Example sentences of "[noun] that give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose it was the isolation that gave us such a feeling of camaraderie . " |
| 2 | In the process of sexual selection , certain males were said to develop characteristics that gave them the edge over other males in the competition for females . |
| 3 | In this particular instance it is representational , as the ‘ performance mode ’ is , for the child is required to describe in action whatever the teacher suggests ( as in the example above , ‘ So you go to the bathroom and turn the doorknob ’ ) , but the ‘ exercise mode ’ has other characteristics that give it a special mental quality . |
| 4 | We have begun to measure these trees , noting characteristics that give us clues to their genetic relationships : these trees , growing under plantation conditions , will eventually tell us whether we really have collected new genes useful to farmers who grow cocoa . |
| 5 | The sayings of country people , sometimes tinged with poetry , always rich in concrete images and braced with the vigour and rhythm that gives them long life , are worth revealing . |
| 6 | All of the walking species had the widely-splayed legs that gave them a slow and lumbering gait , but , in the absence of more streamlined animals , they prospered . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was what was within the bird the force that gave it such power , such vitality . ’ |
| 9 | The throw took her by surprise , was sharp and strong , and went a little wide , so that it was only the experience of three younger brothers that gave her quick enough reflexes to shoot an arm out sideways to take the catch . |
| 10 | Another episode that gave him much reassurance was the time when Kate invited him in for tea at the Rectory . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's your casualness that gives you away , ’ he said . |
| 12 | The gentle , careful , intelligent eyes that gave nothing away while leaving you with the impression that you and what you were saying were the most intelligent things she had ever beheld and heard . |
| 13 | But , as she looked up into his dark eyes that gave nothing away , and battled furiously against the pride that would have held her back from pressing her question , suddenly the sun came out . |
| 14 | There was a purposeful look now in her eyes that gave him pause . |
| 15 | BeckerTools is a set of utilities that give you better or extra disk and file utilities under Windows . |
| 16 | BILLY JOEL is battling to save the tiny New York club that gave him his first pop break . |
| 17 | He 's a soldier that gives everything ; throws himself at the enemy and for once every ball , he touched finished in the back of the net . |
| 18 | In short Moses Moses revealed to that like the Egyptians each generation of Jews that gave them their character in general which is that today |
| 19 | 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 ! ) . |
| 20 | We did pain relief and I did all my exercises , had films , talks , books that give me advice and everything , dead good they are . |
| 21 | Denyer decided to put together a mix of landscapes and portraits , images that gave him particular visual pleasure . |
| 22 | It was the therapy that gave me the strength to leave my girlfriend because through it I established the fact that I was prone to passivity , always waiting for other people to call the shots . |
| 23 | But it was working as a computer specialist in the insurance industry that gave him the necessary experience , most notably the motor insurance experience , he needed . |
| 24 | The boots have a Vibram dual density sole that gave me all the grip and comfort I needed over steep wet grass and rough ground . |
| 25 | In a world of single parents , almost all of them female , it is the relationship that the young man has with a solid male figure that gives him an edge and keeps him on the straight and narrow . |
| 26 | In fact , Broderick seems to have shown a nicely calculated amount of daring in trying to pick roles that give his bland fresh-faced prettiness a spin . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Those in the East End included a half-share in Chandler 's Wiltshire Brewery in the Hackney Road , Bethnal Green ( via the Lion brewery , Lambeth , the brewery that gave us the South Bank lion ) ; some of the pubs belonging to the Commercial Brewery Co in Commercial Road , Stepney , in 1927 ( the rest went to Hammerton 's brewery , Stockwell ) ; and West and Co , of the Three Crowns brewery , Hackney Road , Bethnal Green , with 60 pubs , in 1929 . |
| 29 | The girl singer was in good voice by the pool , singing some sentimental Spanish favourites , with that wistful lilt that gave them their distinctive charm . |
| 30 | An option is a contract that gives its holder the right , but not the obligation , to buy or sell a specific quantity of a specific quality of a specific asset at a specific price ( the " exercise price " or " strike price " ) on or before a specific day ( the settlement day ) . |