Example sentences of "[pron] gives us the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres . |
| 2 | North of Dunkery Beacon , for example , the well-preserved ringwork of Sweetworthy is next to the abandoned medieval farm site — and possibly the Saxon predecessor which gives us the -worth element in Sweetworthy . |
| 3 | In other words , it is the poll tax crossed with a capital value tax — a roof tax crossed with a head tax — a cross-bred monster which gives us the worst of all worlds . |
| 4 | But the man who gives us the clearest picture of the link between the Spirit and evangelism is St. Luke in his two volume work . |
| 5 | He gives us the archetypal wolf in Armani threads in script executive Griffin Mill — Tim Robbins — whose job entails dashing the hopes of thousands of writers each year and making a handful rich . |
| 6 | The third strand — the perennial philosophy — deals specifically with consciousness ; combined with the other two strands , it gives us the new paradigm . |
| 7 | And it gives us the right answers . |