paint to invoke the Wyakin medicine powers that gave them supernatural protection . |
| 2 | Over the next few months many places drew up loyal addresses to the Queen , defending the Church and monarchy against those they styled republicans and schismatics , and condemning " the new Revived Doctrine of Resistance and other Republican Tenetts that gave rise to the unnatural Rebellion in 41 " . |
| 3 | Against that background , and with those friends , I viewed with satisfaction the election results that gave Harold Wilson his majority of five , or fourteen if you included the Liberals , and upon which he resolutely set out to govern . |
| 4 | Detailing the design features that gave the Connie its unique shape the film goes on to show the various changes and marks of the Connie that enabled it to become a flying legend in civil and military use . |
| 5 | These flowers possess spring-loaded anthers that give honey bees a rough blow when they enter . |
| 6 | No one pretends that giving up smoking is easy . |
| 7 | They frequently write laboratory reports that give all the facts about an experiment or test but then come to an abrupt halt . |
| 8 | Unlike modernist works that give the illusion of being autonomous in their surroundings , and which function critically only in relation to the language of their own tradition , site-specific works emphasise the comparison between two separate languages . |
| 9 | Williamson argues that giving due recognition to the importance of transaction costs serves to redress the balance towards efficiency explanations , particularly if one accepts that rather stringent structural preconditions must be satisfied before anti-competitive behaviour is plausibly successful ( 1983 : 537 , n. 38 ) . |
| 10 | The support of the staff and their willingness to adjust their provision and their reaction , clearly demonstrates that given the proper approach teachers are in both principle and practice more willing to review their methods and sustain alternatives than is usually acknowledged . |
| 11 | Charles Leece , of Ferranti , emphasised industry 's need for resists that give the same results every time , and that are free of impurities larger than 0.1 micrometres . |
| 12 | In a stark and poignant phrase , he refers to God as the belly of the starving man and claims that to give food to such a man is to give a gift to God . |
| 13 | The evidence now suggests that giving up smoking in the seventh decade of life brings health benefits . |