Example sentences of "their [noun sg] [was/were] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their presence was given the utmost publicity , and soon their numbers ( and the numbers of a mythical Russian landing force ) menacing his armies ' rear , had multiplied in Moltke 's fretful imagination into a mighty host . |
| 2 | Their park was given over as a whole for building development , and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | No explanation of the documents or of their effect was given to Mrs. O'Brien . |
| 4 | The Allies kept certain reserved powers ( including control of foreign policy ) under an Occupation Statute but their practice was to give the new German government as much independence as possible . |
| 5 | A recollection of their work was given by Layton in an interview for the Canadian Theatre Revue in 1977 , in the wake of A Man Was Killed , the first play to be written by them , but tardily presented . |
| 6 | They in their turn were to give way after tunenlightenedhe Second World War to the models of the bus-shelter , the airport , and the office-block , the ultimate in bankruptcy of imagination . |
| 7 | The two were the base of a formidable team , and they immediately declared their purpose was to give emotional , moral and practical support to the stricken families . |