Example sentences of "that gives [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall argue that he overstates the significance that can be attributed to literacy in itself : that he lends authority to a language for describing literacy practices that often contradicts even his own stated disclaimers of the ‘ strong ’ case ; that he understates the qualities of oral communication ; that he sets up unhelpful and often untestable polarities between , for instance , the ‘ potentialities ’ of literacy and ‘ restricted literacy ’ ; and that he polarises the differences between oral and literate modes of communication in a way that gives insufficient credit to the reality of ‘ mixed ’ and interacting modes . |
| 2 | Reductions in support levels should be carried out at a pace that gives efficient farmers time to adjust and diversify . |
| 3 | A system that gives higher standards of hygiene and health care , stronger family ties , more time productively spent out of cells . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Rogich says , unhelpfully : ‘ I look at everything from the historical point of view because I think that gives greater impact to the message . ’ |
| 5 | This is always true and follows from using the present values of redemption cash flows rather than actual values , a procedure that gives greater weight to earlier cash flows . |
| 6 | Because you get that silence in the room and mmm you want to fill it so but you 're right the use of the pause effective and particularly with a variation in pitch that gives that emphasis the two combined together can be very very effective . |
| 7 | Being unwritten , the constitution also encourages a piecemeal approach to politics ; an approach that gives little protection against a determined , authoritarian state . |
| 8 | The advantages of attending a unit of this kind or somewhere that gives similar solidarity and guidance has been shown in a study of schoolgirl mothers . |
| 9 | The NeXT Computer company , headed by Steve Jobs ( co-designer of the Apple Macintosh ) , are releasing NeXTSTEP 486 , an object-oriented system that gives complete software data compatibility , unlimited multitasking both locally and across a network , and allows you to create custom applications on your desktop . |
| 10 | And therefore in our view it is appropriate that there should be a structure plan policy that gives broad guidance on how development proposed is affected in that rural areas could apply . |
| 11 | And there 's a copse I know of , the end of a tongue of woodland that gives good cover for a retreat to the river with a prisoner . |
| 12 | This has a micro-cellular construction that gives great comfort and flexibility , yet wo n't tear or separate . |
| 13 | It contained no oxygen , but a lot of other gases that are poisonous to us , such as hydrogen sulfide ( the gas that gives rotten eggs their smell ) . |
| 14 | Does he agree that it is now essential that he withdraw the Asylum Bill now under consideration and instead institute a proper system of legal appeal that gives automatic rights of appeal to political asylum seekers and does not leave them at the mercy of his erroneous decisions ? |
| 15 | You now have a chance to compete in a national competition that gives second-chance dogs all the glamour and media attention usually reserved for supreme champions and singing dogs . |
| 16 | And having accepted it , let us admit that the book that gives this experience to the individual young reader who needs it or will benefit from it , may not be what we ( outside the experience ) might recognize as a ‘ classic ’ . |
| 17 | What is needed is a performance measure that gives some idea of how well a machine performs on non-maths applications ( such as text editing ) and on maths intensive applications ( Spreadsheets etc . ) |
| 18 | It is then not so much the distinction between names and descriptions as the distinction between the function of naming and the function of describing that gives some indication as to what is involved in positing something as an ontological existent . |
| 19 | However , their influence on the Demoiselles is not the only feature of this painting that gives some indication of what Cubism was to achieve . |
| 20 | Act at all times in a manner that gives full effect to your obligations under the law and the regulatory framework . |
| 21 | British Telecommunications Plc has a new videoconferencing coder-decoder , which it says builds on the CCITT 's H.261 videoconferencing codec standard that gives improved picture quality , particularly for motion compensation . |
| 22 | There is nothing within official NACAB policy that gives any support whatsoever to a distinction between paid and voluntary staff , but traditional British attitudes may be responsible for differentiation . |
| 23 | How much better to introduce a discipline that gives these benefits on a daily basis . |
| 24 | It is this concrete rendering of the space around the highly fragmented objects that gives these paintings a sensation of almost unprecedented complexity . |
| 25 | Williams argues that the utilitarian , given his empirical approach , should recognize this fact and be prepared to investigate what it is that gives these people happiness . |
| 26 | ‘ Phew — let's hope that gives enough support . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |