Example sentences of "give it the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A moist but well-drained fertile soil in a warm sheltered corner will give it the best chance , and even then only in the mildest areas — and do not forget the slugs ! |
| 2 | One person might give the Conservative Party the highest of three high scores , another might give it the highest of three low scores . |
| 3 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in congratulating the chairman , trustees and staff of the Aintree national health service hospital trust on the establishment of a new £7 million project that will give it the largest accident and emergency unit in Europe ? |
| 4 | BT hopes its new initiatives will give it the upper hand in the bitter battle with Mercury , which it accuses of ‘ cherry picking ’ business customers while ignoring the less profitable residential market . |
| 5 | Is the hon. Gentleman saying that he would not give it the limited powers of disposal available in clause 4(4) ( b ) ? |
| 6 | I 'm gon na give it the big lips this afternoon . |
| 7 | I 'm gon na give it the big lips when I get in those bars . |
| 8 | Because the first one was quite small I did not give it the full ‘ advance ’ treatment that I usually do . |
| 9 | Let's give it the same conditions , only this time we use that as the bait . ’ |
| 10 | Hewlett-Packard Co is crossing itself to ward off any demons that would give it the same misery Sun Microsystems Inc is going through moving from Solaris 1.0 to Solaris 2.0 . |
| 11 | The programme is open to people who have been mulling over an idea for some time and experts will give it the commercial analysis it needs and , if it stands up , the business planning and search for funding that it merits . |
| 12 | Its flattened face and its long , soft fur give it the rounded appearance of a ‘ super-baby ’ , appealing to many humans . |
| 13 | Eat three good meals a day , give it the big lips at night and then go and eat a Chinese or fish and chips . ’ |
| 14 | All you or your workmen have to do is supply a concrete base and clad the outside walls in brick or stone and give it the finishing touches . |
| 15 | For them , the solution to the problem of pro-government bias is simple : the broadcasters should treat government and governing party as one and the same , and give it the same coverage as the main opposition party . |
| 16 | So you add them together and you give it the same sign . |
| 17 | The prominent white clasts are fragments of anorthosites — calcium and aluminium-rich rocks that make up the bulk of the lunar highlands crust and give it the light colour that is visible from Earth . |
| 18 | Following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union in that year [ see p. 34460 ] , the North-Rhine Westphalia administration refused to give it the necessary licence to operate [ see also p. 34444 ] . |
| 19 | The Government 's invited bids to save the Vulcan , but no one 's come up with the money needed to give it the necessary overhaul . |
| 20 | Real ale — or cask-conditioned beer , to give it the correct technical name — is the champagne of the beer world , a beer that reaches maturity inside its container in the pub cellar . |
| 21 | Woodworm and beetle infestation makes much of it unsuitable for structural work but treated and cleaned up with an adze to give it the right period look , much of it could be put to good decorative effect . |
| 22 | He showed Horsley and Everett politely round the castle , explaining how parts dated back to the fifteenth century , and telling the preposterous , but true , story of how the building , formerly the family home of the Fenwicks , had been shifted stone by stone from the foot of the hill in the 1930s to give it the spectacular view it now enjoyed . |
| 23 | I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left . |
| 24 | The first flowering plant I saw was a familiar one — the purple mountain saxifrage , Saxafraga oppositifolia to give it the scientific name . |
| 25 | ‘ The best design strategy is not to program a computer directly with the wealth of descriptive detail that constitutes a natural language but rather to give it the basic set of expectations and abilities that are needed to learn a language . ’ |
| 26 | Must remember that phrase : he could see it had struck and it struck him too : he paused to give it the silent applause of a mute punctuation . |
| 27 | Well you call it a run-on line and you call it an enjambement line to give it the French term . |
| 28 | Only a handful of people , it had been established , had been near enough to the leading car of the funicular to have been able to give it the fatal extra push that had sent Woodleigh and Jilly Jonathan tumbling down the steep hillside . |
| 29 | Passage of the new measure ( which had already been approved by the Senate in September 1989 ) precipitated an unprecedented constitutional crisis because of King Baudouin 's refusal to give it the royal assent . |
| 30 | ‘ The real problem is once again the Government is trying to rush through a complex pattern of assessment without the resources or time to give it the proper foundations . |