Example sentences of "had given [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this had given eighteen times it then you would have started off with one eighteenth . |
| 2 | Of the 653 branches only 288 had given definite support to disaffiliation , some by small majorities . |
| 3 | The First World War provided a similar test and again only the Labour and Unionist parties were able to meet it squarely , but the battles of 1912 and 1913 had given advance warning of what was to come . |
| 4 | Thereafter , as Chief of Staff under the new government and then Defence Secretary , Ramos had given unswerving loyalty to Aquino , the single most important factor in enabling her to defeat numerous coup attempts . |
| 5 | It had given great anxiety to him and his collagues on the bench . |
| 6 | It had given great anxiety to him and his collagues on the bench . |
| 7 | This ‘ literary ’ slant to the drama 's content is an important contrast with all previous pioneers , most of whom had given little attention to content . |
| 8 | This I had noticed , but had given little thought to . |
| 9 | Although James I may have begun to experience some doubts about the validity of the doctrine of predestination during the last months of his life , earlier in his reign he had given little if any encouragement to the Arminian caucus within his Calvinist church . |
| 10 | Most had given little attention to the assessment and care management of people with problem drug or alcohol use ’ . |
| 11 | Widely regarded as a principal rival and potential successor to Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhaven , Chaovalit had given little indication of his likely response to the Cabinet invitation which had been made after he announced his intention to retire early from the Army command [ see also p. 37188 ] . |
| 12 | Mr Hurd said that because the issue was so important , he had asked the Attorney General and the Lord Advocate for their advice and on Thursday they had given contrary advice . |
| 13 | To coincide with the launch of the Constitution , the government lifted the state of siege , imposed in 1984 in response to the violent activity of drug traffickers , right-wing paramilitary groups and left-wing guerrillas ; this had curtailed civil liberties and had given extraordinary power to the President to re-establish public order . |
| 14 | Our first audit showed that in 20% of referrals the referrer had given inadequate information ; the second showed that in only 7% was information inadequate . |
| 15 | Prior to the Party 's Annual Conference the National Executive once again disbanded the Labour League of Youth , which had given official support to Cripps ' memorandum . |
| 16 | If he had married Iskandara for her sheep , he had given good measure in return . |
| 17 | The architect had sited the house on the slope of a hill commanding a great variety of scenery and had given each bedroom its own special view . |
| 18 | Once this had been achieved , and we had given each other that little nod of recognition with which one acknowledges an intellectual equal , I moved on to the question that really interested me , which was how Alison came to know Thomas Carter in the first place . |
| 19 | What they had given each other , dramatic though it had become at the end , had been the inevitable physical manifestation of what had happened between them weeks earlier . |
| 20 | But Mr Stratton saw Mr Aldrich ; and so in an odd sort of way , even if we had no proof of Stratton being in Didcot , the pair of them quite unwittingly perhaps had given each other an utterly unshakeable alibi . |
| 21 | Miss Gabriel , who had given First Aid instruction during the Great War , invited the crippled inmates out to tea ‘ in connection with the Guild of the Brave Poor Things ’ . |
| 22 | After his defeat Mr Taylor said he had given 100 per cent commitment to the seat . |
| 23 | He would say , casually , to his wife later that night that he had given young Luke Bouverie a lift home . |
| 24 | Many of Johnson 's readers wished to know what kind of reading Dr Johnson thought suitable for young ladies , and it transpired , to much amusement , that he had given young Miss McQueen an arithmetic . |
| 25 | The men of 1812 meant to create the legal framework of a bourgeois society ; they had given political power , by an intricate combination of universal suffrage and indirect election , to the middle classes considered as the ‘ regulator ’ of other classes . |
| 26 | Admittedly Richard rode four winners too , but after poor Thetford Forest 's fatal fall had given Grand National Day a tragic finale in the Janneau Mersey Novice Hurdle , his battered rider was advised by the Jockey Club 's doctor , Rodney O'Donnell , to rest up for a week . |
| 27 | Consultant paediatrician Dr Mark Reid , who carried out a report on the baby 's death , said he felt all the doctors involved had given consistent and correct advice . |
| 28 | In December 1989 President George Bush had given final US approval of the 50-year compact whereby the US would provide $1,000 million in aid to the heavily indebted Pacific country . |
| 29 | Congress had given final approval to the bill on Oct. 8 [ see p. 39136 ] , but the fact that the package also included some three dozen minor tax increases made it highly unlikely that Bush would approve it during the election campaign . |
| 30 | The Levys had been keen supporters and benefactors of the Trust for many years and had given hundreds of thousands of pounds to various projects in their lifetime . |