Example sentences of "[num] [noun] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | A GARY CROSBY goal after 70 minutes gave Nottingham Forest a 1-0 win over QPR at the City Ground and ended 169 days ' misery in the Premier League 's bottom three . |
| 2 | On June 8 and 22 Boudiaf gave details of a new National Patriotic Rally ( Rassemblement Patriotique National ) as the foundation on which support for the work of the HCS would be based . |
| 3 | In June 1933 Edward gave a birthday party for Wallis , and during the next few months he visited the Simpsons ' flat in London almost every day . |
| 4 | In the 470s Alexander gave refuge to Themistokles when he was on the run to Persia , a tangibly anti-Athenian act . |
| 5 | The Foreign Affairs Committee statement on 2 December gave the initial response from the European Community . |
| 6 | Lara 's 111 not out off 140 balls gave the visitors victory with more than five overs to spare , and sent the South Africans tumbling out of the triangular one-day series , which also features Pakistan . |
| 7 | More than 700 farmers gave their backing to the Carlisle mart firm Harrison & Hetherington which had called the meeting because it believes the new system could paralyse cattle marketing . |
| 8 | In his first speech as President on Dec. 30 Franco gave priority to the fight against poverty , social inequality and corruption and undertook to respect Brazil 's international obligations . |
| 9 | In 1907 , however , the Bondholders had a great deal more at risk than in the 1960 's and the 2:1 arrangement gave them some protection and rights over their own investments and the Club 's destiny . |
| 10 | Comparing the proportion of never smokers in the groups using the family and smoking project and those not using it by χ 2 analysis gave a result consistent with the results of the model ( χ 2 a d j =3.7 , df=1 ; p=0.05 ) . |
| 11 | Articles of government made under the 1986 Act gave control of the secular curriculum to governors of aided schools and required the governing bodies of other maintained schools to study the LEA curriculum statement and consider how it might be modified to meet the needs of their schools . |
| 12 | The Articles of Government made under the 1986 Act gave to the governors of county and controlled schools the duty of devising arrangements for the appointment of staff , excluding head teachers and , in some authorities , deputy head teachers . |
| 13 | Finally , the 1986 Act gave societies the power to seek ‘ incorporation ’ , subject to their giving adequate notice of their intention and subject to a vote by their members . |
| 14 | The Alliance 's 1979 decision gave 1983 as the planned deployment year for cruise and Pershing . |
| 15 | The 313 to 112 vote gave Congress the two-thirds majority required to obviate a presidential veto . |
| 16 | The ISIS-2 study gave similar results at 35 days . |
| 17 | The April 7 results gave Clinton a total of at least 1,264 of the 2,145 delegates required to assure him of his party 's nomination . |
| 18 | Wren , 50 , looked shocked as a jury including six women gave the verdict at Inner London Crown Court . |
| 19 | On 11 January 1991 Norwich gave three months ' notice of the termination of their agency agreement of 13 March 1990 , by virtue of which Winchester had become an appointed representative , and hence an exempted person . |
| 20 | Staff from 70 kitchens gave up their spare time to organise cake sales , raffles , discos and magic shows to raise the money . |
| 21 | In that time the ulema of the three cities gave fetvas on an equal basis . |
| 22 | During the 01.00 and the 00.00 Rex gave a whole lot of things a whole lot of thought . |
| 23 | Three months gave her time to give notice on her present job , and , with luck , have funds released from her grandfather 's estate , the mortgage secured , and , hopefully , the sale of the flat completed . |
| 24 | Provincial elections on Aug. 8 in three provinces gave unexpected encouragement to the ruling Peronist party ( Partido Justicialista — PJ ) , which retained control of San Luis and captured San Juan province for the first time for 18 years ; the opposition Radical Party ( UCR ) retained control of Río Negro . |
| 25 | ‘ All three judges gave me the decision and having watched the video , I reckon I lost only two rounds — the fourth and the tenth . ’ |
| 26 | All three judges gave McCullough the nod . |
| 27 | The 1960 Act gave local authorities new powers to control caravan sites , including a requirement that all caravan sites had to be licensed before they could start operating ( thus partly closing loopholes in the planning and public health legislation ) . |
| 28 | A basic group of about thirty singers swelled on some orchestral occasions to 240 , and over three decades gave several London concerts each year , prepared with a care for detail unique in Britain at the time , though its effects were later attacked as too calculated , even ‘ effeminate ’ , and many regretted the drift from a pure part-song repertoire to grandiose ‘ mixed concerts ’ with popular soloists . |
| 29 | Section 1(2) of the 1921 Act gave the Treasury power to direct the C. and A.G. to examine vouchers in more detail — the new Act has withdrawn this power . |
| 30 | Indeed in May nineteen ninety Mr gave up his appointment as a teacher in order that he could care for the plaintiff full time . |