Example sentences of "give it [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do this they will need not only a knowledge of the vocabulary of steps through which dancers communicate , but an ability to explain their design so that dancers can give it depth of feeling ( see page 78 ) . |
| 2 | Its two solar rings will give it power for fifteen years to send back the closest and clearest pictures of the universe ever seen . |
| 3 | You would give it mouth to mouth if it was dead , if its heart had stopped beating . |
| 4 | It scampered towards the cat door that would give it access to the bigger house at the end of the row , but suddenly it stopped . |
| 5 | I am able to respond to their emergent writing honestly and give it significance in the drama . |
| 6 | This area is the Coulin Forest , bounded by roads that give it detachment from other high ground , its mountains forming a compact group but individually having distinction of character and outline , some being of arresting appearance . |
| 7 | Give it schools fe education |
| 8 | not give it room on the disk |
| 9 | Did it come as a sudden revelation and a flash of light to Brigadier Crawley , or was it that the development corporation , with its vast capital expenditure , needed a prestige project to give it credence in the eyes of the commercial world ? |
| 10 | ( As the project has developed , the Coordinating Team has had more confidence in " delaying " a Major award to a school by a year to give it time for further consolidation . ) |
| 11 | And in ‘ Macbeth ’ , ‘ when Tarquin ‘ rapes ’ the crown , and the Boar climbs into Duncan 's slashed skin and stands up King of Scotland ’ , one must simply groan , because for all the tortuous extravagance of metaphor , and the twists and turns of myth intended to give it power like twisted elastic , one is not being told anything novel . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , the credit arm is shifting to plc status , as a full Ford subsidiary , to give it access to a wider choice of borrowing sources and ‘ to offer more competitive interest rates ’ , says Chairman Alec Murray . |
| 13 | A huge head it had on it with rows of teeth and this long sleek green body with all the fins sort of pushed down towards the tail to give it speed in the water I suppose . |
| 14 | They echo the theme set in last year 's CBI Business Agenda for the 1990s with the emphasis on controlling inflation , public spending , strengthening the Department of Trade & Industry and giving it responsibility for the National Economic Development Council and opposing a national minimum wage . |
| 15 | SWAP operated under the aegis of the Royal Society , giving it credibility in the eyes of the press and the collaborating Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . |
| 16 | I it it still seems to me every time I read the policy that it 's a lot more flexible than most people are giving it credit for frankly . |
| 17 | Compaq Computer Corp has signed a distribution agreement with Beijing Stone Group Co Ltd , China 's largest private computer distributor , giving it access to Stone 's 100-plus sales outlets : it already has agreements with five other distributors for the vast Chinese market . |
| 18 | RTE claims to reach about 30pc of all homes in the province , mainly in the south and west , giving it 8pc of the total TV audience . |
| 19 | To start with you must teach the computer to recognise your writing by giving it examples of the way you write individual letters . |
| 20 | I have found that erm it seems basically to be a very pessimistic kind of fiction , more pessimistic than people have often given it credit for , largely because they tend to see , for example in Dashiell Hammett , who 's the author I 'm most interested in from this period , erm a precursor of a lot of heroes , private eyes , who were said to have a very kind of steely moral integrity , which they balance against a general corruption in the world outside , and it does seem to me that in fact with Hammett the detective mirrors the corruption of that world as much as he stands against it , so that it does seem to me rather pessimistic . |
| 21 | I had n't given it houseroom for long enough . |
| 22 | ‘ I should have given it consideration in such a small place as Wakefield … |
| 23 | And the recent deal with Tivoli Systems Inc ( CI NO 2,107 ) has given it access to SQL and object-oriented database tools . |
| 24 | Old Nick gives it hell at Viva Eight |
| 25 | FLAW ( Foreign Languages at Work ) grew dramatically and there is no doubt that the quality of the award combined with its flexibility and relevance to the workplace gives it value to both employees and employers . |
| 26 | BRITISH STEEL yesterday snapped up the country 's biggest steel stockholding company in a £330m deal which gives it control of 20 per cent of the UK market and turns two Lancashire businessmen into millionaires many times over . |
| 27 | Lord Acton gave it expression for the first time in 1887 , in a letter which Tolkien might have been interested enough to read — it is in a strongly anti-Papal context . |
| 28 | The West 's involvement in Iraq gave it responsibility for dealing actively with the situation there , despite the mealy-mouthed excuses for allowing Saddam Hussein to survive . |
| 29 | They stand condemned by the very tenets of their religions unless that religion is in itself a perverse and cancerous development which will in time kill what gave it birth in any case . |
| 30 | And gave it shelter at the closing Day : |