Example sentences of "[pron] give a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'm delighted to see so many of you have taken the trouble to come and join us today for yet another annual public meeting and in welcoming you can I give a particular welcome to our new chairman Mike Betts , thank him very much indeed for joining us . |
| 2 | I give a general welcome to the Bill . |
| 3 | I give a blank agenda to the supervisor and say ‘ Have a team meeting with your own team , and see what problems you 've had or experienced . ’ |
| 4 | Before leaving , I gave a spare key to Lisabeth and an envelope with Jo 's two hundred quid for her to give to Mr Nassim . |
| 5 | The companies publish information leaflets which give a rough guide to whether you are likely to benefit from having a meter and will tell you whether one is possible for your house . |
| 6 | In elaborating such proposals there is admittedly a strong temptation to indulge in political rationalism : they are by nature proposals which give an important role to action on the part of a ‘ socialist government ’ or the ‘ state ’ within which a socialist government is installed , yet it is often unclear what such a socialist government would look like , how it might come into being and from where it would draw its mass support . |
| 7 | Density might have remained the most accepted form of classification but for three developments in the 1970s which gave a great impetus to the classification of rural populations into different typologies or groupings : |
| 8 | The engine compartment had to be outside the cockpit for acoustic and thermal insulation so we introduced a vertical backlight for good rear visibility and blended it into the fins sloping down from the roof , which gave a certain lightness to the rear pillars , This solution has become a constant feature on all Pininfarina Ferraris up to the Testarossa . |
| 9 | This is clearly illustrated by Mustill LJ 's approach in Rogers v Parish ( 1987 ) ( discussed above ) which gave a wide scope to s14(6) by bringing in defects that are , comparatively speaking , minor ones . |
| 10 | Secondly , the interest rate cartel before 1983 set rates which gave a reasonable return to most societies and inevitably therefore to some who were comparatively inefficient . |
| 11 | Far to the west , however , a change had taken place which gave a new twist to relations between the Great Powers . |
| 12 | By the middle of the decade , they had formulated their auteur theory , which gave a new gloss to film studies . |
| 13 | They and the popular movement have their roots in both the growth of nationalist fervour in the late 1960s and early 1970s , which parallelled the growth of anti-colonial and ‘ Third World ’ nationalist movements elsewhere , and in the call from the leadership of the Catholic church during the same period for ‘ a preferential option for the poor ’ which gave a new focus to the efforts of church organizations in this predominantly Catholic country . |
| 14 | In the fourth quarter of 1992 , the economy grew at an annual rate of 4.7% , which gave a roseate glow to Bill Clinton 's first few weeks in office but always looked too good to last . |
| 15 | Dalton in the opening years of the nineteenth century introduced the atomic theory , which gave a theoretical background to the ideas of definite proportions : if definite numbers of atoms of each element combine , then the total weights combining must also be definite . |
| 16 | More than one in 10 are now on the dole but the green shoots of recovery are showing through which gave a welcome boost to prices . |
| 17 | This was SkottiS , Scottish-Icelandic Cultural Days 1993 , in Reykjavik for the last three weeks , as a follow-up to last summer 's Breaking the Ice festival which gave a Scottish showcase to Icelandic culture . |
| 18 | Here a narrow gully gave a long , powdery glissade almost to the shores of the frozen lock , which gave an easy highway to within five minutes of our night 's accommodation . |
| 19 | All this yields a shareholder 's equity of $938m ( about 86% of total assets ) which gives a low debt to equity ratio of 17% . |
| 20 | The roof of the carriage projects six inches over the body , and rises in the form of a dome towards the centre , where a ventilating apparatus is fixed , surmounted by a colossal gilt crown , which gives a striking finish to the exterior design . |
| 21 | Raised path leads to a picturesque seat , which gives a focal point to the garden , and a well-deserved rest for you |
| 22 | ( With up to 16Mb of Extended memory , a large database can be entirely memory-resident , which gives a significant boost to performance on tasks such as sort/select and reporting . ) |
| 23 | They 've turned it from a Council that was determined to tackle the social deprivation in this city , was determined to tackle the disadvantaged , such as racial disadvantaged , by supporting the C T C , which gives a unique opportunity to Asian children in this city for education . |
| 24 | At Gailey in Staffordshire , an unusually rich flora emerged in gravel workings abandoned in the 1960s , relics from the fen from which the place took its name , which comes from the Anglo-Saxon ‘ gagol leah ’ , the clearing in the gale , or bog myrtle , that aromatic wetland shrub which gives an extra tang to home-made gin . |
| 25 | In every chord there is some foreign element , some contradiction which gives an odd twist to the harmony . |
| 26 | It is a common leftist belief that poetry is an ‘ élitist ’ mode , precisely because of the cultural literacy it presupposes , which gives an unfair advantage to students from middle-class homes with books . |
| 27 | The first rests upon section 8(2) of the Act of 1986 which I have already cited , and which gives an extended meaning to the concept of membership for the purposes of the Act of 1986 . |
| 28 | His own trade included the quick memorising of landscape and cityscape and at one corner there was an L-shaped alley that cut off the building on the corner itself giving an alternative route to making a left turn on the streets . |
| 29 | SOON after leaving hospital following an urgent operation for cancer of the stomach I read about the ordeal of Dr Nigel Cox who gave a lethal injection to a suffering patient . |
| 30 | Those who gave a positive answer to the question of universality seem to have arrived at their position through the following sequence of essentially functionalist propositions : |