Example sentences of "it give a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will it give a constant read out through the day ? |
| 2 | Set each item against a contrasting background so that it shows up clearly and lay a ruler alongside it to give a guide to its size . |
| 3 | One can therefore say that the courts retain the power to read statutes in the light of general principles , the only question being whether the particular court will be able to find or invent a general principle that will enable it to give a sensible effect to the statute . |
| 4 | Look we 're it giving a hundred percent , you give it a hundred percent , we 'll shake hands it 's a partnership . |
| 5 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 6 | Like so much of the show , it gave a touching twist to the common run of things ; it was as if he could n't bear to see us go . |
| 7 | She dug it in deeper and it gave a horrific screech . |
| 8 | Among other achievements , it gave a platform to Mary Whitehouse , lured Edwina Currie into a cheerful admission that the Tory campaign had made John Major look like a stump orator and Neil Kinnock like an incumbent prime minister , and mounted an irreverent debate on political morality . |
| 9 | Dr Prescott said in New Scientist today that it gave a ‘ big boost ’ which salt or sugar alone could not provide . |
| 10 | But it gave a warm , satisfying feeling to know I had done something right . |
| 11 | All I had was a testimonial from Harold Fletcher of G.C.H.Q. , which was no testimonial in that it gave a potential employer absolutely no enlightenment because it could not do so : |
| 12 | Then it gave a flick of its tail and it was gone . |
| 13 | I remember the pleasure it gave a handful of guests at the Dilworth home when Ira and Arthur gave us their four-hand version of Bach 's chorale ‘ Where Sheep May Safely Graze ’ . |
| 14 | It gave a curious dignity to the tall crumbling tenements , covering the squalor and ugliness with purifying whiteness . |
| 15 | By its identification of , and concentration on , the ‘ gatekeepers ’ of the urban system , it gave a way of shifting research from an emphasis on empirical variables to one which stressed political processes , actual decision-making and the real exercise of political power . |
| 16 | It gave a list of admissible wordings for trusts ; and also mentioned two ( relinquo and commendo ) which gave no action for a trust . |
| 17 | Expanded to book-length , as Soft Energy Paths , it gave a new catch phrase to the language and , made Lovins a household word in the US — albeit to American nuclear interests in particular , something of a four-letter word . |
| 18 | It gave a generally favourable assessment of the performance of British weapons . |
| 19 | The book was conceptually too demanding , but it gave a young , reluctant reader new expectations that have lasted a lifetime . |
| 20 | It gave a clear hint that the threat could come from either the public or the private sectors , and it set out a number of principles for handling personal information which , as the Younger Principles , have become famous ; they survive in recognisable form in the Schedule of the Data Protection Act of 1984 , where they assume an unusual importance . |
| 21 | He heard himself , it sounded like a door opening somewhere inside him , it was an old door , it had been stuck for years , you had to heave on it , you needed all your strength , and then it gave a few inches , and cried out as it gave . |
| 22 | It gave a loud tinkle . |
| 23 | But more than that , it gave a sense of tension , amounting at times to menace — which was , perhaps , what shocked those urbane Parisians . |
| 24 | It gave a sharp , light tone to the modern drum 's bass . |
| 25 | A curt notice had been posted on the door — it gave a number to phone in case of enquiries . |
| 26 | And it gave a whole new meaning to tight trousers ! |
| 27 | It gave a lurch and Jasper , his heart in his mouth , felt his body jerk and slip . |
| 28 | The first is that the CED worked with the semantic pairs , in the sense that it gave a statistically significant result , but it does not in this investigation . |
| 29 | It gave a better living standard to farmers , helped an area of the EEC economy which ( except for Holland ) was labour-intensive and inefficient , and it led the Community to grow more of its own food , guaranteeing supplies to consumers . |
| 30 | The fire-light danced merrily on this , and really ( setting all taste but that of a child 's aside ) it gave a richness of colouring to that side of the room . |