Example sentences of "gives as " in BNC.
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| 1 | McClellan gives as a crude yardstick a book life of 60 issues for fiction and children 's books and 75 issues for non-fiction . |
| 2 | Hofland was apparently still hopeful , although a list of his qualifications for the work gives as air of desperation to his letter . |
| 3 | It is clear , too , that the text is concerned with public as well as private matters : Pomponius specifically gives as an example of an obligation which is purely moral ( and , as he puts it , rests on the auctoritas scribentis ) the case of a bequest for statues to be put up in a municipality . |
| 4 | He tricks young girls into having sexual intercourse with him , and he steals children whom he gives as food to his dogs . |
| 5 | Its local Shetland name is ‘ neesick ’ , which means ‘ the sneezer ’ , referring to the explosive exhalation of breath it gives as it surfaces for air . |
| 6 | He gives as an example of this the growth of a ‘ pornocracy ’ and through the break-up of the sex-procreation nexus has come the increasing commodification of pleasure — the developing range of sex-pleasure items on the market . |
| 7 | By adopting a contractual conception of the company the legal model gives as the reason for the vesting of centralized authority to manage the company in the board of directors the contractual agreement of the owners of the company . |
| 8 | Indeed , when Bernard Bergonzi complains of the uniformity of the novels he is obliged as a reviewer to read , he gives as a sample situation a scenario that could well be based on The Languages of Love : ‘ a very sensitive , rather neurotic girl , living in an Earls Court bedsitter and having sexual difficulties ’ ( 1979:24 ) . |
| 9 | Herodotus can not bring himself to believe in a story which gives as the cause of centuries of rivalry ‘ nothing worse than woman-stealing on both sides ’ ( 42 ) , for he does not think the Greeks could possibly have gone to war over anything so trivial , and indeed he appears to concur with the Persian view that ‘ no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be ’ ( 42 ) . |
| 10 | If the long and complex passage of Athenaeus 6 ( 273a–275b ) , which Felix Jacoby gives as fragment 59 , can be considered a trustworthy summary of Posidonius ' views about Roman civilization , two features emerge : ( a ) the Romans preserved for a long time their extreme simplicity of life ; ( b ) in that long period they learnt many techniques from various foreigners ( Greeks , Etruscans , Samnites and Iberians ) and their constitutional principles from the Spartans . |
| 11 | Castells gives as an example the gay community in San Francisco . |
| 12 | The diagram gives as an example the concept of God . |