Example sentences of "it give [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | What constitutes the novelty of the Hellenistic age is that it gave international circulation to ideas , while strongly reducing their revolutionary impact . |
| 3 | It gave undue prominence to three particular points in the plane . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We loved it and he knew it gave great pleasure to the audience . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It gave cultural shape to a world outside school and home . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It gives great gloss to wild wet looks and is great value at only £1.09 for a 125ml tube . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The benefits of this method are that it can be easily understood and it gives total control over every element at all times . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It gives due weight to action research as a process rather than just a set of things to do . |
| 18 | It gives insufficient information about the reasons for its decisions . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It gives local government in Wales the money it needs to provide high quality services and to get on with the job . |
| 23 | A job gives structure and a reason for getting up in the morning : it gives human contact with colleagues , it gives ‘ busyness ’ . |
| 24 | But critics say it gives false hope to millions and they predict chaos , as local authorities run out of money and those on the edge , like the homeless , are squeezed out . |
| 25 | Section 3 only protects against actions of defamation in that it gives qualified privilege to extracts from any reports protected by sections I and 2 . |
| 26 | It gives long-lasting hold without stiffness or stickiness . |