Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] a " in BNC.

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1 By the 11th Summerchild has given the new formation a temporary designation , which will prove to be permanent , and has provided a wealth of possible addresses , colleagues and procedures .
2 The international order the British presided over had no proper place for Germany , but that which the United States brought into being after 1945 has given the Federal Republic a privileged if somewhat constrained position .
3 The international order the British presided over had no proper place for Germany , but that which the United States brought into being after 1945 has given the Federal Republic a privileged if somewhat constrained position .
4 The present chapter has given the level-of-analysis problem a new dimension .
5 The Cancer Research Campaign , which has given the seven-strong team a £150,000 grant , is delighted .
6 That has given the whole company a step up , including Crate , who , as we mentioned earlier , are now making use of the systems that I came here with . ’
7 One , the British gay director Richard Kwietniowski , has taken the simple reading a stage further by making the prize-winning short film , Flames of Passion ( 1990 ) , which is both pastiche of and homage to the Coward original , reworking its iconography into an updated story of gay romance that begins with hurried glances on a station platform and , times having changed , ends with intertwined consummation on the train .
8 Japan plans to offer the Soviet Union a deal worth $26 billion for the islands .
9 Doran aims to make the new fuel a cheap source of power that poor people in the countryside can easily afford .
10 All the best rocking horses have heads which look to the left or right , and this angling is well worth the small extra trouble since it does give the finished horse a little more ‘ life ’ .
11 Well , I 've been complaining about this for about three years now and the county council continues to think the forty mile an hour speed limit is perfectly alright .
12 He 's forced the Libyan government a cause for celebration the tenth anniversary of the coming to power of their president Colonel Gadaffi .
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