Example sentences of "[noun] gave it a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gurder and Angalo gave it a critical look . |
| 2 | In the last-named work he opened up lines of interpretation which , even if somewhat modified since , set firm foundations on which other scholars might build : the exuberant vigour and almost Niagara-like outpouring of scholarship gave it a memorable quality . |
| 3 | Loot gave it a whole lot of new reasons for guilt complexes . ’ |
| 4 | Yet the size of the rural community gave it a potent voice in political affairs . |
| 5 | The opera , like Gershwin 's Porgy and Bess the following year , used an all-Black cast and the staging and choreography gave it a British connection since it was by Frederick Ashton . |
| 6 | At either end of the village two long avenues of trees gave it a friendly air . |
| 7 | The Sudanese government , after weeks of insisting that reports of imminent famine were " baseless " , had asked potential donor countries on Oct. 25 for 75,000 tonnes of grain as a standby until an evaluation of the harvest gave it a clearer idea of the extent of the food shortage . |
| 8 | When a car passed by the men gave it a cursory glance . |
| 9 | During the six years that the Century Guild existed its output was modest , though its participation in public exhibitions gave it a considerable influence . |
| 10 | The roomy silos of the hull flanks gave it a bulbous appearance that defied approval by any aesthetic but the purely functional . |
| 11 | What is clear is that the military origins of nuclear power in this country gave it a powerful boost as an infant technology , and that the umbilical cord has not been severed . |
| 12 | It was always five o'clock of a winter evening there and all the tempting boxes gave it a night-before-Christmas look , a richly expectant atmosphere of surprise packages . |
| 13 | On the boat , Johnson asked about ‘ the use of the dirk , with which he imagined the Highlanders cut their meat ’ , and was told they also had knives and forks , that the men tended to hand the knives and forks to the women after they had cut their own meat which they then ate from their hands , and that one old Macdonald retainer always ate fish with his fingers , claiming that ‘ a knife and fork gave it a bad taste ’ . |