Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] gives " in BNC.

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1 This latter kind of language — language in use , for communication — is called discourse ; and the search for what gives discourse coherence is discourse analysis .
2 Laid mesh side up it gives a good base for carpets and tiles , and smooth side up it can be painted and stencilled to match design schemes .
3 Though he rightly acknowledges that large parts of the country were unaffected by this enclosure movement , his concentration on it gives us a somewhat unbalanced picture .
4 Moreover , recent work has shown that much of the heat energy in the seas of the North Atlantic ( every square kilometre of which gives off as much energy as a nuclear power station and hence influences our weather ) is absorbed from sunlight in the tropical Pacific and is carried by ocean currents through the Drake Passage and up into the Atlantic .
5 In the absence of detailed requirements , the question of what gives a true and fair view is notoriously subjective .
6 There are good arguments for limiting a field of study to make it manageable ; but it is also true to say that the answer to the question of what gives discourse its unity may be impossible to give without considering the world at large : the context .
7 First there is the question of who gives what to whom and how much .
8 But as you may know , ESP guitars are handmade in just one factory in Tokyo ; this is not one of those companies that farm out their work to whoever gives them the lowest quotation .
9 Er now clearly if the if the members had si had been simply the highways committee had been deciding the preferred route simply on the basis of which gives the greatest traffic relief then on that basis they would have chosen an inner northern .
10 Picture yourself if you will as a small child who under great danger to yourself gives all to help your parents when they are in time of peril and in return you get a slap in the face .
11 As far as I 'm concerned anybody who wants to sign a contract with me gives me copy and a cheque is a legitimate .
12 Lazaris suggests that whatever we most pride in ourselves gives a clue to our Ego 's fantasies .
13 In the dyad employer/employee the relationship is specified and recognizable in terms of who gives what to whom .
14 The mere thought of it gives me the horrors , ’ Silas admitted .
15 The tiled roof over the single south aisle was stripped off and partly replaced with bronze-coloured aluminium glazing bars framing bronze-tinted ‘ anti-sun ’ glass , the upper panels of which are laid to the same slope as the original roof , the lower panels producing a range of shallow vertical windows , the combination of which gives ‘ conservatory ’ lighting to the first floor flats ( Plate 23 ) .
16 If we are to find the answer to the problem of what gives stretches of language unity and meaning , we must look beyond the formal rules operating within sentences , and consider the people who use language , and the world in which it happens as well .
17 Section 61(1) of the Sale of Goods Act defines a warranty as ’ … an agreement with reference to goods which are the subject of a contract of sale , but collateral to the main purpose of such contract , the breach of which gives rise to a claim for damages , but not to a right to reject the goods and treat the contract as repudiated . ’
18 There has been much confusion here mainly because the SGA 1979 uses the words " condition " and " warranty " as technical expressions , the breach of which gives the right to treat the contract as at an end in the case of a condition ( s11(3) of SGA 1979 ) , or in the case of a subsidiary term like a warranty , the breach of which only sounds in damages ( s61(1) of SGA 1979 ) .
19 As we contemplate God in the beauty of his holiness , he shapes our hearts and our desires to what gives him delight .
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