Example sentences of "gave the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is the reason why I gave the Prime Minister prior notice of the question . |
| 2 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Dec. 14 reported that a poll gave the Prime Minister a support rating of over 40 per cent , suggested that , after registering a one-off protest in July , voters were " returning to the fold " , being wooed with promises of political reform , a slowdown in agricultural liberalization and a pledge to reform the consumption tax . |
| 3 | The new coalition government gave the Prime Minister an increased majority in parliament , but observers commented that this might not translate into electoral support . |
| 4 | This gave the total abstinence movement the eye-catching label it needed . |
| 5 | But he could and did hold a fringe meeting with the Bow Group , where he gave the becoming speech of a statesman . |
| 6 | He gave the only gift in his power and , removing his eyes from Eochaid 's , dropped on one knee . |
| 7 | Henry III then gave the new matrix to Master Nicholas de Ely who took the oath to keep it faithfully . |
| 8 | In serving this ideal , one feature which gave the new English its peculiar potency was the cultural mystique endowed upon it by a vision of the qualities seen as inherent in the national literature . |
| 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 | This gave the new kitchen the perfect opportunity to show what it could achieve . |
| 11 | The country 's political atmosphere had become embittered as a result of the creation of the DLP , in January 1990 , through a merger of the then minority governing party and two of the three main opposition groups , which gave the new formation control of more than two-thirds of the seats in the 299-member National Assembly . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | Not only did Nicola Larini manage to bring the new Modena-Lamborghini through pre-qualifying and then into the race , he gave the new team more than it had thought possible by finishing seventh , albeit three laps behind . |
| 14 | Bettelheim and Zelan ( 1982 ) found ‘ primers ’ to have little content , to be limited and repetitive : they gave the new reader little with which to engage . |
| 15 | He took what comfort he could from France 's declaration of war on England on 4 March , followed by George II 's counter-declaration on the 29th , which gave the attempted invasion of his kingdom , not unreasonably , as a casus belli . |
| 16 | In his covering letter he mentioned yet another title and gave the Wagnerian aspect an unexpected prominence : " I have written a pamphlet … which is to have the title " Music and Tragedy " , and I am sending you the beginning of it in manuscript . |
| 17 | You know they must be you know and a certain amount of guilt maybe that they that they did n't support the miners or you know it was something that was happening far away and maybe y like I said you gave the odd tin of beans you know but er |
| 18 | A meeting of EC finance ministers gave the European exchange-rate mechanism a clean bill of health . |
| 19 | It gave the European plan anonymity by not identifying the author of the plan , while his own copy under his own initials and those of his secretary would tell Mueller and his Detroit colleagues that he had a hand in its formulation , which is what Mueller and Muldoon wanted people to think . |
| 20 | It gave the European Court of Justice the power to fine governments contravening EC law . |
| 21 | The name makes some sense as an enduring survival of bronze age Cretan influence , but we must not lose sight of the fact that it was Evans who gave the Minoan civilization its name and not the Minoans : they almost certainly called themselves something completely different . |
| 22 | Ruthless as he was , Khrushchev gave the Soviet Union a more human face . |
| 23 | It would be impossible to withdraw American forces if this gave the Soviet Union the opportunity to move into Japan . |
| 24 | As a welcome twist , Warwara Zelenskaja gave the Soviet Union is best-ever women 's result with third place at Morzine behind Kronberger and Bournissen . |
| 25 | Both Mehta and Harrison referred to the historical example of Soviet troop withdrawals from Finland ( the Porkkala base ) , and to the security pledges that Finland gave the Soviet Union . |
| 26 | Speaking at a press conference at the UN in New York on the same day , Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Petrovsky gave the Soviet Union 's first public disclosure of its total foreign troop strength , putting the figure at 627,000 . |
| 27 | He was elected FRS in 1892 and gave the Croonian lecture in 1896 . |
| 28 | I am , however , inclined to believe that the authentic Hecataeus could not have stated , as Josephus makes him state , that Alexander gave the Samaritan territory free of tax to the Jews . |
| 29 | Ownership of this asset accordingly conferred unchallengeable power and influence on a comparative minority , while at the same time working it gave the overwhelming majority of the population their livelihood . |
| 30 | The figures gave the overwhelming impression that the miners ( estimated at around 10,000 ) were responsible for most of the injuries . |