Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | We recruited a team of twenty-five young executives whose firms or colleagues gave them three weeks paid leave for the election campaign . |
| 2 | Although subjects gave the risk rating immediately on hearing the tone it was stressed that their safety should be the main consideration , thus they should not attempt to perform any judgment task until they felt comfortable with the driving situation . |
| 3 | These researchers presented a group of subjects with a verbal dichotic listening task and noted that subjects gave more rightward than leftward eye movements as well as showing the usual right ear advantage on the dichotic task . |
| 4 | The spectre of quotas was the reason that businessmen gave for opposing the civil-rights bill the president vetoed last October . |
| 5 | Both students and lecturers said that they felt that lectures gave an opportunity for personal contact . |
| 6 | It has long been recognized that Pausanias gave a Herodotean dress and added some comments of his own to what must ultimately be a third-century B.C. account of the Celtic attack ( O. Regenbogen , P.-W. , s.v . |
| 7 | The criticisms that users gave can be grouped under four headings . |
| 8 | Although reporters gave the impression that the troupes were new to the American stage , they had in fact made their debut as far back as 1900 when George Lederer booked them to perform their original Pony Trot . |
| 9 | When Springhall writes that adolescents gave their allegiance to ‘ society ’ , this is at best a half-truth . |
| 10 | It is also possible that magistrates gave defendants the benefit of the doubt when in the preliminary inquiry both sides produced witnesses who appeared unreliable . |
| 11 | As well as indicating how the women have struggled to improve their conditions , the testimonies also show that women gave full support and backing to the Tigrayan revolution . |
| 12 | Parisian cultural life between the wars was close-knit ; writers and artists gave each other mutual support . |
| 13 | He flew slowly and high , watching the land unfold beneath him as buildings and roads gave way to brief outcrops of country followed by more towns . |
| 14 | Anarchy was over and there now began the reign of one of the strongest kings ever to rule England , one whose territories and titles gave him authority over a great part of north-western Europe . |
| 15 | ‘ If DJs gave either side enough spins and all curry eaters bought it , I believe I could really hit the big time , ’ said Peter , who lives in Bargoed , Mid-Glamorgan . |
| 16 | In the early sixties building of new churches and halls gave the Guild much work to do . |
| 17 | The study was approved by the human research and review committees of the participating centres and subjects gave written informed consent . |
| 18 | In the larger establishments there were restaurants , theatre , gardens and fountains , a sports stadium , rest rooms and large halls where poets and philosophers exchanged views and authors gave lectures or read their latest works . |
| 19 | The hold tightened as Saxon thegns and clergy gave way to Normans . |
| 20 | The analysis was done as described in ref. 49 , with minor modifications ; mice and rats gave essentially similar results . |
| 21 | Once assimilated , these devices and motifs gave the students a feeling of having mastered something , but when Dodie Masterman took over Minton 's illustration class and took them through the basics , she found many of them very inept . |
| 22 | If this social ascendancy depended on land it was reinforced by the widespread rebuilding of country seats in the eighteenth century and the reordering of the ornamental parks which surrounded them ; the symmetrical English formality of the grander Tudor houses and gardens gave way to a new Italianate classicism which combined with an image of the countryside often quite distinct from the comparative agricultural disorder which remained outside the pales of their civilised owners . |
| 23 | Hesiod , unlike Homer , in his Works and Days gave an account of man 's decline from a primeval Golden Age ; his poem was based implicitly on the concept of time , although the word ‘ time ’ never actually appears in it . |
| 24 | If I lay on my side , my shoulders and hips gave me particular trouble ; if I lay on my front , my back ached ; and if I lay on my back , the springs of the mattress dug into what little flesh I had left . |
| 25 | His pace quickened as the accents changed ; City gents in long black coats and bowlers gave way to professional men in dark suits and trilbies , to be taken over by rough lads in ill-fitting clothes and caps , until Charlie finally arrived in the East End , where even the boaters had been abandoned by those under thirty . |
| 26 | The numerous spidery capillaries scrawling their florid graffiti across her nose and cheeks gave their own silent clue as to her habits . |
| 27 | Nearly two thousand years have elapsed since Cicero proclaimed the virtues of legal harmonization : The urge towards internal harmonization of local laws and customs gave rise to the common law in England and to codification in Europe . |
| 28 | We needed to test our resources and Jets gave us that chance . ’ |
| 29 | The strong smell of damp and cats gave a quick explanation of why the first two floors of the building were uninhabited . |
| 30 | Dozens of lives could be saved every year if GPs gave penicillin to people with the brain disease meningitis . |