Example sentences of "[verb] to give it [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arts minister , Jordi Sole Tura , wants to give it the ornate edifice that currently houses the ministry of agriculture . |
| 2 | Alibert fresh pasta from Olga Catering is also in special packaging , which is said to give it a guaranteed shelf-life of 60 days . |
| 3 | The Government 's invited bids to save the Vulcan , but no one 's come up with the money needed to give it the necessary overhaul . |
| 4 | I understand they were persuaded to give it a further year 's grace in the hope of improvements to its organisational structure . |
| 5 | The fabric may be textured to give it a rougher surface , resembling canvas . |
| 6 | 6 assorted jars of chutney , unused ( I do n't know about you but I seem to accumulate chutney , pickles , lemon curd , etc. , faster than I can demolish it and rather than throw it away when useless , I 'd prefer to give it a good home — the best way of all is to sneak the jars into the National Trust shop at your local Hall or Towers and leave them among the chutneys already there ) |
| 7 | I do n't happen to think bolting is in the least bit environmentally damaging ( at least not compared with other activities going on around it ) but mechanical drills are bound to give it a bad image — the message her is ‘ bolters , do your stuff in winter or at night . ’ |
| 8 | Whatever type of path you intend to lay , you will have to give it a proper foundation if it is to last for any length of time . |
| 9 | Norfolk-born Mavis McKechnie , 71 , of Mill House , Wissington , near Nayland , has wanted to try the walk for some time and decided to give it a serious purpose . |
| 10 | Since a day return to Ribblehead may be something of a unilateral occasion , the collection aims to give it a proper station in life . |
| 11 | He recognizes that it might be regarded in a pejorative sense as indicating a readiness to compromise and to accept something inferior , but he uses the term , nevertheless , for the want of a better word and tries to give it a different connotation . |
| 12 | When he opened it moths flew out and he had to give it a good clean to get rid of the cobwebs and years of dust that had settled inside . |
| 13 | Must remember that phrase : he could see it had struck and it struck him too : he paused to give it the silent applause of a mute punctuation . |
| 14 | The magazine was in trouble long before David Thomas and his young guns attempted to give it a lifesaving bypass . |
| 15 | The last one we had we had a budget of ten thousand pounds the company which did it said that it would normally not take on a project of that sort of cost but they found a junior member of staff to take it on and the end product I mean that 's going back nearly five years now , was quite er acceptable and welcome but now it it looks very much out , the force has been reorganised , we need to give it a new look . |
| 16 | Following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union in that year [ see p. 34460 ] , the North-Rhine Westphalia administration refused to give it the necessary licence to operate [ see also p. 34444 ] . |
| 17 | I have to give it an important-sounding name . |
| 18 | He wanted to give it a space-age look so , apparently , he went to one of the companies here which specialises in metal research for NASA . ’ |
| 19 | Choosing what to include took some time , though I wanted to give it an artistic flavour . ’ |