Example sentences of "[conj] he gives " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he gives Rosa and Claude as his mentors , he seldom followed their rigid classical composition , indeed in his mountainous terrain this would have been very difficult . |
| 2 | He fancies that Simon is Jewish , and that he gives off ‘ a slight hot smell ’ . |
| 3 | It is , however , by drawing on his own past performances , from Aldwych farce to Newman Noggs , from Volpone to Vershinin , that he gives real substance to the evening . |
| 4 | If your former employer unreasonably refuses to supply a statement , or if the information that he gives is inadequate or untrue , you may apply to a tribunal which : |
| 5 | The candidate must also give his consent to nomination and at the same time that he gives his consent in writing he must state his qualifications to be a candidate . |
| 6 | A mother insists on her small son 's going to bed at a certain time , in spite of all his protests , because she knows he needs enough sleep to keep healthy and alert ; but in his view , she is insisting that he gives up his happy play , cutting him off from the rest of the family , for no good reason . |
| 7 | It is important to stress that this dispute with Marx does not extend to his analysis of the mode of production or to the significance that he gives to knowledge as a relation of production . |
| 8 | ‘ I said Gary Pallister is soft , that he gives away too many chances for forwards to dispossess him . |
| 9 | As golf is another favourite Hastings sport and an ideal means of relaxation it probably does n't help his back problem that he gives the ball such a lick as to threaten to land it in the next kingdom ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In practice the resolute supporter of Party A is not likely when he lists his preferences to be thinking primarily of any eventual cooperation between his party and Party B. His chief concern will be the success of as many as possible of Party A's candidates , and it will be to all of them that he gives his higher preferences . |
| 12 | However , as Clementina Black pointed out at the end of her inquiry into married women 's work for the Women 's Industrial Council , some women worked when the family income was already adequate , because they prized their independence : ‘ A shilling of your own is worth two that he gives you ’ . |
| 13 | If he is , does it really make a difference that he gives the note or cheque promptly on receiving the first demand for payment ? |
| 14 | Gloucester is different from Lear in that he gives in to his family and also Goneril and Regan . |
| 15 | When asked whether he would support a constitutional change in Scotland if he did not have proportional representation , he said no ; so he makes it clear that he gives higher priority to the self-interest of the Liberal Democrats and a voting system that would help them than to the issue of principle on Scotland 's constitutional future . |
| 16 | Sir John Banham , for instance , welcomed my right hon. Friend 's prudent Budget and the priority that he gives to reducing inflation , while the Institute of Directors said that the Budget was prudent and correct in every way . |
| 17 | I hope that the hon. Member for Sedgefield will not tell the House that he gives the Government credit for having set up the TECs . |
| 18 | So , assuming that he gives evidence any a evidential points ? |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | And er I lost touch with her after that but Joyce was very nice , very , very a down to earth cockney girl from Hockston and she said er she 'd tell her sister she said I do admire my sister she said they 'll never have anything other than a council house , I do n't suppose but she said my brother-in-law mends people 's motorcycles as a side line and the money that he gets from that he gives her most of it and she buys things on hire purchase , this was the days when hire purchase was n't fearsomely expensive |
| 21 | And although much of this was , by the record that he gives , painful , at the very end of it he says , quote , ‘ I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject ’ . |
| 22 | Or vice-versa , in Eddie 's case , as he gets no more than he gives from Marco . |
| 23 | For example , a manufacturer of upholstery fabric may want to know how well his cloth wears , so he gives a certain piece of the cloth a standardized ‘ rubbing ’ test to see how many rubs it can stand before wearing through . |
| 24 | To mark his disapproval of my doing so he gives me the wrong ticket and some change , of which the amount , as far as I can see , bears no relation to any previous transaction between us . |
| 25 | And the latest rejection was the final straw for Dave , who claims he could now be homeless once he gives up his farm next May . |
| 26 | I hold out my hand for the hat and he gives it to me . |
| 27 | From this ‘ kind of contemplation ’ , says Hobbes , has ‘ sprung that part of philosophy which is called geometry ’ ; and he gives some detailed results of his own geometrical contemplations ( including an attempt to square the circle ) in the second and third parts of De Corpore . |
| 28 | At Christmas I give Otley my turkey and he gives me his Brussels sprouts . |
| 29 | And he gives Jos a watch . |
| 30 | Tinbergen argues further that human adaptations to older agricultural and pre-agricultural ways of life may be failing to cope with the societal artefacts of cultural success , and he gives evidence from several areas of mental health and education . |