Example sentences of "[adj] gave [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The influence this gave to the nobility was most clearly demonstrated in the role played by the élite Guards regiments in settling the succession struggles in the period between the reigns of Peter I and Catherine II .
2 feeling that this gave to the beginning of that conference and this government then has the audacity to talk about the burdens on employers what about the burdens on the families of those whose relatives have been killed or diseased through workplace injuries by the negligence of the employers that actually employ them ?
3 The main reason the three gave for this was the outdatedness of the data , especially those data which are ‘ referring to the past and therefore of little use ’ .
4 A charter by James I gave for the first time , the power to levy a tax on vessels entering the port and also on the goods they carried .
5 Produced properly , argues La Mar , it could have formed the sort of entry into the mainstream that The Comic Strip Presents … first gave to alternative comedy .
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