Example sentences of "[noun pl] give it a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sumptuous public rooms , marble floors and rugs give it a style of its own , and the restaurant opens onto a splendid waterfront terrace . |
| 2 | The subject of art has for too long been considered by many teachers as a frill , — there it is on the time-table , a compulsory subject ; some schools give it a period a week , some a double period , and some even more . |
| 3 | kids give it a shove , pushed it on the street |
| 4 | These raised the nap on the cloth , which could then be cropped with shears to give it a smoother finish . |
| 5 | There is more than a hint of classical Greece in the architecture , and the blue river seen through the sand-coloured columns gives it a Mediterranean freshness . |
| 6 | The spiny anteater , too , has a long pointed snout , but its spines give it a superficial resemblance to a hedgehog rather than to another typical anteater . |
| 7 | However , I 'm not too impressed by the pickups and need some replacements to give it a bit more OOMPH . |
| 8 | The PLA won enough seats to give it a two-thirds majority in the 250-member People 's Assembly , which would enable it to make constitutional changes without the support of other parties . |
| 9 | There is a lot of parental involvement and we have made several improvements to give it a better image . |
| 10 | There is a lot of parental involvement and we have made several improvements to give it a better image . |
| 11 | They still believed that they had put a 2Mb memory upgrade into one of these machines to give it a 4Mb of RAM . |
| 12 | But again the government retained extensive administrative powers to give it a free hand in dealing with radical writers and journalists . |
| 13 | For it had obviously been a palace once , the high Gothic arches of the medieval windows and the carved stone Romeo-and-Juliet balconies giving it a fairy-tale air . |
| 14 | The upper glen is delightful , the River Strontian and lovely trees giving it a parklike character . |
| 15 | At either end of the village two long avenues of trees gave it a friendly air . |
| 16 | sorts of different exchange situations gives it a specious advantage over other media of exchange . |
| 17 | Corinth was also famously cosmopolitan : its prostitutes gave it a reputation somewhere between nineteenth-century Paris and Post-Second World War Saigon : ‘ not everybody has the wealth to go to Corinth ’ the proverb said , and those who did go there might be unlucky and take away more than pleasant memories , judging from the terracotta penises still visible along with models of other parts of the body in the Corinth Museum — dedications by sufferers from venereal disease ( see also AJA , 1941 , 442f . ) . |
| 18 | The international settings and a word-list in six different languages give it a truly world-wide appeal . |
| 19 | The inference is that the ritual remained as a memory in the Middle Ages , if not in actuality , and was linked with historical personages to give it a little more authenticity . |
| 20 | When a car passed by the men gave it a cursory glance . |
| 21 | During the six years that the Century Guild existed its output was modest , though its participation in public exhibitions gave it a considerable influence . |
| 22 | The roomy silos of the hull flanks gave it a bulbous appearance that defied approval by any aesthetic but the purely functional . |
| 23 | The unusual-looking leaves give it a distinctive appearance . |
| 24 | It was always five o'clock of a winter evening there and all the tempting boxes gave it a night-before-Christmas look , a richly expectant atmosphere of surprise packages . |
| 25 | An apricot cave of pastel carpet and toning walls , soft lights , Mozart and easy chairs gave it a ‘ late evening lounge ’ feel , at odds with a white-capped staff bristling with efficiency behind the computerised reception . |
| 26 | It is easily visible with the naked eye , and binoculars give it a vaguely cruciform appearance . |
| 27 | Some of the case histories seem scientifically a little scanty but there is sufficient evidence of its effectiveness in the treatment of arthritis for sufferers to give it a try . |
| 28 | A party may also avoid being in breach by including clauses giving it a unilateral right to change the contents of the contractual obligations , such as clauses allowing the seller to change the delivery date , deliver a different quantity from that ordered by the buyer , alter colours , specifications etc. ( b ) Excluding liability A second alternative is for a clause to state , baldly , that a contracting party is not to be liable , or responsible , for stipulated acts . |
| 29 | Apprehending the world through these types gives it a preliminary coherency and ‘ standardized sameness ’ . |
| 30 | It is even possible that , far from weakening the Poles ' sense of their national identity , Nicholas 's educational endeavours gave it a fillip . |