Example sentences of "[noun] gave the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car was so low it looked as if a giant had tried to stub it out and it was clear that getting out of the bucket seat gave the Greek momentary altitude sickness . |
| 2 | When David gave the all clear the paragliders were laid out on the hillside forming splashes of startling colour on the green backdrop . |
| 3 | The public launch came to a climax on the day of the Annual Meeting of Court , when Lord Flowers gave the Inaugural Lecture of the Campaign for Resource series , an address on the future of higher education in the UK . |
| 4 | A compromise agreement on Nov. 30 between Boris Yeltsin , President of the Russian Federation , and Gorbachev gave the Russian Federation joint control with the centre over Union budget policy , and allowed credits to the budget from the Soviet State Bank ( Gosbank ) , underwritten by Russia , provided that budget cuts were made . |
| 5 | Wang Sau-leyan gave the slightest bow of his head , as if in deference to Wu Shih 's greater age and experience . |
| 6 | Again Wang Sau-leyan gave the slightest bow . |
| 7 | Tom found that the rotary-headed Philishave gave the best results : ‘ A bit expensive but well worth the money . ’ |
| 8 | When newspapers first speculated that Lady Dartmouth was to replace the Earl of Dartmouth with the divorced Earl Spencer , a then-unknown Lady Sarah Spencer gave the memorable quote : ‘ Since my grandfather died last June and we moved from Sandringham to Althorp Park , Lady Dartmouth has been an all-too-frequent visitor . ’ |
| 9 | Another break for bad light gave the fast men a breather . |
| 10 | The interruption gave the two kneeling men a chance to look up , and to see each other looking up . |
| 11 | This collection of demands gave the widest scope for an agitation against the government on several issues thought to appeal to radical Liberals and Left Labour alike . |
| 12 | ‘ Neil gave the perfect demonstration of loose forward play under the new laws , ’ said Russ . |
| 13 | Fortunately , Northants ' post-war rebuilding programme gave the 29-year-old keeper a chance of regular Championship cricket , and he immediately created a favourable impression at the County Ground . |
| 14 | An innovative renewal programme gave the urban poor legal protection , provided basic amenities and encouraged self-help work . |
| 15 | The same thing happened in Holland and ATS gave the next three races a miss to try to fix the problems . |
| 16 | Judges gave the best speaker award to Sandyha Surt and the best expresser of thanks to Emma Gaunt , both of the Queen Elizabeth College . |
| 17 | The committee gave the Scots scholar , James Anderson of Monkshill , the brief which led to his Observations on Slavery . |
| 18 | The Foreign Affairs Committee statement on 2 December gave the initial response from the European Community . |
| 19 | In the first detailed account of his theory , Darwin gave the following imaginary example to show how natural selection would work : |
| 20 | The State Council gave the armed groups an ultimatum to lay down their arms by March 30 and to open transport routes . |
| 21 | A special session of the National Council gave the Popular Front a number of ministerial positions in a new coalition government , and on May 18 Kambarov was appointed acting President pending new elections . |
| 22 | The US secretary of state on 28 February gave the new trend in American thinking an acceptable public face when he underlined American support for the United Nations against acts of " aggression " . |
| 23 | The fact that family circumstances gave the school-leaver little option but to take the first available work , and the highest paid , was appreciated by exchange officials . |
| 24 | However , the Madiun revolt gave the Dutch a big opportunity . |
| 25 | It was during this period that savage Turkish reprisals against Balkan nationalist movements gave the last of the sultans an unsavoury reputation for religious persecution which has coloured the writings of some western historians in their assessment of the whole record of the Ottoman empire . |
| 26 | Section 8(b) ( 1 ) ( A ) of the 1947 Act gave the National Labor Relations Board the necessary power to proceed against union tactics involving ‘ violence , intimidation and reprisal or threats ’ . |
| 27 | According to Anil Gadre , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp 's vice president of systems product marketing , the new licensing strategy — see front page — should , for example , enable the Sparc compatible community to get its hands on the company 's next-generation Viking , or SuperSparc technology — being co-developed with Texas Instruments Inc — much more quickly than the best part of a year that elapsed between the launch of the Sparcstation 2 ( UX No 308 ) , and the day Sun gave the green light for the LSI Logic Inc made 40MHz Sparc chip sets to be sold on to Sun wannabe 's ( UX No 356 ) . |
| 28 | Seemingly more interested in spoiling tactics than news values , The Sun gave the supposed transcript of an alleged row between Prince Charles and his estranged wife far more prominence than it deserved . |
| 29 | Kerr LJ said that some of the public comments on Bromley v. GLC gave the misleading impression that the judgments in the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords were designed to thwart the wishes of the majority on the GLC for political motives . |
| 30 | About 68 per cent of illegitimate births were jointly registered in the names of both parents in 1987 compared to 53 per cent in 1977 , and in 1987 , 70 per cent of such parents gave the same address . |