Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] gives the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE DISTRIBUTION of personal property gives the most comprehensive overview of the wealth of the English people in the sixteenth century , because almost everybody must have owned a certain amount of goods and chattels , and , as required , a value was assigned to ‘ every man 's substance ’ , if only a few shillings — commonly reduced to a curt ‘ nil ’ — representing the clothes on their backs and other personal effects . |
| 2 | Pensionable pay is basic salary/wages and pensionable emoluments in whichever of the last 3 years of reckonable service gives the highest figure . |
| 3 | The wage-money economy of capitalist society gives the |
| 4 | Such a requirement of unanimous voting gives the individual Member States , represented in the Council , more power than a requirement of majority voting , which opens the possibility of the views of one or more Member States being overridden by a majority of the others . |
| 5 | The politicising of Western art gives the existence of a manifesto special relevance . |