Example sentences of "[adv] give a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louisa had been skidding unsteadily about the ice for the best part of an hour when a carriage came round the rear drive of the Hall and , after a moment 's debate , Edwin Frere sprang down to give a helping hand to his well-muffled wife . |
| 2 | The answer to these doubts is that not one of these three measures is adequate on its own , and that all three should be taken together to give a proper guide to costs . |
| 3 | This perhaps gives a special force to the Voltairean remark about the function of language being to conceal thought . |
| 4 | In 1900 Edinburgh Waverley Station boasted forty lady operators working in the telegraph department , sending out 4,000 messages a day.a But it was of course the First World War which suddenly gave a tremendous fillip to women 's employment in stations . |
| 5 | Aerial photographs reveal little more than the site 's main features , and plotting scatters of surface finds only gives a reasonable guide to its centre , with little information about its extent or shape . |
| 6 | In their efforts to master Congress , presidents have normally given a high priority to working through their party 's legislative leaders , but it is clear that an amicable and productive relationship with such leaders was not established during the Nixon years . |
| 7 | This eminent folklorist , however , has not given a full consideration to the Celtic background . |
| 8 | Mums and dads in the rows behind will soon give a practised twist to its ear . |
| 9 | Although Poulantzas does not give a direct answer to the question ‘ How are we to know a pertinent effect when we encounter one ? ’ , he does discuss an historical example which may throw light on the matter . |
| 10 | Further , both Conservative and Labour Governments have sought to restrict increases in MPs ' pay so that Parliament does not give a bad example to the country and encourage more inflation . |
| 11 | This act does not give a clear entitlement to the services ; provision in any particular case depends on sufficient resources being available . |
| 12 | The Minister did not give a clear response to the question from my Hon. Friend the Member for Dundee , East . |
| 13 | A patient who consents , even in the widest terms , to a dental operation under anaesthetic does not give a true consent to the amputation of a leg . |
| 14 | The Minister is well aware that the armed services sports body does not give a single penny to rugby league . |
| 15 | It is also concerned only with the situation where the customer does not give an effective consent to the use of a wall . |
| 16 | Does that not give an absolute lie to the belief that the Opposition are united on Europe ? |
| 17 | It will be the usual exhaustive ballot procedure and if the first vote does not give an overall majority to one of the candidates there will be an adjournment for fifteen or twenty minutes in the same room to give candidates the opportunity to withdraw . |
| 18 | The hon. Member for Dundee , East ( Mr. McAllion ) criticised me for not giving a clear commitment to setting up a funding council . |
| 19 | Bingham thought he had discovered Vilcabamba , the last refuge of the Incas , thus giving a romantic conclusion to his archaeological studies of the Inca civilisation . |
| 20 | Judith Hughes , for example , puts forward a way of seeing autonomy ( and adulthood ) based primarily on the notion of responsibility rather than that of rationality , thus giving an ethical dimension to autonomy . |
| 21 | Or do they play only a minor role which nevertheless gives a vital clue to the unfolding of the plot ? |
| 22 | But by the nineteenth century knowledge itself had expanded so rapidly , and interest in locating published accounts of very specific knowledge units had developed so greatly , that all previous expedients had to some extent broken down , and the new public libraries proliferating in the UK , the USA , and elsewhere gave an added impetus to invention . |
| 23 | Even Fleury , who was perfectly conscious of the force of McNab 's arguments , nevertheless gave a visceral assent to those of Dr Dunstaple . |
| 24 | ‘ the complexities of legal practice are such that it is difficult to see how a one man band can take holidays , cope with illness , and set aside time to keep up to date with the law and still give an adequate service to public . |
| 25 | Nikwax penetrates deeply giving a natural sheen to leather equipment and increases suppleness in the leather . |
| 26 | Farmers always gave a special supper to the sheep shearers when they had finished their work . |
| 27 | LIFESPAN always gives an immediate response to a user interaction , but not all the options are handled while the user sits at the terminal . |
| 28 | Students are also given a substantial introduction to a range of practical skills which assist them in applying their academic understanding of the problems of peace and conflict more effectively in their future careers . |
| 29 | The result will also give a huge lift to Alex Ferguson 's Manchester United team who were originally due to travel to Norwich today but went there instead on Tuesday and pulled off a significant victory . |
| 30 | Once implemented , this system would also give an added incentive to these districts to redeploy the funding for locally managed alternative care and treatment . |