Example sentences of "that give [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It looks the English breakfast fixing it up for , that 's what and if you , if you want to look at an X-ray , you will see that the arteries of the body , those are the arteries , bring the blood supply is blocked with arteriosclerosis , and there you can see the English breakfast , the yolk of egg , the butter and all these things that are in there , causing a blockage of the artery , not enough to that muscle , and a heart attack , death and all these unbelievable things , that give me a little bit of income . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | However , most of what they say has been very constructive and it is taking on board these improvements where possible that give us a better service to our customers . |
| 4 | Was it you that give us a card ? |
| 5 | In this particular instance it is representational , as the ‘ performance mode ’ is , for the child is required to describe in action whatever the teacher suggests ( as in the example above , ‘ So you go to the bathroom and turn the doorknob ’ ) , but the ‘ exercise mode ’ has other characteristics that give it a special mental quality . |
| 6 | The leaves of this tree are rather common fossils , striped with longitudinal veins that give it a superficial resemblance to the leaf of an iris . |
| 7 | A combined series of moves that give it a keen cutting edge ; an experience to be remembered and savoured ; a problem that takes both skills and nerve to solve . |
| 8 | But you 'll start feeling better quite soon ; a more balanced diet , a little more activity , and a positive attitude are all things that give you a sense of well being and vitality . |
| 9 | Aboriginal communities have been so disenfranchised in the past that giving them a say in policies and decisions affecting them is seen as a key element in improving their health |
| 10 | Indeed , the Aboriginal communities have been so disenfranchised in the past that giving them a say in decisions and policies affecting them is seen as a key element in improving their health . |
| 11 | He had heavy grey-flecked eyebrows that gave him a wise demeanour and looked on religion the way some men looked on marriage : as a necessary part of life . |
| 12 | Then , at a stroke , something happened that gave him a powerful sense of purpose . |
| 13 | Edward , thinking with relief that he could leave them to it now , began to withdraw , clutching the bottles that gave him a certain exemption , free to come and go . |
| 14 | But World War I gave him the chance to stand on internationalist ground with an uncompromising fervour and personal courage that gave him a status denied to most of the others , whose work lay in the factories and in the shop stewards ' movement . |
| 15 | I would put vodka in his beer , and that gave him a very grumpy constitution after lunch- and he would start shouting back at Winner . |
| 16 | DURHAM DALES Mr Tony Blair , who would almost certainly have been in Mr Kinnock 's cabinet , won Sedgefield with 1.71pc swing that gave him a increased majority of 14,859 . |
| 17 | Leading Scot was Adam Hunter after a 72 for 291 that gave him a share of 13th place and a cheque for £5,783 . |
| 18 | All of the walking species had the widely-splayed legs that gave them a slow and lumbering gait , but , in the absence of more streamlined animals , they prospered . |
| 19 | What is interesting about them is that while the development corporations acquired powers that gave them a great deal of autonomy within their own territories , there is today a variety of questions to be raised about the extent to which their ‘ success ’ was secured at the expense of other policies to which they ‘ ought ’ to have related . |
| 20 | A country that gave her a cold welcome , in which the To Let signs specified ‘ No Coloureds ’ , and of which she wrote in Second-Class Citizen , ‘ If I had been Jesus I would have passed England by and not dropped a single blessing . ’ |
| 21 | Inspection of Enid 's diary , however , showed that there was very little in her week that gave her a sense of achievement or pleasure . |
| 22 | Hidden away , pushed to the darker recesses of her mind , it was a tangible presence that gave her a degree of comfort in the terrible loneliness of her marriage . |
| 23 | The hull was presumably steel ; it was this that gave her a rust-streaked look under the dirty coating of ice and snow . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Gosh , that gave me a scare ! ’ breathed Shirley , and Heather nodded . |
| 26 | ‘ When I was fired at , he missed and that gave me a love of life . ’ |
| 27 | He said : ‘ I played in the unofficial Tests against all the rebel sides that came out to South Africa in the 1980s and that gave me a good idea of what to expect . |
| 28 | I turned round and there , six feet away , was the edge of a crater twenty feet across ; that gave me a shock . |
| 29 | Any news that gave me a chance to see her again was good news . |
| 30 | And there was something in the dusty black of her coat , the half-wild scrawny look of her , that gave me a clue . |