Example sentences of "the [noun sg] give [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 More wounding than the question is the inability to give a coherent answer .
2 The support given the previous day to German neo-Nazis in two regional elections there was the starting point for his attack on PR ; a first-past-the-post system and stringent policies on asylum and immigration were preventing an extreme-right emergence in Britain , so he argued .
3 Out of the corner of his eye he saw the stretcher give a great jump .
4 Would it not help if the board gave a written assurance to the people who 've been complaining here that they will meet them on any occasion to discuss the problem in writing please because from Brenda it appears that it just does not happen .
5 In the garden scenes , the technique gives a tangible impression of organic growth , of nature recycling itself , now buds and shoots evolving out of the rotting vegetation of last year 's earthly fruits .
6 The afternoon gives a first real taste of the majestic Canadian Rocky Mountains .
7 The Creole gives an added emphasis to the last part of the turn and marks its imminent end : this is shown by the reaction of the other speakers .
8 Lamarr Dean was facing the Apache , starting to drink , sipping at the whisky to give the Apache all the chance he needed .
9 If , as is becoming increasingly common , the contract gives a female executive maternity leave rights which are more generous than the minimum legal requirement , the employer must of course comply with those terms .
10 The chairman gave an audible gulp .
11 As an example , every three months the buyer gives a 12 months forward forecast .
12 That time my father was on the deck giving a dramatic blow by blow account of Dunkirk , which was overheard by a family from Stoke-on-Trent who promptly dived for their life jackets .
13 The grant gives a significant boost to the National Park Authority 's Barns and Walls Conservation Scheme to protect drystone walls and scattered stone field barns in upper Swaledale and Arkengarthdale .
14 But to say that my experience is ‘ experience of God ’ is to move beyond the experience to give a particular interpretation of it .
15 However , as I said before , for tuck and slip one positions the point cams two stitches in from the edge of the knitting to give a neat edge .
16 The application still ran close to the user to give a crisp look and feel .
17 The usual dog-legs associated with a bomber raid were inserted into the route to give a false impression of the ultimate destination , and the Mosquito Light Night Striking Force carried out spoof attacks on either side of the main track with " Window " attacks and actually dropping T IS on probable targets along the route .
18 You said about the the driver giving the left-hand indication as he 's about to leave the roundabout .
19 The interruption gave the two kneeling men a chance to look up , and to see each other looking up .
20 Camping on the floor of the Ngorongoro crater is much more exciting : there are all sorts of beasties roaming within its walls and the noises of the bush around the campfire give a true sense of the wild .
21 He held it up to the light to give a clearer view .
22 The light gives a honeyed sheen to the barley and wheat .
23 A second attractive Beckmann , ‘ Blick auf das Meer ’ from a private collection in Switzerland was withdrawn from the auction to give the former owner , the Wallraf-Richartz Museum of Cologne the opportunity to buy it back .
24 Carve both from the top in a boat shape , and from the side to give the round hull .
25 The Winchester lecture series was particularly successful and a lay audience heard the President give the annual Isle of Wight Discourse .
26 His pledge came after the president gave a dramatic special pardon to former Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five top aides of former President Ronald Reagan .
27 The figure gives a detailed breakdown of patients included and excluded from the study .
28 She felt the fence give a little and then it literally threw her back into the arms of the man with the mask .
29 He gave her a cool smile just as the car gave a throaty growl and leaped forward .
30 Yet as long as France and Germany remain committed to it , the programme to give the whole European market a non-inflationary money still has bite .
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