Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [vb -s] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sometimes a way of endowing a person with a responsibility that trains him to fulfil various roles in the future , or that it is hoped will change his character for the better , or that endows its holder with prestige , or that gives him a certain hold on other people and makes them more likely to act in his interests . |
| 2 | ‘ Of his 16 goals this season , 11 have come from outside the box and that tells you the quality of the man . |
| 3 | And that tells you the number you 've caught ? |
| 4 | Many Eurosport programmes are sponsored already , and by major companies such as Volvo , and that offers it an edge . |
| 5 | Say no more than that and that wins you a prize . |
| 6 | You 'd go in and see him and he 's sitting down , so I 'd stay stood up , so I 'm above him and that gives me a psychological advantage straight away , does n't it ? |
| 7 | send the photograph and that gives me an idea whether it 's worth going to look at it at all . |
| 8 | ‘ And that gives them the right to try and maul me ? ’ she flared , unable to contain her hurt and anger . |
| 9 | ‘ Criminals are able to listen in to our car and personal radios with them and that gives them an early warning of our approach . ’ |
| 10 | These days we can do it much easier and we do it electrically , so we can use a relationship between conductivity which has to be er compensated for temperature and pressure at which you 're doing your readings , and that gives us a measure of our chlorinity and then that gives us a measure back to our salinity . |
| 11 | He 'll be a little less adventurous for a while , and that gives us an advantage . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Of course , there 's a way you can work around playing a minor blues in a major tuning — in open G , for instance , you just play the top three strings at the third fret and that gives you a B flat major chord that you can use as a G minor — but it still felt pretty limiting . |
| 13 | And that gives you a very good opportunity if you can think of something different , to actually put this forward . |
| 14 | And that gives you the right to do dirty , perverted things , does it ? ’ |
| 15 | Okay , you just multiply the number of men , times the number of hours , and that gives you the man hours . |
| 16 | And that gives you the other minor interval . |
| 17 | I 've given you an A for participation B plus for written work and that gives you an average of B which is good or excellent . |
| 18 | The equation is represented as natural , and that gives it the force of commonsense . |
| 19 | Everyone hopes that a programme of copying the holdings of the National Sound Archive to a more rugged medium will start soon — and that brings us a new challenge . |
| 20 | Well it 's about fifteen quid and that leaves us the opportunity to get six or eight |
| 21 | ‘ Nigel looked calmer than usual , his aggression was more controlled and that makes him a more dangerous fighter than before , ’ said WBO title king Eubank . |
| 22 | Not because it 's the most versatile on the market , or necessarily the best-sounding , but it 's set to work perfectly with the Marshall tone on all channels and that makes it a winner . |
| 23 | And that makes it a many-one , that 's , in fact that 's many-one for |
| 24 | What happens depends upon what both prisoners do , and neither knows what the other has done . |
| 25 | And each knows what the other is thinking . |
| 26 | John Watson tends to regard himself as Mike 's adopted father , but Mike has inherited the substantial Lester shareholding and this gives him a considerable amount of independence ( which is not always to John Watson 's taste ) . |
| 27 | Brachiopods have two valves , and this gives them a superficial resemblance to bivalved molluscs . |
| 28 | You will notice no definite article before the word ‘ sacraments ’ and this gives me a little liberty to begin my address reasonably broadly . |
| 29 | Note that there are no half-steps within this set of scale degrees and this gives it a very rounded and open flavour . |
| 30 | And this gives you an outline of what we do . |