Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] gives [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The significance is the boost it gives to the AX 's performance , particularly in the context of the diesel . |
| 2 | K. Barrett 's book , Luke the Historian in Recent Study is the weight he gives to the Word as the prime agency through which the Spirit extends the good news of Christ . |
| 3 | The sharp tongue is now reserved for the consciousness-raising rap session she gives at American universities , where students are allowed to ask whatever they like about her life , her sexuality , her views of the world , provided they can cope with the answers . |
| 4 | An advantage of the modular form is the flexibility it gives to both staff and student in organising a suitable degree course . |
| 5 | Another attraction of the scheme is the flexibility it gives to general practitioners to make budgetary savings in certain aspects of their clinical practice which can then be reinvested in other aspects of patient care . |
| 6 | Together they went to bullfights , to watch Chamaco and Ordonez perform , Minton 's interest in this art having been fired by Hemingway 's Death in the Afternoon , by its colourfulness , sense of theatre and by the focus it gives to male idolatry . |
| 7 | Indeed it would be possible to identify some fells from the attention he gives to the geology and his affection for each fold of rock and each rattling , winding ghyll , without seeing the characteristic outline of the peak . |
| 8 | He compliments the production operator on the detailed attention he gives to the quality components coming off his line . |
| 9 | This is a consequence of the primacy he gives to communications over power . |
| 10 | Typical of his account is the picture he gives of the festival held at the great Sufi shrine of the Qadam Sharif , which sheltered the supposed Footprint of the Holy Prophet . |
| 11 | Some of the older cases suggest that there should be no recovery by a person who has suffered prenatal injuries because of the difficulties of proof and of the opening it gives for perjury and speculation . |
| 12 | This is a historic town , I I disagree with Mr Jewitt upon the emphasis he gives to that , but I do agree with him that a limit the type , the scale of growth which that solution would imply would be hurtful , would be very , extremely harmful to the town . |
| 13 | It 's the evidence he gives on oath what matters . |
| 14 | Acid and metal it gives off hydrogen . |
| 15 | The significance of the Ruiz case and its aftermath for any analysis of the significance of the work of John Howard lies within the example it gives of a certain approach to penal reform . |
| 16 | Users value the network for the access it gives to computer and information resources on campus but perhaps even more so for the gateway it provides to JANET , the network linking hundreds of institutions and thousands of computers in the UK . |
| 17 | An individual scientist 's decision will depend on the priority he gives to the various factors . |
| 18 | Its local Shetland name is ‘ neesick ’ , which means ‘ the sneezer ’ , referring to the explosive exhalation of breath it gives as it surfaces for air . |
| 19 | A school which is trying to establish an ethos of healthy living has to take care that the message it gives to pupils are reflected in the school generally . |
| 20 | Professor Moule may not be right in the interpretation he gives to these four verses . |
| 21 | ‘ So the money he gives to Osman must come from somewhere else . |
| 22 | Largely because of the tax gains , but also the increased freedom it gives to the pensioner , many pension schemes have provision for allowing part of the value of the pension to be capitalized on retirement . |
| 23 | It is becoming less popular now because of the lack of support it gives to the lower back , although it does give more buoyancy than other types . |
| 24 | In April 1873 W. H. Flower , subsequently to be in charge of the British Museum , Natural History , in South Kensington , lectured on palaeontology and the support it gives to evolutionary theory . |
| 25 | One could ask , therefore , what role is ascribed in Formalist theory to the author , on whom biographical criticism had been based ; what had become of the reality which mimetic and historically orientated theories had placed at the centre of their concerns ; and finally what function it gives to thought , which had been the focus of philosophically biased criticisms . |
| 26 | For example , the wife and mother has the opportunity to soothe her own unconscious envy of the baby vicariously by the devoted care she gives to him . |
| 27 | ‘ The image you give ’ , Fraser tells Ilse , meaning the image she gives of himself as a boy , ‘ is one of dependency , extreme docility . |
| 28 | The reason he gives for adopting this standpoint is that reality can be conceived of in many different ways all of which are equally valid . |
| 29 | If the results are striking as social and intellectual history perhaps hardly as science , as a physicist might see it — the book is also striking for the information it gives about the Society for Psychical Research . |
| 30 | He simulates the picaresque ingenuousness of the alien , pretending to learn English from the children in order to gain their confidence , and gradually modifying the historical account he gives of himself to meet peoples ' changing conception of him . |