Example sentences of "it give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got it given to me so er if you think it 's a different one you can tell me . |
| 2 | They probably , they probably get it given to you on your school pizzas |
| 3 | What reassurance does it give to people who might suffer damage due to a change in groundwater level when the Bill permits the Secretary of State to weaken the groundwater provisions ? |
| 4 | Polluted water often smells , and a serious and persistent pollution may turn a stream anaerobic , causing it to give off hydrogen sulphide , with its familiar odour of rotten eggs . |
| 5 | And I 'm not prepared to go on paying three thousand a year renting it to give to him when I could be buying one myself . |
| 6 | An irony of the Budget was that what it gave with one hand it took away with the other . |
| 7 | The launch conference was successful in many ways , one of which was the opportunity it gave for students and staff to display the already high quality of work across many areas of the curriculum . |
| 8 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 9 | Not the least surprising aspect of the BBC radio documentary ’ The Price of Perfection ’ was the space it gave to the aggrieved reminiscences of the Philharmonia Orchestra 's former first flute , Gareth Morris . |
| 10 | Next , a story lifted from the Daily Mail about Professor Jerrold Petrofsky 's work in Dayton , Ohio , and the hope it gave to the paralysed PC Philip Olds . |
| 11 | We discussed the cosmic background microwave irradiation and the support the discovery of it gave to the big bang theory . |
| 12 | Thus the Church , for all the opportunities which it gave to men to find new lives and lofty ideals , to transcend the limitations of the age , still , in its main structure , reflected the social organization of the world . |
| 13 | She had learnt long ago that Nahum 's chief interest in the Foundling Hospital was the boost it gave to his own ego being on the Board of Governors , a position acquired mainly through the generosity of his brother-in-law , John Bradford , who always supported the charity financially . |
| 14 | The humble old Citroën 2CV probably never realised just how much it gave to European light aviation ! |
| 15 | The atmosphere remained fraught , and though he may have secretly relished the animation it gave to things , he needed to settle into a quiet routine if he was going to produce good work . |
| 16 | Indeed , the new economy , the concomitant increase.in the standard of living and the purchasing power which it gave to the individual sounded the death-knell for the minor guilds . |
| 17 | Although we think of it now as a packaging material and the ubiquitous polythene bag appears to be a major support of modern life , its primary contribution was in the impetus it gave to the plastic moulding industry and the first development of plastic buckets , sink bowls and so on . |
| 18 | I had won the scholarship to the grammar school and I could n't begin to describe the joy it gave to Aunt Hettie and Uncle Fred . |
| 19 | It gave to the administrative unity of Bourbon Spain , ‘ the supreme creation of the eighteenth century ’ , an emotional content . |
| 20 | She was thrilled with the suffragettes ' tenacity and the expression it gave to her feelings about being in some kind of sexual trap . |
| 21 | I swung the axe in swift rhythm , glad of the release it gave to the tension I felt building inside and around me . |
| 22 | He laid both hands to the ring and turned it , and it gave to his cautious thrust and let him in . |
| 23 | I picked it up and checked on what news it gave of the train . |
| 24 | His ring sparkled on her finger , lit by the flames of a fire in the grate ; Paul had the fancy that she turned her fingers deliberately , enjoying the ring 's brilliance and the evidence it gave of prosperity and caste . |
| 25 | I have often thought , since writing it , how poor a picture it gave of the events and dynamic forces here . |
| 26 | Similarly , hearing increased in importance both for the information it gave about the environment in general , and for communication within the species ; hence the stage was also set for language to be born . |
| 27 | The tribunal also ruled that a 1982 McBride article in the Australian Journal of Biological Sciences was false and misleading in the details it gave about rabbits used in an experiment with another drug . |
| 28 | Legislation , however , is a dangerous invention : ‘ It gave into the hands of men an instrument of great power which they needed to achieve some good , but which they have not yet learned so to control that it may not produce great evil ’ . |
| 29 | For over three decades , Moscow has stuck to the explanation it gave in 1957 to the then Swedish Prime Minister , Tage Erlander : that 10 years before , in July 1947 , Raul Wallenberg had died in Lubyanka prison . |
| 30 | Accordingly , the Agricultural Training Board , like similar organisations , needed to consider the priorities it gave in these areas . |