Example sentences of "[verb] that [pron] give [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He astounded his American masters by demanding that they give him a more worthwhile job or he would be on his way home . |
| 2 | Bacteriologists immediately recognised that it gave them a unique opportunity to study the evolutionary processes governing bacterial resistance — as a synthetic antibiotic it could not be influenced by preexisting resistance genes . |
| 3 | I guess that it gave her a sense of independence and allowed her personality , which was fairly dominant , to develop . |
| 4 | They have asked that we give them a similar quantity from each department . |
| 5 | But while the large number of coins means that they give us a large quantity of information , their small size and the consequent brevity of their inscriptions greatly restricts the level of interpretation we can make from them compared with , say , a lengthy edict of a Roman emperor fully inscribed on stone . |
| 6 | If you do not keep a dream diary , I strongly recommend that you give it a try . |
| 7 | I suppose I should be flattered that you gave me an ‘ A ’ — though I 'd be better pleased if you thought enough of me to send my flowers in person , instead of by remote control . |