Example sentences of "[was/were] giving [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you were giving outline for building , it would be different . |
| 2 | Delays for defendants in trials on indictment were giving cause for concern in 1975 , when the James Committee reported , but at that stage over 70 per cent . |
| 3 | States used them to discover whether schools were giving value for money . |
| 4 | Dusk was giving way to night and the fires outside the gate burned brightly . |
| 5 | By December 1989 evidence was mounting that consumption was giving way to investment as the main engine of growth . |
| 6 | ( Indeed , Conservative leader Stanley Baldwin commented at one point that the United States Constitution had broken down and was giving way to dictatorship . ) |
| 7 | Jack felt the need to treat these outbursts by Warnie with firmness as well as with gentleness , not least because his brother was giving voice to feelings which he shared quite passionately himself . |
| 8 | The nineteenth-century impact of Europe on the Middle East was giving rise to critics in the Islamic world . |
| 9 | Janet Bush was giving evidence at Liverpool Crown Court where Eddie Gilfoyle denies murdering his pregnant wife in June last year . |
| 10 | Janet Bush was giving evidence at Liverpool Crown Court where Eddie Gilfoyle denies murdering his pregnant wife in June last year . |
| 11 | If the operative part could properly be controlled by the recitals , I think there would be much reason to say that the only thing contemplated by the recitals was giving time for payment , without any relinquishment , on the part of the judgment creditor , of any portion of the amount recoverable ( whether for principal or for interest ) under the judgment . |
| 12 | Brian Brunswick , principal inspector in charge of the construction group for East Anglia , said the regional HSE was giving priority to falls because the figures in Suffolk , Norfolk and Essex mirrored the national average . |
| 13 | Mr Bush livened the act last week when he said he was giving Congress until March 27th to decide which current defence programmes should be trimmed to raise $870m for Panama and Nicaragua ( money that is supposed to come from the 1990 Pentagon budget ) . |