Example sentences of "that it give [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The huge advantage of fame is that it gives me , for no proper reason , access to people that I would never otherwise have .
2 I 've told you that it gives me a terrific edge in any sale where Kemp 's a bidder .
3 The only trouble is that it gives me an American accent .
4 can I say that it gives me particular pleasure to introduce Steven not least , because Steven Hughes is one of our colleagues in parliament who does a fantastic job for the trade union movement .
5 Some people prefer to work their male ferret on a line , saying that it gives them control over its movements .
6 This dietician saying that the architect w wants to know all about endoscop what it involves , so that it gives him an idea as to what is about .
7 What she most relishes about no longer having to worry about where the money to pay the rates is coming from is that it gives her the freedom to be creative .
8 The presence of maids obviates any need for husbands to undertake traditionally female tasks and so , while a woman following her career does challenge a husband 's machismo in the sense that it gives her some independence ( both economically and socially ) , it does not do so in the sense of changing his role in the home .
9 In that it gives us ‘ knowledge ’ , as opposed to mere ‘ belief ’ or ‘ faith ’ , of course it has ; but Locke also means that revelation must be answerable to reason .
10 ( 1 ) If seeing something is like eating it with the eye , so that it gives us sensations in our eyes as eating manna gives us ‘ sensations of sickness , and sometimes of acute pains or gripings ’ in our stomachs , then what physically enters the eye comes to have an importance not only for understanding the physical mechanism of visual perception , but also for understand the concept of visual perception .
11 The definition is adopted , of course , not merely for the reason that it gives us a further explanation of the difference between causal items and their effects .
12 A realization that it gives us rights that we do n't have as well as some sharing , some loss .
13 If we just win freedom that freedom will become very empty if we 're not able to use the power that it gives us to create justice and peace in the region .
14 Do n't forget that it gives us another chance to make progress in Europe this season ; success for Linfield and of course Crusaders may yet lift us away from the bottom of the ladder and give us a chance of avoiding those detested preliminary rounds .
15 If you are stuck in a boring job , concentrate on the fact that it is providing money for your needs and your pleasures and that it gives you a measure of independence .
16 Try a recording in which the camera looks at the class the whole time so that it gives you the teacher's-eye view .
17 Your Lordship er will see from paragraph three eleven that what the letter er says is as we discussed on the telephone , the advantage of the landlord 's objection is that it gives you time to put your finances in order , if the licence was forthcoming now you would be obliged to complete the transaction which at this stage you are unable to do .
18 The buzzword among those who follow the routine is that it gives you ‘ energy for life . ’
19 alright and if you look at the diagram on page thirteen and you look at the little arrow diagram you 'll see that it gives it quite nice and clearly there is that alright ?
20 She felt slightly ashamed that it gave her such satisfaction .
21 Their reaction was so encouraging that it gave me the strength to carry on .
22 I believe that day implanted in me a life-long craving for barbaric splendour , for savagery and colour and the throb of drums , and that it gave me a lasting veneration for long-established custom and ritual , from which would derive later a deep-seated resentment of Western innovations in other lands , and a distaste for the drab uniformity of the modern world .
23 Bacteriologists immediately recognised that it gave them a unique opportunity to study the evolutionary processes governing bacterial resistance — as a synthetic antibiotic it could not be influenced by preexisting resistance genes .
24 Opposition Sajudis members objected , without effect , to the timing of the election on the grounds that it gave them inadequate time for preparation .
25 I 'm sure she enjoyed it and that it gave her a purpose in life .
26 I guess that it gave her a sense of independence and allowed her personality , which was fairly dominant , to develop .
27 She loved Nick , loved him so much sometimes that it gave her a pain , but she hated to be told to do something she was going to do anyway .
28 His main diversion was music , which ‘ did relieve his drooping spirits , compose his distracted thoughts and raised his weary soul so far above the earth , that it gave him an earnest of the joys of heaven ’ .
29 It was widely said that he had long resented the Shah 's great oil wealth and the independence that it gave him .
30 His best-known work , Tetbury church , Gloucestershire ( 1777–81 ) , is one of the most elegant examples of late eighteenth-century Gothic and was widely admired at the time , the poet William Mason [ q.v. ] , for example , commenting that it gave him ‘ the very highest opinion ’ of Hiorne 's ‘ Gothic taste ’ ; and his approach to Gothic design also appears to have embraced at least the rudiments of scholarship as well as its decorative appeal .
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