Example sentences of "that give [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that given that University work is supposed to encourage intellectual activity at the highest level of which any individual is capable it is very important to increase motivation by allowing those individuals to proceed at their own pace and to establish their cognitive frames as and when they feel capable of doing so . |
| 2 | There are , however , special numbers ( called imaginary ) that give negative numbers when multiplied by themselves . |
| 3 | It is not surprising , then , that there are many unsatisfactory ways of calculating valence electron excitation energies , but none that give convincing results except over a very narrow group of compounds . |
| 4 | This first kite has to work if you are to be satisfied , so our first tip is for you to be conservative , and select one of the tried and tested shapes that give least trouble . |
| 5 | My gardening activities are , perhaps , slightly unorthodox , in that I make a point of growing plants whose flowers are known to be attractive to insects , plant flowers and vegetables together , tidy and prune only as much as is absolutely necessary , encourage plants , even ‘ weeds ’ , that give continuous ground cover , and rigorously exclude poisonous chemicals . |
| 6 | Flanked on each side by useful lobbies that give easy access to both lifts and the back stairs , the day nursery is the largest room on the south front . |
| 7 | That is now generally understood , in the United States and Britain at least , to mean procedures and practices that give all citizens more or less equal influence in the decisions that govern them . |
| 8 | ‘ I read somewhere , and I think it 's true , that it 's your overalls that give that surface sex appeal , ’ she finished triumphantly . |
| 9 | For many viewers , the most important parliamentary programmes are those that give live coverage to the debates in the Chamber or to committee hearings . |
| 10 | IBM has announced the Workstation One family of programs that give personal computers and workstations running OS/2 2.0 , AIX Unix , Microsoft Corp Windows or Apple Computer Macintosh system access to applications on IBM mainframes and Digital Equipment Corp minis — but they all require a server between the desktop machine and the host , with the minimum server being an 80386 machine . |
| 11 | Above all it is the sheer variety and abundance of brachiopods that give shallow water Palaeozoic assemblages of fossils their distinctive ‘ feel ’ . |
| 12 | These become particularly unimportant with the onset of puberty when the individual needs the support and reassurance of sound and sane information , and of novels that give honest accounts and insights into the emotional life of the adolescent — the ‘ how it feels ’ . |
| 13 | Some of the characteristics of primates are flexible fingers with nails rather than claws , and forward facing eyes that give binocular vision and are vital for judging distance . |
| 14 | Beginners appreciate the help given by moving together with the teacher after technical movement coaching , while more advanced movers respond to the various nuances that give added pleasure to the performance of travelling movements , creative variations or structured patterns . |
| 15 | There will probably be a small range of settings that give satisfactory results . |
| 16 | We also recognise that there is a tremendous problem for deferred pensioners in achieving reasonable transfer values er er er it 's a massive problem for them , even where they could find perhaps something to do with that money and a scheme that would do them better , not always , because there , there are people that give bad advice , but there are some that go into it very thoroughly and when it comes down to the bit the transfer value they receive makes it im practically impossible for them to do it . |
| 17 | However , corporatists are sharply critical of the pluralist perspective in so far as that perspective sees the interest-groups system as competitive , " democratic " , equal , and open to all , so that it leads to policy outcomes that give fair shares to everyone . |
| 18 | In my experience schools are very bad at teaching the exam techniques that give this sort of child confidence . ’ |
| 19 | The court accepted the view of the executive that to give advance notice of their intentions would run the risk of action which would disrupt the operation of the intelligence services . |
| 20 | There is a school of thought that to give personal rewards to youngsters for attempting an outdoor pursuit can cloud one 's thinking . |
| 21 | They are also concerned that giving distinct roles to two separate groups of directors is divisive and that two tier boards might arise because of the split in responsibilities . |
| 22 | Williamson argues that giving due recognition to the importance of transaction costs serves to redress the balance towards efficiency explanations , particularly if one accepts that rather stringent structural preconditions must be satisfied before anti-competitive behaviour is plausibly successful ( 1983 : 537 , n. 38 ) . |
| 23 | The company makes it quite clear that giving younger people career opportunities may mean moving older employees down the status ladder . |
| 24 | It 's a good artist 's sketch of a building , ’ he said , but warned that giving more money to Congress was like giving an alcoholic a liquor store . |
| 25 | In short , the latest evidence does not suggest that giving more tax relief will promote much more giving . |
| 26 | Secondly , and most serious , are allegations of ‘ Clever Hans ’ errors ; named after the German horse early in the century that gave correct answers to arithmetical problems shown it on a blackboard ( by tapping with its hoof ) until it was unmasked as reacting to unwitting symptoms of tension in its trainer which caused it to stop at the right moment . |
| 27 | LC-derived samples were greatly enriched in I-A α -chain and greatly depleted of K1 mRNA when compared with amounts of KC RNA that gave similar amounts of E-cadherin PCR product . |
| 28 | C-terminal deletions ( A ) and N-terminal deletions ( B ) prepared as in Methods were analyzed on 11% SDS-PAGE and stained by silver staining to determine both their purity and the amounts of protein that gave apparent stoichiometry to r30 . |
| 29 | A recent objection came from a client who did not want to invest in a company that gave political donations . |
| 30 | ‘ Of all the stupid , careless — ’ Flinching beneath contemptuous anger that gave each word the force of a blow , Polly could only watch as he made a visible effort to control himself . |