Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] give [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fall in Third World export prices has thus given a boost to the Gross National Product ( GNP ) of the rich countries , to the tune of something like $100 billion a year . |
| 2 | Suppose it lowers the prices it is prepared to pay ; this will mean a capital loss to the discount house if it has just given a bank a price consistent with current yields . |
| 3 | English National Opera has just given the world premiere of Robin Holloway 's Clarissa , after the Richardson novel , while next month the Almeida Festival will introduce The Intelligence Park by the Irish composer Gerald Barry , one of the most distinctive and exciting of the younger Europeans . |
| 4 | This has already given the Southerners ‘ Rameses the Great ’ , ‘ Treasures of the Hermitage ’ , and ‘ Splendors of the Ottoman Sultans ’ , and this month there opens an exhibition on the Etruscans from the Vatican museums . |
| 5 | Before issuing the questionnaire the purchaser 's solicitors should first collect and review all information that the vendor has already given the purchaser . |
| 6 | Consciously accumulated record has always given the historian evidence of enormous value ; inscriptions are an example . |
| 7 | I mean that the novel has always given the impression that third person narration can narrate what it is I am feeling . |
| 8 | Heelas has also given a survey of the different attempts at defining aggression , and the main theories which account for it ( Heelas 1982 , 1983 ) . |
| 9 | It has also given a commitment to ‘ investigate and develop appropriate child care options according to local needs ’ , including the possibility of secured places at local nurseries . |
| 10 | The South African Rugby Football Union has accepted an invitation to tour France in October and has also given the nod to the RFU invitation . |
| 11 | But having spent all his career in a family business , Sir Adrian has inevitably given a lot of thought to the responsibility a company should have for the community in which it operates . |
| 12 | He further told The Art Newspaper that completion of a new wing in 1991 has now given the Brooks the physical space to handle the attendance ‘ WONDERS ’ has drawn . |
| 13 | However , Environment Secretary Fulgencio Factoran has now given the project the go-ahead , on the grounds of the island 's alleged energy demand . |
| 14 | Church growth thinking has been slow to come to terms with the problem of nominality within existing churches , and has consequently given the impression that mission is simply making more and more people to become like ourselves . |
| 15 | What he then writes almost gives the impression of avoiding the confusion which I diagnosed above : ‘ This is how self-consciousness arises , the capacity to locate oneself within physical and social space … to know where one is and whom one is dealing with and what is expected of one ’ ( 47 ) . |
| 16 | As for Genet , someone whose involvement with the different has variously been repudiated as fascist , racist , and anarchistic , his Prisoner of Love is nothing less than an affirmation of the love that Fanon envisaged and which has sometimes given the dissident their courage . |
| 17 | So far James has never given a scrap of trouble and has passed his MoT test with flying colours . |
| 18 | Certainly he has never given a hint that he knows anything . |
| 19 | Few other British gritstone outcrops can challenge this impressive sentinel , and finishing any of the fine rock climbs here gives the feeling of actually reaching the top of an isolated mountain . |
| 20 | It may be that the correct account of knowledge does unfortunately give the sceptic the opening he is looking for . |
| 21 | He 's just given a couple of experimental tugs on the lifting slings and he reckons the bomber , with the help of the flotation bags , of course , is nearing a state of neutral buoyancy . |