Example sentences of "that give [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that given that University work is supposed to encourage intellectual activity at the highest level of which any individual is capable it is very important to increase motivation by allowing those individuals to proceed at their own pace and to establish their cognitive frames as and when they feel capable of doing so . |
| 2 | I think that given that you were er , you could n't find the basic book that you were expected to read , I thought you , you gave an excellent account of it , I mean , if you had n't told us that you had n't got the book , I do n't think we would have guessed , would we ? |
| 3 | It occurs to me , for example , that given that all we 've heard this afternoon about the fact that a new settlement and again I 'm playing devil 's advocate , that if it were possible to build onto an existing settlement the quality of life of those who lived in the new settlement might in fact be better than if they were , to put it crudely , finding themselves in the middle of a field . |
| 4 | It seems to me that given that you have a southern bypass , there could be an argument for saying , if we had a northern inner relief road , that northern inner relief road together with a southern bypass , could perform some of the functions of the western relief road . |
| 5 | I would suggest to you that given that and also the wording in the justification under the old Policy E three , that in fact you could hardly get a tissue paper between this policy that is now before you and the previous policy . |
| 6 | What I 'm arguing for tonight is that given that we 've relatively recent boundary change , the people have just about got used to it , so by and large er it does n't seem to have huge numbers of demerits as far as the city is concerned and that we are now very , very close , as close as is possible to the norm for the average constituency size that we actually endorse the boundary commissions proposals and leave well alone and the second part of the motion merely says to a neighbouring authority , y'know , please in some senses be punctilious about not to suddenly decide to poke your noses into something way beyond your it 's not just a couple of parishes on the south boundary , a couple of parishes from from the north of their but actually way to our area but what candidly I can only see as a rather partisan er er |
| 7 | There are , however , special numbers ( called imaginary ) that give negative numbers when multiplied by themselves . |
| 8 | It is not surprising , then , that there are many unsatisfactory ways of calculating valence electron excitation energies , but none that give convincing results except over a very narrow group of compounds . |
| 9 | This first kite has to work if you are to be satisfied , so our first tip is for you to be conservative , and select one of the tried and tested shapes that give least trouble . |
| 10 | My gardening activities are , perhaps , slightly unorthodox , in that I make a point of growing plants whose flowers are known to be attractive to insects , plant flowers and vegetables together , tidy and prune only as much as is absolutely necessary , encourage plants , even ‘ weeds ’ , that give continuous ground cover , and rigorously exclude poisonous chemicals . |
| 11 | Flanked on each side by useful lobbies that give easy access to both lifts and the back stairs , the day nursery is the largest room on the south front . |
| 12 | They frequently write laboratory reports that give all the facts about an experiment or test but then come to an abrupt halt . |
| 13 | That is now generally understood , in the United States and Britain at least , to mean procedures and practices that give all citizens more or less equal influence in the decisions that govern them . |
| 14 | ‘ I read somewhere , and I think it 's true , that it 's your overalls that give that surface sex appeal , ’ she finished triumphantly . |
| 15 | For many viewers , the most important parliamentary programmes are those that give live coverage to the debates in the Chamber or to committee hearings . |
| 16 | IBM has announced the Workstation One family of programs that give personal computers and workstations running OS/2 2.0 , AIX Unix , Microsoft Corp Windows or Apple Computer Macintosh system access to applications on IBM mainframes and Digital Equipment Corp minis — but they all require a server between the desktop machine and the host , with the minimum server being an 80386 machine . |
| 17 | Above all it is the sheer variety and abundance of brachiopods that give shallow water Palaeozoic assemblages of fossils their distinctive ‘ feel ’ . |
| 18 | These become particularly unimportant with the onset of puberty when the individual needs the support and reassurance of sound and sane information , and of novels that give honest accounts and insights into the emotional life of the adolescent — the ‘ how it feels ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Although literary theory is only one aspect of structuralism , the question of language is obviously peculiarly relevant to it , and it is the conceptual rigour and the range of possibilities provided by the linguistic component of structuralism that give structuralist literary theory its distinctive qualities . |
| 21 | Beginners appreciate the help given by moving together with the teacher after technical movement coaching , while more advanced movers respond to the various nuances that give added pleasure to the performance of travelling movements , creative variations or structured patterns . |
| 22 | There will probably be a small range of settings that give satisfactory results . |
| 23 | We also recognise that there is a tremendous problem for deferred pensioners in achieving reasonable transfer values er er er it 's a massive problem for them , even where they could find perhaps something to do with that money and a scheme that would do them better , not always , because there , there are people that give bad advice , but there are some that go into it very thoroughly and when it comes down to the bit the transfer value they receive makes it im practically impossible for them to do it . |
| 24 | However , corporatists are sharply critical of the pluralist perspective in so far as that perspective sees the interest-groups system as competitive , " democratic " , equal , and open to all , so that it leads to policy outcomes that give fair shares to everyone . |
| 25 | This is done as soon as some function is declared ( the simplest necessary declaration is that some solid entities are being entered ) and some volume exists , ie geometric entities that give more than a single coordinate value in each orthogonal direction . |
| 26 | In my experience schools are very bad at teaching the exam techniques that give this sort of child confidence . ’ |
| 27 | The court accepted the view of the executive that to give advance notice of their intentions would run the risk of action which would disrupt the operation of the intelligence services . |
| 28 | There is a school of thought that to give personal rewards to youngsters for attempting an outdoor pursuit can cloud one 's thinking . |
| 29 | They are also concerned that giving distinct roles to two separate groups of directors is divisive and that two tier boards might arise because of the split in responsibilities . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |