Example sentences of "[conj] [det] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sometimes a way of endowing a person with a responsibility that trains him to fulfil various roles in the future , or that it is hoped will change his character for the better , or that endows its holder with prestige , or that gives him a certain hold on other people and makes them more likely to act in his interests . |
| 2 | The practical effect is that that gives them precedence of speaking in Parliament . |
| 3 | Mhm , and you do n't find that that gives you any difficulty at all , er with people who genuinely want to find your number ? |
| 4 | I went I said gas shell drop close to me and that that gave me a bit of a right to go an d to the hospital . |
| 5 | If you happen to know that it is the Prime Minister personally who advises the Queen to dissolve Parliament , you will realise that this gives him the whip hand over other members of the Cabinet — who fear the cataclysm of an untimely election as much as back-benchers do . |
| 6 | Lisabeth was really into chocolate rushes , and while she fed her face , nuclear war could break out and she would n't pause between nibbles , so this gave me a chance to plan my campaign . |
| 7 | There were a few young men who developed female characteristics , unconsciously perhaps at first but certainly consciously when they became aware of the power that these gave them . |
| 8 | Over the years he had worked hard into the night , had attended every lecture and tutorial , had scarcely taken time to attend student functions such as debates , except that these gave him fresh ideas ; he never spoke at them . |
| 9 | He dreamed up mad little schemes that both gave him a great deal of pleasure and helped him to avoid some of the inevitable boredom of an out-of-town tour production . |
| 10 | Whoever wrote it or designed those basic garments knew that you would be struggling to learn all you could in the shortest possible time and that to give you concise diagrams and stitch and row numbers would cut down any need for extra calculations by you . |
| 11 | You 'd go in and see him and he 's sitting down , so I 'd stay stood up , so I 'm above him and that gives me a psychological advantage straight away , does n't it ? |
| 12 | send the photograph and that gives me an idea whether it 's worth going to look at it at all . |
| 13 | ‘ Criminals are able to listen in to our car and personal radios with them and that gives them an early warning of our approach . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ And that gives them the right to try and maul me ? ’ she flared , unable to contain her hurt and anger . |
| 15 | And that gives them control . |
| 16 | These days we can do it much easier and we do it electrically , so we can use a relationship between conductivity which has to be er compensated for temperature and pressure at which you 're doing your readings , and that gives us a measure of our chlorinity and then that gives us a measure back to our salinity . |
| 17 | He 'll be a little less adventurous for a while , and that gives us an advantage . ’ |
| 18 | questionnaire , and that gives us another reading . |
| 19 | First of all the local authority 's S S A as you know , has not been as we would have wished it to be , and that gives us less headroom for er , manoeuvring as it were er , with the various committees , and secondly the community care money is now solely distributed through the S S A whereas last year fifty percent of it came relating to usage . |
| 20 | ‘ Of course , there 's a way you can work around playing a minor blues in a major tuning — in open G , for instance , you just play the top three strings at the third fret and that gives you a B flat major chord that you can use as a G minor — but it still felt pretty limiting . |
| 21 | And that gives you , something called , specific rotation which will be a constant for those conditions indicated and for that substance . |
| 22 | And that gives you the right to do dirty , perverted things , does it ? ’ |
| 23 | Okay , you just multiply the number of men , times the number of hours , and that gives you the man hours . |
| 24 | And that means that from then on your life is n't your own , you do n't do what you want to do , you do what you believe God is telling you to do and you try to live by what the bible says and you pray about any important decision you make and then , when God has shown you what the right thing is to do , even when you 're going through very hard times , you know that you 're there because that 's where God wants you to be and that gives you faith to carry on . |
| 25 | And that gives you the other minor interval . |
| 26 | Think of them in groups of threes and that gives you four dotted ? |
| 27 | ‘ And that gives you some sort of hold over me ? ’ |
| 28 | I 've given you an A for participation B plus for written work and that gives you an average of B which is good or excellent . |
| 29 | You could do that much , do the three times three times five and that gives you forty five but we 're looking for ninety . |
| 30 | And that gives you a very good opportunity if you can think of something different , to actually put this forward . |