Example sentences of "[conj] gave the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | rejected the allegation that the wife 's agreement to the opening of the account had been procured by undue influence on the part of her husband , but dealt with ‘ the suggestion that the bank are disentitled to enforce the mandate because they sent or gave the document to Mr. Shephard and did not themselves obtain the defendant 's signature ’ by holding [ 1988 ] 3 All E.R. |
| 2 | Tug skippers , who had never before acknowledged the presence of the moored barges , called out , or gave the danger signal — live rapid blasts in succession . |
| 3 | Others smiled , or gave the thumbs-up sign as they drove away . |
| 4 | ( 3 ) A notice under this subsection shall give such information identifying or assisting in the identification of the person who committed the act or default or gave the information as is in the possession of the person serving the notice at the time he serves it . |
| 5 | Detailing the design features that gave the Connie its unique shape the film goes on to show the various changes and marks of the Connie that enabled it to become a flying legend in civil and military use . |
| 6 | Regina della Scala , who built the church that gave the name to La Scala and was the wife of Bernabo , is also buried here . |
| 7 | The Colorado , named ‘ river coloured red ’ by the Spanish , now flows green ; the silts and muds that gave the river its distinctive colour are trapped behind Glen Canyon Dam , fifteen miles upstream from the beginning of the Grand Canyon . |
| 8 | Again , as in The Graduate , it was a hit song on the soundtrack , in this case , Fred Neil 's ‘ Everybody 's Talkin ’ , that gave the film a contemporary resonance , lodging itself more in the ear than in the eye or mind . |
| 9 | I though Tyler was the best writer NME ever had and I 've since found out that him and Ian McDonald were the ones that gave the NME its style in the first place . |
| 10 | It was , in fact , the rapid inflation of the early 1970s that gave the system its bad reputation . |
| 11 | Ford 's immediate responses were the Mustang and the Thunderbird — the cars that gave the company a distinct personality and reestablished it as an industry leader . |
| 12 | Even those uncommitted to either side in the English dispute made clear their disapproval of any procedure ‘ that gave the keeping of the kingdom to a woman ’ . |
| 13 | From Gladstone 's period as Chancellor in the middle of the last century onwards , a set of rules or constitutional conventions evolved that gave the Treasury its central position as guardian of the public purse , as follows : |
| 14 | So said the Court of Appeal in Dobie v Burns International Security Services ( UK ) Ltd ( 1984 ) , a case in which the employer 's services were governed by a contract with a local authority that gave the council the right ‘ to approve or otherwise the employment or continued employment of any member of the company ’ . |
| 15 | Who was the man that gave the speech ? |
| 16 | I understand that Miss Hauxwell usually did n't cut her grass until well into August , so that gave the plants plenty of time to bloom and seed . |
| 17 | THE vote that gave the Democrats the White House and is expected to give them their tightest grip on Congress in decades also saw the first black woman elected to the Senate . |
| 18 | Parker developed a formula that gave the employees and local community a substantial say in the new company , with 47% of the equity going to employees , and 6% to local banks , churches and interested parties . |
| 19 | It was this basic respect from Beatty that gave the singer confidence to turn over control to him . |
| 20 | Appropriately enough , in this strange world of not-so-covert agents and hackneyed dramatic devices , it was a secret document that gave the game away : a document that was never meant to be there at all . |
| 21 | It was the kestrel circling the dome of Leeds Town Hall , where it proved to be nesting , that gave the game away . |
| 22 | The old part of the town lay half a mile away in a shallow bowl , through which meandered the river that gave the town its name . |
| 23 | The credit for founding the College goes to the Odiham Agricultural Society , but , as so often happens , it was the demands of war that gave the College the initial impetus . |
| 24 | There was a handsome portico outside and four mock Grecian columns at the back of the front hall that gave the house a museum-like effect . |
| 25 | The perfect house — a beautiful golden stone Elizabethan manor of steeply pitched roofs , the tall chimneys that gave the house its name , pointed gables and mullioned windows . |
| 26 | The lighting was from downward-angled spotlights on the roof grid that gave the place an odd , studio-like atmosphere . |
| 27 | This was offensive to the Scots in the audience as was Tetley 's disregard for the purport of the poem by Blake that gave the ballet its title . |
| 28 | There was his deputy who had collated the intelligence that gave the itinerary of the Pakistani . |
| 29 | It was Sony that gave the world mass-produced transistor radios , Trinitron television sets , Betamax video recorders and Walkman portable cassette players . |
| 30 | He recalled : ‘ I certainly gave two very bad TV interviews that gave the impression that things were all wrong , all uptight , but that was because I felt it necessary to defend the players . ’ |