Example sentences of "[conj] it gave [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Respondents welcomed the document , clearly indicating that it gave Religious Education parity of status with other areas of the curriculum . |
| 2 | That the new system generated little moral authority was less important than the fact that it gave many Sri Lankans access to the power of the state . |
| 3 | What constitutes the novelty of the Hellenistic age is that it gave international circulation to ideas , while strongly reducing their revolutionary impact . |
| 4 | It also held East Indian bonds , and the fact that it gave substantial mortgages on land has led Dickson to suggest that to an extent it was diverting funds derived from industry and trade towards the landed interest . |
| 5 | I am writing as I disagree with various comments made in an article entitled A Pair of Glasses … by Linda Lewis , as I feel that it gave Indian Glassfish a very negative press . |
| 6 | Its advantage was that it worked , in that it gave some hope of understanding why chemical compounds behave as they do ; and it did open the way to symbolizing chemical reactions . |
| 7 | Sony Corporation 's Tape Recorder Division tried to redesign a small portable tape recorder so that it gave stereophonic sound . |
| 8 | It also printed the term as ‘ war ’ rather than war , but it gave close observers a full and accurate description of the weapons on both sides . |
| 9 | Today this chapter may seem almost too anodyne to be significant , but it gave much-needed relief and encouragement to Catholic New Testament scholars ( see Fitzmyer , 1982 , pp. 97–142 ) . |
| 10 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 11 | The Communist Party , though it gave full facilities to the People 's Vigilance Committee in the Daily Worker and Labour Monthly , continued to deny that the Convention was entirely inspired by the Party . |
| 12 | Between four and six episodes was Verity Lambert 's ideal length for a story , preferring the latter as it gave more opportunity for character development which , in her belief , audiences appreciated . |