Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] have give " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the members of the Russian delegation has given any ground for premature celebration . |
| 2 | TWO days after the US invasion of Panama , Britain is still the only member of the European Community to have given public support to the action . |
| 3 | Up in the dome , the uncoupling of the private car had given way to speculation about whether the northern lights would oblige : the weather was right , apparently . |
| 4 | The end of the cold war has given the UN a new chance . |
| 5 | More recently the vast programme of legislation for the completion of the single market has given a new urgency to the matter . |
| 6 | Others were not so fortunate , and the Director of the Laban Centre had to give up membership because of the pressure of time . |
| 7 | In recognition of the support which the majority of the Jewish aristocracy had given him , Antiochus III tried to help his new subjects . |
| 8 | In practice , the absence of a precise definition has given rise to surprisingly few problems and to even fewer reported cases . |
| 9 | Moira Griffin , of Edgecombe Drive , explained that the death of a homeless man had given her the idea of knitting for the people who use the hostel . |
| 10 | It was unusual for a chief super to have to give evidence of the discovery of a body . |
| 11 | It ill becomes a foreigner to look in and pontificate on a short visit but it seemed to me that Australia as a rich country had given them only material goods , which merely sapped their self-sufficiency and their self-respect . |
| 12 | In a world of fast transport and high mobility , working for an international company has given me much opportunity to travel , particularly in europe , the United States and the Far East . |
| 13 | The fusion of many diverse financial services ( and in particular banking and securities business ) within the one conglomerate has given rise to two inter-related problems . |
| 14 | In contrast , Article 16 provides that a diplomatic officer or consular agent may only take evidence , without compulsion , of nationals of the State in which he exercises his functions , or of third States , if a competent authority in the requested State has given its permission , either generally or in the particular case , and subject to any conditions imposed . |
| 15 | Specialising in the financial sector has given Russell Reynolds class and style , and provided them with prestigious contacts reminiscent of the British old-boy network , but has also been the cause of its major problems . |
| 16 | A light cloud cover in the late afternoon had given way to a lovely , pale , evening sky as I wandered through the town to its main tourist attraction , the red-brick basilica of Nôtre -Dame de Brebières . |
| 17 | However , the management and financing of capital assets in the public sector has given rise to many problem areas , such as those associated with capital controls and deferred purchase arrangements in local authorities , poor asset utilisation , deteriorating physical condition and problems of financing asset replacement , and questions of how capital should be incorporated into devolved budgetary arrangements , such as the Financial Management Initiative in central government . |
| 18 | Of course quality and assessment of performance are important , and the government is right to insist that often in the past education has given inadequate attention to evaluation . |
| 19 | the 1989 Children Act in the United kingdom has given legislative expression to the idea of shared care between social work agencies and parents and greater involvement of parents and children in decision making . |
| 20 | The progressive dominance of print since the invention of the mechanised production of books in the fifteenth century has given us a very prosaic and flat image of the Bible that hides its true nature . |
| 21 | The first is where the Act is silent or ambiguous on any given point and the second is where the court in a decided case has given a particular interpretation to a section of the Act ( or to the same section in the original Act of 1893 ) . |
| 22 | The academic literature on the Prime Minister has given rise to one of the few serious debates in British political science ; the idea of Prime Ministerial government versus that of Cabinet government . |
| 23 | IN Washington 's superb bookshops , which stay open all night and serve coffee and bagels , tomes on the Cold War have given way to a new theme : the prospect of a trade war between the three great economic blocs — Japan , the US and the European Community . |
| 24 | By the 11th Summerchild has given the new formation a temporary designation , which will prove to be permanent , and has provided a wealth of possible addresses , colleagues and procedures . |