Example sentences of "was [adj] [conj] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Mr Gould said membership of the ERM was ‘ not in play ’ , he nevertheless believed the rate at which sterling was taken in was indefensible and gave little room to develop a coherent economic strategy . |
| 2 | Two companies promptly said it was impossible and gave up , but in the end we picked a firm who , we felt , understood the problems and would be flexible and responsive . |
| 3 | The Thom case was exceptional and gave rise to something of a public outcry . |
| 4 | But it was obvious that giving way , by either yelling or dissolving into tears , was n't going to get her anywhere in this awful place . |
| 5 | Nothing was important but to give in again to the onrush of his mouth . |
| 6 | We knew he was hungry and gave him our leftovers . |
| 7 | The Savoyard himself did not appear on the day , apparently because he was unsure whether to give precedence to the representative of the king of Bohemia ( the " Winter King " Frederick of the Palatinate ) ; but his absence at once made the Venetian ambassador fear that Savoy , perhaps with French or Spanish help , was intriguing to threaten the precedence claimed by the republic . |
| 8 | Its potential use was limited because it was not absorbed from the gut and so was ineffective if given by mouth , and because tyrocidine , in concentrations liable to occur during therapeutic use , damaged or destroyed red blood cells . |
| 9 | Fortunately , from the point of view of the tsar , the Khan of Bukhara was pro-Russian and gave him the chance to threaten Khiva from the rear . |
| 10 | The stillness , the cool , the quiet of the building all combined to produce an effect that was overwhelming and gave rise to a feeling of expectation . |
| 11 | He also felt that the evidence of abuse was unconvincing but given the involvement of other agencies in this area it was beyond his remit to challenge it in compiling his advice for the Statement . |
| 12 | At a meeting this May the Agricultural Ministers agreed that reform was necessary and gave each other a deadline of June 1993 to come up with concrete proposals . |
| 13 | When she discovered , in the summer of 1977 , that 5,500 metres of plain cloth was ‘ hanging about in Helmond and they do n't know what to do with it ’ , she was appalled and gave orders for it to be made up into suitable garments immediately . |