Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] give a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a pity that New Scientist has give a new lease of life to the old story of 100 000 meteorites falling in a swarm in Poland ( 17 March , p 711 ) . |
| 2 | The Ministero dei Beni culturali has given a firm ‘ no ’ to the latest plans from the office of architect Renzo Piano , co-designer of the Pompidou Centre in Paris , for the restoration of the Palladian Basilica complex in Vicenza . |
| 3 | The first is where the Act is silent or ambiguous on any given point and the second is where the court in a decided case has given a particular interpretation to a section of the Act ( or to the same section in the original Act of 1893 ) . |
| 4 | Now Prabhakar , a 34-year-old applied physicist , is poised to become head of NIST , to which the Clinton administration has given a leading role in stimulating the US economy . |
| 5 | The advent of poststructuralism has given a great impetus to interpretive productivity , since all the literary texts that were once interpreted to show organic unity and complexity of meaning can now be interpreted to reveal underlying clashes . |
| 6 | Freud attempts to give a psychoanalytic account of the state of the baby before the first object-relations begin , when the ego and the world are not differentiated . |
| 7 | BNFL 's donation towards the scheme is £25,000 while Sellafield Charity Snowball Committee has given a further £2,000 . |
| 8 | This work has given a close insight into problems of pollution , congestion , intense company group pressure , sexism and racism . |
| 9 | The Council continues to give a high priority to achieving equity in Scottish rate burdens . |
| 10 | A company director has given a whole new meaning to the term ’ house painting ’ . |
| 11 | In the latest award , the MoD has given a five-year contract ( possibly doubled if options are exercised ) , worth up to £20 million to Hunting Aircraft to conduct initial flying training at RAF Topcliffe , in north Yorkshire . |
| 12 | COURTAULDS has given a local school a leg up the business ladder by helping them ‘ set up shop ’ as scientific equipment suppliers . |
| 13 | The idea of housing classes does give a rudimentary sense of groupings of potential housing competitors , however , even if the categories may differ somewhat or be less clearly defined in rural areas . |
| 14 | Ruth Rolph has give a countywide series of ten lecture-demonstrations to Women 's Institutes with the help of a demonstration team composed of teachers and class members . |
| 15 | Continued economic restraint has given a new urgency to demands to improve the efficiency of management in the public sector . |
| 16 | The court seems to give a broad interpretation to these powers . |
| 17 | Rather than contenting himself with a specific and clearly defined puzzle , Poulantzas aims to give a broad account of the capitalist state , which will show what it is and what it does by revealing its connections with the various instances of the social whole . |
| 18 | A blast from a compressed air canister or a jet of petroleum ether across the surface helps to give a contamination-free surface before samples are irradiated . |
| 19 | His absence has given a rare opportunity to his deputy and political rival , Zhu Rongji , who has taken over the reins of government . |
| 20 | Although the invoicing system is long redundant , the use of the shilling in the name of a beer does give a useful indication of its strength . |
| 21 | We can preserve , conserve , store , freeze , can , bottle , jar or produce doorstep-fresh anything you want ( short of the snowflake ) , but as a result of this , a greater understanding of the very composition of food has become necessary , which in turn has given a deeper insight into handling systems . |
| 22 | BILL CLINTON has given a chilling warning that Britain 's cosy relationship with the United States is heading for the big freeze when he takes over the White House . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , declining confidence in the pound , and perhaps in the ‘ Thatcher Revolution , ’ is severely constraining ministers at a time when — as a formidable faction in the Cabinet has recognised — the Government needs to give a higher priority to the quality of life if it is not to be swept aside in the 1990s . |
| 24 | The Salman Rushdie affair has given a whole new meaning to both anti-racist and black community politics . |
| 25 | While the gravity falls during the fermentation process , the OG does give a useful indication of the strength of beer . |
| 26 | The advent of microelectronics has given a tremendous boost to Man 's capacity to acquire , process , store and disseminate textual , numeric and other forms of information . |
| 27 | Since its arrival in the eighteenth century , this is a literary mode which has recurrently been pronounced dead but which has been capable of renewal , and now Ackroyd has given a further turn to the wheel . |
| 28 | This situation has given a further boost to the microelectronics industry , which now has the incentive to apply its research and development programmes to telecommunications . |
| 29 | In addition — and I will begin with this point — linguistics has given a special status to the kind of binary opposition masculine/feminine exemplifies , and of which deconstructionists , including feminists , have been critical . |
| 30 | The ban on other languages operates like import controls to give a domestic monopoly to local people . |