Example sentences of "that [noun] gives " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is impossible to indicate all the humanly important matters that literature gives us knowledge of … . |
| 2 | What Trudy and Juanita and the rest of them are trying to say , it seems to me , is that Tod gives them the creeps . |
| 3 | In our view , the advertising award of the decade should go to the brain who thought up the series of anti-smoking television adverts which did not even mention lung cancer , but drew attention to the fact that smoking gives you bad breath . |
| 4 | The short , blunt answer to this question ( which is not the answer that Rousseau gives ) is that they can not . |
| 5 | So , to prove IBM is still on the right track , Graham attests one of the biggest industry myths is that IBM gives huge discounts on its mainframes . |
| 6 | I 'm not a psychologist , but I read , and I would say that attitude gives him a colossal arrogance . |
| 7 | And they 're not coming back for their education ; they 're coming back for the support that Arbour gives them , so they may spend more time with Monica in the nursery looking after the baby and gradually they 'll move back into the classroom in their own time and get back to their exams . |
| 8 | The reason that Beccaria gives for his requirement of proportionality is that ‘ If an equal punishment be ordained for two crimes that do not equally injure society , men will not be any more deterred from committing the greater crime , if they find a greater advantage associated with it ’ ( p. 63 ) . |
| 9 | We have freedom to enjoy the space that God gives to us in his family . |
| 10 | Peter Wagner defines the gift of the evangelist as ‘ the special ability that God gives to certain members of the Body of Christ to share the gospel with unbelievers in such a way that men and women become Jesus ’ disciples and responsible members of the Body of Christ ’ ( Wagner 1979b:173 ) . |
| 11 | This does not mean that that intelligibility can be wholly captured in the formulations or in the mind of the theologian ; it does , however , mean that the divine intelligibility comes across to us , that God gives himself to be known and understood , and that the understanding that is made possible in theology is and is intended to be a genuine understanding and an authentic contact with the intelligibility of God . |
| 12 | He wishes to assert that God gives the soul to the foetus . |
| 13 | And that is something that God gives of himself . |
| 14 | The gift is the faith that God gives to us to receive his forgiveness and his salvation , and his grace as provided . |
| 15 | There 's the Flake one , which promotes the idea that chocolate gives you sexual gratification — and that girls who consume chocolate all day are thin and have perfect skin and teeth . |
| 16 | They like the sense of power and freedom that choice gives them . |
| 17 | I think that Lawrence gives us our first clue in the writing of dialogue : that we must listen and , having listened , ask ourselves how we feel about the voice we 've just heard . |
| 18 | This has been brought about in two ways , first , by specific EEC Directives which insist , for instance , that Britain gives preference to EEC countries with respect to her sales of North Sea oil . |
| 19 | Everyone knows that Britain gives its young people less education and training than the industrial countries with whom we compete . |
| 20 | He is caught up in the communal excitement , without the prospect of release that performance gives . |
| 21 | Analysis of the exceptions in Taskopruzade/Mecdi is difficult on two grounds , first that one can not , in the period covered by them , be absolutely sure of the status of either the medreses or the kadiliks involved , and second , that neither author is inclined to give the sort of detail that Ata'i gives in , for example , the biography of Molla Bostan , alluded to just above , from which it is at least arguable that Molla Bostan 's re-entering the medrese stream was exceptional . |
| 22 | If his work has an image inside itself , it is I think the horn that Éomer gives to Merry , only a small one , but one from the hoard of Scatha the Worm and brought from the North by Eorl the Young . |
| 23 | A later ( later in terms of the Quarto numbering , that is ) example of this type of sonnet , with its disgusted ‘ withdrawal of the Poet ’ gesture , is 95 : The exclamatory style , the notably affectionate gestures , the epithets of praise ( ‘ sweet and lovely ’ , ‘ sweets ’ , ‘ beauty 's veil ’ in line 11 ) almost convince us that the Friend 's personal attractiveness can somehow transmute evil to good , a form of paradoxical hyperbole that Shakespeare gives to Lepidus , attempting to excuse Antony 's faults to Caesar : ‘ His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven , /More fiery by night 's blackness ’ ( Antony and Cleopatra , I.iv.13f ) . |
| 24 | In the poetry of Mallarmé the words ‘ mean ’ what a French dictionary tells us they mean , but they also take on the private and idiosyncratic meanings that Mallarmé gives them . |
| 25 | Assuming that segregation gives rise to equal numbers of four different types of gametes , sixteen possible fertilisations might occur . |
| 26 | It is arguable that intermodulation gives a better indication of audio quality than total harmonic distortion , since its use of simultaneous signals on different frequencies mimics speech and music to some extent . |