Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [noun pl] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gone is the wide fast road and its dangerous crossing , where the stripes gave walkers a false sense of security . |
| 2 | Where the clays gave way to the lighter soils of the Stone Belt , considerable areas of mixed farming remained . |
| 3 | As a consequence most of the new streets of working-class houses were built on land that presented difficult drainage problems ( not that anyone except the victims gave much thought to this ) , and the sanitary conditions soon became appalling . |
| 4 | That is that the jurists gave far more consideration to the testator 's intention where he had ( or had tried to ) set up a trust than they did where civil-law dispositions were involved . |
| 5 | The attention that the magazines gave us produced a large underground following , which was really cool to have because we thought it was really bitchin' that people from all over the world were sending for our demo tape . ’ |
| 6 | The comments and questions with which Ace and Daak interrupted the Professor 's story did n't annoy Defries : she found that the breaks gave her the time she needed to stretch her credulity . |
| 7 | Bank analysts barely reacted , says John Thornton , Norwest 's chief financial officer , despite efforts to persuade them that the disclosures gave a better picture of his bank 's economic value . |
| 8 | ( Act 1 scene 3 ) And , only three lines after this , the theme of belief in the power of evil is shown by Macbeth when he says that the witches gave him the Thanehood when it was actually the king . |
| 9 | It is significant that the Romans gave them first place , whereas the Chinese valued them above gold , inferior only to jade . |
| 10 | ’ On walking home it is doubtful that the companions gave a second glance at Came house , described ten years later by Sir Frederick Treves in Highways and Byways of Dorset as ‘ an unattractive mansion in what is called the' ‘ classic' ’ taste' . |
| 11 | As Table 14 , below , shows , of the 346 visitors ( 95% of all respondents ) who replied to it , as very high proportion ( 93% ) felt that the labels gave sufficient information . |
| 12 | Than the shops gave place to boarding houses and the hill began ; it was a twin of the one he had come down from the car park . |
| 13 | He wanted you to sell more milk than the cows gave ! |
| 14 | I 've heard them say if the owners gave them their fare home from Lowestoft to Darsham , that 's all they had . |
| 15 | In developing theories of crime this would not necessarily be important if the figures gave a representative sample of crime and criminals . |
| 16 | If the Gospels gave a moral truth already known by reason , this would verify the Gospels , not our reason . |
| 17 | It would bring joy to millions of people if the Royals gave up bloodsports . |
| 18 | He liked to live in company with another ; Bo-Bo had only negative virtues but , he had to admit , he would be lonely when she died , and the doctors gave her no more than a year . |
| 19 | Once the superbike race was over McCallen presented himself again for examination and the doctors gave him the all clear for the Regal 600cc race . |
| 20 | He heaved his shoulder against the trap and the nails gave instantly . |
| 21 | On race day , after all-night working at the factory , a solitary car turned up and the stewards gave special permission for driver Raymond Sommer to do three exploratory laps . |
| 22 | But as he raised it to his lips the windows flashed bright again , and the heavens gave forth another stream of rumbling abuse . |
| 23 | Lully had already essayed recitative in French in a ballet , Les aisons ( 1661 ) : and the comédies-ballets gave him plenty of opportunities to experiment further . |
| 24 | That offender damaged no fewer than eight vehicles , and the police gave up the chase on four separate occasions because it was too dangerous to continue pursuing the stolen vehicle at various stages . |
| 25 | As the feeding group dispersed , the atmosphere rapidly calmed down , and the screams gave way to a succession of peaceful feeding grunts . |
| 26 | He wanted more time and the rebels gave him it . |
| 27 | The buyers paid by cheque and the sellers gave the buyers a delivery order which the buyers endorsed and transferred to a sub-purchaser . |
| 28 | The national union of workers in education and the arts gave 5 per cent of their pay for famine relief . |
| 29 | A priest was then brought in to mediate and the men gave themselves up . |
| 30 | George and the twins gave no answer and Willie felt a cold prickle crawl up his back and into his hair . |