Example sentences of "[noun pl] gave the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Judges gave the best speaker award to Sandyha Surt and the best expresser of thanks to Emma Gaunt , both of the Queen Elizabeth College . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Visual observation in the Auvergne uplands gave the distinct impression that autumn grazing levels are not as high as in the Welsh uplands judging by the height of vegetation in pastures and on more extensive grassland areas . |
| 7 | GHI comment : In general , we found that the Alba and Ferguson models gave the clearest sound . |
| 8 | Marine investigators gave the Celtic Pride the all-clear to sail again yesterday after a preliminary probe . |
| 9 | Madani gave the new government a guarded welcome at a June 18 news conference , and said that the FIS would respect election results . |
| 10 | The trial of Bradlaugh and Annie Besant in 1876 for republishing one of Knowlton 's pamphlets gave the birth-control movement wide publicity and created the demand for more information , and led to the setting up of the first organisation to campaign on birth control , the Malthusian League . |
| 11 | Mysticism in all these traditions gave the original revelation new life and significance . |
| 12 | The figures gave the overwhelming impression that the miners ( estimated at around 10,000 ) were responsible for most of the injuries . |
| 13 | As table 1 shows , almost one in three businesses gave the highest possible rating , and almost three-quarters the two highest , while only one in 20 gave the two lowest combined . |
| 14 | Such formidable economic successes gave the German people a new confidence and allowed the expansion of social services , with a major pensions reform in 1957 , when old age pensions were made universal and tied to the cost of living . |
| 15 | A number of news agencies gave the French Minister of the Interior Philippe Marchand as the source for the report which they carried on Feb. 7 to the effect that Tedjini Haddam had left the five-member HCS in order to continue his duties as head of the Islamic Institute attached to the Paris mosque . |
| 16 | Two things gave the Christian forces in Spain superiority over their Moslem foes : the weight of their armour and horses , and their possession of massive siege engines . |
| 17 | However , pregnant girls gave the least number of alternative solutions to the problems , and were least competent at describing the steps an imaginary protagonist should take to achieve her aims in five stories . |
| 18 | The Congress of People 's Deputies gave the necessary endorsement to Trubin 's appointment on Dec. 27 . |
| 19 | All five human DNAs gave the human restriction pattern , and all five mouse DNAs gave the mouse restriction pattern . |
| 20 | When firms were restructured , these links gave the various shareholders some community of interest in the outcome , and in rescuing one another during hard times . |
| 21 | The Employment Secretary , Gillian Shepherd , said that the new measures gave the unemployed more ways to use their time constructively . |
| 22 | After several hours the police gave the all clear . |
| 23 | Accordingly , this power to name destinations gave the senior officers of the East India Company considerable influence over shipowners and they could , in turn , make use of such influence to aid their own political interest . |
| 24 | Initial results gave the conservative coalition 47 seats in the 99-seat legislature of Australia 's most populous state , compared with 60 in the outgoing legislature . |
| 25 | The model and tests gave the following results : |
| 26 | The children gave the same simple obedience as they had given to the men with the megaphones . ’ |
| 27 | Some employers introduced ‘ speed-up ’ for their factory hands , resulting in less work for homeworkers , while others gave the best paying work to their indoor hands and gave out only the inferior grades of work which required the most time spent on it to houses where the inspectors were unlikely to penetrate . |
| 28 | A meeting of EC finance ministers gave the European exchange-rate mechanism a clean bill of health . |
| 29 | In the last London Marathon an equally strange collection of runners gave the One Small Step appeal a great boost . |
| 30 | In the last London Marathon an equally strange collection of runners gave the One Small Step appeal a great boost . |