Example sentences of "what gives [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we contemplate God in the beauty of his holiness , he shapes our hearts and our desires to what gives him delight . |
| 2 | What gives him the right to talk like that to a man like Mr Chamberlain ? ’ |
| 3 | What gives me greatest pride is that it means Courtaulds will end the century in the same business it started . |
| 4 | I believe it is possible to propose an explanation for the intuitive feeling one gets that the -ing form would be somewhat inappropriate here : the author is describing a person who is groping for anything which will reassure her before she meets her angry father and the mere fact that she is able to perceive objects which are familiar to her — when she feels so disoriented that she can take nothing for granted — is what gives her the sense that she is neither shirking nor lying . |
| 5 | What gives what persuasiveness it has to the probabilistic idea about causation is neither such an argument for it nor the earlier diagnosis of the appeal of the opposed view about necessitation . |
| 6 | That 's what gives them the power . |
| 7 | The moral of this tale is that ‘ the absence of ‘ real ’ qualities in Miss Churm and Oronte is precisely what gives them their essential value , so necessary to the work of art' . |
| 8 | They 're always the ones that are a bit more boisterous , whereas the older ones you have to physically carry on in the shop floor , the students do n't , and that 's what gives them a bad name . |
| 9 | It 's important to take time to get to know how we feel about sex , and what gives us pleasure . |
| 10 | But what gives us the sequence ? |
| 11 | What gives you the right to come here and start asking us these personal questions about our families and that ? … |
| 12 | Find out what gives you pain relief — hot baths and heated pads or cold packs ( a bag of peas from the freezer will do nicely ) . |
| 13 | What gives you the greatest cause for optimism ? |
| 14 | I mean what what gives you more right to life than an animal does ? |
| 15 | Ebenezer moved closer to his brother , facing Connor ‘ What gives you the right to ask for our mother ? ’ he wanted to know . |
| 16 | What gives you this impression ? 6 The teacher set them to do something in a short time . |
| 17 | And that 's what gives you the pain right at the front . |
| 18 | Well which wh what gives you the value of the gradient ? |
| 19 | ‘ What gives you the right to tell me what to do ? ’ |
| 20 | What gives you the right to speak to people the way you do ? |
| 21 | What gives you the feeling that we 'll be safe here ? |
| 22 | Well I mean what gives you that ? |
| 23 | What gives you that ? |
| 24 | ‘ Just what gives you the right to try to run my life ? |
| 25 | What gives you the right to talk to me this way ? |
| 26 | Q. When you are bidding for a contract , what gives you the edge over competitors ? |
| 27 | I think it 's the fog what gives you all chest complaints on quiet . |
| 28 | Now the content or subject-matter of any particular dramatic experience is for Dorothy Heathcote what gives it significance . |
| 29 | Difficult modes of speech may be coined to convey difficult themes , but the private nature of the artist 's invention is what gives it its power . |
| 30 | What gives it the illusion of immediacy and modernity is the sense of movement and vitality , and the spontaneity of the individual craft workers . |