Example sentences of "gave the [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gave the money for the words not used to a boy with ringworm throwing stones at a cat on a wall . |
| 2 | Davidson gave the reasons for the kite-flying as partly Lloyd George and partly unemployment . |
| 3 | Initially the parties will rely on the notes made by solicitors and counsel when the trial judge gave the reasons for his decision when delivering judgment in open court . |
| 4 | Finally she made her choice and gave the reasons for it with the confidence she always brought to her work . |
| 5 | This tour of Europe and Asia gave the opportunity for Kitto to acquire the knowledge of customs and scenery which he put to good use on his return to England in 1833 by writing articles in the Penny Magazine under the title , ‘ The Deaf Traveller . ’ |
| 6 | In the case of the treaty it gave the opportunity for the Red Army to be created , which at a later date was able to go on to the offensive . |
| 7 | The week gave the opportunity for a quite extensive programme . |
| 8 | According to this , when King Oswy gave the land for a monastery to St Hilda , he retained the hunting rights . |
| 9 | And West House became Vernon : Lady Vernon gave the land for the Greek Street School in 1829 , and Lord Vernon endowed his Latin Prize in 1874 . |
| 10 | Admiral of the Fleet , Lord Tryon , gave the order for the lines to circle inwards towards one another and , after completing a turn of 180 degrees , steam in the reverse direction . |
| 11 | It was Hua who gave the order for Jiang Qing and her associates to be arrested along with many of their supporters . |
| 12 | So , on 20 August , he confidently gave the order for an Austrian advance , believing there were no Russian formations to imperil his right flank . |
| 13 | Conrad , faced with the crisis of the defeat of his plans , and with the destruction of his armies , on the 11th gave the order for overall retreat . |
| 14 | Towards evening the Collector gave the order for everyone who could be spared from the ramparts to assemble in the hall , he wanted to say a few words to the garrison . |
| 15 | There was always the option to call this off er to the very last moment when erm I gave the order for the officers to go in . |
| 16 | In southwest England an early paper by Waters ( 1957 ) demonstrated the significance of differential weathering in oldlands and gave the basis for a new way of regarding the earlier stages of landscape evolution . |
| 17 | Their degree of preference for one party Over others had an important influence upon the usefulness-ratings they gave the media for helping them decide how to Vote ( those with clear preferences found the media less useful for that purpose ) but had little or no influence on other aspects of usefulness-ratings . |
| 18 | The Thun-Hohensteins gave the commission for its replacement in the rebuilt church to Benedikt Kern , brother of the famous painter Anton Kern . |
| 19 | Thus , perhaps without realising the implications , the Soviet parliament gave the go-ahead for the most revolutionary experiment here since Lenin 's New Economic Policy of the 1920s : for a massive delegation of powers from the centre , permitting a single republic to create its own market-oriented economy , with its own budget , and to redraw economic rules which basically Stalin 's . |
| 20 | APLAN by Berkshire county council to create a city technology college was ruled out yesterday by Mrs Angela Rumbold , the Education Minister , when she gave the go-ahead for one of the schools involved to opt out . |
| 21 | BOEING , the world 's biggest aircraft maker , last night gave the go-ahead for a $4billion development of a new wide-bodied 350-seater jet , to be called the 777 . |
| 22 | On 30 January , 1950 , after five months of agonized discussion and contradictory advice , President Truman gave the go-ahead for a crash research programme into the hydrogen or ‘ super ’ bomb , as it was then called . |
| 23 | At the end of the period of indecision , however , in 1975 , it was ironically Energy Secretary Tony Benn , nowadays a major critic of nuclear expansion , who gave the go-ahead for two further AGRs ( at Torness and Heysham ) . |
| 24 | In 1981 , Michael Heseltine gave the go-ahead for Liverpool . |
| 25 | WE have had a Children 's Charter , which gave the go-ahead for every type of mischief available , so what about a Parents ' Charter ? |
| 26 | THE immediate threat of a world trade war was lifted yesterday when Jacques Delors gave the go-ahead for new talks with the US . |
| 27 | THE immediate threat of a world trade war was lifted yesterday when Jacques Delors gave the go-ahead for new talks with the US . |
| 28 | They were handed to her at Blackpool , where a royal aide gave the go-ahead for marriage guidance workers to present the fish . |
| 29 | After four days of fasting , High Commission officials in Delhi relented and gave the go-ahead for the couple to be reunited . |
| 30 | At an informal meeting of the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group , China also approved a 15-year extension to a licence for local utility Hongkong Electric which expires at the end of 1993 , and gave the go-ahead for a landfill project . |