Example sentences of "be that [pron] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | The further assumption must be that they gave each other a great deal that was worth having and keeping . |
| 2 | The irony is that what gave me and other lesbians the |
| 3 | The chief , indeed only , reason for her appearance on the scene is that she gave birth to a ( male ) child ! |
| 4 | What constitutes the novelty of the Hellenistic age is that it gave international circulation to ideas , while strongly reducing their revolutionary impact . |
| 5 | Yes Mr Chairman I 'm not clear erm about something that Mr Gordon said in his opening remarks that I 'd like clarified and that is that he gave the committee the impression that there were er certain of the of the partners that were accepting erm a lower specification in other words , omitting from the what is the British best if you like , erm certain items of of equipment in order to reduce cost of the aircraft , both in development stage and at the production stage , final cost of the aircraft , unit cost . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most fitting tribute to their son is that he gave his life to a mission which may have saved many more . |
| 7 | One of the Omomyidae 's greatest successes was that they gave rise to a higher family of primates , the Anthropoidea , which now include monkeys , apes and man . |
| 8 | ALL Airdrie manager Alex MacDonald needed to know about his Cup Winners ' Cup opponents Sparta Prague was that they gave Rangers the old heave-ho last season ! |
| 9 | Keegan , who ten days ago was boss of an apparently invincible Geordie side , said : ‘ I know what people are thinking , but the only difference between our defeat at Leicester on Saturday and our early season results was that we gave away a silly goal . ’ |
| 10 | I have been thinking about my nearly twenty years friendship with him and especially what it was that he gave me in terms of belief and understanding of the job . |
| 11 | erm no what happened was that he gave me some bones that were far too big for the dogs . |
| 12 | The historical importance of the measure was that it gave , for the first time , a publicly financed cash benefit to a group of the needy , free from the deliberately induced stigma associated with the Poor Law . |
| 13 | A further importance of abortion was that it gave women some control over their own fertility , especially given the hostility of many men to birth control . |
| 14 | In Athens the political equality of the citizens coexisted uneasily with economic inequality , as it continues to do today ; but the whole point of the democracy was that it gave the poor as well as the rich a part to play in governing the city . |
| 15 | One of the things that he objected to about a tradition of painting that was governed by a scientific , single viewpoint system of perspective was that it gave the spectator an incomplete picture or idea about the subject . |