Example sentences of "gives of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The image you give ’ , Fraser tells Ilse , meaning the image she gives of himself as a boy , ‘ is one of dependency , extreme docility . |
| 2 | There is history in the accounts Kapuscinski gives of the confusions and uncertainties which he has experienced and which he has tried to interpret . |
| 3 | But there is some instability in the accounts he gives of dark professions of faith , in his acerbities and fatalities . |
| 4 | The latter is fascinating , especially in the glimpses it occasionally gives of the general principles and priorities which informed MI5 's work , and the unease these aroused in some quarters . |
| 5 | The details he gives of contemporary medical practice are explicit . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The major example that he gives of informalisation is what he takes to be the decrease of social restraints , particularly in the middle classes , imposed upon sexual behaviour and other connected spheres of conduct . |
| 8 | With the best will in the world , and the best board in the world , and the best strategic direction in the world , nothing will happen unless everyone down the line understands what they are trying to achieve and gives of their best to achieve it . |
| 9 | The newsletter gives of news of audio-visuals produced by the Anglican Communion , including one called ‘ On the Move ’ , a thirty minute video which ‘ captures the rich evangelistic , liturgical and cultural diversity in Anglicanism ’ as it prepares ‘ to move more deeply into the Decade of Evangelism . ’ |
| 10 | Right , so if it gives of If you heat it in er and it gives of carbon dioxide , have a guess at what it is that we 're heating ? |
| 11 | Right , so if it gives of If you heat it in er and it gives of carbon dioxide , have a guess at what it is that we 're heating ? |
| 12 | He is famous for the balls-ups that seem to happen around him , and for the modest , humorous accounts he gives of them . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We have already seen some of the emphasis on this in the account Luke gives of Pentecost . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The example Jakobson gives of this process is the last stanza of Poe 's ‘ Raven ’ : The marked sound repetitions in this verse suggest , Jakobson argues ( ‘ Words similar in sound are drawn together in meaning ’ ) such connections of meaning as these : raven , being contiguous to and similar in sound ( /r/ — /v/ — /n/ ) to never , appears as the embodied mirror image of this ‘ never ’ ’ ; the parallelism in sound between never flitting and lifted nevermore underlines the Raven 's significance as an image of ‘ everlasting despair ’ , and so on ( pp. 371 — 2 ) . |
| 17 | Jonathan Culler 's brand of structuralism recasts the codes and conventions of structuralist poetics as a form of ‘ literary competence ’ that the reader has mastered or internalised before he or she approaches the text , and which can then be adduced as an explanation for the particular interpretation that s/he then gives of it . |
| 18 | And so when he gives us faith , he gives of himself . |
| 19 | And that is something that God gives of himself . |