Example sentences of "and [noun pl] that give " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Colorado , named ‘ river coloured red ’ by the Spanish , now flows green ; the silts and muds that gave the river its distinctive colour are trapped behind Glen Canyon Dam , fifteen miles upstream from the beginning of the Grand Canyon . |
| 2 | Largely missing from de Gaulle 's account were the dilemmas , ambiguities , illusions , deceptions , and self-deceptions that gave these years their poignancy . |
| 3 | The imperfect sense of national unity is thus explained , not altogether satisfactorily , in terms of those structures and mores that gave Spain social cohesion at a lower level . |
| 4 | Other advantages for registration as a charity are that those parents and friends who can be persuaded to make covenants to the association will be able to gain tax relief and companies that give donations will find it easier to convince the tax man that their gift was entirely for charitable purposes . |
| 5 | Yet in a former Durham pit village , although all had either been made redundant or been forced out of work by ill-health , a group of miners were so sustained by the community network of neighbours and relatives that giving up work seemed a positive blessing . |
| 6 | Societal reaction theory directs research towards the ideas and beliefs that give child abuse meaning in given contexts , but it is also quite clear that child abuse is not reducible to those beliefs . |
| 7 | At the Pattmore project in London and the Rosemount project in Glasgow for example , mothers are provided with adequate child care and it enables them to attend courses and gain skills and qualifications that give them a better chance in the job market . |
| 8 | You remember those things : they littered the creeks and bywaters of harbours , slowly returning to nature , back to the trees and minerals that gave them life . |
| 9 | Because she was beautiful , with her flaxen blonde hair tumbling down her back and those unusual dark eyes and eyebrows that gave her a look of the exotic . |
| 10 | They are part of an armoury of concepts , conventions and practices that give meaning to and protect the writer 's own social formation and specifically their own place within it . |
| 11 | That is now generally understood , in the United States and Britain at least , to mean procedures and practices that give all citizens more or less equal influence in the decisions that govern them . |