Example sentences of "give it a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an ideal species to be grown in the background of the tank and will give it a very natural look . |
| 2 | It hopes this will give it a more accurate picture of the actual casualty rate . |
| 3 | Get out there and give it a jolly good rogering . |
| 4 | The great blocks of nineteenth-century neoclassical building which characterise this part of Pest give it a rather grand manner , though a century of knocks has rather frayed its hauteur . |
| 5 | It is easily visible with the naked eye , and binoculars give it a vaguely cruciform appearance . |
| 6 | Tufted duck and scaup are similar in plumage but the latter 's heavier , more angled head and larger bill give it a less cuddly look ; a tufted duck would make the more suitable ‘ soft toy ’ for a toddler . |
| 7 | The international settings and a word-list in six different languages give it a truly world-wide appeal . |
| 8 | That false report was falsely attributed to The Economist in order , we are flattered to suppose , to give it a wholly undeserved credibility . |
| 9 | Style , however , is often misused if the approach is ill-founded or unsystematic , and such failures have tended to give it a rather poor reputation . |
| 10 | The inference is that the ritual remained as a memory in the Middle Ages , if not in actuality , and was linked with historical personages to give it a little more authenticity . |
| 11 | Caboc is a cows ' milk cheese made in small cylindrical shapes and rolled in toasted oatmeal to give it a more distinctive flavour . |
| 12 | Mettwurst is similar to Teewurst but is always made from a mixture of pork and beef , is very smoky and often contains paprika to give it a more spicy flavour . |
| 13 | Did the postwar development of the welfare state remould capitalism to give it a more human face , or were the changes largely cosmetic ? |
| 14 | ‘ I intend to give it a really good go , because I have the opportunity this year which I did n't have last season . ’ |
| 15 | Her hear , damp from the bath , had been pulled back from her face , giving it a very youthful expression . |
| 16 | The Faculty itself has an international profile , attracting both students and visiting academics from all over the world , giving it a truly cosmopolitan feel . |
| 17 | A shadow of a smile touched the corners of his mouth , giving it an unexpectedly sensual line . |
| 18 | In flight has noticeably shorter tail than adult Skylark , giving it an almost bat-like outline ; young skylarks in late summer and autumn are never quite so short-tailed . |
| 19 | Lawrence book and given it a highly fluid feel . |
| 20 | I thought I thought we 'd given it a really good airing this |
| 21 | Its proximity to Austria , just a few miles away , and to Lindau , the old German city on the opposite shore reached in a short journey by direct lake steamer , has cast its influence and given it a faintly cosmopolitan atmosphere . |
| 22 | Its very vagueness and lack of programmatic content gives it a potentially universal support within its own community . |
| 23 | Madame Escoffier 's son gives it a more elegant name . |
| 24 | All of that gives it a very encouraging sure-footedness once you try to throw it around a corner or two , or test it on poor road conditions . |
| 25 | The second feature of George Stephen 's narrative which gave it a markedly ideological cast was its distancing of the movement from the kind of radicalism and militant nonconformity of the 1830s and 1840s many of his readers associated with antislavery . |
| 26 | He took in all its parts and , as sovereign master of the orchestra , gave it a hitherto unimagined degree of firmness . |
| 27 | Using the slogan ‘ Switch onto the New Clydesdale ’ to capture the company 's new image , Clydesdale devised a marketing strategy which improved staff skills , service levels and motivation and gave it a more upmarket profile in tune with the width and quality of its product range . |
| 28 | ‘ I gave it a really good thump . |
| 29 | It was not warm , but it was sheltered from the wind outside , and the stillness and randomness of the tools and litter gave it an almost religious significance , made it seem as if it was waiting . |