Example sentences of "give it the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Is the hon. Gentleman saying that he would not give it the limited powers of disposal available in clause 4(4) ( b ) ? |
| 3 | I 'm gon na give it the big lips this afternoon . |
| 4 | I 'm gon na give it the big lips when I get in those bars . |
| 5 | Because the first one was quite small I did not give it the full ‘ advance ’ treatment that I usually do . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Its flattened face and its long , soft fur give it the rounded appearance of a ‘ super-baby ’ , appealing to many humans . |
| 8 | Eat three good meals a day , give it the big lips at night and then go and eat a Chinese or fish and chips . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ] . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The first flowering plant I saw was a familiar one — the purple mountain saxifrage , Saxafraga oppositifolia to give it the scientific name . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Well you call it a run-on line and you call it an enjambement line to give it the French term . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | The Shone Soil and Water Conservation and Afforestation Project ( to give it the full name ) is situated in Sike Awraka , Southern Shewa . |
| 24 | The arts minister , Jordi Sole Tura , wants to give it the ornate edifice that currently houses the ministry of agriculture . |
| 25 | The ‘ keys ’ or trigger features required to ‘ unlock ’ these two types of cell are rather simple — it is just a matter of applying a small stimulus in the right place , and giving it the correct sign , an increase for one and a decrease for the other . |
| 26 | Replacing an old , dark-coloured carpet with bright , painted boards can transform the character of a room , giving it the visual uplift it needs . |
| 27 | I 'd have been in it and in those bars in Gibraltar giving it the big lips by last night . ’ |
| 28 | But Aldi says it has had trouble : the Office of Fair Trading is investigating Aldi 's claim that suppliers , frightened of affronting their main customers , have been giving it the cold shoulder . |
| 29 | The human conscience should be respected and revered as the most precious and effective thing that the human race , in its struggle to civilise itself , has available , and it can be used only by giving it the utmost priority in child training . |
| 30 | The reason I have given it the temporary title referred to above is because I have witnessed at least two name exchanges at the station in recent months . |