Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [noun] give [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Although Anne Boleyn gave birth to Princess Elizabeth at Greenwich , in September 1533 , there was no son forthcoming and Henry VIII became convinced that she had another lover , so he had her beheaded on 19th .
2 Hence the fact that although Thorpe J. gave judgment on 12 May , more than a month elapsed before the appeal hearing began .
3 For example , 78 r.p.m records and wind-up gramophones gave way in the 1950s to LPs and open-reel tape-recorders .
4 Hormone changes and weight gain give rise to varicose veins .
5 It was beautiful , two people loving one another all these years and Dr Greenslade being too much of a gentleman to leave his wife and family , and Miss Lavant giving birth to a baby and the baby being handed to a Dynmouth woman .
6 The PhD and MPhil programmes give training for those whose careers are likely to involve a high level of research .
7 The UK Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew and the Irish Foreign Minister David Andrews agreed on Nov. 16 that progress had been made in the talks when round-table and committee stages gave way to bilateral contacts during the past four weeks , although there had been no bilateral meeting between the Irish government and the Democratic Unionist Party .
8 This juxtaposition of AL and body system gives guidance for curriculum planning , and also for knowing where to record problems , actual and potential , related to the AL of communicating if the Roper , Logan and Tierney model is used as a guideline for nursing plans .
9 The chances are that , if Mr Major gives way to Mr Kinnock in a hung Parliament , Labour will attempt to govern as a minority administration .
10 The US and UK press gave prominence to reports that officials in both countries might ask Group of Seven ( G-7 ) and European Community ( EC ) countries to impose commercial sanctions against Libya ( additional to the existing US and EC sanctions ) if they did not succeed in having Megrahi and Fhimah extradited .
11 In particular it will investigate what individual and area characteristics give rise to a person having a high probability of being a victim of crime not just once , but repeatedly .
12 Clarinets and bassoons supply the melodic part of the texture , while the oboes are allotted the reiterated notes , and flutes , horns , and pizzicati strings give weight to the accented chords which occur at the end of each bar and the beginning of the next .
13 For a combination all three components exist , though only a 1 and e components give rise to IR transitions from the ground state .
14 Fordingbridge was within the Wessex region where Hardy set his tales , and Elizabeth Downer gave birth to her son in the workhouse just seven years before his book was published .
15 The coexistence of standard English grammar and dialect grammar gives rise to educational problems , and the burden of coping with these is usually assigned to teachers .
16 The run-down villas and cement footpaths give way to dusty tracks and wooden shacks .
17 But child seats give cause for general concern .
18 Although I was anxious to be there I did n't get the chance because Mrs Smith gave birth to a baby girl in the early hours of the morning later that week .
19 Lord Goddard was then in only his sixth year as Lord Chief Justice , never looked like someone about to retire , and indeed continued in office for three years after Sir Winston gave way as Prime Minister in 1955 .
20 The experience was more the rule than the exception ; so too , as winter sufferings gave way to a torrid summer , was this spectacle :
21 At any rate , this is the seasonal question for MPs , as February snow gives way to thin , unconvincing sunshine .
22 I remember the 1935 headlines when Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed in a ‘ plane crash and when Mrs Dionne gave birth to quintuplets in northern Ontario .
23 THE ‘ carping and negative ’ attitude of government politicians was attacked yesterday as salmon farmers gave warning of the threats facing a vital industry for the Highlands and Islands .
24 It was a slow , infuriating process , and as A roads gave way to B and Robyn neared her destination already two hours late , the slowly darkening skies became as black and as desperate as Robyn 's frame of mind , until the heavens opened and it started to pour — not reasonable , perfectly acceptable drops of rain from a warm July sky , but pounding , penetrating torrents that battered and bounced off the roof of the jeep and seeped in through the ill-fitting windows .
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