Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] give evidence [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason for the Groningen 's demise was the government 's policy of concentrating on the major pied breeds and closing the herdbooks of minors such as the Groningen , Lakenvelder and Witrik so that they were unable to give evidence of registered purebred bulls when new bull licensing laws came into force 20 years later — a move which has had devastating effects on minor breeds in other countries where similar laws were introduced . |
| 2 | The state 's missing witness , Gabriel Mekgwe , disappeared the night before he was due to give evidence against Mrs Mandela . |
| 3 | She confessed that before she was due to give evidence against Courtney at the Old Bailey , she nearly ran away . |
| 4 | Ferrari also brought along Giacomo Modugno , an Italian Olympic Committee medical commission member who , as an eye specialist , was prepared to give evidence about Mansell 's difficulty in seeing the flag signal ordering him to stop . |
| 5 | She was willing to give evidence about his Mob links in 1970 ; today , she says he was an enthusiastic bisexual who involved J Edgar Hoover in sexual orgies just as the Kennedys were trying to make him take action against the Mob . |
| 6 | North , who had himself been convicted in May 1989 of three Iran-contra felonies [ see pp. 36649-50 ] , was reluctant to give evidence against his former superior and , during his four days in the witness box , he clashed repeatedly with chief prosecuting counsel Dan K. Webb . |