Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [conj] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time they are mature , hedgehogs can have several thousand of the modified hairs that give them their prickly appearance and an ideal form of defence against attackers . |
| 2 | A jetpack that allows our hero to fly , and a pair of bionic legs that give Steg the power to leap tall buildings with a single bound and super-slug speed-ups are scattered around . |
| 3 | It is now appropriate to consider the extension of the solution into the prior regions I , II and III which describe the approaching waves that give rise to this particular interaction . |
| 4 | The leaves of this tree are rather common fossils , striped with longitudinal veins that give it a superficial resemblance to the leaf of an iris . |
| 5 | On public holidays , including the major religious festivals , carpets are hung over the balconies of public buildings and give a festive air . |
| 6 | One issue that is particularly damaging is the decision by the Labour party that if it were in power it would tax British farmers and give the money to the farmers of Spain , Portugal and Greece . |
| 7 | • Take five of PFK 's top writers and give them a nominal £250 to set up a tank . |
| 8 | Those who pass along it without divergence , however , remain unaware of the interesting features that give Ingleborough its unique distinction , hazards and difficulties also being avoided on the straightforward climb . |
| 9 | Hopefully , we can if we can retain some membership , then obviously hopefully we can put some money to return to these unemployed centres and give the government what it needs , a good kick up the arse . |
| 10 | Two-term double modules are used mostly in humanities and social sciences and give longer periods of study for students over broader subject areas . |
| 11 | They do some activities downstairs — they take some of the old ladies and give them bits of painting and that sort of thing , but nothing I 'm interested in . |
| 12 | This would then be a useful time to engage in the brainstorming process to generate additional topics for individual investigations and give practice in applying the selection criteria . |
| 13 | Only an idealized observer could see both the inner processing and the causal relations of the symbols to outside objects that give them meaning : no one could actually be that idealized observer , because each observer is confined to operating on the symbols that are within his computational machinery , and this excludes their external causal relations . |
| 14 | Our intuitive arguments will still apply to these homoclinic orbits and give some understanding of the way in which the structure of the attractor changes . |
| 15 | But fundamentally , of course , there is a massive overlap between the two movements in terms both of the issues and of the values and philosophical concerns that give our work any meaning at all . |
| 16 | The legends are consistent in widely separate places and give a good cross-section of the main themes . |
| 17 | In both these settings the specialist teacher can organise , often at short notice , the preparation of appropriate materials or give teaching support in a particular lesson . |
| 18 | In excessively crude shorthand : there are light-coloured rocks that form themselves into sharp peaks and very explosive volcanoes ( Mount St Helens , Krakatoa ) on the outside of the Line ; while there are dark-coloured rocks that give rise to rounded hills from which flow copious amounts of benign lavas ( Mauna Loa ) within it . |
| 19 | They feel like an extension of my arm , with a sweet action down their 10 ft length which is supple enough to cast free-lined baits and give me a feel of a fighting fish , yet with power to spare when I have to bend it into the run of a big carp . |
| 20 | Now what this meant in practice was that er y'know appropriate supervisors would appear at random intervals and give people tokens if they were wearing ear defenders , okay ? |
| 21 | It 's not just synthetic ingredients that give your skin a boost — many modern products now contain plant extracts which have been used for their stimulating and soothing properties for thousands of years |
| 22 | He interrupted himself to explain , ‘ I did n't make any false promises or give her a lot of romantic fantasy to persuade her . |
| 23 | When Mr James Baker , the American Secretary of State , met opposition leaders in Tashkent in February , Mr Pulatov urged him to establish diplomatic relations to enable the United States to monitor human rights and give democracy a foothold . |
| 24 | Britain has a massive advantage in natural resources that give it the potential to be at the forefront of renewable energy generation . |
| 25 | These are a lot cheaper than natural sponges and give , in my opinion , an equally good effect . |
| 26 | And so what he 's trying to do is to as Andrea says erm uncover the truth , get to the , get to what really happened as it were , under the layers of myth and distortion could have been introduced in the Bible story , and as I said if you read the book erm and it is quite fascinating in many ways , it is a bit like a detective story because what Freud does is he tries to get to the truth by analyzing the , the actual texts and the texts contains discrepancies and anybody who 's ever tried to erm edit a book , learns this to their cost actually , but er you find no matter how carefully you change things , there 's usually things you miss , little discrepancies that give away how it was the first time and er Freud 's view is this , this has happened very much to the Bible , it 's been so heavily edited and re-written and later the the various editings show and if you read it very critically , you can begin to see perhaps the underlying pattern er coming through and erm just as you can tell for instance by reading Genesis , that it 's a of two accounts because there are two stories , the first story is Chapter One of Genesis , then in Chapter Three or something there 's a second story repeats it with variations . |
| 27 | It is part of the great skill of the storytellers and the compilers of this material that they repeat events or speeches , but with subtle changes that give the larger narrative not just variety , but tension and further layers of meaning . |
| 28 | THE most reassuring explanation for the failure of liberal revolution in Spain is that political change was unaccompanied by those social and economic changes that give to political revolution its substance . |
| 29 | I will quote some specific figures that give credibility to amendment No. 7 . |
| 30 | You can also choose sealed units that give your windows the small-paned Georgian look , or the appearance of leaded lights in square and diamond formats , with none of the cleaning problems — the glazing bars and lead strips are set in the gap between the outer panes ( as long as you do n't go for a large picture window with this effect — it can look just plain silly ! ) . |