Example sentences of "giving it [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They echo the theme set in last year 's CBI Business Agenda for the 1990s with the emphasis on controlling inflation , public spending , strengthening the Department of Trade & Industry and giving it responsibility for the National Economic Development Council and opposing a national minimum wage . |
| 2 | Mountain View , California-based Starlight Networks Inc has announced it is to support the new Ungermann-Bass Inc DragonSwitch on its StarWorks video networking software : the software runs on an 80486 EISA computer , giving it video application server capabilities , and supports up to 20 users . |
| 3 | SWAP operated under the aegis of the Royal Society , giving it credibility in the eyes of the press and the collaborating Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . |
| 4 | The providers of training ended up playing the government 's games and giving it credibility when it was in reality doing nothing in a serious situation . |
| 5 | There is a scepticism about the likely effectiveness of the cross curricular themes , which , if genuinely given prominence , would weld the curriculum together , giving it direction , coherence and purpose . |
| 6 | no , but the spiders , I remember that one that got , was on the daddy-longlegs and he was just sitting there and he would n't move and no one would walk down the stairs , so we were just giving it pouf pouf and all throwing things at him trying to get him to go . |
| 7 | It was puny and small , for all the anguish in giving it birth . |
| 8 | This planet is cursed by the worship of a jealous super-male who ‘ fashioned ’ the world rather than ‘ giving it birth ’ . |
| 9 | Negativity can not exist without your giving it life . |
| 10 | Another comment described the work as a ‘ very , very luxurious painting ’ , having ‘ the life and energy that it 's got because of the colour underneath giving it life and vitality ’ . |
| 11 | He points out that under John Akers , IBM has built its desktop computing business to $8,500m in worldwide sales in 1991 , giving it 19% market share ; remained the worldwide leader in information technology revenues , at $62,800m last year up nearly 30% from $48,500m in 1985 when Akers took over ; and avoided the worst crisis that could have befallen it — which would have been to sacrifice investments in research and development for the sake of a fast buck — it spent $6,600m last year . |
| 12 | The cultivation of the mind entails giving it freedom to soar like a bird into the mind 's sky . |
| 13 | I it it still seems to me every time I read the policy that it 's a lot more flexible than most people are giving it credit for frankly . |
| 14 | To represent means to take the past and make it live again , giving it immediacy , vitality . |
| 15 | But whatever your dining area consists of , organizing it , giving it character and interest can bc challenging and stimulating . |
| 16 | One of the sailors has pursed his lips against a woodwind , his fingers and thumb governing , shall we say , the ventages , whereupon , giving it breath , let us say , with his mouth , it , the pipe , discourses , as the saying goes , most eloquent music . |
| 17 | It may in perfect good faith have misconstrued the provisions giving it power to act so that it failed to deal with the question remitted to it and decided some question which was not remitted to it . |
| 18 | Compaq Computer Corp has signed a distribution agreement with Beijing Stone Group Co Ltd , China 's largest private computer distributor , giving it access to Stone 's 100-plus sales outlets : it already has agreements with five other distributors for the vast Chinese market . |
| 19 | RTE claims to reach about 30pc of all homes in the province , mainly in the south and west , giving it 8pc of the total TV audience . |
| 20 | Creative colours from Anthony Skito brings life to this style , giving it movement and shine |
| 21 | A word can be made prominent by ( 1 ) giving it height and length ; ( 2 ) being louder than words in the same phrase ; or ( 3 ) being stressed by its position in the rhythmic design . |
| 22 | Implicit in these views was the fact that child abuse was considered to be only one of a range of problems that many families who come under the system 's microscope were experiencing , and that there was a need to respond to all the problems including child abuse , rather than of necessity giving it priority . |
| 23 | Giving it time , Jay thought , is not enough . |
| 24 | A football crew 's reputation could be severely damaged by giving it toes ( getting chased ) at Fulham Broadway . |
| 25 | It may be possible to distract a horse in some other way than in giving it food , so that it tolerates being shod . |
| 26 | After the first morning when it appeared in the garden I had gone on giving it food . |
| 27 | To start with you must teach the computer to recognise your writing by giving it examples of the way you write individual letters . |
| 28 | its fifth or its sixth leg giving it trouble . |
| 29 | Nicky just sits there giving it Squeak 's face , Squeak grabs her foot Squeak goes they start tumbling all about the cage , you can hear boof , boof , boof ! |