Example sentences of "giving it a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Company felt very pleased when in 1717 it received an imperial decree giving it a good deal of the territorial autonomy for which its ambitious employees had hoped in the 1680s and , in return for an annual payment of 13,000 rupees , freed it from paying customs duties inside India , but there is no sign that the Company realized that developments of this sort showed the Moghul Empire was beginning to lose control of the country . |
| 2 | The Senate ( upper house ) rejected the key elements of the bill when giving it a first reading on March 22 , 1991 , and conciliation between the two houses failed to resolve the issue four days later . |
| 3 | I 've been giving it a great deal of thought myself in recent weeks . |
| 4 | Hank had hastily retreated round the side of the garage , while they decided where to put a sand box for the child as yet unconceived , and then he had re-entered the gate , giving it a diplomatic slam behind him . |
| 5 | Naturally I do n't want to risk a recurrence of the trouble , but equally , I hate missing any Ireland match and I 'll be giving it a full blast in the final training session to make sure I 'm 100 per cent . |
| 6 | A typical building of 10 storeys will sway back and forth in a period of 1 second , giving it a natural frequency of 1 cycle per second or 1 hertz . |
| 7 | PSR1706–44 has a short period , 102.4ms , a rapid spin-down rate giving it a characteristic age of only 17,300 years and considerable timing noise ( S.J. , R.N.M. , V.M.K. , A.G.L. & N.D'A. , manuscript in preparation ) . |
| 8 | Much Third World interest has been focused on this part of the convention , giving it a disproportionate importance as the first evidence of a new international economic order . |