Example sentences of "what gives the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way The Origin demonstrates a complete tie-up between politics , economics , kinship , and gender roles , and this view of all the different aspects of society as an essential whole is what gives The Origin its power . |
| 2 | The central question of criticism is ‘ What gives the experience of reading a certain poem its value ? |
| 3 | What gives the work excitement and , indeed , transcendence , is the verbal and rhythmical energy , the sometimes almost comic audacity ( as in ‘ Daddy ’ and ‘ Lady Lazarus ’ ) , and in other poems a dream-like remoteness and impersonality , as if these were messages from another planet . |
| 4 | Not all of them provide that ‘ sure touch ’ — that firm but gentle control of the rudder which is what gives the child his or her sense of direction . |
| 5 | These are , after all , what gives the water its characteristic taste . |
| 6 | What gives the doctor the certainty that he knows the mind of his patient ? |
| 7 | In short , what gives the town this particular landscape ? |
| 8 | What gives the program the potential to be so good is its unique approach to integration . |
| 9 | What gives the game away , of course , is that qualifying adjective , " rational " . |
| 10 | That 's what gives the car such a delicious duality of character . |
| 11 | There may however be a way of adapting it to say that the solipsist will be unable to use the term ‘ beetle ’ to communicate with his later self ( in a diary , perhaps ) , since what gives the term its meaning to him now can not be what was then in the box ( an object to which he now has no access ) but what he now thinks was in the box . |