Example sentences of "[noun] gives it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Modern technology is now so sophisticated the microprocessor-based design of the teleprinter gives it enormous power and flexibility .
2 The World Bank in Washington DC has placed an order with Reading , Berkshire-based Racal-Redac ( UK ) Ltd for 154 of its CadStar printed circuit board design packages and 57 advanced MS-DOS routers : the products will be used by participants in India 's Impact programme , set up with the help of the World Bank , to provide the country 's leading educational institutions with electronic design automation tools and other software ; Racal-Redac reckons the deal gives it some 50% of the Indian printed circuit board design software market .
3 The addition of oboes to a high melodic cello passage gives it great poignancy , and at the same time counteracts the tendency towards thinness of tone which is apt to be somewhat distressing unless the cellos are both first-rate and numerous .
4 But if you 're religiously inclined , then clearly the universe looks a bit different , because the universe has a creator , and having a creator gives it some kind of meaning .
5 As the boat is reversing steadily , Grant gives it full throttle forward .
6 ‘ Methinks its motion in this hush of nature Gives it dim sympathies with me who live Making it a companionable form , Whose puny flaps and freaks the idling spirit By its own moods interprets , everywhere Echo or mirror seeking of itself , And makes a toy of Thought .
7 ACT FINANCIAL EXPLAINS HOW OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING GIVES IT UNRIVALLED MOMENTUM
8 But live performance gives it ten times more urgency and energy than the usual hollow rave PA , mimed to the record .
9 ‘ He who controls the past controls the future ’ is the message of his last utopia : a sense of history is ultimately power , since a people is guided and governed by a collective sense of what it means to itself and to the world , and history gives it that sense , and only history .
10 The double X gives it the chance to be red and black , while the Y gives it male characteristics .
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