Example sentences of "[noun sg] has 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 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | BNFL 's donation towards the scheme is £25,000 while Sellafield Charity Snowball Committee has given a further £2,000 . |
| 6 | This work has given a close insight into problems of pollution , congestion , intense company group pressure , sexism and racism . |
| 7 | A company director has given a whole new meaning to the term ’ house painting ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Continued economic restraint has given a new urgency to demands to improve the efficiency of management in the public sector . |
| 10 | His absence has given a rare opportunity to his deputy and political rival , Zhu Rongji , who has taken over the reins of government . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Salman Rushdie affair has given a whole new meaning to both anti-racist and black community politics . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Wurlitzer has given a geographical explanation of great fluidity . |
| 17 | More recently the vast programme of legislation for the completion of the single market has given a new urgency to the matter . |
| 18 | The House has given a great deal of detailed attention to the Bill , and the promoters and the petitioners have devoted a great deal of time and effort to the case . |