Example sentences of "be [conj] [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 | He was once asked what he considered the function of a chairman to be and he gave a three-part answer : |
| 3 | He wondered how long it would be before they gave up going to the clearing altogether . |
| 4 | I was told early on that it was possible that your Royal Highness would be able to be there and indeed you were and it gave us all one of the most unforgettable nights . |
| 5 | The irony is that what gave me and other lesbians the |
| 6 | The chief , indeed only , reason for her appearance on the scene is that she gave birth to a ( male ) child ! |
| 7 | What constitutes the novelty of the Hellenistic age is that it gave international circulation to ideas , while strongly reducing their revolutionary impact . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Perhaps the most fitting tribute to their son is that he gave his life to a mission which may have saved many more . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | erm no what happened was that he gave me some bones that were far too big for the dogs . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Hankey , the Secretary of the Cabinet , thought it was because he gave Baldwin ‘ a certain sense of gaucherie and inferiority ’ . |