Example sentences of "[prep] [pn reflx] give " in BNC.

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1 The tight regional labour market for secretarial/office skills seems of itself to give rise to agency working .
2 There are conflicting perspectives on whether greater longevity will of itself give rise to increased disability , but without significant improvements in health , average levels of dependency and chronic illness will in future rise simply because growing proportions of the population will be extremely old .
3 dissenting ) that a breach of article 30 would not of itself give rise to a claim in damages by the injured party .
4 It is coercive and not mere idle abuse and demands either action or abstention from action on the part of the recipient , so a mere announcement by A that he proposes to strike B is not , for the purposes of the law , a ‘ threat ’ and can not of itself give rise to a claim for damages .
5 What photographs of yourself give you pleasure ?
6 Under certain conditions , carbon monoxide reacts with itself to give a family of so-called oxocarbon anions .
7 Lazaris suggests that whatever we most pride in ourselves gives a clue to our Ego 's fantasies .
8 He handled dozens of radio interviews and wrote a column in the Sunday Age — a remarkable achievement in itself given the postage stamp size of attention rugby receives in the south .
9 The name in itself gave no clues about the nature of the work being planned .
10 She was smaller than Jenna with none of Jenna 's slender , willowy height , but she was so healthy-looking that the fact in itself gave her an added attraction .
11 This in itself gave them also the advantage of a better fighting morale than the Republicans , whose desperate defensive efforts were unable to stop the implacable advance of their adversaries .
12 This in itself gives strength to the contention that neither can be based on beliefs of real substance .
13 The word ‘ panspermia ’ in itself gives the clue to the common element in this group of theories , The Greek prefix pan means ‘ all ’ ; the spermia part of the word comes from the Greek for ‘ seed ’ .
14 If you are subject to an express or implied mobility clause , which covers the move to a new base , the mere closure of the office or factory where you work at present will not in itself give rise to redundancy .
15 ‘ If the creditor takes adequate steps to inform her and reasonably supposes that she has an adequate comprehension of the obligations she is undertaking and an understanding of the effect of the transaction , the fact that she failed to grasp some material part of the document , or , indeed , the significance of what she was doing , can not , I think , in itself give her an equity to set aside , notwithstanding that at an earlier stage the creditor relied upon her husband to obtain her consent to enter into the obligation of surety .
16 A bluff she had perpetrated mainly on herself to give herself the strength to go on living .
17 I looked around and was excited by it all , and I wondered to myself given the chance , who could possibly want to miss all this ?
18 There is a recurrent fallacy that building societies are ‘ falling over themselves to give away money ’ .
19 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 .
20 It 's just a case of being true to what you feel and being true to yourself giving yourself as good a chance as any of being heard .
21 Wirth gave special emphasis to the social-cum-physical setting of cities as themselves giving rise to secondary and partial human association .
22 Now he was whirling his sabre in a novel manner , invented by himself to give optimum performance in hand-to-hand combat , and which suggested the sails of a windmill .
23 It follows that fear of impending death felt by the victim of a fatal injury before that injury is inflicted can not by itself give rise to a cause of action which survives for the benefit of the victim 's estate .
24 He comes to the door just like that ; no servants , no security phone , and that by itself gives you the green light ; you have n't the time for any finessing so you just kick him in the balls and follow him inside as he collapses , foetal on the floor .
25 ( The one called i , when multiplied by itself , gives -1 , 2i multiplied by itself gives -4 , and so on . )
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