Example sentences of "[pron] gives the [noun] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The first , filed by The Lawyers Collective ( Bombay ) challenges the constitutionality of the Bhopal Gas Leak Disaster Act 1985 which gives the government sole right to sue on behalf of the Victims and takes away the right of individuals to go to the Supreme Court .
2 The system has the option of calling into action an articulatory loop , a form of silent speech rehearsing which gives the system more time either to accept more information or to examine the message in greater detail .
3 This is a regular return of departmental spending which gives the Treasury early warning of the possibility that a department may overshoot its cash limit .
4 Perhaps the earliest reference to this date is in a marginal note in a relatively early manuscript of Mustakimzade ( the note apparently in the same hand as the text ) which gives the date 828 and a chronogram : .
5 Even with the silver mask , which gives the wearer some Charlatan-type skills , this does n't mean that face-to-face encounters wo n't have a Fel penalty ( the skill bonuses apply separately from any general Fel penalty or bonus ) — after all , people do n't tend to trust people who wear masks .
6 Acceleration is initiated at a position which gives the motor sufficient time to decelerate the load inertia , so that the target position is attained with a velocity below the start.stop rate .
7 Another big factor , of course , is providing the proper underlay which gives the carpet extra life , and this in itself is a real investment at around £3 sq yard .
8 As golf is another favourite Hastings sport and an ideal means of relaxation it probably does n't help his back problem that he gives the ball such a lick as to threaten to land it in the next kingdom !
9 Thus it gives the retailer some immunity from intrabrand competition , as discussed above , and as a first-order effect increases the retailer 's margin .
10 Mozambique 's coastline , of 2000 kilometres , is one of its main assets : it gives the country one of the widest continental shelf areas in Africa .
11 The assumption here is that if the pound had been devalued earlier on this would have made it possible to adhere to the growth path of the plan , but in the light of the comments made above this view is open to doubt : it gives the plan more credibility than it merited .
12 It gives the Zoo enormous pleasure to have the seal of approval of a world-class expert on chimpanzees and really justifies all the effort put into the project .
13 The trouble with the slogan , survival of the fittest , is that it gives the impression that evolution is all about creating a kind of super race , you know , like you saw in Nazi propaganda films , you know , blonde erm muscly beasts as it were , who were the th the sort of pinnacles of , of , of creation .
14 The effect of making them arrestable is that it gives the police certain powers of entry and search under section 17 and 18 while investigating the offences in question .
15 In short , what gives the town this particular landscape ?
16 That 's what gives the car such a delicious duality of character .
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