Example sentences of "[noun pl] gave the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But their complete conformity to traditional styles gave the village a coherence one would rarely find in Britain and never where much new building was involved . |
| 2 | She was blonde and doll-faced , but her blue eyes gave the impression that she 'd just about seen everything , and rather more than was healthy for so short a life . |
| 3 | In court , the Stacey brothers gave the address of the Swindon guest house , although their family is thought to be from the Waterford area . |
| 4 | Although subjects gave the risk rating immediately on hearing the tone it was stressed that their safety should be the main consideration , thus they should not attempt to perform any judgment task until they felt comfortable with the driving situation . |
| 5 | But it would only fly into Sarajevo if the United Nations gave the go ahead . |
| 6 | Posi gave the warning — spacecraft approaching — and the screens flashed up the images . |
| 7 | Asserting their rights as customers in a free market , cricket fans gave the magazine ‘ out ’ by refusing to pay for it . |
| 8 | A second was the emergence of a triangular relationship with the woman as ‘ pig in the middle ’ ; a particular point of concern was that the ‘ majority of husbands gave the impression of being quite distant from the situation ’ . |
| 9 | In the early sixties building of new churches and halls gave the Guild much work to do . |
| 10 | In Cuba , where the Communists were also relatively strong , class collaborationist tactics gave the party a ministerial position under Batista ( 1943–4 ) and control of the officially recognised Confederación de Trabajadores de Cuba ( Confederation of Cuban Workers ) . |
| 11 | The recognizances which had been required from several of the most powerful nobles gave the regime an effective hold over them , and none of the movements against Mortimer had gained the support of the king himself . |
| 12 | Mrs Mills told the Bar Conference in London that long trials gave the public the impression that lawyers were ‘ feathering their nest ’ . |
| 13 | Five of the twenty-seven staff who made written responses gave the book two stars for pupil popularity , i.e. ‘ very popular ’ ; two of them reported that girls had complained about ‘ having to read about male heroes ’ and that The Machine Gunners , which ‘ girls see as a boy 's book ’ , had frequently been the impetus for such comments . |
| 14 | Once assimilated , these devices and motifs gave the students a feeling of having mastered something , but when Dodie Masterman took over Minton 's illustration class and took them through the basics , she found many of them very inept . |
| 15 | Onlookers at a charity sponsored walk were given a smile , as some rather large oriental visitors gave the event their support . |
| 16 | The Arabs gave the Christians the name Copt which was a corruption of the ancient Egyptian word for " Egyptian " . |
| 17 | What these critics did not see so clearly was that elsewhere customary tenures had so confused conceptions of ownership that a clear , profitable , and workable landlord-tenant relationship was difficult to conceive ; while in many regions customary quit rents gave the landlord little surplus to invest , even had he been inclined so to do . |
| 18 | It was David Parkin , whose gravelly tones gave the report an air of spurious authenticity . |
| 19 | BRITAIN 'S slump-hit shopkeepers gave the City a shock yesterday — by announcing some GOOD news . |
| 20 | BRITAIN 'S slump-hit shopkeepers gave the City a shock yesterday — by announcing some GOOD news . |
| 21 | The directors gave the site and contributed towards the building fund of £1,500 . |
| 22 | Typically Sugar responded to the market perceptions and within weeks gave the customers what they wanted an upgraded 1512 with not only a fan but with cooling vents too ! |
| 23 | Many of the ten thousand people who live on Blackbird Leys say the media coverage of last year 's troubles gave the world a false impression of life there . |
| 24 | Over 50 per cent of social workers gave the questions in all dimensions a rating of 4 or 5 . |
| 25 | Richini gave the façade a concave curve so that carriages could more easily approach the doorway . |
| 26 | American and British reviewers gave the film a thumbs-down when it was released at the end of 1972 . |
| 27 | Winning three Westminster seats gave the DUP an important edge in the first direct elections to the European Parliament . |
| 28 | Lara 's 111 not out off 140 balls gave the visitors victory with more than five overs to spare , and sent the South Africans tumbling out of the triangular one-day series , which also features Pakistan . |
| 29 | Aside from Boyce and Lee , these include Edward Howard , a CIA employee who finally defected to Moscow taking with him a hoard of secret information about his work ; the Walker trio who for 17 years handed over details of US Navy cryptograhic equipment to the Russians in exchange for $750,000 ; Bruce Ott , a USAF airman who tried to sell the Russians a copy of the SR-71 spy plane operating manual ; Robert Miller , an FBI agent who passed on secret documents to the Russians ; Ronald Pelton , a communications expert with the NSA who for five years gave the Russians details of his work ; Clyde Conrad , a retired US Army sergeant who for five years is alleged to have handed over top army contingency plans to the East ; and Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy counter-intelligence analyst who was paid $50,000 by Israeli intelligence for top naval information , a particularly embarrassing incident . |
| 30 | Over 200 works were shown , and the fact that all the artists showed painting representative of their development during the previous three years gave the exhibition an added air of being a Cubist demonstration . |