Example sentences of "those [noun pl] [pron] give [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , however , we wish to prove the existence of ‘ the back of ’ something using quite different criteria of testimony and disallowing all those activities which gave rise to the concept in the first place , then perhaps our proof of the uncertainty of the existence of backs will be less powerful than has been imagined . |
| 2 | When the British evacuation of Dunkirk came in May and June 1940 , Sgt Smith was one of those pilots who gave air cover to the boats ferrying Servicemen back from France . |
| 3 | Since power rests not just in individuals or groups but in anonymous social mechanisms and assumptions , they argued that the power of capital is revealed not in individual acts of decision-making but in the everyday application of ‘ those assumptions which give priority to private capital accumulation and market exchange in the use and distribution of resources ’ ( Westergaard and Resler , 1975 , p. 144 ) . |
| 4 | Gangs of the energy clans jealously guarded those ports which gave access to power stations and thus to the heat sink . |
| 5 | Before 1970 it was largely left to the Weights and Measures Departments of local authorities to enforce those statutes which gave protection to the consumer of goods and they often took the view that they had no competence to deal with complaints which did not indicate a possible breach of the criminal law . |