Example sentences of "have given [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Salman Rushdie affair has given a whole new meaning to both anti-racist and black community politics . |
| 2 | A company director has given a whole new meaning to the term ’ house painting ’ . |
| 3 | R. L. Poole has given the following hypothetical example to illustrate this : |
| 4 | Benedict , a Californian now based in Hertford , has given the 405 low-volume side-tanks to make the boat less likely to invert and easier to right . |
| 5 | The designation of the US Snake River sockeye salmon as an endangered species has given the National Marine Fisheries Service the power to overrule local industry and government in deciding the fate of the Columbia River system . |
| 6 | In fact , if I 'd been there I would have given the wretched old woman a hefty slap myself — just to see how she liked it ! ’ |
| 7 | You 've given a goodly little pile here . |
| 8 | I decided that it was perhaps because they were n't possessive and had given no other human being the feeling that having been once disgorged he was n't safe and at any moment might find himself gobbled up again and back in the confines of a body not his own . |
| 9 | About five months earlier he had attended an open day at the power station during which the Acting Administrative Officer , Hilary Robarts , had given a short preliminary talk . |
| 10 | She was detained because the authorities suspected that she had given a Tibetan nationalist flag to a Buddhist monk from Gyurme monastery . |
| 11 | Mr George Jameson , a dentist in Southend Avenue , Darlington , had given an electronic dental chair , instruments and equipment worth around £1,500 . |
| 12 | I have got to know him : he would not go round there unless she had given the all clear . ’ |
| 13 | There are a considerable number of Labour Party members sitting in this Council Chamber who have given a greater financial contribution than they ever expected to make because was Treasurer . |
| 14 | Celebrities have given a big welcome back to a theatre that 's reopened after a two hundred thousand pound pound refit . |
| 15 | The possession and mastery of one 's own instrument , and the opportunity to contribute to an ensemble have given an exciting new dimension to music-making . |
| 16 | In Ecuador there has been little unionisation , but organisations based on ethnicity have given the indigenous rural population an effective foundation for action . |