Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] [pron] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Training within the home in an informal ‘ conference ’ situation greatly benefits the development of the awareness that time to listen is one of the greatest gifts we give to those we love . |
| 2 | The fact remains that the debate on contemporary art seems to have entered a new dimension , with doubt being cast wholesale on the quality and content of recent trends , and on the good faith of the public institutions which give them space . |
| 3 | Green sets out the climatic conditions which give rise to the different degrees of ‘ air ’ . |
| 4 | Although it is the hereditary peers who give the House of Lords its raison d'être , it is the life peers who give the place its intellectual distinction and who produce the most impressive arguments in examining the details of legislation . |
| 5 | It means describing the sound wave in numbers ( the binary digits which give the process its name ) and transmitting these instead . |
| 6 | Such inverted commas are often called SCARE QUOTES , and are used especially in philosophically-inspired criticism which is sceptical about the customary senses we give to words . |
| 7 | The three books which give this impression of relentless fun are The ZX Spectrum and how to get the most out of it ( hardly a winner of the snappy title award ) by Ian Sinclair ( Granada , pp 144 , £5.95 ) , and Easy programming for the ZX spectrum and Computer puzzles for spectrum and ZX81 by Ian Stewart and Robin Jones ( shiva , pp 144 , £5.95 and pp 64 , £2.50 ) . |
| 8 | Pakeezah nodded her head : ‘ I find it is the little things which give you away if you are royalty : how you eat , how you talk , how you welcome people . |
| 9 | Some of the older clubs were narrowly evangelical , but Russell wanted to see religion used ‘ to comprehend all the impalpable influences which give a club a grip on its boys and tend to awaken their higher nature or further their spiritual development ’ . |
| 10 | Journalists can do little about legal costs and insurance , but they should be well versed in the legal defences which give them more latitude than is commonly thought . |
| 11 | Or is it that you 're worried about having to work a bit harder for the grand wages I give you … wages that 's been strangled out of me by that bloody woman o ’ yours ? ’ |
| 12 | Jane Lucas explains how you can gain an insight into horses ' feelings by the physical signs they give out . |
| 13 | However , if mind-reading is beyond your ability , you can gain a real insight into horses ' feelings and moods by the physical signals they give out . |
| 14 | Having obtained an exact solution in region IV , the question now is to find the initial conditions which give rise to it . |
| 15 | This can be observed particularly for some of the small fragments which give a very weak signal suggesting they contain very few repeats . |
| 16 | My Lords , this case raises the important question whether the governors of a voluntary aided school which is over-subscribed ( i.e. has more candidates for admission than it can accommodate ) is entitled to operate an admissions policy which gives preference to children of a particular religious persuasion notwithstanding the statutory provisions which give parents a right to send their children to the school of their choice . |
| 17 | Eadberht was Ceolwulf 's cousin , according to the Anglian genealogies which give his alleged descent from Ida ( see Appendix , Fig. 9 ) . |
| 18 | Lastly , individuals in our culture , as in all others , must respect the two basic prohibitions on which all human societies are founded : that forbidding murder of our fellow men and that forbidding the erotic drives which give rise to the wish to murder in its most elemental instance — parricide for possession of the mother . |
| 19 | Many hot-spot plants are aromatic and , since patios and terraces are usually paved , this quality can be enhanced by allowing plants to trail or spill on to flagstones — which get hot in the sunshine — so that the aromatic oils which give them their scent are literally vaporised and perfume the air . |
| 20 | Most of the seminal papers which give rise to paradigm shifts , and the creation of new journals to publish new subjects or combinations of subjects , are first published in the core journal set for the earlier research front , and the clusters which define the new research front may not include the journal which first published the paper which led to its inception . |
| 21 | Now let A , B be general , and let the equivalent transformations which give them canonical form be PAQ , RBS , where P , Q , R , S are non-singular . |
| 22 | What is not voiced is that this importance is , in part at least , caused by the institutional processes which give Shakespeare a privileged position on the curriculum at schools . |
| 23 | Jean-Georges Noverre in his Letters on Dance ( 1760 ) described the seven movements which give steps their varying qualities , namely : to bend , stretch , rise , jump glide , dart and turn . |