Example sentences of "[noun] be that [pron] gave " in BNC.

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1 The irony is that what gave me and other lesbians the
2 The chief , indeed only , reason for her appearance on the scene is that she gave birth to a ( male ) child !
3 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 !
4 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 .
5 What constitutes the novelty of the Hellenistic age is that it gave international circulation to ideas , while strongly reducing their revolutionary impact .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 . ’
9 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 .
10 Perhaps the most fitting tribute to their son is that he gave his life to a mission which may have saved many more .
11 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 .
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