Example sentences of "gave be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mugger gave be a baby |
| 2 | Some of the interviews he gave were probing and worth further investigation . |
| 3 | Later , the explanations the young Americans of Charlie Company gave were singularly mundane : ‘ I wanted to see what it was like to shoot someone … |
| 4 | Nothing can prevent people from saying that the answers he gave were not ‘ adult or ‘ fundamental ’ , but it should be obvious that such adjectives are as culture biased as Saruman 's ‘ real ’ : by themselves they express only the prejudices of the user . |
| 5 | The answers they gave were very revealing … |
| 6 | Both the phone numbers Jacqui gave were ex-directory . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend points to a further interesting fact : although the figures that I gave were 100 per cent . |
| 8 | You know , Elaine did n't register my birth , and we 're not really sure whether the facts she gave were absolutely true , so it 's going to be a matter of checking all babies born on the same day in the same area , and I 'm not sure whether the people at St Catherine 's House can do that sort of thing . |
| 9 | Contrast the following case , in which it is Mela , an Augustan jurist of uncertain leanings , who is opposed to the validity of the disposition , arguing that if the amount is unstated then the amount is zero , while Nerva , a first-century Proculian , is in favour of it ; Ulpian follows him in suggesting that the amount the testator usually gave is payable , failing which it can be determined according to status . |
| 10 | An example they gave is : The S was sleeping on his stomach . |
| 11 | I think that the summary which you gave is fair also in relation to E N V Eleven and Twelve , yes . |
| 12 | Locke does suggest , indeed , erm and erm the example that , the rather silly example that I just gave is meant to bring this out , erm that of course those who have only given tacit consent are not full members of that civil society . |
| 13 | His Lordship accepted Mr Bayliss 's submission that Order 5 , rule 5 did not give power to make an order for contribution in favour of a representative defendant against a member of the class which he was named as representing ; and that the only power it gave was that of giving leave to a person , in whose favour a judgment or order had been given or made , to enforce the judgment or order against a person not a party to the proceedings who was bound by the judgment or order . |
| 14 | The answer she gave was not that she did n't know Mr Lawson 's stated reason for resigning , but that she found it incomprehensible . |
| 15 | Liberal pique over what they felt was inadequate consultation and personal rivalry between the leaders of the parties were seen by some as the most potent causes of the rift , but the official reason which the Liberals , the junior partners in the coalition , gave was their objection to the ending of tax deductions for car commuters and the raising of taxes on petrol and diesel fuel . |
| 16 | ‘ She had not had an easy life , especially towards the end , but the impression she always gave was of courage . |
| 17 | The snag is that there may be more than one way of carrying out a task ; the example I gave was measuring a distance by arranging matches end to end , and by using Pythagoras . |
| 18 | Our clients understand it ceased trading on December 24 and it follows that the reference NatWest gave was worthless . ’ |
| 19 | Commander Churchill-Coleman said : ‘ As always with the Provisional IRA when they commit these acts the information they gave was erroneous . |
| 20 | I imagine it might be said that it was too insistent on formal academic instruction , that it took things like examinations very seriously and prided itself on its academic record ; yet in fact the education it gave was surprisingly wide and varied … |
| 21 | The answer Bukharin gave was that there would be over-production of consumption goods , because there would be ‘ a disproportion between production and consumption . |
| 22 | When he refused a peerage the reason he gave was that he preferred to think his country owed him something . |
| 23 | The question was , as Hailey inimitably put it : ‘ Can we be sure of the continuance of that degree of acquiescence in our rule which is a necessary condition of administrative progress ? ’ , and the answer which he gave was a resoundingly qualified ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 24 | The only really hard piece of information the Standard gave was the name of the present owner of the house : Alec Chipstead . |
| 25 | The explanation that they gave was that the Caribs had been conquered by the neighbouring Arawak ; Carib men were exterminated but the conquerors took the women in marriage . |
| 26 | Although the answer he gave was perfectly correct , neither his reply or our accompanying diagram make absolutely clear the importance of glass thickness from a safety point of view . |
| 27 | They did n't quite tell us that we 'd never had it so good , but the impression they gave was that if we trusted Honest John and Uncle Norman to look after the nation 's piggy bank , all would be well . |
| 28 | The envelope was sent by ‘ Mr J. Burrows ’ — the name Elvis often used as a nom-de-plume and , in case the letter had to be ‘ returned to sender ’ , the address he gave was ‘ 3764 E. P. Blvd ’ , Memphis — his Graceland home on Elvis Presley Boulevard . |
| 29 | The laugh she gave was so dirty that I knew it was going to be all right . |
| 30 | Drawn forward by Cairns to drive well outside off , the catch Stewart gave was again straightforward . |