Example sentences of "gave [art] [adj] " 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 | The Washington Post of Dec. 11 , citing US State Department sources , gave the total numbers as 1,175 Britons , about 900 US nationals , 197 Japanese and 180 Italians , in addition to 3,232 Soviet nationals . |
| 6 | But he could and did hold a fringe meeting with the Bow Group , where he gave the becoming speech of a statesman . |
| 7 | He gave the only gift in his power and , removing his eyes from Eochaid 's , dropped on one knee . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The CBI gave the new moves a warm welcome . |
| 11 | Henry III then gave the new matrix to Master Nicholas de Ely who took the oath to keep it faithfully . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Madani gave the new government a guarded welcome at a June 18 news conference , and said that the FIS would respect election results . |
| 15 | This gave the new kitchen the perfect opportunity to show what it could achieve . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | It gave the 33,000 manual workforce 8.9 per cent , which at the time was considerably higher than the ‘ going rate ’ . |
| 18 | He was at his most stubborn , and gave the predictable answers to the obvious questions . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | He gave the 100 delegates an hour-long presentation on BNFL titled ‘ Making Sense of a Sensitive Issue ’ . |
| 23 | brick inset was all the brick and then plastered over and that gave the black and white effect , but that was the original and the , the proper way to do it |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Hristro Stoitchov gave the European champions an early lead , but they went down 2-1 , with both Sao Paulo goals coming from Brazil 's top player , Rai . |
| 26 | A meeting of EC finance ministers gave the European exchange-rate mechanism a clean bill of health . |
| 27 | It gave the European Court of Justice the power to fine governments contravening EC law . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | However , pregnant girls gave the least number of alternative solutions to the problems , and were least competent at describing the steps an imaginary protagonist should take to achieve her aims in five stories . |
| 30 | Ruthless as he was , Khrushchev gave the Soviet Union a more human face . |