Example sentences of "[adv] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back beyond the Oligocene there is evidence only of archaeocetes , the rather large ancestral toothed whales that apparently gave rise to both the Odontoceti and Mysticeti . |
| 2 | Four weeks of near stasis in voters ' attitudes apparently gave way at the last moment to a near avalanche . |
| 3 | His success in the competition apparently gave him considerable encouragement as , according to the introduction to his Notes of Thought : |
| 4 | On this score , the results apparently gave Hambros some comfort , although Mr Irwin adds that ‘ it probably made us feel less complacent , especially on the treasury side , about how well we were doing in terms of our costs ’ . |
| 5 | Smurfit Paribas carried out a privatisation study and made significant borrowings available ; Smurfit Printing secured the lucrative telephone directory printing contract ; Smurfit architect Brian O'Halloran secured the commission for the controversial corporate headquarters ; business associates Padraic Hasset and John Finnegan were asked to find a site for Telecom headquarters ; Finnegan gave advice on the purchase of the Ballsbridge site ( he also apparently gave advice on its sale to UPH ) and finally Dermot Desmond was commissioned to carry out another privatisation study . |
| 6 | An example of a treaty which apparently gave procedural rights to individuals is the Anglo-Irish Agreement on Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | Li also pointedly gave support to leftist agricultural policies reportedly opposed by Deng , endorsing collective service networks and ideological education campaigns in rural areas . |
| 8 | The prolonged delay , coupled with low spirits caused by cold , squalor and exhaustion , naturally gave rise to some suspicions that East Germany might , incredibly , have reneged on its deal . |
| 9 | Now the spruce spar boom wanted to shrink and swell about twice as far as the plywood which was glued to it and this naturally gave rise to serious stresses near to where the two met along the glued joints ( Figure 3 ) . |
| 10 | The growth of domestic demand was also boosted by the connection of many new consumers : the Boards naturally gave priority to the new estates and ‘ pre-fabs ’ of the postwar housing drive which urgently needed to have electricity connected . |
| 11 | This finding naturally gave the RTO some confidence in dealing with the arguments of the Claybury and Friern districts that they needed very large increases in revenue to fund community replacement services . |
| 12 | The activities of illegal immigrant vessels were as manna from heaven to the media who naturally gave them much publicity . |
| 13 | The attempt of the Communist Party to implement Comintern decisions naturally gave rise to the most widely publicized of the movements for some kind of co-operation on the Left . |
| 14 | We ‘ book people ’ are somewhat defensive about our occupation of the Church for a long period , so the following incident naturally gave us new confidence . |
| 15 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 16 | But Malcolm suddenly gave the job to Chrissie instead Because , I suppose , she was older and more rock ‘ n ’ roll with her leather jackets , whereas I was still at school and pretty straight . |
| 17 | The plain-covered wordy tomes of earlier years , largely indistinguishable in appearance ( except for the use of photographs ) from their Lyellian and Geikien predecessors of the century before , suddenly gave way to glossy volumes with brightly coloured covers , two-colour diagrams , larger page sizes and a higher picture-to text ratio . |
| 18 | To Ted 's consternation , the soil of the slope suddenly gave way and the halter shank ran through his fingers as the terrified horse slipped down towards the water . |
| 19 | In the middle of June he suddenly gave up . |
| 20 | In 1900 Edinburgh Waverley Station boasted forty lady operators working in the telegraph department , sending out 4,000 messages a day.a But it was of course the First World War which suddenly gave a tremendous fillip to women 's employment in stations . |
| 21 | Her gaze slid round the unfamiliar room , then she suddenly gave a loud groan as everything slid back into place . |
| 22 | Staring at him , she suddenly gave a sheepish smile . |
| 23 | Jenna began awkwardly , and he suddenly gave a shout of laughter , vaulting the fence and then reaching to lift her over as if she weighed nothing at all . |
| 24 | Looking up at Ellie , Mrs McMahon suddenly gave a little start , and , to Ellie 's astonishment , she suddenly looked wary . |
| 25 | The tall hedge to her left suddenly gave way to a low brick wall , and she found herself driving past the Red House . |
| 26 | Strangely enough it was a tiny thing that suddenly gave her confidence again — her hair . |
| 27 | ‘ I guessed , ’ he replied , and suddenly gave her a lop-sided grin — and all at once Leith discovered she was feeling most unexpectedly lighthearted . |
| 28 | She was going on to recall how yesterday she had thought of Vendelin Gajdusek 's being in Prague , when in actual fact , had she known it , he had been sitting right there beside her driving her back to Mariánské Láznë , when he suddenly gave her near heart failure by challenging , out of the blue ‘ I thought you said your name was Fabia ? ’ |
| 29 | Pompeii lay in verdant , wine-growing country and so gave special prominence to Venus , goddess of fecundity , Hercules and Bacchus . |
| 30 | A ‘ penny wedding ’ was a marriage celebration , the equivalent of a modern wedding reception , at which the guests who could afford to do so gave a penny or other coin towards employing a fiddler to provide music for dancing . |