Example sentences of "[that] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was offensive to the Scots in the audience as was Tetley 's disregard for the purport of the poem by Blake that gave the ballet its title . |
| 2 | Those in the East End included a half-share in Chandler 's Wiltshire Brewery in the Hackney Road , Bethnal Green ( via the Lion brewery , Lambeth , the brewery that gave us the South Bank lion ) ; some of the pubs belonging to the Commercial Brewery Co in Commercial Road , Stepney , in 1927 ( the rest went to Hammerton 's brewery , Stockwell ) ; and West and Co , of the Three Crowns brewery , Hackney Road , Bethnal Green , with 60 pubs , in 1929 . |
| 3 | Under British pressure , the French eventually departed in humiliation , but only after presiding over a covenant that gave the Lebanese republic the system of power-sharing which is now disintegrating . |
| 4 | The boots have a Vibram dual density sole that gave me all the grip and comfort I needed over steep wet grass and rough ground . |
| 5 | That night he slept in an old cardboard box that he 'd found , and that gave him some protection from the chilling morning dew . |
| 6 | If it was the Conservative Party 's circumstances that gave Maxse 's brand of radical Conservatism its appeal , it was also the change in the party 's circumstances wrought by the war which relegated Maxse to the margins of Conservative politics . |
| 7 | And she loved his body , the astringent unsweaty cleverness of it , that gave with delight and asked for so little back . |
| 8 | Then , abjectly , as if engaged in reflection that gave back only its own dullness , she completed the tasks she had been doing and , without saying a word to the expectant children , left the room . |
| 9 | Rose started a small flower garden in front of the house soon after coming and there he could often be found , at first helping Rose , then taking over and extending the garden across the footpath until all the green inside the thorn hedge was alive with colour : little beds of forget-me-nots and sweet william , rows of wallflowers that gave out their fragrance in the evenings , formal lilies and roses . |
| 10 | This is the daddy of all geysirs , the one that gave its name to the ( now better-known ) hot-water spouts elsewhere in the world . |
| 11 | It was money that gave that snooty lift of the chin , too , that masterful stance and walk and that stuck-up voice . |
| 12 | Recently , TCS entered into an agreement with Lotus Development Corporation that gave them exclusive distribution rights for the whole range of Recently there was uproar in India following ‘ body shopping ’ by American software firms . |
| 13 | A country that gave her a cold welcome , in which the To Let signs specified ‘ No Coloureds ’ , and of which she wrote in Second-Class Citizen , ‘ If I had been Jesus I would have passed England by and not dropped a single blessing . ’ |
| 14 | Ironically , it was the Government which he partly blamed for the affair that gave him the chance to return to work after retirement . |
| 15 | There 's none of the dazzling leaps or appalling lapses that gave previous albums a dynamic range . |
| 16 | Perhaps it was Mr Morita 's name that gave the book its bite ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It had a pale beauty in the moonlight that gave him more unexpected enchantment . |
| 20 | During this time Coe was on the dole and living in Bermondsey , and it is this period of his life that gave him the basis for The Dwarves of Death . |
| 21 | It was this basic respect from Beatty that gave the singer confidence to turn over control to him . |
| 22 | She had dabbed powder over her lipstick to rob it of its bright crimson lustre , and she had forgotten the little pink patches of rouge that gave her cheeks their rosy healthy glow . |
| 23 | Although it looked completely different , it was this truck that gave me the concept for ‘ MiniMag ’ , the 27ft ( 8m ) articulated truck that we used for Mrs Thatcher 's open-air meetings in the 1987 election . |
| 24 | Appropriately enough , in this strange world of not-so-covert agents and hackneyed dramatic devices , it was a secret document that gave the game away : a document that was never meant to be there at all . |
| 25 | Outside the church , I found a taxi rank , jumped in a taxi and asked to be taken to the village that gave County Louth its name . |
| 26 | In the deal that gave Air France part of Czech airline CSA , EBRD funds were being used to finance a deal between two state airlines , one of them run by his brother Bernard . |
| 27 | Two other surveys that gave Labour a significant lead last week — fuelling Labour hopes that Mr Kinnock was on course for an outright majority — indicated that the gap had narrowed sharply . |
| 28 | Another reform that gave schools an incentive to save money was the passing to schools of control over their own budgets . |
| 29 | The Wearside club made a mockery of their lowly League standing with a performance that gave leaders Ipswich only their second defeat in 18 games and their heaviest reverse of the season . |
| 30 | The house it penned was old and brown with a porch that gave it a sort of potbelly . |