Example sentences of "gives to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This structural link between politics and religion is underlined by the legitimacy the church gives to the state as a whole , by recognizing it simply as society . |
| 2 | Often a priority given to some activity in this police hierarchy of meaning has been laid down from a constable 's first days as a probationer and now lies beneath the immediate consciousness , so that any calls for a change in direction of police response may well be defeated by an unspoken semantic value which the institution gives to that activity . |
| 3 | For the sake of convenience I shall apply the term la nouvelle critique to the complex of ideas emerging from the Paris of the 1960s , including many diverse strands : the ‘ classical ’ structuralism of the early Barthes , the poststructuralism of his later work , the deconstructionism of Derrida , and whatever name one gives to the work of Foucault and Lacan , in taxonomic historiography and dissident psychoanalysis respectively . |
| 4 | The significance is the boost it gives to the AX 's performance , particularly in the context of the diesel . |
| 5 | The opinions policemen express about sex crimes are worth noting , because they reinforce the structure which gender gives to routine policing . |
| 6 | For The Waste Land , while it does unite the themes which Eliot sees as paramount in ‘ contemporary history ’ and history as a whole , gives to those themes no firm significance which raises them above futility . |
| 7 | There he found fragments uniting the personal and anthropological , whether in the ‘ memory and desire ’ of the Thomsonian buried corpse about which he had read at Harvard , in the Frazerian Mayne Reid deserts of his childhood , in Kipling 's metempsychosis , Rostand , or Jacobean dramatists , or a passage recommended to him by his Harvard Sanskrit teacher , Charles Lanman , who had laid special emphasis on the advice which the Hindu ‘ Lord of Creatures ’ gives to men in thunder . |
| 8 | It is as a native that he accepts the River God , and it is the subjection of Man that gives to Man his dignity . |
| 9 | But on and after that date the Inheritance ( Family Provision ) Act 1938 gives to the dependants of a testator , and the Intestates ’ Estates Act 1952 gives to those of an intestate , power to apply to the court for a reasonable maintenance out of the estate , if such is not provided by the will , or the law of intestacy , or the combined operation of will and law where the intestacy was only partial . |
| 10 | But on and after that date the Inheritance ( Family Provision ) Act 1938 gives to the dependants of a testator , and the Intestates ’ Estates Act 1952 gives to those of an intestate , power to apply to the court for a reasonable maintenance out of the estate , if such is not provided by the will , or the law of intestacy , or the combined operation of will and law where the intestacy was only partial . |
| 11 | I think , therefore , that as Anglicans we ought to be affirming more confidently than we usually do the freedom this gives to the mind , the heart and the body to be an integrated whole . |
| 12 | We have freedom to enjoy the space that God gives to us in his family . |
| 13 | Further genetic progress on mastitis resistance is expected because the weighting gives to it in the Norwegian breeding programme has recently been more than doubled . |
| 14 | You know someone who you believe is a supporter and in conversation it 's mentioned that he regularly gives to charities . |
| 15 | We have already seen that the first question has usually been answered by emphasizing either the primary value of the protection the group gives to individuals from predators or the value of gregariousness in relation to finding food . |
| 16 | One of the psalms speaks of the abundance which God gives to us : |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Yet when a man 's life is in balance , mirth is a spice and exhilarator that gives to life an added delight . |
| 19 | ‘ I have learned that the love Christ gives to us is a mighty power . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The degree of protection that CITES gives to a species depends on its conservation status . |
| 22 | The control which the withholding of love gives to a parent emphasises how tremendously important it is that a child should be genuinely loved in the first place . |
| 23 | As we have seen , current educational thinking tends to dismiss the idea of ‘ reading readiness ’ , but there is a need to show children the benefits , the rewards , and the access reading gives to information , knowledge , and entertainment . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The village is also known for the care it gives to its gardens and grass verges . |
| 26 | With its emphasis on the importance of personal uniqueness , it gives to the individual a value one is increasingly in danger of losing in this computer age . |
| 27 | With variations , this very simple shape is widely used in kite workshops as a project that produces results , both in the flight performance and in the degree of satisfaction it gives to the constructor . |
| 28 | Note the importance Ramsay gives to the hand . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |