Example sentences of "[conj] gave [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the period 1974–81 , the Yugoslav banks borrowed , or gave guarantees for , a very large foreign debt , mainly expressed in dollars . |
| 2 | Evidence was relevant if it was in some way logically connected with the matters in dispute or if it was consistent with , or inconsistent with , or gave rise to a logical inference from , the facts in issue . |
| 3 | People did broadcasts , and if they wrote books , or gave talks on books , these books were all to be found in the BBC Library , along with a fine technical collection and an unrivalled political section , dating back to the days when Guy Burgess ran their first Parliamentary programmes . |
| 4 | He is thinking that Beuno had lived here all his life and no one Sought of things for him to do , or gave parties for him before . |
| 5 | These were the terms that gave substance to the concept , and in so doing represented ‘ a co-ordination and subordination of individual actions towards some common good ’ . |
| 6 | We were never without one for even when your friends were unavailable , it was still possible to have splendid games just bouncing the ball against a wall and catching it , something that gave hours of pleasure and , what was more important , trained the eye . |
| 7 | And Ewen himself , for all his outgoing charm , had certainly acted in a way that gave pause for thought . |
| 8 | Indeed , on this point they were the most vehement of the groups that gave evidence to the Beveridge Committee . |
| 9 | The creative and talented nation that gave birth to the Industrial Revolution and produced more inventions and patents per head of population than any other country in the world , had turned its back on industry and commerce . |
| 10 | A conspiracy was conceived that gave birth to a revolution . |
| 11 | In the 148 pages of this judgment lies quite priceless advice to the industry about how it might become more clever in the same ambitions that gave birth to this clumsily worded advertisement . |
| 12 | Not surprisingly it was the study of history that gave birth to the social sciences . |
| 13 | We are pleased to announce that gave birth to a son , on 29 September , mother and son ‘ doing well ’ and promises to be with us all at the January meeting . |
| 14 | Finally , Nuadu had found his way to the strange twilight community of the Wolfwood ; the place that gave shelter to the half-breeds : the bastard sons of Royal Houses , the creatures who were not possessed of sufficient Beastblood to be acknowledged at Tara , but yet were not entirely Human . |
| 15 | 9.7 Distribution of post-holes : ( a ) found during excavations at Petters Sports Field in Surrey ; ( b ) and ( c ) show an archaeologist 's interpretation of the structures that gave rise to medium depth and deep post-holes , respectively . |
| 16 | Some seven years before the death of King Charles II , Princess Mary of England had married William of the House of Orange , and that gave rise to the English-Dutch alliance in 1678 . |
| 17 | Hallowell ( 1950 , 1956 ) went on to argue that the emergence of culture was due to a novel psychological structure rooted in the social behaviour of the gregarious primate that gave rise to Man . |
| 18 | These are detectable throughout the Universe ( in low amounts ) and were produced originally by the Big Bang : the explosion that gave rise to all the matter and energy in the Universe , 15 billion years ago . |
| 19 | Oldham was the scene of a great building boom in the second half of the nineteenth century , and many ordinary working folk bought shares in the great cotton industry that gave rise to it . |
| 20 | But , as Sadler shrewdly and significantly observed , it was not merely economic change that gave rise to social and political anxieties , for there were ‘ psychological causes of unrest ’ which were ‘ more subtle and not less powerful ’ . |
| 21 | The conference that gave rise to these events was organised by Donald Johanson , who unearthed Lucy 's half complete skeleton in 1974 at Hadar in Ethiopia , about 1100 miles north of where the Laetoli trails were uncovered between 1976 and 1979 . |
| 22 | Thirdly , the fossils that are preserved in any particular geological formation reflect the fauna that gave rise to them , but they do not accurately represent them . |
| 23 | Smithers was an English publisher who got his sexual kicks from deflowering virgins , an obsession that gave rise to Oscar Wilde 's celebrated remark that ‘ Smithers loves first editions ’ . |
| 24 | When such ‘ table carp ’ entered the genetic pool of Japanese Koi , it was these reflective scales , usually either side of the dorsal fin , that gave rise to the term ‘ Doitsu ’ — a corruption of the word ‘ Deutsch ’ , meaning ‘ German ’ . |
| 25 | It was with the onset of a more variable temperature , and the beginning of climatic zones , in the late Paleozoic , that gave rise to vertebrates attempting to employ primitive temperature-control strategies . |
| 26 | Saddened sympathisers offer condolence : that we are the victim of our own success — that it was Labour 's postwar achievements that gave rise to today 's affluent but now electorally ungrateful majority . |
| 27 | And West Ham was not the only predominantly working-class area that gave rise to a political authority seemingly remote from popular allegiance . |
| 28 | It was probably this practice that gave rise to the popular image of witches flying on broomsticks . |
| 29 | Once again the word ‘ hyperactivity ’ is used without a description of the behaviour that gave rise to its application . |
| 30 | We have seen that the visual areas of the prestriate cortex recode image properties into properties of the object that gave rise to the image . |