Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The soft lines of the sweatshirt that moulded the broad shoulders gave him an air of easy , masculine power , and the blue almost exactly matched the blue of his eyes . |
| 2 | In reply , the Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces gave me certain assurances . |
| 3 | The advantages of the Lucas bus is that the rubber tyres give it better grip on steel and help to reduce shocks on the chassis . |
| 4 | When the result — 373 votes for , 12 against — flashed up on the black and green computer screens at either end of the chamber , the assembled deputies gave themselves a short , self-congratulatory round of applause . |
| 5 | The old houses give you the creeps do n't they Bill ? |
| 6 | The dark glasses gave her an air of mystery . |
| 7 | I heard afterwards that Butler left also , and that Lord Salisbury , as senior Cabinet Minister , invited the remaining Ministers to give their opinion about who should succeed to the vacant and , in the circumstances , not very alluring post . |
| 8 | " The prosperity and technology of the developed countries give them the greater possibilities and the greater responsibility " . |
| 9 | The explicit lines gave him a twisted perception of British women , a court heard yesterday . |
| 10 | The unusual-looking leaves give it a distinctive appearance . |
| 11 | In Britain the social and intellectual origins of the early surveys gave them a particular emphasis summarisable as generality and factuality . |
| 12 | Now to the house itself , one of the early observers gives us a clue when mentioning the house he writes of the fine Elizabethan chimneys still standing , these I believe are those which collapsed in 1973 after having previously been lowered owing to their dangerous condition , on the collapse of these some fine timber framing was discovered in the older parts of the house showing considerable blackening , and Mrs Lingham informed me that vestiges of a gallery were discovered , and it was suggested that this part of the building may have been of the hall type . |
| 13 | The following commands give you an example of how to copy the 3DMenu files into a directory called 3DMenu on your hard disk . |
| 14 | The F-Plan recipes , meal suggestions and charts on the following pages give you plenty of scope both for doing your own thing and eating your own thing , whether it is something as simple as beans on toast or a sandwich , or something considerably more adventurous . |
| 15 | We know what he was saying there , the three days gives it away the death on the Friday and the Resurrection on the Sunday , right . |
| 16 | A report by the National Council of Public Morals on The Cinema ( 1917 ) had also scrutinised the problem , entertaining a wide variety of evidence — on such matters as the educational potential of the cinema , censorship and licensing , the molestation of children in picture palaces , and a clouded discussion of what was somewhat eerily called ‘ the moral dangers of darkness ’ — as well as some monosyllabic evidence from children themselves on whether the moving pictures gave them bad dreams . |
| 17 | The bald whores give us no money . |
| 18 | Her eyes , still a startling blue , were now heavily made up , with black liner and white eye shadow , the false eyelashes giving her a startled doe look . |
| 19 | On the same day Prime Minister Hanna Suchocka said that she would firmly use the increased powers given her by the small constitution , including giving orders to ministers , which had not been possible before . |
| 20 | In their almost dead-white , overpowdered faces , the mean little eyes looked red and sore in their crusted pits of mascara ; their great painted mouths with lipstick smearing over the fuzzy edges gave them a touchingly clownish look . |
| 21 | Despite the record unpopularity of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney , the 2,500 delegates gave him a warm reception as he promised a third consecutive PCP victory in the federal elections due in 1993 . |
| 22 | This was intended to be a temporary measure , but it was so successful that the Chinese authorities gave it formal recognition for the whole of Aglen 's term as inspector-general ( 1911–27 ) . |
| 23 | Where there are to be music fades in and out at the transfer , leave plenty of overlap at the beginnings and endings of the pre-recorded sections to give yourself ample working margins at the mixing stage . |
| 24 | I do not enter upon the controversy as to what duty , if any , lay upon the medical advisers to give her that advice : that no explanation whatever was given is an accepted fact in the case . |
| 25 | ‘ They 've got it up the stairs and through the front door , ’ he told them , the practical words giving nothing away about his mood . |
| 26 | ‘ Now they are working hard to get me fit enough to go back on the list — and they 're the only ones giving me hope , ’ says Anthony . |
| 27 | The officials who sent them off from the ports with the loaded railway-wagons gave them rations for the number of days which the grain would in normal times take to its destination . |
| 28 | The American ones gave him degrees , |
| 29 | He was well noticed , he had the beginnings of a fan-club , and back home the Welsh papers gave him full-page spreads . |
| 30 | 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 . |