Example sentences of "[noun pl] that they give " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasons that they gave for this varied considerably . |
| 2 | It was one of those answers that they give sometimes . |
| 3 | It is a book that focuses on the questions that psychobiologists ask , rather than on the answers that they give to them . |
| 4 | The bags were of that thinner kind of plastic they use for the bags that they give away at the supermarket , the free ones ; and now one of the bags in her right hand split and she just stood there helpless to stop them as three cans fell out and rolled across the concrete . |
| 5 | Most of them it 's been questions of rather less fundamental changes in the actual teaching style in the classroom and sometimes it 's been a question of concentrating on rather different kinds of things or giving more time to one kind of activity than another , or changing the pattern of assignments that they gave children , or things that were still well within the capacity of teachers to change without involving sort of fundamental changes in teaching style . |
| 6 | The effect of such a rule is that the lineage of the bride and the lineage of the husband are placed in an asymmetrical wife-giver/wife-receiver relationship ; the wife-givers then receive " valuables " of some sort in return for the women that they give away . |
| 7 | Individual negotiations are inevitably led by the benefits that they give an individual . ’ |
| 8 | Multilateralists on the Labour benches , who had supported the retention of nuclear weapons on the grounds that they gave Britain an independent foreign policy , were seriously discomfited by the obvious loss of a measure of that independence through acceptance of an American delivery system . |