Example sentences of "the [noun pl] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an 11-handicapper who does not play quite as often as she would like , I found the clubs gave me more consistency and greater ‘ feel ’ . |
| 2 | Hire-purchase was used in England for pianos , furniture , and sewing machines ; after a slight hiccup , the courts gave their imprimatur . |
| 3 | The court therefore has to approach its construction on the footing that the new Act may exhibit policies and intentions which are not necessarily the same as those in the earlier Act , and which require similar words to be given different meanings from those which the courts gave them under the earlier legislation . |
| 4 | In over 60 countries the courts gave out death sentences , which were carried out in more than half these countries . |
| 5 | The birds gave voice so vigorously that relief that the sun had come at last might almost be detected in their song — the warm , exhilarating sun . |
| 6 | The houses gave way to shops and the slope levelled off , then he was in a narrow main street where it was easily possible to hop on one leg from one gift shop to the next … all of them closed until Easter . |
| 7 | The Times gave prominence to cricket but thought the FA Cup Final in 1914 ‘ of comparatively little interest except to the Lancashire working classes ’ ( the game was between Liverpool and Burnley ) . |
| 8 | Mori in the Times gave Labour a one-point lead . |
| 9 | Even The Times gave the kind of distorted account of our treatment of grammar which would please retired head teachers of an old-fashioned cast of mind . |
| 10 | At that time the Rules gave no such rights to other persons served with the notice , such as Winchester . |
| 11 | The resorts gave an undoubted boost to the opening up of Georgian Sussex but their importance is easily exaggerated and the turnpikes were probably more important in servicing and emphasising the continued status of the network of local market towns . |
| 12 | One of the reasons why pressure from reform-minded people outside the ranks of the government intensified in 1858 derived from the fact that , up to a point , the authorities gave it their blessing . |
| 13 | The verdicts gave up to three months for new polls to be held . |
| 14 | The verdicts gave up to three months for new polls to be held . |
| 15 | Years spent as a printer had taught Cook the value of advertising and his handbills about the trips gave details of each town 's attractions , including the excellence of the shops . |
| 16 | The GIS gave rapid and easy access to the data in a number of different ways , it provided analytical tools for the production of statistical tables , and it allowed the output of maps and specific factors , such as the overlay of the road network onto the green belt layer , showing areas of high and low accessibility , thus permitting the evaluation of population growth potential relative to accessibility and planning constraints . |
| 17 | The parentheses gave her a sense of not existing , un-being perhaps was not too strong a word . |
| 18 | The artist who painted in the eyes gave power to the image but was in turn filled with dangerous emanations which had to be washed off before he could return to ordinary life . |
| 19 | After some 140 million years of development , the nautiluses gave rise to a variant group with many more flotation chambers to each shell , the ammonites . |
| 20 | All of the drivers gave very good results with the exception of the 64k drivers on an SVGA monitor . |
| 21 | ‘ I found the last 20 minutes extremely hard but the lads gave me every encouragement and I am delighted , ’ he said . |
| 22 | In terms of engineering , the BRMs were behind their time ; the cars gave endless trouble ; Jackie 's dissatisfactions grew ; accidents intervened , especially at a rain-soaked Spa where Jackie went off the track at high speed and lay trapped in his car , his shoulder broken , his ribs cracked and petrol from his ruptured tanks soaking through his overalls , burning his skin . |
| 23 | As the feeding group dispersed , the atmosphere rapidly calmed down , and the screams gave way to a succession of peaceful feeding grunts . |
| 24 | Than the shops gave place to boarding houses and the hill began ; it was a twin of the one he had come down from the car park . |
| 25 | As Table 14 , below , shows , of the 346 visitors ( 95% of all respondents ) who replied to it , as very high proportion ( 93% ) felt that the labels gave sufficient information . |
| 26 | A board on the outskirts gave its name as Sècheron and listed times of Holy Mass . |
| 27 | The guards gave us a cigarette each and then left . |
| 28 | The grapheme is the dominant unit ( since , although most — ead words do not have ‘ ee ’ pronunciation , a large majority of the subjects gave this pronunciation ) but not the only one . |
| 29 | Buddy 's original band The Crickets gave Alex their thumbs up during the American tour . |
| 30 | All the authors gave their manuscripts free , to help make Burma and its people better known , not only to the men of the forces , but more widely . |