Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] gave the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pressed on the justification for killing non-combatant musicians at Deal , he added : ‘ Your Minister of Defence gave the answer to that when he said they were marines first and musicians second . ’ |
| 2 | In 1926 an Act of Parliament gave the Survey powers of access to the logs and specimens of all boreholes and sinkings over 100 feet deep . |
| 3 | A second was the emergence of a triangular relationship with the woman as ‘ pig in the middle ’ ; a particular point of concern was that the ‘ majority of husbands gave the impression of being quite distant from the situation ’ . |
| 4 | The men of Leicestershire gave the king £100 to have yet another perambulation : he finally conceded in 1235 that that county should be put out of the forest with the exception of the manor of Withcote , which was ancient demesne of the Crown . |
| 5 | Despite atrocious weather conditions the officers and crew of Buffalo gave the Duke and Lord Sterling a rousing cheer as the royal yacht sailed by . |
| 6 | The division of China into spheres of influence gave the Japanese a non-alienation agreement concerning Fujian Province , although this claim was never fully exploited . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , an opinion poll taken in the first week of December gave the Alliance 37 per cent support amongst the electorate , two points ahead of the opposition Labour Party and 10 points in front of the governing National Party . |
| 8 | The Bishop of Pontefract gave the pie a blessing before John Hinchcliffe , chairman of the 1964 pie committee , made the ceremonial first cut in the pastry . |
| 9 | It is surely true that the combination of the television set 's growth into an essential item of domestic furniture in the 1950s and the winning personality and buccaneer play of Palmer gave the game an enormous stimulus . |
| 10 | The feast spread over four days for a number of years , but in 1987 it began with an open-air service on Feast Sunday at which the Bishop of Whitby gave the address . |
| 11 | On 11 June the Secretary of State gave the council a direction under section 68 , requiring them to implement their predecessors ' plans , and on 18 June the Divisional Court ordered the council to comply . |
| 12 | The complete absence of windows gave the room a sense of being right out of time and place , abetted by the bland neon lighting and acoustics which made everyone 's voices sound flat and small . |
| 13 | For " one million " per cent of pupils gave the answer 10,000 and a further 13 per cent gave 100,000 . |
| 14 | However , the Court of Appeal gave the plaintiff his costs of the appeal because it was unlikely that the defendant would have allowed him to take out from the sum paid into court an amount equal to the increased amount the Court of Appeal eventually awarded him . |
| 15 | THE City 's mood improved yesterday after a big buying order for sterling gave the currency an early boost . |
| 16 | The Washington Times reported yesterday that senior US military officers in Panama gave the rebel officers ‘ tacit ’ assurances of American assistance . |
| 17 | Horstmeyer built and tested a working model of the drill at Stanford , and in return gave the university stock in his company , Advanced Drilling . |
| 18 | THE FRENCH love to lay on the style and their over-the-top preliminaries - world 's biggest scrum , Un Show Laser — to this week 's Bicentenary match against the Lions in Paris gave the evening a sense of occasion which the rugby itself also justified . |
| 19 | Councillors in Darlington gave the development the go-ahead after they heard the hotel company Tomorrow 's Leisure has made several changes to the original application submitted last year . |
| 20 | In neither form of action could the plaintiff be sure of recovering his goods in specie since the judgment in trespass was for damages and in detinue gave the defendant the option of giving up the goods or paying damages but it is unlikely that this was considered a defect and it should be noted that the remedy of specific restitution of chattels has remained unusual right up to modern times . |
| 21 | Clarke in fact gave the touch judge , some 15 metres distant , a fierce look after he staggered to his feet , the back of his jersey ripped in two places by the flying sprigs . |
| 22 | Two weeks without rain gave the region its longest dry spell on record . |
| 23 | Shares in mobile phone operator Vodafone Group Plc rose fivepence to 379p yesterday after the company said that subscriber figures for April gave the company its best month in three years for connections to its network , with net new connections standing at 18,766 ; for the first time since LowCall was launched in October , net new connections to the business base exceeded net new LowCall connections . |
| 24 | Bristol overtook Gloucester 's 14–3 lead in the second half but two late tries by Morris for Gloucester gave the score a more one-sided look than this mid-table contest had actually been . |
| 25 | One of the few firm agreements announced by Bush gave the go-ahead for the sale of a high performance IBM supercomputer to the Brazilian Embraer state aircraft company , especially in the light of a Nov. 28 joint agreement between Brazil and Argentina to confine their nuclear programmes to peaceful purposes and to ratify a Latin American version of a nuclear non-proliferation treaty . |
| 26 | Tagro v Cafane gave the Court of Appeal its first opportunity to examine the scope of liability under the 1988 Act , and to resolve some perceived difficulties in the new provisions . |