Example sentences of "[pron] lend a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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1 | Many early r'n'r bass players continued to use the upright bass , which lent a distinct voice to the records of the time . |
2 | The work has a masterly sense of proportion , an elegiac richness of palate and a spiritual far-sightedness which lent a radiant depth to the work 's mythological tapestry . |
3 | Erm , but , you know , which lent a certain point to the whole argument . |
4 | For a moment she stood looking around the wide hall , closely carpeted in dark , velvety blue which lent an added drama to the vivid Impressionist paintings , the apricot-coloured Knole settee . |
5 | But Dr Jones 's involvement with industry has led him into difficulties — which lend a critical edge to the parable . |
6 | Initially these are single-point characters , each designed to make a particular contribution to the course of the story , but during the narrative the lads , all around seventeen or eighteen , act with a degree of independence which lends a new depth to the book . |
7 | As in hundreds of communities across Central Europe , the Jews and Germans who lent a cosmopolitan air to towns and villages in Poland , Czechoslovakia and Hungary were murdered or expelled . |
8 | Morse said it lent a new meaning to the phrase ‘ keeping a shop ’ . ’ |