Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj] [pron] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | During session four we gave groups an hour to organise themselves , sort out their questions and decide who would operate tape-recorders , when to change interviewers , and related issues . |
| 2 | The foreign ministry in St Petersburg was in the first decades of the century ludicrously overstaffed : under Alexander I it gave ostensible employment to well over 700 people ( including the poet Pushkin ) , many of whom had no real duties whatever . |
| 3 | In March 1939 he gave the Boutwood Foundation lectures at Corpus Christi College , Cambridge , in which he outlined the kind of society which he wished to see established , a society which actively advanced the values and principles which he found so signally lacking in Neville Chamberlain 's England . |
| 4 | The great promoter of such voyages in the 1860s and 1870s was William Carpenter of the University of London ; and in March 1871 he gave a Discourse at the Royal Institution on recent scientific researches in the Mediterranean , in HMS Porcupine . |
| 5 | In March 1990 they gave her about a year to live . |
| 6 | In Chapter 2 I gave a breakdown of the five minimum requirements of the graph search mechanism . |
| 7 | The religion which he espoused was singularly his own , and when in February 1937 he gave a radio talk on " The Church 's Message to the World " he returned to a subject which was close to the centre of his concerns : the failure of Western civilization , and in particular the signal inability of liberal democracy to sustain moral or intellectual values which might effectively confront the ideologies of fascism or communism . |
| 8 | At home in February 1981 she gave way and provided money for twenty-three uneconomic coal pits to remain open , when faced with the threat of a coal strike . |
| 9 | In February 1921 he gave up office and soon afterwards he accepted a peerage and retired from active politics . |
| 10 | At the first session of the court in January 1869 he gave judgement to James Sprinks , who had sued Harry Carroll for 7s 6d to be paid the full amount plus almost as much in costs , 6s 3d . |
| 11 | Mann considered these objective to be so important that in January 1897 he gave up the secretaryship of the Independent Labour Party which he had held since 1894 to devote himself to the continental agitation , especially in Rotterdam , Antwerp and Hamburg , which had been started in the previous year . |
| 12 | In January 1990 he gave a ruling regarding LTV , a steel firm in chapter 11 , that brought big private negotiations virtually to a halt . |
| 13 | In May 1869 he gave his inaugural lecture on Homer , but his classical interests were now turning towards Greek tragedy . |
| 14 | This lending ceiling was reinforced by a further statement by the Bank in November 1968 which gave the banks four months ' notice to reduce their lending to 98 per cent of the mid November 1967 level . |
| 15 | The diversity of papers produced for the conference in November 1988 which gave birth to the association , as well as the enthusiastic reception accorded to the novelist and film maker Sembene Ousmane when he addressed the participants , suggest that the teaching of African literature in French has not involved the depoliticisation of its content that often occurs when works of art become the object of academic study . |
| 16 | ON OCTOBER 2 I gave a talk on the British monarchy at an astrological conference in Oslo . |
| 17 | In southern Moldova , an Orthodox Turkic-speaking area ( Gagauz ) , 85.1 per cent of the population had taken part in a vote on Dec. 1 which gave a 95.4 per cent majority for independence . |
| 18 | Rubio ( 1908 ) was the first American-bred horse to triumph at Aintree , and he was followed in 1909 by Lutteur III who gave the French their first success in the race . |