Example sentences of "those [noun pl] [pron] give " in BNC.

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1 Robert Grosvenor is one of those artists who give new meaning to the term ‘ raw material ’ , using as he has over the years wooden beams — stacked , splintered , split and variously arrayed over the floor .
2 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 .
3 It was the fifth of those lectures he gave from 1769 to 1790 , known as his fifteen discourses .
4 Those snaps you gave me — they were not much good , very difficult to work with .
5 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 .
6 Independence was not compromised , it was stated , and although the identification of causes deserving of support and finance from the advice agency might be questionable , in practice only those problems which gave real cause for community concern could be pursued successfully because of the need for public support .
7 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 ) .
8 Indeed , those writers who give the Labour governments of those years high marks for achievement , fail to take sufficient account of the manner and nature of the achievement [ Cairncross , 1985 ; Morgan , 1984 ] .
9 One of the sport 's most natural drivers — no one , ever , participated in more forms of motor sport , for as long or even remotely as successfully — he favoured , as a simple man , those things which gave him simple pleasures .
10 Gangs of the energy clans jealously guarded those ports which gave access to power stations and thus to the heat sink .
11 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 .
12 ‘ I was up till three ack emma memorizing those files you gave me .
13 This plaque , this memorial plaque , is in honour of those men who gave their lives during this memorial , memorable period of history .
14 Those papers I gave you the other evening — ’
15 You select those instruments which give you the most relevant information at the time .
16 Selection is made of those instruments which give the most relevant information at the time .
17 It 's nothing to do with those drugs you gave me .
18 Again , he distinguished between those doctrines which give direct expression to the religious awareness , and those which do so only indirectly .
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