Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] it a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | As a standalone machine I would 've given it a fourth star . |
2 | The project is currently awaiting a green light from the government in Brasilia — which , aware of the need to counteract a reputation as the world 's ecological villain has given it a favourable hearing . |
3 | Owen uses the story of the binding of Isaac to comment on the war in which he was fighting , and has given it a vicious twist at the end . |
4 | Membership of the EC started the trend , and the break-up of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union has given it a new lease of life as fledgling democracies create markets ripe for exploitation . |
5 | A central element in RX 's change strategy has been competitive benchmarking , a process in which its liaison with Fuji-Xerox has given it a vital window on Japanese best practice in manufacturing and marketing . |
6 | It also co-operated extensively with similar organisations throughout the world , which has given it an international orientation from the outset . |
7 | CAPENHURST 'S safety record which last year won it a certificate of merit from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents has earned it a second award this year . |
8 | That 's why the Campaign for Real Ale has named it a regional Pub of the year , an honour the 86 year old landlady is delighted to accept . |
9 | Mr Browne said : ‘ The challenger being put up has made it a tighter fight and is endangering the seat . ’ |
10 | It is largely self-sufficient in coal , chemicals , and fish , and the recent discovery and exploitation of oil in the North Sea has made it a net exporter of the substance . |
11 | This absorption gives the spectacular deep blue that has made it a popular material for ornaments since the Middle Ages . |
12 | Austria 's central location has made it a natural corridor for East-West trade for many years . |
13 | Its situation has made it an important centre for both trade and tourism . |
14 | The Gothic style of the mansion has made it an ideal film set in the past . |
15 | Although ‘ Rastaman Vibration ’ did not get universally good notices on release in 1976 , time has offered it a better response . |
16 | It was a joke really , because if she was one of the male officers then she would not have given it a second thought . |
17 | To a man , of course , we 'd have considered it an enormous privilege to have met our maker while in the presence of a man who , as the greatest Olympian , is something of a sporting god . |
18 | ‘ Well , you should have done it a long time ago ; you need a rest . ’ |
19 | Only after that , and with a few facts from your GP , plus half a page on your stresses during the last five years — I had to overflow onto the back of my page and with a little encouragement could easily have made it a 100,000 words — can you go through the eye of the needle . |
20 | It remains to decide whether the Unionists would have accepted fusion if Lloyd George could have made it a real option in 1920 . |
21 | He must have found it an educational experience . |
22 | The since Terry took over the ground everything 's been refurbished and new crush rails put up you know , and he seems to have made it a good ground . |
23 | Gifford Tate had painted it a few weeks before she died . |
24 | ( And for those clever dicks asking why I 've given it a higher rating here than in the footy feature , it 's 'coz I did n't know it was on budget then . |
25 | Which you and you 've given it an extra name of mumsy S L P . |
26 | And it means nothing to the layman , two Greek words meaning ‘ grey ’ and ‘ marrow ’ , so we 've given it an easier name , infantile paralysis , which at least is English . ’ |
27 | By the time I had heard it a fifth time , one of football 's most respected managers stood accused of everything from gross indecency to impotence . |
28 | I 've pressed it a few times by accident and then needed it . |
29 | But the experience had been short and isolated and the moonlight had given it a sufficient touch of unreality for me to be able to fire my machine gun at everything I saw without scruple . |
30 | In her memory it was too bleak , too desolate , and that had given it an added power . |