Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that give " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , as Sadler shrewdly and significantly observed , it was not merely economic change that gave rise to social and political anxieties , for there were ‘ psychological causes of unrest ’ which were ‘ more subtle and not less powerful ’ . |
| 2 | Indeed , traditional archivists devote much time and resources to providing users with a description of the administrative framework that gave rise to the generation of a particular record or class of records . |
| 3 | ‘ Friedel ’ comes careering through the door with an axe in its hand , before forgetting what it was so angry about in the first place , while ‘ Liebeslied ’ is the sort of directionless tosh that gives experimentalism a bad name . |
| 4 | ‘ Friedel ’ comes careering through the door with an axe in its hand , before forgetting what it was so angry about in the first place , while ‘ Liebeslied ’ is the sort of directionless tosh that gives experimentalism a bad name . |
| 5 | Beccaria uses just such an argument against capital punishment ( in addition to his rational , effectiveness arguments ) ; we simply would not enter into a social contract that gave someone the right to kill us . |
| 6 | Ironically , it was Artemesia 's horrendous experience that gave her talent focus , strength and direction — hence her paintings of heroic women and paintings that capture the disturbing sense of sexual threat and graphic display of woman 's vengence — voicing Artemesia Gentileschi 's own anger and rage . ’ |
| 7 | It is the curved arrows and printed numbers at the left-hand side that give the numbers of rows knitted with the main carriage . |
| 8 | The family is a primitive institution that gives the rich an excuse to exploit the poor and prevents the poor from resisting . |
| 9 | Hallowell ( 1950 , 1956 ) went on to argue that the emergence of culture was due to a novel psychological structure rooted in the social behaviour of the gregarious primate that gave rise to Man . |
| 10 | But it was a mask-like smile that gave her face a waxy , basilisk look . |
| 11 | Is there something about woman 's experience as a biological and social being that gives her a common identity and differentiates her forever from the male ? |
| 12 | If , for any reason , the new variety is competitively superior to the old one , superior in the sense that , perhaps because of its low ‘ stickiness ’ , it gets itself replicated faster or otherwise more effectively , the new variety will obviously spread through the test-tube in which it arose , out-numbering the parental type that gave rise to it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | To conclude that the potential for peasant revolution against the status quo remained undiminished in the decade after 1905 does not of course , dispose of the liberal contention that given a longer period of peaceful development the prospects would have changed . |
| 15 | But World War I gave him the chance to stand on internationalist ground with an uncompromising fervour and personal courage that gave him a status denied to most of the others , whose work lay in the factories and in the shop stewards ' movement . |
| 16 | In mid-afternoon , they parked on the side of a dirt road and carried their picnic lunch to a grassy knoll that gave a perfect view of the dark blue waters of Lago Albano . |
| 17 | Having the insight and ability to share his or her own experiences , thoughts and feelings in a professional and personal manner that gives empathy and hope . |
| 18 | It is the pre-intellectual awareness that gives rise to it . |
| 19 | Newcastle manager Keegan admitted : ‘ We created a lot of chances but it has to be said that it was a dubious penalty that gave us a goal . |
| 20 | Loathing for the other woman rose in Shae 's chest like an icy-cold wave , but she resolutely contained the feeling , staring back at her with a bland expression that gave nothing of her inner turmoil away . |
| 21 | Although the global hypsometric curve provides a valuable statistical summary of the Earth 's relief as a whole it is also necessary to identify the major components of global morphology that give rise to the curve ( Fig. 2.4 ) . |
| 22 | So the importance of a healthy , well-balanced diet that gives children all the nutrients vital for physical growth and energy can not be over-emphasised . |
| 23 | It was a case that bothered him because he felt that in the Assize Court the unfortunate man 's chances had been wrecked by that fool of a cocky young barrister who had concocted an elaborate defence that gave a totally false impression of what had happened . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is these survival techniques which provide the cultural and psychological framework that gives energy and support to black children . |
| 26 | Above all , it must be a national curriculum that gives all our children a guaranteed entitlement to higher standards in education . |
| 27 | A basic skill that gives them the greatest start in life . |
| 28 | Between stops we can try and find out why their debut LP , ‘ Eva Luna ’ , is such a welcome anachronism that gives a shock to the nerve-centres of the techno ‘ n ’ grunge consensus , why rhythm is omnipotent once again and why they 've finally broken the apathetic silence by taking us all to task with some bold statements on matters of importance , instead of indistinct paeans to various objects of desire . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The betting odds here are extraordinarily long ; theory suggests that it is not possible to liberate useful energy this way nor is there any natural phenomenon that gives us confidence that this can occur . |