Example sentences of "[adv] gave a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1900 Edinburgh Waverley Station boasted forty lady operators working in the telegraph department , sending out 4,000 messages a day.a But it was of course the First World War which suddenly gave a tremendous fillip to women 's employment in stations . |
| 2 | But by the nineteenth century knowledge itself had expanded so rapidly , and interest in locating published accounts of very specific knowledge units had developed so greatly , that all previous expedients had to some extent broken down , and the new public libraries proliferating in the UK , the USA , and elsewhere gave an added impetus to invention . |
| 3 | Even Fleury , who was perfectly conscious of the force of McNab 's arguments , nevertheless gave a visceral assent to those of Dr Dunstaple . |
| 4 | Farmers always gave a special supper to the sheep shearers when they had finished their work . |
| 5 | It also gave a decisive boost to the decline of the ‘ Führer myth ’ . |
| 6 | Liberal politicians also gave a cautious welcome to the appointment . |
| 7 | He also gave a firm pledge to ‘ build up and cherish ’ the National Health Service — which Labour had made one of its central campaign themes . |
| 8 | The parliament also gave a final reading to the bill creating republican armed forces [ see p. 38538 ] . |
| 9 | If his studies in ancient sculpture succeeded in making the notion of " art history " a public procession , they also gave a particular impetus to the study of ancient artifacts in their own right and to the historical study of antiquity as a whole . |
| 10 | The Chancellor also gave a further boost to exporters . |
| 11 | The organisers also gave a special award to veteran runner Albert Dolman , who was competing in the tenth consecutive run . |
| 12 | A rebound in factory output today gave a last-minute boost to Mr Clarke before tonight 's speech . |
| 13 | A GRIEVING mother wept over the body of her daughter , then gave a loving hug to the niece who killed her . |
| 14 | After finding that large numbers were addicted , researchers then gave a psychological test to two groups of children — some of those with the heaviest addiction and others who did not play computer games . |
| 15 | The team then gave a detailed presentation to the Quality Council complete with financial justification which showed an attractive return on what is a significant investment . |
| 16 | In the State Farm case the Supreme Court founded its intervention on the arbitrary and capricious test , but then gave a broader reading to that phrase than that provided in earlier cases . |
| 17 | Each student found out how to use all the facilities of the program from the documentation , including the drivechart , and then gave a short lesson to his peers . |
| 18 | So far as I know , she never gave a coherent account to anybody of her recollections , and there is no reason why she should have done ; but just as any scrap of information about Shakespeare — from anybody , a servant , amanuensis , ostler , for instance — would be of the greatest interest , so a testimony from one so close as Miss Hinson would have been worth having . |