Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to that date , however , some of the greater landowners , as lords of regality , maintained private courts which gave them opportunities to attract lawyer-freeholders to their service and hence to their political interest . |
| 2 | The dummies are dressed in worn clothes which retain a strong human scent , and some have mobile heads which give an illusion of life as they move into the wind . |
| 3 | It 's a remarkable musical full of tuneful songs which give it a romantic and charmingly French flavour . |
| 4 | The fact remains that the debate on contemporary art seems to have entered a new dimension , with doubt being cast wholesale on the quality and content of recent trends , and on the good faith of the public institutions which give them space . |
| 5 | But in his theoretical essays he gives some interesting indications of the ways in which they may contribute to a poem 's effect . |
| 6 | These broke away sharply on seeing the British fighters which gave chase but were unable to catch them . |
| 7 | Although it is the hereditary peers who give the House of Lords its raison d'être , it is the life peers who give the place its intellectual distinction and who produce the most impressive arguments in examining the details of legislation . |
| 8 | Davis Cup nerves certainly got to them as they started their defence of a trophy they had only just won back for the first time since 1932 but full marks to the British challengers who gave of their best in terms of commitment and attitude . |
| 9 | Although by the turn of the century most of the food adulteration that had characterised the nineteenth century grocery trade had disappeared , customers were still cheated by unscrupulous retailers who gave short weight by including an excessive amount of packaging around products such as tea . |
| 10 | Green sets out the climatic conditions which give rise to the different degrees of ‘ air ’ . |
| 11 | The measures would come into force on the expiry of the two-month amnesty to suspected activists who gave themselves up [ see p. 39168 ] . |
| 12 | Regions differ in social , industrial and cultural ways which give rise to different patterns of specific disease . |
| 13 | Look up old friends you gave up for your partner 's sake . |
| 14 | There are coats of arms all around the Chamber of hon. Members who gave their lives for peace in Europe . |
| 15 | The room was long and plain , stretching down to french windows which gave on to a railed veranda and a view of the gardens and river beyond . |
| 16 | We also have a few little phrases in the UN 's so-called Global Plan of Action for Marine Mammals which give us a small hook on which to hang international actions for the benefits of both whales and seals . |
| 17 | Tall , white-painted window frames , subdivided by many glazing bars , were placed under segmental arches of red brickwork and the most prominent features were the high gables which gave the buildings a varied and lively skyline . |
| 18 | Some saw old laws which gave a creditor tyrannical powers of coercion over his insolvent debtor as the barbarous expedients of a rude age which were both unjust and inhumane . |
| 19 | Cissie Fairchild , through investigating the statements of French women who gave birth to illegitimate babies , has challenged Shorter on his own terms . |
| 20 | The lesson was , of course , that I must never , ever cry for myself for I was a lucky little girl ; my tears should be for all the strong , brave women who gave me life . |
| 21 | There 's a spicy , peppery mature Shiraz £5.99 and my favourite , Classic Thirteen made from 13 different grapes — a la Chateau Neuf du Pape then matured in old barrels which gives a lovely smooth , rich , full , very fruity wine . |
| 22 | Aggregate data do not , of course , allow us to draw any inferences about the behaviour of individual authorities which give rise to these findings , particularly where so few cases are often involved . |
| 23 | Many of the ordinary Panamanians who gave the general such a stinging defeat in May 's annulled elections were astonished that the US allowed the coup to collapse when it had 12,000 troops stationed around the canal . |
| 24 | We normally suppose that our experience is a reliable guide to the nature of those parts of the world which we are not observing , and that in favourable cases it gives us knowledge . |
| 25 | These were the three crucial elements which gives rise to this central question in all discussions really of the Chinese revolution which is was this Marxism ? |
| 26 | There are also the geologists and civil engineers who gave evidence for Cardiff residents against the barrage during the Select Committee stage of the proceedings on the private Bill in February , April and May of last year . |
| 27 | The Naked Fantasy range from Ultima II is a delicate collection of warm colours which gives a very light , natural look . |
| 28 | It is designed to accommodate the Exotox 60 , 70 or 75 and MiniGas multi-gas monitors which give protection against up to five gases ( oxygen , flammable and toxic gases ) and also monitor temperature and relative humidity . |
| 29 | The immediate cause of the crisis is seen as the combination of different types of difficult prisoners — what has been called the ‘ toxic mix ’ of prisoners ( Home Office , 1994a : para 124 ) — in physically poor and insecure conditions which gives rise to an ‘ explosion ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's not a dead person 's stomach , it 's those day-old chicks he gives Abelard . |