Example sentences of "of [noun] to give a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This year the Chancellor has been insisting that the pound can not be allowed to go any lower , because of the dangers of inflation ; and he has allowed the Bank of England to give a strong endorsement of his argument .
2 The Russian leader threw the carefully arranged welcome into chaos when he slipped past the RAF guard of honour to give a brief interview in his own language to Russian reporters .
3 In 1642 he was appointed by the House of Commons to give a weekly lecture at Lewisham , Kent , but was obstructed by the vicar and some of the local inhabitants .
4 Try mixing two types of chocolate to give a marbled effect before pouring into the moulds .
5 Stimulation with cholera toxin involved addition of 15 µl of toxin dissolved in 5 mmol/l Tris HCl , 174 mmol/l NaCl , 0.3 mmol/l NaN 3 , and 0.1 mmol/l EDTA to each 1.5 ml of suspension to give a final concentration of 500 ng/ml .
6 The Festival 's tribute to the work , teaching and writing of Raymond Williams will this year feature Alan Fountain who has been invited by the Festival and the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham to give a special talk in his memory .
7 The eastern influence from Constantinople had merged with that of Italy to give a coherent style .
8 Shifts of register therefore work with other indications of point of view to give a multidimensional sense of situation .
9 ‘ I think one of the functions of the novel is to offer a critique of the totalising claims of discourse to give a total explanation , whether the discourse be literary , religious or industrial . ’
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