Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to give a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This year the Chancellor has been insisting that the pound can not be allowed to go any lower , because of the dangers of inflation ; and he has allowed the Bank of England to give a strong endorsement of his argument . |
| 2 | The Russian leader threw the carefully arranged welcome into chaos when he slipped past the RAF guard of honour to give a brief interview in his own language to Russian reporters . |
| 3 | In 1642 he was appointed by the House of Commons to give a weekly lecture at Lewisham , Kent , but was obstructed by the vicar and some of the local inhabitants . |
| 4 | Try mixing two types of chocolate to give a marbled effect before pouring into the moulds . |
| 5 | Stimulation with cholera toxin involved addition of 15 µl of toxin dissolved in 5 mmol/l Tris HCl , 174 mmol/l NaCl , 0.3 mmol/l NaN 3 , and 0.1 mmol/l EDTA to each 1.5 ml of suspension to give a final concentration of 500 ng/ml . |
| 6 | The Festival 's tribute to the work , teaching and writing of Raymond Williams will this year feature Alan Fountain who has been invited by the Festival and the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham to give a special talk in his memory . |
| 7 | The eastern influence from Constantinople had merged with that of Italy to give a coherent style . |
| 8 | Shifts of register therefore work with other indications of point of view to give a multidimensional sense of situation . |
| 9 | ‘ I think one of the functions of the novel is to offer a critique of the totalising claims of discourse to give a total explanation , whether the discourse be literary , religious or industrial . ’ |
| 10 | Hot flushes are caused by the capillaries suddenly filling with blood to give a sudden rush to the face , neck and shoulders , with extra body heat and perspiration . |
| 11 | Divide each rectangular cake in half widthways and sandwich one on top of the other with buttercream to give a four-storey cake . |
| 12 | For instance , you can build up a design that looks as though it has been pressed as a single spray ( see pp. 98–9 ) , although in fact each flower and leaf should be positioned with care to give a natural effect . |
| 13 | An arbitrary temperature T o is first chosen to serve as a reference which in the present case is 298 K. As values of the relaxation modulus have been measured at widely differing temperatures , they must be corrected for changes in the sample density with temperature to give a reduced modulus , where ρ and ρ o are the polymer densities at T and T o respectively . |
| 14 | This has been done in the case of a number of last ( Ipswichian ) interglacial deposits in Britain to give a clearer idea of sea level at that period and the amount of East Anglian downwarping since ( Sparks and West , 1971 ) . |
| 15 | In order to give a rounded picture of the changes confronting the farm worker today , we must not only consider the transformations in work and technology and the equally manifest , if less discontinuous , factors underlying his level of pay and conditions . |
| 16 | He was welcomed back to London by the Lord Mayor of Westminster , timing his return to 12,34 and 56 seconds in order to give a digital reading of 1234567890 . |
| 17 | In order to give a good effect a fairly wide range of delay times are required , and apparently it is important that the longer times are not exact multiples of the shortest time . |
| 18 | This section will analyse the development of this initiative over its first few years , in order to give a particular example of local political activity at a particular time in a particular place . |
| 19 | Using laser pulses , the satellite will monitor various tracking stations very accurately in order to give a detailed picture of movements in the Earth 's crust and thereby , it is hoped , to help earthquake prediction . |
| 20 | This means that the non-digestible calories in the plant cell walls , which will eventually be expelled in the faeces , have already been subtracted in order to give a realistic calorie figure for each carbohydrate food . |
| 21 | In order to give a full account of the scope of public law it is necessary to add to the institutional criterion ( are we dealing with a governmental body ? ) a functional criterion — was the body performing a governmental function ? |
| 22 | In order to give a valid consent , it is necessary that the patient had the capacity to do so . |
| 23 | The so-called culinary herbs , parsley , mint , basil and so on , all have characteristic flavours which enable them to be used in recipes of their own , or added to dishes to give a tantalizing piquancy . |
| 24 | It is then up to Bs to give a reasonable excuse . |