Example sentences of "and [noun] 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 sayings of country people , sometimes tinged with poetry , always rich in concrete images and braced with the vigour and rhythm that gives them long life , are worth revealing . |
| 4 | " Together we have resisted the trap of appeasement , cynicism and isolation that gives temptation to tyrants . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I know somebody here who got very good marks for his lab work and he 's good on computers , and he just programmed the computers in random errors and stuff that give him set results and nice graphs , and they were n't perfect so nobody noticed them , but he fiddled them , and that way he did n't have to do any lab work if he did n't want to . |
| 10 | It is not difficult to calculate the exact proportions of hawk and dove that give an equilibrium , if W < D. The calculation proceeds as follows . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | While the springs or foam give support , it 's the padding and upholstery that gives the mattress its softness . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Breathing in this way will be more efficient if the body is of the size and shape that gives maximum skin area and minimum body volume and this indeed , is just what is found among these lungless salamanders ; their bodies are thin and elongated and none of them grows to more than a few centimetres in length . |
| 16 | Yet when a man 's life is in balance , mirth is a spice and exhilarator that gives to life an added delight . |
| 17 | Demonstrating the grace , style and discipline that gave the British team 7th place in the Olympics . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |