Example sentences of "[pron] gives [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside these dressing rooms runs a corridor — in other words a haunt of rats — at the end of which there is a water closet which gives off the most terrible stench , enough to upset the stomach of any weak person . |
| 2 | This is produced by an enzyme system which gives off light when exposed to oxygen and is a vastly more efficient process than that used by us to create artificial light . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | A fountain system was uncovered at one end of the dining room , which gives onto the swimming pool , together with a room with a hot bath adjoining . |
| 5 | Yet it is structure which gives to any undertaking its distinctive shape and identity . |
| 6 | In his very first book his admonitions about the indiscriminate use of stock , even of fine stock , were news , and good news : Do not spoil the special taste of the gravy obtained in the roasting of beef , veal , mutton or pork by adding to it the classical stock which gives to all meats the same deplorable taste of soup . |
| 7 | What I hope to have shown , which is consistent with a certain tentativeness about what has been said , and with incompleteness , is that we do have a grasp of both dependent and independent conditionals , which grasp can be clarified and which gives to us an explicit understanding of the seven causal connections that were set out . |
| 8 | This displacement imparts to law a certain universality which gives to it symbolic efficacy in removing , or at least concealing , its arbitrariness . |
| 9 | Which gives to us , while we live in Your created world , |
| 10 | The organized community or social group which gives to the individual his unity of self may be called the ‘ generalized other ’ . |
| 11 | This is the Court of Chancery : which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire ; which has its worn-out lunatic in every madhouse , and its dead in every churchyard ; which has its ruined suitor , with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress , borrowing and begging through the round of every man 's acquaintance ; which gives to monied might , the means abundantly of wearying out the right ; which so exhausts finances , patience , courage , hope : so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart ; that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give — who does not often give — the warning , " Suffer any wrong that can be done you , rather than come here " . |
| 12 | Device level routing is carried out using the same tool as for cell level routing , which gives near 100% routing density . |
| 13 | ‘ The image you give ’ , Fraser tells Ilse , meaning the image she gives of himself as a boy , ‘ is one of dependency , extreme docility . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Her conscious understanding of how she was using language is clear from the explanations she gives for the expressions she uses in the poem : ( on line 2 ) " She lived outside in the open , so the air was like her house " ; ( on line 5 " the streets were like a giant shop where she could pick and choose out of bins and gutters " ; ( on line 8 ) " this means she was close to nature and she felt like the yew was her mother " . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And we hope that you will listen to the criticisms that each of you gives to each of the other groups , and when Bob Satchwell comes that he will have something very positive to say about relationships with the press . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Whatever reading one gives to the three proper names , the inscription suggests that the collection was a gift . |
| 20 | Here again the slow hand-clap is the signal one gives for a sereno 's help . |
| 21 | something gives like a gibus |
| 22 | Though Ismail Belig 's evidence is not perhaps the most reliable , the facts which he gives about the holders of the kadilik of Bursa in the period , facts which are at least consistent , if not necessarily accurate , indicate that Molla Yegan may indeed have left office a few years earlier than 844 : according to Ismail Belig , Yusuf Bali succeeded Molla Yegan in the kadilik in 842/1438–9 , himself being succeeded at the Sultan medrese by Molla Yegan 's son , Sah Mehmed ( or Mehmed Sah ) , who later also succeeded him as kadi in 846/1442–3 . |
| 23 | Erm one thing before we move on do you think there is a distinction or a difference between the outline agrarian land reform which is essentially 's creation , and the speech that he gives at the end of the conference ? |
| 24 | He tricks young girls into having sexual intercourse with him , and he steals children whom he gives as food to his dogs . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | It 's the evidence he gives on oath what matters . |
| 28 | Almost all the examples he gives for a restriction of client participation are atypical of a community work situation . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But there is some instability in the accounts he gives of dark professions of faith , in his acerbities and fatalities . |