Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] gives [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason that Beccaria gives for his requirement of proportionality is that ‘ If an equal punishment be ordained for two crimes that do not equally injure society , men will not be any more deterred from committing the greater crime , if they find a greater advantage associated with it ’ ( p. 63 ) . |
| 2 | And that is something that God gives of himself . |
| 3 | We have freedom to enjoy the space that God gives to us in his family . |
| 4 | Peter Wagner defines the gift of the evangelist as ‘ the special ability that God gives to certain members of the Body of Christ to share the gospel with unbelievers in such a way that men and women become Jesus ’ disciples and responsible members of the Body of Christ ’ ( Wagner 1979b:173 ) . |
| 5 | The gift is the faith that God gives to us to receive his forgiveness and his salvation , and his grace as provided . |
| 6 | If his work has an image inside itself , it is I think the horn that Éomer gives to Merry , only a small one , but one from the hoard of Scatha the Worm and brought from the North by Eorl the Young . |
| 7 | A later ( later in terms of the Quarto numbering , that is ) example of this type of sonnet , with its disgusted ‘ withdrawal of the Poet ’ gesture , is 95 : The exclamatory style , the notably affectionate gestures , the epithets of praise ( ‘ sweet and lovely ’ , ‘ sweets ’ , ‘ beauty 's veil ’ in line 11 ) almost convince us that the Friend 's personal attractiveness can somehow transmute evil to good , a form of paradoxical hyperbole that Shakespeare gives to Lepidus , attempting to excuse Antony 's faults to Caesar : ‘ His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven , /More fiery by night 's blackness ’ ( Antony and Cleopatra , I.iv.13f ) . |
| 8 | Fire means heat and smoke , and water gives off steam . ’ |
| 9 | In 1405/6 it is given as Forsshey , in 1408/9 as Forshay ( the same spelling as Reaney gives for John fl . |