Example sentences of "it give a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Look we 're it giving a hundred percent , you give it a hundred percent , we 'll shake hands it 's a partnership . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Though it gave a good account of itself , Dave gently persuaded the fish close enough to be lifted aboard the boat . |
| 5 | And you think it gave a better meat because |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It gave a better light than the matches , and we all began to count . |
| 8 | She dug it in deeper and it gave a horrific screech . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It gave a curious dignity to the tall crumbling tenements , covering the squalor and ugliness with purifying whiteness . |
| 13 | It gave a loud tinkle . |
| 14 | It gave a clear message that Courtaulds Aerospace meant business in Germany , he said . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And it gave a remarkable insight into thoughts and attitudes . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Do you think it gave a fair picture of what local radio is about ? |
| 19 | I think it gave a fair picture , yes . |
| 20 | 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 : |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It gives a clearer indication of future cash flows . |
| 24 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 25 | It gives a great deal of pleasure of motorists and passers-by . |
| 26 | But when mastered it gives a great feeling of exhilaration and achievement , in other words your ego 's going to get built if you 're good on that . |
| 27 | As a compendium of illustrations , invariably in good colour , it gives a visual document of the artist 's development unmatched by any other publication , particularly since it illustrates the small number of major works which could not be loaned to the exhibition . |
| 28 | This analogy can be helpful , particularly if it gives a visual dimension to our thinking . |
| 29 | Its attraction would seem to lie in the fact that it gives a formalized account of some of the popularly held impressions concerning the character of science , its explanatory and predictive power , its objectivity and its superior reliability compared with other forms of knowledge . |
| 30 | This would require that , in certain cases , a merger should be allowed even when it gives a combined share of more than 25 per cent of the European market . |