Example sentences of "give [art] [adj] [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this suggestion would have given the combined group a market share in excess of 50 per cent of the British market , which would have fallen foul of the MMC guidelines . |
| 2 | Have not the Government given the French-backed consortium a licence to print money ? |
| 3 | ‘ You 're saying you 've never given the poor girl a scrap of encouragement ? ’ she mocked scornfully . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | There was one great and essential difference , however , between Haussmann and Wren ; the Great Fire of 1666 had given the English architect a head-start when it came to demolition of existing buildings . |
| 6 | And in this place the people have given the precious rain a name . |
| 7 | Only the other day Robson was criticising Paul Gascoigne for attempting a similar back-heeled flick during England 's B match against Yugoslavia … could be costly , might give the other side a goal , must cut out that sort of thing , and so on . |
| 8 | They attack from all sides , nice neat passing — direct — create chances etc etc. they do nt give the other side a chance to breathe . |
| 9 | Purchasers could give the new deal a push by insisting that providers implement it . |
| 10 | It is submitted , however , that this does not give the legal profession a dispensation to produce incomprehensible deeds and writings without making at least some attempt to frame the intentions in intelligible , if not elegant , English . |
| 11 | France would give the European Council a secretariat . |
| 12 | ‘ And not likely to find out , ’ the young man who emerged dragging a suitcase muttered , ‘ if you do n't give the poor girl a chance to finish a thing she 's saying . ’ |
| 13 | That will give the landlord a degree of confidence about his ability to regain his property when he wants it ; it will also give the homeless family a degree of confidence about the quality of their landlord . |
| 14 | Clearly labelled appliances , frequent , itemised bills , and ‘ smart ’ meters that keep track of where the power goes might give the concerned consumer a chance . |
| 15 | This would effectively give the white population a veto on all constitutional changes . |
| 16 | They give the good speller a chance to use his skill , but may depress a poor speller . |
| 17 | The introduction of air into the peritoneal cavity would push the lung up even further and give the diseased part a chance to rest . |
| 18 | ‘ Sunday meetings give the working man a chance to go racing . |
| 19 | When the smoke really thins out , thin blue smoke , rap on it , give the whole tin a shake and it 'll suddenly burst into thick smoke for a few minutes and it may do that again for a second time . |
| 20 | Give the hon. Gentleman a chance . |
| 21 | Yeah , but give the old girl a bit of respect son . |
| 22 | Give the Cleaner Shrimp a miss |
| 23 | Taste : Give a blindfolded Brownie a plate on which there are four or five different powders . |
| 24 | The formation of planetary systems and the size and chemical composition of each member are , then , remarkably regular : given a sun-sized star a computer generally comes up with a similar range of planets to that in the solar system , with small rocky planets closest to the star and the large gaseous ones further out ( due to the effects of gravity , orbits would later space themselves out along the lines of our own solar system ) . |
| 25 | COURTAULDS has given a local school a leg up the business ladder by helping them ‘ set up shop ’ as scientific equipment suppliers . |
| 26 | In every case that I have examined , the police were involved at a very early stage , before any serious attempt had been made either to assess the reliability of the allegation or to give the accused teacher a chance of refuting it . |
| 27 | He has presented plans to give the central bank a form of independence , though not without last-minute wobbles ( independence is a prerequisite for monetary union , which he favours ) . |
| 28 | I decided to give the combined mode a try since I was using a fairly fast 386DX — it was still painfully slow so I reverted to separate modes . |
| 29 | The sun , having messed around with all the colours that Keats and Shelly were so big on , decided at last to give the rosy-fingered routine a bit of a miss and go for the full Colditz searchlight . |
| 30 | Women active within the labour movement , particularly members of the Fabian Women 's Group , were concerned that women 's economic dependence had a detrimental effect on the status of the wife and mother and proposed the state endowment of motherhood , which was intended to give the married woman a degree of economic independence without undermining her role as a wife and mother . |