Example sentences of "and give [art] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lang has also played a part in the admission of rock and graffiti to the cultural fold and given a helping hand to the young unemployed with subsidies for their participation on archaeological digs . |
| 2 | The two , sometimes three , hours spent in the College quadrangle when , we are told , the Professor would courteously listen and give an intelligible answer to every question , and when the instruction he communicated was stamped on the memory by the good temper and joke and repartee with which it was accompanied , these were periods which an old student liked to call to memory , for they were hours pleasantly and usefully passed . |
| 3 | It should lead to a greater efficiency among the police and give a much-needed boost to the fight against crime . |
| 4 | The harnessing of the village to the town in this way helped to bring radical ideas to the village and give a political voice to the problems of poverty and land shortage in the countryside … |
| 5 | So buy a daffodil … and give a new meaning to flower power . |
| 6 | It slices through 5 mm of mild steel with ease , and the beam can be angled to put ‘ rubbish ’ on the waste material and give a clean edge to the workpiece . |
| 7 | To seek to serve Shropshire and give a united voice to the Christians of Shropshire . |
| 8 | These doctors tend to look upon the PHCNs as people they could consult with and give a cold shoulder to the rest of the nurses . |
| 9 | This will help to cut pollution and save energy and give a valuable boost to the housing market . |
| 10 | And the group appealed to Secretary of State Sir Patrick Mayhew to follow the example of the Republic 's Government and give a formal response to the Opsahl report . |
| 11 | We will therefore allot the melody to the whole of the strings except double basses , and give the accompanying chords to a suitable wind group , doubling the bass with the double basses for greater depth and impressiveness . |
| 12 | Such a road would be a scenic delight and give an alternative road to the Isles but it has not yet happened and , it is to be hoped , never will . |
| 13 | Table 3.8 draws on these figures to show the sizes of the largest bond markets in the world and to give an international context to the sterling bond market . |
| 14 | In a five-part polyphonic passage in which an independent cello part is necessary , it is always better to divide the cellos , and to give the lowest part to the second half of the cellos either in actual unison ( pitch permitting ) or in the octave above the double basses . |
| 15 | Protagon believes that , by offering its string adjustment facility , that it is ‘ raising the stakes ’ , so to speak … setting the trend for the nineties , and giving a new meaning to the term ‘ user-friendly ’ . |
| 16 | The structure of the book was based upon the distinction of four types of medium-scale systems each showing distinct but complementary properties and giving a progressive sequence to higher levels of integration and sophistication . |
| 17 | The Government are fully committed to placing the emphasis on employment-lead standards of competence and giving a major role to industry lead bodies both in the development of competence based occupational standards and in ‘ ownership ’ of them . ’ |
| 18 | One simple and obvious way of eliminating the authorial voice and giving a realistic effect to the novel is to make a character the narrator , as in Robinson Crusoe or Jane Eyre or David Copperfield . |
| 19 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |
| 20 | Most appropriately , his approach has been to break through the author 's privacy , effectively dragging him out of the closet and giving an imaginative frame to the book by presenting the deplorable facts of Burroughs 's life . |
| 21 | Mrs Garfitt , fat , voluble and slovenly , paused for breath and gave a perfunctory stir to something that looked like workhouse broth on one of the meatless days . |
| 22 | From the 1670s and 1680s onwards the colourful and varied light-weight fabrics known as ‘ Norwich Stuffs ’ became fashionable and gave a new stimulus to an old industry . |
| 23 | The conflict bred solidarity among Arab oil states and gave a new impetus to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) , a cartel of the major non-US oil producers which had previously been rendered ineffective by internal divisions . |
| 24 | Ironically , Beveridge actually hoped that a pension which reduced income and gave a higher pension to those who stayed at work , would encourage people to defer retirement : ‘ Making receipt of pension conditional on retirement is not intended to encourage or hasten retirement . |
| 25 | It 's been another year of achievement for the society the panto Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves was a great success and gave a great start to the year . |
| 26 | The afternoon sun , peeping almost shyly though the small lattice window , touched her hair with gold and gave a warm glow to the range of tools lying on the littered bench . |
| 27 | Roberts 's discovery was made in 1951 and gave a considerable boost to the research of Prof J Z Young , the celebrated brain expert , who had suggested that some kind of electronic machine might solve the cell counting problem . |
| 28 | ’ He fidgeted and gave a sideways look to his mate ‘ … yer could say as ‘ e were well . |
| 29 | The ringing stopped , and gave a silent thanks to St Bernadette of Lourdes for the miracle . |
| 30 | Hilda Lodge welcomed the group of 50 qualified and student teachers present and gave a special welcome to Peggy Secord who had come along to share our day . |