Example sentences of "[verb] give [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was described by Lord Provost Black in 1845 as a school which has conferred a lustre upon our city and which has given a tone to the manners and intellect of all its inhabitants . |
| 2 | I do n't suppose for one moment she has given a thought to what life might be like if she had to ‘ make do ’ married to someone who was n't too well off . |
| 3 | One of the major trusts in Grampian is seeking £1.5m to develop contract setting and monitoring and has given a contract to a firm of management consultants to handle contracting issues with fundholders . |
| 4 | For example , a company which has given a preference to a person connected with the company is rebuttably presumed to have been influenced by a desire to prefer that person . |
| 5 | It captures the fundamental agreement that has given a unity to the perspectives of leading constitutional authorities , but it does not reveal the disputes that have existed within liberal-democratic constitutional theory . |
| 6 | A recent finding in the New South Wales Supreme Court has given a fillip to accountancy practices across Australia . |
| 7 | It has given a lift to the people of Donegal what with all the problems of immigration , unemployment and high interest rates . |
| 8 | ERNEST Saunders , jailed for his part in the Guinness affair , has given a lecture to business students in which he spoke about ethics in management . |
| 9 | Accommodating the exiled Kuwaitis has given a boost to the depressed property market , especially in the Eastern Province , where rents have tripled in the past year . |
| 10 | That 's the , that 's the crux of the story , she 's she 's campaigning against bad language and she sent , has given a letter to all the in the school with fuck you in it . |
| 11 | Larder , who has given the captaincy to tough utility forward Paul Hulme , is also expecting great things from giant Welsh second rower Paul Moriarty . |
| 12 | Agriculture minister John Gummer has given the go-ahead to the establishment of a new Central Science Laboratory on a greenfield site at Sand Hutton , near York . |
| 13 | In order to publicise his efforts to redesign and brighten up the Champs Elysées , the Mayor of Paris , Jacques Chirac , has given the go-ahead to an open air exhibition devised jointly by his own City Hall and gallery owner Didier Imbert . |
| 14 | The Chinese government has given the go-ahead to the building of a controversial dam across the Yangtze river as a means of controlling the annual flooding in central and eastern China . |
| 15 | Immediately — before Edmund 's soliloquy , Edgar , still in disguise , has given the letter to Albany ( 40–50 ) , and for the first time the forces of good have a superior knowledge over the hypocrites . |
| 16 | ‘ Paddy Ashdown has given the kiss-of-life to an ailing Prime Minister , ’ said Labour front-bencher John Prescott . |
| 17 | The leader of the Bosnian Serbs has given an assurance to the United Nations that they 'll stop firing on non-military targets in Sarajevo . |
| 18 | THE National Association of Public Service Advertisers has given an award to Edinburgh 's Zero Tolerance Campaign . |
| 19 | This conference has to give a message to Jo John Smith to maintain union links , to strengthen them , not destroy them . |
| 20 | THE NOBEL PRIZE committee is expected to give a boost to the drive for political freedom in east Europe when it announces the winners of the Peace Prize in Oslo today . |
| 21 | IN his Autumn Statement tomorrow the Chancellor is expected to give the go-ahead to several multi-million pound projects that would provide British industry with the boost it needs . |
| 22 | It reminds me of eating wild boar in Tuscany where fennel seed is traditionally added to give an edge to the flavour . |
| 23 | The past century has seen the standard form of family trust change from the old strict settlement based on successive limited interests and designed to keep specific land in the family , to the discretionary trust of personalty designed to give no interest to anybody for inheritance tax purposes . |
| 24 | Opposition parties — which had called for two rounds of voting — claimed that the provisions were designed to give the advantage to the ruling Cameroon People 's Democratic Movement ( RDPC ) over emerging opposition parties which had intended to join forces during the campaign . |
| 25 | If they were to try to give an answer to the question at the head of this section , they would probably try to give a general account of factors which encourage or discourage chickens from crossing roads . |
| 26 | She said : ‘ We do have a large level of donation to the unit because people want to give the money to us . |
| 27 | ‘ I want to give the impression to the rest of the world that things are bad but we are holding our own . ’ |
| 28 | If you want to give the bookmark to a friend you could put their name on it . |
| 29 | Similarly , the manager in charge of a local authority department may need to give a lead to others in defining the role and objectives of that department . |
| 30 | The road had for so long been the only goal that I 'd given no thought to anything beyond . |