Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [adv] give [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of York 's old central pubs have fallen victim to drastic recent remodelling with yawning spaces , often indistinguishable from one pub to another , replacing the old rooms and idiosyncratic nooks and corners that previously gave individuality and preserved genuine historic character . |
| 2 | At first it was filled with gases that modern organisms would find highly toxic , such as ammonia and possibly hydrogen cyanide — though these are the gases that probably gave rise to organic life . |
| 3 | But it is damage wrought on the international competitiveness of American firms that really gives pause for thought . |
| 4 | They are , as I have emphasized , highly organized political formations , which tend to develop a life of their own , to some extent independent of the social interests that originally gave rise to them and of their changing environment , and may acquire the character ( or at least the appearance ) of permanent elements in the political system . |
| 5 | Back beyond the Oligocene there is evidence only of archaeocetes , the rather large ancestral toothed whales that apparently gave rise to both the Odontoceti and Mysticeti . |