Example sentences of "gave the [noun sg] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Shares in mobile phone operator Vodafone Group Plc rose fivepence to 379p yesterday after the company said that subscriber figures for April gave the company its best month in three years for connections to its network , with net new connections standing at 18,766 ; for the first time since LowCall was launched in October , net new connections to the business base exceeded net new LowCall connections .
2 From Gladstone 's period as Chancellor in the middle of the last century onwards , a set of rules or constitutional conventions evolved that gave the Treasury its central position as guardian of the public purse , as follows :
3 The Colorado , named ‘ river coloured red ’ by the Spanish , now flows green ; the silts and muds that gave the river its distinctive colour are trapped behind Glen Canyon Dam , fifteen miles upstream from the beginning of the Grand Canyon .
4 It was , in fact , the rapid inflation of the early 1970s that gave the system its bad reputation .
5 Well Jennifer I think it 's er viburnum lanterna and it 's quite an interesting er bush because it was in the sixteenth century a er gave the tree its poetic name as he frequently come across it in old drove roads er over and across the old drove roads in the chalk downs of er from Winchester to Epsom and London but sorry about this it can grow to fifteen feet and in May it opens up its cluster of white flowers and it 's really quite an attractive thing but the berries I do n't think are so attractive so I think erm
6 Even as AT&T decentralised and halved its hourly workforce from the size it was when the government gave the firm its present shape by breaking up the Bell system in 1984 , AT&T has set up hundreds of worker-manager committees — on quality control , re-engineering its operations and a host of other issues .
7 When they gave the measure their final approval , ministers arbitrarily changed the legal basis of the legislation in such a way that unanimous voting would have been required for any further tightening of pollution standards .
8 Now , she gave the conversation her full attention .
9 Under normal circumstances the bulk of government patronage in Scotland would be distributed through the agency of ministers familiar with local politics , and it was this which gave the crown its commanding influence in the country .
10 Entire families gave the nation whatever precious metal they possessed , and married women exchanged their gold wedding rings for iron ones .
11 The hon. Member for Bournemouth , West ( Mr. Atkinson ) must have stumbled into the debate without having been nobbled by his Whips , because he gave a reasonable , rational and consensus-seeking speech , unlike the hon. Member for Barrow and Furness ( Mr. Franks ) , who gave the House his next election address for 37 minutes , but then proceeded to disappear , as though he is the only hon. Member with a constituency outside central London .
12 Aside from dowdy , depressing comedy Till Death Us Do Part and banned nuclear scare-a-thon The War Game , BBC also gave the world its own stab at kitchen-sink realism à la cinema 's Saturday Night Sunday Morning , a one-off play directed by Mr Misery himself , Ken Loach .
13 Rubio ( 1908 ) was the first American-bred horse to triumph at Aintree , and he was followed in 1909 by Lutteur III who gave the French their first success in the race .
14 The music stopped and now he gave the newcomer his full attention .
15 Feeling severe misgiving , she gave the crowd her best smile .
16 It was commonly held that the first lord to whom he had sworn fealty had the first call on his service ; but in some cases it was held that the richest fief gave the vassal his strongest obligation ; or again , that it depended on the circumstances , on which lord had the greatest need — a lord must be helped if he was fighting in self-defence , but his claim was less if he was fighting in someone else 's defence ; or the vassal might be expected to fight on both sides , that is to say , to provide troops for both armies .
17 Madame gave the woman her own address .
18 The lobbying from the dyestuffs interest gave the programme its empirical direction .
19 It was the immense prestige of French culture and the status of the French monarchy as a model for much of Europe which gave the language its dominant position in diplomacy .
20 It was this which gave the family its peculiar importance in the surveillance , and control , of sexual behaviour .
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