Example sentences of "[vb -s] give [art] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public outcry against young offenders has given a bumpy ride to the seven-month-old Criminal Justice Act . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ The Tip ’ has given a new meaning to the weekend . |
| 4 | Continued economic restraint has given a new urgency to demands to improve the efficiency of management in the public sector . |
| 5 | More recently the vast programme of legislation for the completion of the single market has given a new urgency to the matter . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | increase in fixed assets — has given a tremendous boost to the economy and pride of the north-west . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | His absence has given a rare opportunity to his deputy and political rival , Zhu Rongji , who has taken over the reins of government . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | FOYLE Meats has given a big boost to the National Sheep Association , which holds its multi-breed ram sale at Antrim on September 21 . |
| 17 | No one has given a satisfactory answer to that . |
| 18 | Since its arrival in the eighteenth century , this is a literary mode which has recurrently been pronounced dead but which has been capable of renewal , and now Ackroyd has given a further turn to the wheel . |
| 19 | This situation has given a further boost to the microelectronics industry , which now has the incentive to apply its research and development programmes to telecommunications . |
| 20 | In its action plan to save threatened cetaceans the Cetacean Specialist Group of IUCN has given the highest priority to a study which would monitor the scattered gill-net fisheries in the Gulf of California . |
| 21 | An anglophile university professor who used his modest means to amass 322 British and continental drawings has given the entire lot to the National Gallery . |
| 22 | The Gulf War has given an enormous boost to the cable television industry in India . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , declining confidence in the pound , and perhaps in the ‘ Thatcher Revolution , ’ is severely constraining ministers at a time when — as a formidable faction in the Cabinet has recognised — the Government needs to give a higher priority to the quality of life if it is not to be swept aside in the 1990s . |
| 24 | There God undertakes to give an everlasting kingdom to the boy ‘ and I will be his Father and he shall be my Son ’ . |
| 25 | Socialization involves giving the individual access to the stock , both learning some of its contents and how to gain access to further contents . |
| 26 | The court seems to give a broad interpretation to these powers . |
| 27 | She argues that if you have been assisted by relatives yourself , this imposes a strong obligation to provide similar support for others , even if that means giving a temporary home to someone whom you do not particularly like ( p. 89 ) . |
| 28 | Since at Key Stage 3 the core units have to be taught in a chronological order that does give an initial structure to the overall plan of the three-year period . |
| 29 | The Council continues to give a high priority to achieving equity in Scottish rate burdens . |
| 30 | The ban on other languages operates like import controls to give a domestic monopoly to local people . |