Example sentences of "it give a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let it give an extra colour spice dimension to everything you do . |
| 2 | One can therefore say that the courts retain the power to read statutes in the light of general principles , the only question being whether the particular court will be able to find or invent a general principle that will enable it to give a sensible effect to the statute . |
| 3 | When Her Majesty used this coach , a platform , or flat truck was placed ahead of it to give an unobstructed view . |
| 4 | Look we 're it giving a hundred percent , you give it a hundred percent , we 'll shake hands it 's a partnership . |
| 5 | It gave a low moan and Nuadu felt the nausea lift his stomach again , because there had been a very nearly sexual quality in the sound . |
| 6 | Though it gave a good account of itself , Dave gently persuaded the fish close enough to be lifted aboard the boat . |
| 7 | And you think it gave a better meat because |
| 8 | It gave a better living standard to farmers , helped an area of the EEC economy which ( except for Holland ) was labour-intensive and inefficient , and it led the Community to grow more of its own food , guaranteeing supplies to consumers . |
| 9 | It gave a better light than the matches , and we all began to count . |
| 10 | She dug it in deeper and it gave a horrific screech . |
| 11 | Expanded to book-length , as Soft Energy Paths , it gave a new catch phrase to the language and , made Lovins a household word in the US — albeit to American nuclear interests in particular , something of a four-letter word . |
| 12 | It gave a great sense of shared purpose among the senior managers and staff to agree procedures and instructions quickly in order to get the critical mass of a system operational . |
| 13 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 14 | It gave a curious dignity to the tall crumbling tenements , covering the squalor and ugliness with purifying whiteness . |
| 15 | It gave a loud tinkle . |
| 16 | It gave a clear message that Courtaulds Aerospace meant business in Germany , he said . |
| 17 | It gave a clear hint that the threat could come from either the public or the private sectors , and it set out a number of principles for handling personal information which , as the Younger Principles , have become famous ; they survive in recognisable form in the Schedule of the Data Protection Act of 1984 , where they assume an unusual importance . |
| 18 | And it gave a remarkable insight into thoughts and attitudes . |
| 19 | When the wind comes from the East it gave a high acidity , and also one day it was coming from the South , which maybe is local fall-out from Didcot . |
| 20 | Do you think it gave a fair picture of what local radio is about ? |
| 21 | I think it gave a fair picture , yes . |
| 22 | All I had was a testimonial from Harold Fletcher of G.C.H.Q. , which was no testimonial in that it gave a potential employer absolutely no enlightenment because it could not do so : |
| 23 | Like so much of the show , it gave a touching twist to the common run of things ; it was as if he could n't bear to see us go . |
| 24 | He heard himself , it sounded like a door opening somewhere inside him , it was an old door , it had been stuck for years , you had to heave on it , you needed all your strength , and then it gave a few inches , and cried out as it gave . |
| 25 | The removal of the box at Pinmore made his photograph possible as it gave an unimpeded view of the subject . |
| 26 | But it gave an added attraction to the plenary session anyway . |
| 27 | The smell of waterproofs and leather was very strong in the confined space of the cloakroom , and it gave an unreal quality to everything . |
| 28 | The egg which had been stirred into it gave an unusual texture , and the pepper added pungency . |
| 29 | I chose the example I did because it gave an important history of another library , Glasgow , and because it had also belonged at one time to the Guildhall Library , which had passed it on to them . |
| 30 | It gives a clearer indication of future cash flows . |