Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] that [vb mod] give " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In Bettelheim 's search for material that would give ‘ access to deeper meaning ’ ( 1976 , p.4 ) he found currently-available children 's books ( in the 1970s ) superficial : ‘ most of these books are so shallow in substance that little of significance can be gained from them ’ ( ibid . |
| 2 | There was intended to be time to descend , to retire through the covert and to supervise the fast , careful infill of stone that would give them their bridge when the walls fell . |
| 3 | He would deck himself out in the kind of clothes that would give most offence to her were she alive . |
| 4 | At this stage , you know , we do n't have in our situation because we 're very poor any kind of gifts that can give a valid expression even as a token of the tremendous support you 've all given us over many many years and decades in Britain that has been a source of inspiration . |
| 5 | He did not believe in the 1952 Global Strategy paper 's concept of a period of ‘ broken-backed war ’ after an indecisive nuclear exchange in Europe that would give the Navy a worthwhile role in the Atlantic in global war . |
| 6 | An alternative coding for shape that will give better results is required . |
| 7 | Folly did n't want to encourage the sort of speculation that would give rise to — especially when she was so near to taking over as boss . |
| 8 | Knowing the mountains were there , Martha passed hours gazing upwards , waiting for a break in the curtain of vapour that would give her a view to the summit , her attention fixed at that mysterious level where the mist descended on the tree-tops and blotted out the perspective entirely . |
| 9 | But our concern was to find a church in Scotland that would give us the love and teaching that our family needed . |
| 10 | He is unlikely to drive through the party the change in the culture of Labourism that would give any realignment depth and substance . |
| 11 | There is a concern to increase the independence of members and to devise institutional relationships to facilitate a balance of powers that would give the Commons a more effective checking , choosing , and legislating role of the kind it enjoyed prior to the extension of the franchise and the organising implications of political parties in the nineteenth century . |