Example sentences of "[noun] to give [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is not the authors ' intention to give it this gloss . |
| 2 | A new Quality Performance system was set up for the person rowing the boat to give him more incentive to work harder and become a key performer . |
| 3 | They were well aware that before the English visit , and in an attempt to give himself some room for manoeuvre , Napoleon III had wooed the Tsar . |
| 4 | His suggestion that his intervention persuaded the Khmers Rouges not to disrupt the voting may be an attempt to give himself some importance . |
| 5 | the afternoon 's business as printed in the programme and I call Neil to give his national officer 's report . |
| 6 | It 's very hard to explain , but these people are all on the extreme left and were seeking a poet to give them some sort of standing . |
| 7 | The singer was following an old tradition of adapting the ceremony to give it contemporary relevance , adding to the festival 's famous ‘ four questions ’ about the meaning of Passover a new and troubling one . |
| 8 | Meryl handed over the last of the spoils , a nail file and some kind of newspaper cutting , then settled in her seat to give her full attention to the lecture . |
| 9 | All but six Cabinet ministers were moved or replaced as Mr Major took the opportunity provided by winning his own mandate to give his senior team a personal stamp . |
| 10 | And as students of the star signs will verify , the cuspate divisions help explain his ability to carve the characters he plays into different personality fragments to give them added depth . |
| 11 | Given a large enough supply of machine catalogues and enough flexibility of mind to give yourself different problems , an inventive woodworker could spend the entire winter playing this game . |
| 12 | Apply carb heat , then select the rpm to give your required rate of descent . |
| 13 | MORE than 1,000 Maxwell pensioners and print workers yesterday staged a rally and lobby of Parliament to step up their campaign for Government action to give them long-term security for their pensions . |
| 14 | People , of course , have the capacity to give their own meanings to their and other people 's actions . |
| 15 | On the first Wednesday morning of every month — with the exception of the months in which Easter and Christmas fell — it was the custom for the incumbent pastor to give his own account of the massacre , or read out an account left by a predecessor . |
| 16 | Medirace needed a trading vehicle to give it some cashflow to stay in business . |
| 17 | Shand finds things slipping out of his grasp as events take one violent turn after another , an ideal scenario for Hoskins to give his greatest performance — a mixture of Cockney wisecracking and seething anger . |
| 18 | Finally it is blended with 10 year old Balsamic vinegar to give its distinctive dark , sweet , rich flavour . |
| 19 | We would support any moves to increase the powers of the regulators to give them stronger teeth . |
| 20 | But the way he did it was with the same connections he defied , and to get into serious racing in his early days , he got a bank to give him credit and a sponsor to give him some backing : though he had n't , of his own , a sou in the world . |
| 21 | The archers have a lighter corselets of scale mail and powerful bows constructed of alternating layers of wood to give them great power and range . |
| 22 | Once documented the data can be rearranged in a way that reveals how you can reorganize matters to give you more time . |
| 23 | With NatWest , you get the valuable option of the NatWest Home Improvement Loan Protector to give you extra peace of mind . |
| 24 | The final stage was to roll her hair with Tech Ni Pli velcro rollers to give it extra fullness and shape . |
| 25 | When you to this your are making use of internal muscles which can be strengthened by exercise to give you greater control . |
| 26 | " Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his goodness to give you safe deliverance , and to preserve you in the great danger of childbirth ; you shall therefore give hearty thanks unto God … " |
| 27 | The shaft needed to come through two bearings to give it that stability . |
| 28 | Only when the children feel less threatened will they be able to relax , and it 's up to you and your husband to give them that security . |
| 29 | Women make up one million of the new union 's members and will be guaranteed two-thirds of its executive seats to give them effective control , although the three top salaried posts will be filled by men . |
| 30 | You need a new routine to give you more time . |