Example sentences of "[noun] that give [pron] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 By the time they are mature , hedgehogs can have several thousand of the modified hairs that give them their prickly appearance and an ideal form of defence against attackers .
2 BILLY JOEL is battling to save the tiny New York club that gave him his first pop break .
3 In short Moses Moses revealed to that like the Egyptians each generation of Jews that gave them their character in general which is that today
4 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 .
5 At this sort of pace we will start to lose the landmarks that give us our bearings .
6 A fully secularized society was a contradiction in terms , for there could be no society that would not feel the need to uphold the collective sentiments that gave it its unity and individuality .
7 What , finally , is the vital , dynamic core of the community that gives it its uniquely distinctive character ?
8 The question really means : What is it about the idea of a god that gives it its stability and penetrance in the cultural environment ?
9 It was , I think , this last quality that gave him his reputation for indecision .
10 They are ‘ justified ’ by the grace of God that gives them what they do not deserve , and by the ‘ faith ’ which grasps that proffered gift and responds in obedient dedication to that proffered love .
11 Hereford should be unchanged , but sure of a place is new striker , Darren Rowbotham an instant hit last week and he 's the man that gives us our goal of the week to finish off .
12 Each dust particle inherits the characteristic defect structure of the parent clay that did the damming , the structure that gave it its damming properties .
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