Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have give " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has suffered much in the last decade but that experience has given her the inner fortitude to shoulder the emotional burden she must carry on the next stage of her life 's journey . |
| 2 | Up in the dome , the uncoupling of the private car had given way to speculation about whether the northern lights would oblige : the weather was right , apparently . |
| 3 | Those long years in junior command had given him an intimacy with the poilu denied to most of the other French chiefs , and because of his low rank in 1914 he knew — unlike Haig and Joffre — very well what wounded men looked like . |
| 4 | Neither side has given any estimate of the extent of the anticipated cuts but the expectation is that hundreds of the 2,200 jobs , which add up to a monthly £2 million pay bill , will have to be sacrificed . |
| 5 | Although this regression had given Sylvia insight into the initial cause of her claustrophobia , it was not sufficient in itself to put an end to the problem . |
| 6 | In the Treaty of Rome , the Treaty of Accession and the Single European Act , this country , this Government and this Parliament have given certain clearly defined powers to the Community . |
| 7 | After they had consumed all they could the guests began to leave , saying what a good send-off Mum had given Granny . |
| 8 | ‘ This result of this case has given us hope and will give us confidence in bringing more investigations to the fore . |
| 9 | ‘ This Budget has given me no confidence to spend whatsoever , ’ Mr Ingram said . |
| 10 | British Rail has given a figure of £1.4 billion for the construction of the station complex . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , this supposed trait and their tight , curly hair have given rise to the use of the name ‘ Poodle cats ’ as a popular term for them . |
| 12 | The pain did , in fact , return the next day , but this experience had given me hope so I persevered with the lessons and now I am free of the pain for at least 95 per cent of the time . |
| 13 | Turned out that some well-meaning wally had given it a tankful of unleaded two-star . |
| 14 | Finally this study has given me a good idea of what life has been for people living in the past in America , where as before , I would n't have had a clue and it 's also taught me that no matter how many times you read a book , you 'll always find new links and connections . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've both been working so hard that this break has given us the opportunity for a second honeymoon , ’ he told her smoothly . |
| 16 | This chapter has given more space to the anti-rather than to the pro-classical themes that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 17 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 18 | The old stock had given ‘ sterling service ’ over the years but was now at the end of its useful life and becoming notorious for rattling windows and engine noise . |
| 19 | This programme has given more coverage to committees than any other programme , with 25% of its attention being given to select committees and 6% to standing committees ( compared with 9% and 3% respectively , in Parliament ) . |
| 20 | This humiliation has given rise to an array of bitter jokes , reversing the official slogans from the Maoist past . |
| 21 | AFTER a week mulling over Budget proposals for offshore tax reform , British Petroleum has given support to the Chancellor 's moves to encourage more efficient oil and gas production . |
| 22 | As they skirted the smooth lawns on the way back to the car park Merrill dropped behind to walk with Sam who was now complacently asserting that all this exercise had given him an appetite for dinner . |
| 23 | With regard to the modest intestinal permeability test-intestinal morphometry relationship , it should be noted that previous attempts to correlate the intestinal permeability test results with jejunal histology have given conflicting results in patients with and without coeliac disease . |
| 24 | This question has given rise to a whole spectrum of views , whose exponents are united by two traits : their desire to explain why an industrial revolution occurred in Britain and not in other comparable nations , and their adherence to the Millean method of difference . |
| 25 | French tennis has given out a message . |
| 26 | ‘ French tennis has given out a message ’ , says Haguellar . |
| 27 | This work has given a close insight into problems of pollution , congestion , intense company group pressure , sexism and racism . |
| 28 | This discovery has given scientists a unique opportunity to study these unusual phenomena . |
| 29 | I hope this publication has given a starting point and that you will be stimulated to try out this last great contribution from the founder of Homœopathy . |
| 30 | However , the management and financing of capital assets in the public sector has given rise to many problem areas , such as those associated with capital controls and deferred purchase arrangements in local authorities , poor asset utilisation , deteriorating physical condition and problems of financing asset replacement , and questions of how capital should be incorporated into devolved budgetary arrangements , such as the Financial Management Initiative in central government . |