Example sentences of "the [noun] [pron] gave [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The launch conference was successful in many ways , one of which was the opportunity it gave for students and staff to display the already high quality of work across many areas of the curriculum . |
| 2 | ‘ In the main , the church and its leaders drew their importance from the support they gave to the existing powers and from their multiple involvements in education , social welfare and administration . ’ |
| 3 | And the description he gave of the girl was a perfect portrait of Sandy . |
| 4 | In some ways it is an improvement over yet older versions , sions , but I hope you realise that the information it encapsulates is much vaguer and less certain than the description I gave of what single cells can do . |
| 5 | Many of the most important and prominent proteins of the synaptic membrane are of the class known as glycoproteins , which , if the description I gave in Chapter 3 now seems a long way back , can best be summed up as molecules made in two parts ; an amino acid chain embedded in the membrane , to which is attached a further chain made of sugar molecules such as glucose , fucose and galactose , sticking out from the membrane into the extracellular space beyond . |
| 6 | This change in female initiation patterns is also reflected in the reasons they gave for experimentation with heroin in the first place . |
| 7 | The same committee on the same day had considered Mr. Choudhury 's appeal and the reasons they gave in that case are impeccable . |
| 8 | We can see no merit in repeating here the reasons he gave for that decision since he pronounced his findings in that case in public , pursuant to rule 11(2) of the Hearings before the Visitors Rules 1991 , and the reasons were complex . |
| 9 | If the adventurers are a talkative bunch , you might allow the Oracle to reminisce fondly over the counsel he gave to Drachenfels over the years . |
| 10 | Next , a story lifted from the Daily Mail about Professor Jerrold Petrofsky 's work in Dayton , Ohio , and the hope it gave to the paralysed PC Philip Olds . |
| 11 | The medieval choir school also survived — though renamed by Henry VIII ‘ the Kynges Newe Grammer Scole of Seynt Marie Oterey ’ — and like many provincial grammar schools throughout the land it continued to provide a modest education of the kind which gave to the youthful Shakespeare his ‘ small Latin , and less Greek ’ . |
| 12 | One particular incident which sticks in my mind which brought home to me how ill he was occurred when my mother sent me one morning to ask my father what he wanted for breakfast , to which he replied in a very vague and confused manner " hen mush " ( the term we gave to the vegetable matter we cooked up for the chickens ) . |
| 13 | However , I was disappointed at the reply she gave to my questions at a public open meeting held on April 7th , when I suggested that following many and varied discussions in different regions of the country , there was extreme concern in the non-action by the government in the matter of the vast difference in the value of imports from different countries , in particular Japan , as against the value of the imports they take from this country . |
| 14 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 15 | In a footnote he does point to the aid they gave with money through the various aid-Spain funds but also derides this contribution , emphasising that ‘ the sum raised … would not equal five per cent of the turnover of the football pools during the same period . ’ |
| 16 | However , the figure we gave for the annual input of carbon into the soil ( 1.2 tonnes of carbon per hectare per year ) include the carbon contributed by algae and photosynthetic bacteria . |
| 17 | What I w what I will say to my honourable , my right honourable friend is that er when I recently visited the United States I did find that the , on which our training and enterprise councils have been based , have provided a very valuable experience for us in learning the lessons that he had indicated of ensuring that the private sector is fully involved in decisions over training and I believe that the figure I gave to my honourable friend early today , combined with over two billion that my department spends on training , forms a very effective public private sector partnership . |
| 18 | No matter where I wander I am haunted by your name The portrait of your beauty stays the same sailing on the ocean wondering where you are if you 'll return again where is the ring I gave to Nancy Spain … |
| 19 | His son , the Rev John Wilson , Minister at Corporation Road Baptist Church , paid tribute to the friendship he gave to others . |
| 20 | She had learnt long ago that Nahum 's chief interest in the Foundling Hospital was the boost it gave to his own ego being on the Board of Governors , a position acquired mainly through the generosity of his brother-in-law , John Bradford , who always supported the charity financially . |
| 21 | ‘ They never offer us the help they gave to TV . ’ |
| 22 | The aim is to raise money for any former resistance workers who 've fallen on hard times and to say thank you for the help they gave to our servicemen : |
| 23 | The aim is to raise money for any former resistance workers who 've fallen on hard times and to say thank you for the help they gave to our servicemen : |
| 24 | ‘ Thank you for all the help you gave to us and to Bob during the last few days of his illness — I only wish we 'd been put in touch with ACET sooner . |
| 25 | Sara would always remember gratefully the help he gave at that time ‘ to render a miserable cottage , an abode of comparative comfort ’ . |
| 26 | I NOTED with interest your report on the Darlington v Huddersfield match , particularly the primacy you gave to an alleged comment by ‘ a fanzine seller ’ who purportedly said ‘ this is the Sack Frank Gray issue ’ . |
| 27 | That eighteenth-century generals and governments were justified in the attention they gave to this problem is clear . |
| 28 | This accounts for the attention he gave to the reserves , or ‘ spare men ’ as he liked to call them . |
| 29 | For while Schopenhauer gave music a gratifyingly important role within his scheme of things , the music on which he based his theories was primarily the formally respectable tradition that he saw represented in Haydn and Mozart ; and the importance he gave to music turned to a large extent on its supposed capacity to foster the right — dispassionate and otherworldly — response . |
| 30 | I had won the scholarship to the grammar school and I could n't begin to describe the joy it gave to Aunt Hettie and Uncle Fred . |