Example sentences of "gives [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this influence of the mind which ultimately gives each animal its unique view of the world . |
| 2 | More or less handmade , a pocket-sprung mattress is expensive but the best bet for couples of differing weights as it gives each sleeper individual support . |
| 3 | He has not forgotten that and at his end-of-season party he gives each member food , drink and a T-shirt . |
| 4 | This gives each school situation a life and an entity of its own . |
| 5 | God gives each family an inheritance for its economic livelihood which is inalienable . |
| 6 | Horbury and Ossett preserve a healthy independence which gives each town its own special character Photographs : Simon Warner |
| 7 | This gives each band member a degree of security . |
| 8 | The do-it-yourself element comes from the fact that the capacity of human populations to use technology to adapt gives each population a unique set of circumstances , which in turn shapes both cultural development and biological characteristics . |
| 9 | Once the national allotment of seats has been fixed , a second stage in the assessment of the second votes gives each party its share of seats in each of the ten lander . |
| 10 | This not only provides a dazzling display which might confuse the predator , but also gives each antelope the advantage of safety in numbers within the fleeing herd . |
| 11 | The new ‘ option ’ teaching gives each student the opportunity to study a particular area of interest in depth , and may well influence their final career choice . |
| 12 | Dividing the average levels of consumption spending for each income group by the corresponding average level of income gives each group 's apc . |
| 13 | This gives each musician time to practise so that you all arrive at the rehearsal ready to try out new , revised musical parts . |
| 14 | Love gives each morning 's air , |
| 15 | Because you get that silence in the room and mmm you want to fill it so but you 're right the use of the pause effective and particularly with a variation in pitch that gives that emphasis the two combined together can be very very effective . |
| 16 | Having thus concluded that it is Mehmed Sah , not his father , to whom the list entry corresponding to the year 832 ( 833 ? ) refers , Husameddin mentions the pilgrimage in 833 and then proceeds to try to invalidate the evidence of the biographical sources about Molla Fenari 's death date by saying that Ibn Hajar dates his return to Rum , not his death , in Rajab 834 and that Ibn Taghribirdi gives that date for his departure on the pilgrimage . |
| 17 | Read it for yourselves ; — Moses , brought to a halt in front of the Red Sea , with the Egyptians thundering over the horizon to destroy him , and the Israelites in rebellion , gives that word to his people . |
| 18 | I believe that the Bill gives that discretion . |
| 19 | In other words , placing an element in theme position gives that element local , temporary prominence within the clause . |
| 20 | It may also make little sense for the social services to sever the birth links of say a ten or eleven year old , when the law gives that child the right on reaching the age of eighteen to seek out the birth parents and relatives . |
| 21 | It gives that power to me . |
| 22 | If two persons agree that the price of property should be fixed by a valuer on whom they agree , and he gives that valuation honestly and in good faith , they are bound by it . |
| 23 | Just as an uninflated balloon gives little idea of its potential size and shape when inflated , so a limp penis gives just as poor an idea of its size when erect . |
| 24 | Ancient ethnography gives little space to language . |
| 25 | It seems that in Japan microlights are restricted to flying no more than 1.5 kilometres from point of take-off which gives little chance of developing mature navigational skills . |
| 26 | Some anthropologists would counter these examples by arguing that there actually are class-like phenomena in such states ( Terray , 1975 ) , by pointing out the difference in access to the means of production between elders and juniors and men and women , but even if this argument is accepted it gives little support to the general theory in that such ‘ class ’ differences also occur in clearly stateless societies . |
| 27 | Certainly the historical evidence as a whole gives little support for the quite widespread belief that older people in the past enjoyed a much more secure and respected position than they do in the present . |
| 28 | Whatever the reason , however , our examination of the evidence gives little support for either thesis . |
| 29 | Muriel 's attitude to others in a working environment gives little credit to anyone else for practical intelligence or reliability . |
| 30 | Being unwritten , the constitution also encourages a piecemeal approach to politics ; an approach that gives little protection against a determined , authoritarian state . |