Example sentences of "it gave [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A challenge was issued to the AKA membership in their February 1983 issue of AKA News It gave dimensions for an 80 x 96in ( 203 x 244cm ) Rokkaku and described how teams of two or more could fly against each other as in the traditional Japanese events . |
| 2 | From the mid-1640s , the celebration of Christmas was forbidden , Puritans arguing both that the festival was pagan in origin and also that it gave licence to ‘ carnal and sensual delights ’ . |
| 3 | It gave ministers an improved intelligence system on the physical consequences of industrial disputes in vulnerable industries and services . |
| 4 | Insofar as this affected the ECSC negotiations , it gave West Germany a far stronger hand and enabled its negotiators to resist some of the French demands , especially those which were aimed at a deconcentration and decartelisation of West Germany 's heavy industries , and to pursue more urgently its own point of view on the future of the Saar . |
| 5 | It was a clear manifestation of the industrial and cultural ethos which the coal companies were fostering : it believed that trades unions should be concerned with industrial issues only , and not wider political goals ; it gave privilege to local autonomy rather than general solidarity ; it favoured compromise with employers ; and it eschewed strike action . |
| 6 | He also undertook not to publish any paperback version of ‘ The Satanic Verses ’ as long as it gave offence . |
| 7 | The longer they stayed , the more chance it gave Bishop Jon 's army to arrive . |
| 8 | The job involved visiting mining camps , quarries and oilfields all over the world selling explosives and it gave Haslam his first taste of the excitement of travel , something that has remained with him all his life . |
| 9 | Donald Brash , the governor of the Reserve Bank , suggested that it gave scope for easing monetary controls and predicted that it would result in lower interest rates . |
| 10 | It gave Nora the only hope she had . |
| 11 | It gave rise not only to a new religious movement of tremendous vitality , but also to tales of miracles and wonders . |
| 12 | It was an interesting move pregnant with unforeseen circumstances , not least the concern and misunderstanding to which it gave rise locally . |
| 13 | The Eddie was as turbulent as its homophone : it gave rise to eddies of controversy that swirled up and down the Kam Highway . |
| 14 | Inevitably , it gave rise to both unthinking acceptance — the weary , slow plod from point to point — and resistance , as a variety of easing devices were contrived . |
| 15 | The EOC reports that it was apparent that the Society 's mobility requirement and a candidate 's ability to comply with it gave rise to both direct and indirect discrimination . |
| 16 | This is not the place to discuss the intricacies of the argument and those it gave rise to in the anthropological press ( for a cross section of the arguments see , e.g. , Strathern 1983 ; Brady 1983 ) ; the purpose in raising it is to note the continued appeal of the debate and to point out Freeman 's confident rejection of the possibility of a peaceful society . |
| 17 | This catalogue of divisions , the ‘ erosion of cohesion and unity ’ and the questioning of society which it gave rise to were now important features of the British scene . |
| 18 | It gave rise , he said , to an estoppel by convention of the type recognised in Amalgamated Investment & Property Co . |
| 19 | It gave rise to its defence , the " Anti-Makassar " — the strip of linen still occasionally found protecting the headrests of seats in the older first-class carriages of British Rail . |
| 20 | In practice , Marxists argue , this process ( derived from changes in the mode of production or the economic base of society ) explains the historical questioning and transformation of the feudal mode of production and the state structures it gave rise to . |
| 21 | It gave rise to the term ‘ slide-rule strategy ’ and Williams was one of its foremost creators . |
| 22 | Whatever may be the limits of Article 235 , and it has been noted that it gave rise , even before the Community acquired its express environmental competence , to legislation on the conservation of wild birds , examples can be found of the development of what would appear to be new Community policies , without even a reference to Article 235 . |
| 23 | Fortunately , the German spirit that found expression in the Reformation , and with it gave rise to the first German music , has never yet fully lost itself in the dominant Alexandrianism . |
| 24 | This hypothetical test was preferred on the grounds that it gave rise to less uncertainty , and avoided the possibility of the court acting on the basis of hindsight . |
| 25 | you know kind of there 's all this quips about sort of semen making your hair grow and all that kind of thing erm you know so erm it 's , it 's , it 's one of these things that erm sort of erm kind of people , people s slip into on the basis of you know th er as far as I could tell there was no sort of firm evidence that these blokes were gay or heterosexual apart from judgments made on their demeanour and personal appearance erm you know but er you know it gave rise to a whole range of , you know , kind of supposedly humorous talk erm in that context erm so there 's a whole range of things erm tt you know sort of talk and mannerisms and , and er , you know , kind of also gossip and suspicions about them , oh is he married if not does he have a girlfriend , if not ooh I wonder if he 's gay , you know , kind of things that we understand about people 's relationships feed into it so |
| 26 | Despite the pleasure it gave Minton to walk into a friend 's house and find his own wallpaper , purchased without his friend knowing he had designed it , he did not take his interest in this area much further . |
| 27 | In the post-war world the national status of the Association received a welcome boost from the BBC , when , in 1948 , it gave permission for the BDDA to make a charity broadcast appeal . |
| 28 | It gave Hugh Lorimer some satisfaction to inform Philip that his son had inherited the estate in Meath and a personal fortune of a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 29 | During the years of its active life ( its decline and fall will be related later ) it gave thrust and direction to the necessary attempts to develop curricula that would be appropriate to the diverse aptitudes and abilities now present in all secondary schools . |
| 30 | To some it gave help in sickness and consolation in poverty . |