Example sentences of "it give [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he undertake to include the insurance industry in his fight against car crime and encourage it to give financial incentives by way of lower premiums to owners who improve the security of their vehicles ? |
| 2 | This Condition can only have effect if it is called into operation by the party wishing to rely on it giving written notice to the other to that effect . |
| 3 | What constitutes the novelty of the Hellenistic age is that it gave international circulation to ideas , while strongly reducing their revolutionary impact . |
| 4 | It gave additional powers to local authorities with severe inner area problems and the provisions only applied to three types of designated districts . |
| 5 | It gave undue prominence to three particular points in the plane . |
| 6 | Senator Warren Barry called Mr Clinton 's plan on gays in the military a ‘ fags in the foxhole ’ proposal , and the chairman of the Fairfax County Republicans , Patrick Mullins , said it gave new meaning to the military warning ‘ watch your rear flank , ’ according to the Post . |
| 7 | It also held East Indian bonds , and the fact that it gave substantial mortgages on land has led Dickson to suggest that to an extent it was diverting funds derived from industry and trade towards the landed interest . |
| 8 | We loved it and he knew it gave great pleasure to the audience . |
| 9 | At its worst it may have been a parasitic racket representing only itself to the detriment of all , but on the larger canvas of society it gave political power to a narrow group of substantial landowners in loose alliance with merchant princes and the small towns which returned members to Parliament . |
| 10 | Furthermore , it gave valuable information about the Permian sequence ; in particular it penetrated 370 ft of Upper Permian salt , and the 1800 ft of lavas and tuffs believed to be Lower Permian . |
| 11 | The Communist Party , though it gave full facilities to the People 's Vigilance Committee in the Daily Worker and Labour Monthly , continued to deny that the Convention was entirely inspired by the Party . |
| 12 | The foreign ministry in St Petersburg was in the first decades of the century ludicrously overstaffed : under Alexander I it gave ostensible employment to well over 700 people ( including the poet Pushkin ) , many of whom had no real duties whatever . |
| 13 | One of Pater 's subjects for a perceptive essay was Leonardo da Vinci ; it gave special prominence to the painting now generally known as the Mona Lisa . |
| 14 | It gave cultural shape to a world outside school and home . |
| 15 | There were two objections to this : firstly it was a British tune and secondly ( though less important ) it was well known that its full version included a line about crushing rebellious Scots ; and while the English national anthem may have pleased aggressively Anglophile spectators , it gave immense offence to thousands of ordinary Scots who quite understandably punctuated it with boos and whistles . |
| 16 | ‘ I hope it gives other kids like me a chance — they deserve it . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It gives regular reports on the state of the roads . ’ |
| 18 | It gives great gloss to wild wet looks and is great value at only £1.09 for a 125ml tube . |
| 19 | Receiving the award on behalf of the company , John Stewart , Managing Director , was delighted with the achievement ‘ It gives additional confidence to a range that was already well prepared and carefully targeted at a specific market ’ , he said . |
| 20 | Second , it gives extra time for the nice person proffering the basket to size you up — belt fastened , seat upright , bag not blocking exit — without being intrusive . |
| 21 | The benefits of this method are that it can be easily understood and it gives total control over every element at all times . |
| 22 | Kuhn 's demarcation criterion has been criticized by Popper on the grounds that it gives undue emphasis to the role of criticism in science ; by Lakatos because , among other things , it misses the importance of competition between research programmes ( or paradigms ) ; and by Feyerabend on the grounds that Kuhn 's distinction leads to the conclusion that organized crime and Oxford philosophy qualify as science . |
| 23 | It gives due weight to action research as a process rather than just a set of things to do . |
| 24 | It gives insufficient information about the reasons for its decisions . |
| 25 | The elicitation of free recall after oral reading supports their suggestions , as it gives fascinating insights into the thought processes of the readers . |
| 26 | It gives practical suggestions on how to develop your influencing skills , on how to become more versatile when influencing and on how to choose what tactics are best for the situation . |
| 27 | Present hyper-text provides mainly for small , simply structured documents and , in the way that it concentrates on factors at the human — machine interface , it gives good insight into the capabilities needed for a full hyper-medium system . |
| 28 | It gives certain answers to ultimate questions that modern philosophy or modern thought of whatever kind can not provide … to the degree that organised religion has decayed and the attachment to the Judeo-Christian tradition has become weaker , to that degree capitalism has become uglier and less justifiable . |
| 29 | It gives valuable experience to the Gofers , which is usually translated into a more effective contribution to their own work when they return to it . |
| 30 | It gives copious detail on four cases where a total of $100m is alleged to have been misappropriated through a complex web of transactions around the world . |