Example sentences of "this give a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gave a new urgency to discussions of the extent of poverty , sickness and physical disability . |
| 2 | This gave a unique opportunity to spectators . |
| 3 | Earlier in his life he had problems with the long thin lakes forming a strong dividing and horizontal midground ; this gave an unhappy prominence to the foreground . |
| 4 | This gives a double meaning to Blanche 's hatred of naked light . |
| 5 | It was claimed that this gives an improved warmth to weight ratio of around 25 per cent and decreased bulk . |
| 6 | This gives an important role to word-recognition skills , but it is a role which recent studies are tending to support ( see , for instance , Gough , 1984 ) . |
| 7 | In the Gulbenkian Report the clear exposition of the idea that the arts mediate between an individual 's inner being and the external world , and that this gives an educational role to arts activities in the development of pupil personality , appears to have impressed not only arts educators but almost all those administrators , such as GRIST coordinators , who were responsible for programmes which included an arts element . |