Example sentences of "[noun sg] have given [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another problem is that the administration has given few details on the cash that it will put up to induce mining companies to begin new ventures . |
| 2 | In 1990 Jesse Helms defeated a black opponent in a Senate race in North Carolina after running television commercials showing imaginary whites being rejected for jobs because affirmative action had given those jobs to blacks . |
| 3 | Do n't you think that fate has given enough hints ? ’ |
| 4 | The government has given few details of its hoarding scheme . |
| 5 | Certainly for the king who died , and for the politicians who survived , the last two years of the reign had given few grounds for pleasure , in sharp contrast to the enormous activity and success of the previous decade . |
| 6 | Being in employment had given these women personal confidence , a sense of independence , autonomy and pride . |
| 7 | During the service he sat in the front pew and listened to the preacher talking about the kind of woman she had been , and he knew it was n't like that , but the doctor had given some pills and he felt drowsy and numb , and illogically cheerful , as if he was slightly drunk , but at the stage where everything seems enlarged and unfamiliar . |
| 8 | Ackroyd has given some readers the impression that the modern narrative , the paler of the two , is paler on purpose — in obedience , presumably , to the doctrine of time , of its runnings-down and recurrences , which figures in the novel . |
| 9 | In an address to the Pakistani National Assembly and Senate in December 1985 President Zia formally denied that his country had given any bases to the United States . |
| 10 | If the Minister had given those figures , would they not have shown — especially those relating to the number convicted of terrorist offences — that , over the past decade , there has been a consistent and significant decline in the number of people convicted ? |
| 11 | This again may appear to be perfectly obvious , but I recall a case not long ago where the agent was induced to halt action on a proposed petition , and it transpired only subsequently ( and after the legislation had been enacted ) that the client had given these instructions on a mere general assurance which was not in fact implemented . |
| 12 | By mid-1863 , therefore , the regime had given several indications that its interest in remodelling the state 's institutions had survived the shock of emancipating the serfs . |