Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] give [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mixtures were gently rocked for two minutes and the lowest final concentration that gave macroscopic agglutination when read against a dark background was recorded . |
| 2 | Above all , as the preface points out , it is a study that gives first and last voice to the users of the mental health services themselves . |
| 3 | It was not only industry that gave advanced European nations their character , but the way in which industrialisation took place , developing the growth of capitalist social relations . |
| 4 | C-terminal deletions ( A ) and N-terminal deletions ( B ) prepared as in Methods were analyzed on 11% SDS-PAGE and stained by silver staining to determine both their purity and the amounts of protein that gave apparent stoichiometry to r30 . |
| 5 | Above all , it must be a national curriculum that gives all our children a guaranteed entitlement to higher standards in education . |
| 6 | And there 's a copse I know of , the end of a tongue of woodland that gives good cover for a retreat to the river with a prisoner . |
| 7 | What is needed is a performance measure that gives some idea of how well a machine performs on non-maths applications ( such as text editing ) and on maths intensive applications ( Spreadsheets etc . ) |
| 8 | On the right of the path Halling field is continued and when we get to the Plough there is a building shown behind the inn and this is most certainly the dwelling that gave this field its old name Burnt House field . |
| 9 | This is a term in the equations of general relativity that gives space-time an inbuilt tendency to expand or contract . |
| 10 | Sometimes it is just a matter of taking a message ; at others ( especially when we lived near a place that gave over-night accommodation to tramps ) it has involved talking — or more often listening — to them . |
| 11 | Although literary theory is only one aspect of structuralism , the question of language is obviously peculiarly relevant to it , and it is the conceptual rigour and the range of possibilities provided by the linguistic component of structuralism that give structuralist literary theory its distinctive qualities . |
| 12 | LC-derived samples were greatly enriched in I-A α -chain and greatly depleted of K1 mRNA when compared with amounts of KC RNA that gave similar amounts of E-cadherin PCR product . |
| 13 | This is always true and follows from using the present values of redemption cash flows rather than actual values , a procedure that gives greater weight to earlier cash flows . |
| 14 | Our negativity may have sent the fire brigade on strike , or even made them uncouple their hoses from that hydrant that gave all that lovely , cool life-giving water that would have quenched the fire and instead couple them to the nearest petrol tank . |
| 15 | Act at all times in a manner that gives full effect to your obligations under the law and the regulatory framework . |
| 16 | And therefore in our view it is appropriate that there should be a structure plan policy that gives broad guidance on how development proposed is affected in that rural areas could apply . |
| 17 | It will offer a fair rates policy that gives 100 per cent . |
| 18 | There is nothing within official NACAB policy that gives any support whatsoever to a distinction between paid and voluntary staff , but traditional British attitudes may be responsible for differentiation . |
| 19 | Indeed , they conclude that ‘ it is television that gives millions of people their basic idea of reality ’ , and this may be particularly true for older people , who on average watch 33 hours of television a week , 11 hours more than the national average . |
| 20 | ‘ Of all the stupid , careless — ’ Flinching beneath contemptuous anger that gave each word the force of a blow , Polly could only watch as he made a visible effort to control himself . |
| 21 | You now have a chance to compete in a national competition that gives second-chance dogs all the glamour and media attention usually reserved for supreme champions and singing dogs . |
| 22 | Being unwritten , the constitution also encourages a piecemeal approach to politics ; an approach that gives little protection against a determined , authoritarian state . |
| 23 | It contained no oxygen , but a lot of other gases that are poisonous to us , such as hydrogen sulfide ( the gas that gives rotten eggs their smell ) . |
| 24 | There is a school of thought that to give personal rewards to youngsters for attempting an outdoor pursuit can cloud one 's thinking . |
| 25 | Reductions in support levels should be carried out at a pace that gives efficient farmers time to adjust and diversify . |
| 26 | It would seem as if people were ready to write about every aspect of higher education — its aims , policies , governance , finance , organization , staff , students — except the one thing that gives all these their raison d'être . |
| 27 | And having accepted it , let us admit that the book that gives this experience to the individual young reader who needs it or will benefit from it , may not be what we ( outside the experience ) might recognize as a ‘ classic ’ . |
| 28 | The daughter who lives round the corner that gives most of the support [ PC ] is heading for a breakdown herself , she 's under considerable stress about Mum , but ca n't get cooperation from her brother and sister as to what should happen regarding the mother 's future … |
| 29 | Not only does this offer a fuel cycle that gives energetic charged particles — raising the hope of generating electricity without going through the heat/steam-raising cycle — but also it does away with the fast neutrons that can damage the materials of a fusion reactor and at the same time produce a radiation hazard for workers . |
| 30 | The court accepted the view of the executive that to give advance notice of their intentions would run the risk of action which would disrupt the operation of the intelligence services . |