Example sentences of "give it [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Media presentation has now become such a critical feature of the process of negotiations and public image-making that those who do not give it its due credit are likely to find their credibility in question . |
| 2 | ‘ When we do we will give it our full consideration . |
| 3 | But I will give it my best shot . ’ |
| 4 | But I can assure you I 'll give it my full attention . ’ |
| 5 | Juniper berries give it its distinctive flavour ( and its name ) , but each recipe is different . |
| 6 | It 's only when I 'm writing an article that I give it its proper name ! |
| 7 | ‘ We have to adopt a really attacking policy and give it our best shot , ’ declared Roxburgh , who has recalled creative players in Celtic 's Paul McStay and John Collins along with Rangers skipper Richard Gough . |
| 8 | I can do no better than give it my full recommendation . |
| 9 | Hopefully he can recover and regain his test place and give it his best shot . |
| 10 | As for Kinnockic ( or , to give it its scholarly name , Kinnockabout ) , its complexities defy analysis . |
| 11 | Among the insects , death-feigning ( or thanatosis , to give it its technical name ) occurs in some beetles , bugs , grasshoppers , stick insects and mantids . |
| 12 | This fear of cats , or ailurophobia to give it its technical name , is rare , but when it does occur it can cause untold misery for the sufferer and it is worth examining how it begins and how it can be cured . |
| 13 | Puerto de la Luz y Las Palmas , to give it its correct name , lies about two miles due south and is protected by a massive breakwater . |
| 14 | Osmone ( to give it its official name ) soothes because it is the first thing a newborn baby smells , he says . |
| 15 | So what is a Snowdrop , Galanthus to give it its botanical name , doing in flower now ? |
| 16 | The Economist , of all newspapers , ought to have the nerve , and the decency , to give it its proper name . |
| 17 | The history of the Central Wales Line , to give it its proper name , is typical of many railway lines in Great Britain . |
| 18 | The Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom ( to give it its full name ) needs little introduction . |
| 19 | The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and flora , to give it its full name , is an international treaty which regulates one of the most lucrative and controversial businesses — the international wildlife trade . |
| 20 | The ‘ Act for the Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt , for the Punishment of Fraudulent Debtors and other purposes ’ , to give it its full name , was , said Wetherfield , a very short , simple and sweeping measure , ‘ a great innovation upon what we have become accustomed to as the legal relations of debtor and creditor . ’ |
| 21 | To load and rename a backup file within Word , you have to give it its full name with the . |
| 22 | The arch of Porta Romana ai Bastioni , to give it its full title , was built in 1598 to commemorate Margherita of Austria leaving the city on her way to marry Philip III of Spain , although the ramparts into which it was fitted had been erected half a century before . |
| 23 | At ‘ The Caithness and Sutherland Industrial and Art Exhibition ’ to give it its full title , a labourer was charged with having done damage to the extent of £8 by falling upon a glass case and breaking a valuable jug the property of one John Fitsgibbon , china merchant . |
| 24 | I refer , to give it its full title , to the fine parish church of St John the Evangelist on the Malone Road . |
| 25 | But still the Peace People , or The Community of the Peace People , to give it its full title , continues its work from a base on the Lisburn Road in south Belfast . |
| 26 | To give it its full title , ‘ Variations on an Original Theme ( ‘ Enigma ’ ) ’ , was written in 1899 in the short space of four months , when Elgar was 42 . |
| 27 | SPECIAL EVENTS in any railway 's year attract both additional interest and much-needed revenue and later this year the Bala Lake Railway ( or Rheilffordd Lyn Tegid , to give it its Welsh name ) will be organising not one but three . |
| 28 | Nicholson could not now appear in the film because he was too old for the original role which had been designated for him , and anyway he wanted to give it his fullest attention as director . |
| 29 | But when it got to my last week I just thought stuff it , I 'm going to give it my best shot . |
| 30 | You were never entirely safe from prying fingers in Chinatown , but I had to give it my best shot . |