Example sentences of "have 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 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Gulf War has given an enormous boost to the cable television industry in India . |
| 20 | If earlier national and local links still existed it would have given a helpful criterion to governors to know whether their school was being managed well . |
| 21 | Her absence ( if it was regular and fairly lengthy ) would presumably have given a similar opportunity to her husband . |
| 22 | I 've given a whole chapter to my constituency . |
| 23 | The Saar settlement had given a strong boost to Franco-German relations , while those with Britain had deteriorated because of the failure of the Suez venture . |
| 24 | Yes , those ladies had given a useful fillip to his prestige . |
| 25 | And she had given a certain name to it , and I ca n't remember what the name was now , something like fiddling , I mean fiddling is too obvious , it was n't that , but it was something like that , an ordinary everyday term like that . |
| 26 | The taxi-driver had given a rude sign to Myeloski 's disappearing back before turning to a bemused Duncan for support . |
| 27 | It quoted him as saying that " if the Iraqis had given a positive response to our call sooner , the situation would be different now " , but also as adding that it had become " evident " that " the USA and its allies are pursuing wider aims than Iraq 's withdrawal from Kuwait " . |
| 28 | It is also a moment of generalisation for the twenty-one-year-old second mate who on this voyage from Australia , carrying grain and bent on winning the famous gain-race , had had to contend with an arrogant and hostile captain and who had cast off his boat , after a collision in the dark had given a mortal blow to the Blackgauntlet and he had waited in vain for orders . |
| 29 | This attitude was bitterly criticized by republican politicians who felt that he had given an enormous fillip to a rebellion that would otherwise have run out of steam . |
| 30 | Pearce had given the necessary instructions to a depressed , disillusioned and just plain pissed-off police cordon outside that the ‘ block ’ had to be maintained . |