Example sentences of "[verb] give a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This work has given a close insight into problems of pollution , congestion , intense company group pressure , sexism and racism . |
| 2 | The public outcry against young offenders has given a bumpy ride to the seven-month-old Criminal Justice Act . |
| 3 | The long-wave , world-systems and regulationist theories are broad frameworks to which several writers have contributed and each has given a new twist to the framework they use . |
| 4 | ‘ The Tip ’ has given a new meaning to the weekend . |
| 5 | Continued economic restraint has given a new urgency to demands to improve the efficiency of management in the public sector . |
| 6 | More recently the vast programme of legislation for the completion of the single market has given a new urgency to the matter . |
| 7 | The advent of microelectronics has given a tremendous boost to Man 's capacity to acquire , process , store and disseminate textual , numeric and other forms of information . |
| 8 | increase in fixed assets — has given a tremendous boost to the economy and pride of the north-west . |
| 9 | Currently the Labour Party in Scotland is committed to no nuclear weapons on our soil , but shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown has given a firm commitment to Rosyth Dockyard for the refitting of Trident submarines . |
| 10 | Mr Michael Fallon , MP for Darlington , has given a guarded welcome to the idea of a shopmobility scheme : ‘ The search for that sort of solution gets my support . |
| 11 | Wurlitzer has given a geographical explanation of great fluidity . |
| 12 | The advent of poststructuralism has given a great impetus to interpretive productivity , since all the literary texts that were once interpreted to show organic unity and complexity of meaning can now be interpreted to reveal underlying clashes . |
| 13 | The House has given a great deal of detailed attention to the Bill , and the promoters and the petitioners have devoted a great deal of time and effort to the case . |
| 14 | His absence has given a rare opportunity to his deputy and political rival , Zhu Rongji , who has taken over the reins of government . |
| 15 | Middleton ( 1987 ) has given a useful account of how these different approaches have informed work on gender inequality in education . |
| 16 | He has given a vivid portrayal of Jesus as the Messiah ; the new Moses ; the representative of God . |
| 17 | Now Prabhakar , a 34-year-old applied physicist , is poised to become head of NIST , to which the Clinton administration has given a leading role in stimulating the US economy . |
| 18 | The decision was , I do not doubt , a thoroughly beneficial decision which has given a sensible ambit to powers which Parliament had conferred in a way which good sense would suggest had left them far too restricted . |
| 19 | In addition — and I will begin with this point — linguistics has given a special status to the kind of binary opposition masculine/feminine exemplifies , and of which deconstructionists , including feminists , have been critical . |
| 20 | The Further Education Unit , a curriculum review and development unit established in 1977 to make possible a more co-ordinated and cohesive approach to curriculum development in further education , has given a commendable priority to special educational needs . |
| 21 | The first is where the Act is silent or ambiguous on any given point and the second is where the court in a decided case has given a particular interpretation to a section of the Act ( or to the same section in the original Act of 1893 ) . |
| 22 | FOYLE Meats has given a big boost to the National Sheep Association , which holds its multi-breed ram sale at Antrim on September 21 . |
| 23 | With his ITV show Through The Keyhole he has given a guided tour of 200 homes of the rich and famous , exposing to public view everything from Viscount Weymouth 's erotic murals to Bernard Manning 's fish tank . |
| 24 | No one has given a satisfactory answer to that . |
| 25 | It is a pity that New Scientist has give a new lease of life to the old story of 100 000 meteorites falling in a swarm in Poland ( 17 March , p 711 ) . |
| 26 | Ruth Rolph has give a countywide series of ten lecture-demonstrations to Women 's Institutes with the help of a demonstration team composed of teachers and class members . |
| 27 | Provided the seals have remained intact and the air is uncontaminated , analysis of the samples is expected to give a unique insight into the composition of the atmosphere at that time , and consequently provide an indication of changes which have occurred in the last three centuries , the period of worldwide industrialization and the extensive burning of fossil fuels . |
| 28 | England , who drew against Wales ( 2–2 ) at Burnley and Holland ( 0–0 ) at Wembley , are expected to give a full debut to Albert Clarke , a striker from the FA National School . |
| 29 | As for British Steel 's monolith , at least it still stands to give a little reassurance against Teesside 's depression and unemployment ; it may be recalled that Teesside steel made North-Eastern strength . |
| 30 | Stock CaCl 2 ( 4μl ) was then added to give a final concentrations of 100μM CaCl 2 . |