Example sentences of "that [modal v] give the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little terraced houses , with gardens front and back , that Loudon advocates have now doubtless been demolished as substandard , for each floor could measure as little as 12 feet by 12 feet ; but they were not only a great advance on the slum housing in industrial towns ; they provided interiors that could give the domestic virtues at least a chance of growth . |
| 2 | It had to be something that would give the prospective punter some idea of the staggering depth and scope and thoroughness of Henry 's work . |
| 3 | New feminism stressed the importance of women 's role in the home , not to argue the case of female uniqueness and social maternalism , but rather in order to demand reforms that would give the individual mother control over her ‘ conditions of work ’ and ‘ her product ’ . |
| 4 | Let us turn to another definition that would give the context-dependent nature of such phenomena more centrality : ( 12 ) Pragmatics is the study of the relations between language and context that are basic to an account of language understanding Here the term language understanding is used in the way favoured by workers in artificial intelligence to draw attention to the fact that understanding an utterance involves a great deal more than knowing the meanings of the words uttered and the grammatical relations between them . |
| 5 | Benzinol , the state company based in Bratislava , is about to sign a deal that will give the BP-Unipart alliance access to about 200 petrol stations — two-thirds of the entire petrol station market in Slovakia — and access to a market of well-organized motor workshops . |
| 6 | Congress , President , the government have got no guts to announce publicly that their intentions to privatize the N H S on a date that will give the leading time with the razzmatazz and P R that they 've done before to sell shares , to sell shares in the British public in a public nationally held N H S , there will be no seats , there will be no Inspector Morses and others as there 've been with Telecom , gas , water and electricity . |