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Example sentences of "gave [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	Nora did not say it but she and John gave between three and four thousand pounds a year to these various causes .
2	Even Shirley Christian 's relatively cosy interview with North for the New York Times on December 1st — an interview that gained in suspiciousness and oddity because it was the last North gave for two years — plunged suddenly into an action-man world .
3	We can see no merit in repeating here the reasons he gave for that decision since he pronounced his findings in that case in public , pursuant to rule 11(2) of the Hearings before the Visitors Rules 1991 , and the reasons were complex .
4	Instead their lasting legacy and major influence was the legitimacy that they gave for local politics to be reduced to urban politics , which in turn consisted solely of issues concerning collective consumption .
5	Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ .
6	The main reason the three gave for this was the outdatedness of the data , especially those data which are ‘ referring to the past and therefore of little use ’ .
7	The explanation which Hall later gave for this was that although the War Department competition was dead , he was seeking official approval for the principle that , for all important government buildings in London , ‘ a competition , limited or otherwise , should take place , instead of the work being committed , as a matter of course to an officer of the establishment ’ .
8	The reasons that they gave for this varied considerably .
9	The reason she gave for this was that she felt that experiencing repeated failure was bad for pupils .
10	The reason the TUC gave for supporting payment to mothers was an interesting one : they argued that ‘ in most cases mothers have the major responsibility for the family budget ’ , but little or no independent income ( HOC , 1973 , Vol .
11	But he was just in passing sentence so that he would not accept money nor shrink from the right way ; and these sentences he gave after careful deliberation with much maturity of judgment .
12	Just as his theoretical awareness of the importance of sense-experience as a basis for science went along with an increasing interest in practical , experimental investigation of the world , so his theoretical advocacy of Epicurean atomism went along with his actual use of it in his own work ; for example , in an account he gave of various optical phenomena produced by the sun .
13	He led her in through yet another heavy door : they entered a wide , tiled hallway that gave onto wide , tiled rooms .
14	‘ Had you seen me then , as I left your hotel , when I gave into that need to kiss you — be it on the cheek , I 'm sure you would have thought ‘ poor Ven ’ . ’
15	However , the act gave with one hand and took away with another : for it also removed a tax credit for investment and the possibility of accelerating the write-down against tax of depreciation .
16	An irony of the Budget was that what it gave with one hand it took away with the other .
17	She had never counted how much she gave with such ardent pleasure .
18	I READ with interest the article about me ( Echo March 2 ) which draws on an interview I gave with two journalists from the Sunday Mail .
19	Actually , she opened with Mozart 's scena Misera , dove son which tested her somewhat at the top of the stave , but there followed arias from Manon , Don Pasquale and La Forza del Destino which she gave with commanding conviction , variety and characterisation .
20	It was the fifth of those lectures he gave from 1769 to 1790 , known as his fifteen discourses .
21	The same committee on the same day had considered Mr. Choudhury 's appeal and the reasons they gave in that case are impeccable .
22	‘ That is n't the impression you gave in that newspaper article about you last week . ’
23	He gave in that connection some instances from The Rock , which he described not so much as a play as a revue , a word he pronounced in the French manner .
24	Even after many of the separate grants were amalgamated in 1958 into a single general grant , government continued to expand its financial support quite rapidly to make it possible for local councils to fulfil the pledges which national parties frequently gave in general elections — to replace slums or old schools , to reduce the size of classes , and much else .
25	For over three decades , Moscow has stuck to the explanation it gave in 1957 to the then Swedish Prime Minister , Tage Erlander : that 10 years before , in July 1947 , Raul Wallenberg had died in Lubyanka prison .
26	In an interview she gave in 1974 she explained that the goal of her fiction was to re-activate the language of conceptual knowledge through metaphor :
27	We are following the commitment that we gave in 1973 to ever closer union , so why are we now beginning to get cold feet ?
28	Accordingly , the Agricultural Training Board , like similar organisations , needed to consider the priorities it gave in these areas .
29	In an interview which he gave in this year , he expressed his disappointment at the recent development of English poetry and suggested that any " creative advance " would come in prose fiction or in poetic drama : this is clearly what he himself was aiming at , as if he felt he could achieve in drama what he had already achieved in poetry .
30	In an interview which he gave in this year , the reporter noted how he seemed much " heartier , more unworried and more unafraid of the world than he did … five years ago " .