Example sentences of "it [vb past] give [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Panel seems to have concluded that it failed to give a true and fair view . |
| 2 | By showing how every soul could make its own way to God , without the mediation of priests or ministers of the educated classes , it helped to give a sense of dignity and individual worth to thousands who were turned off their land by enclosures and absorbed by the Dark Satanic Mills of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 3 | gentleman came to this house it seemed to be that he challenged the establishment and many of us welcomes that view it seemed to give a breath of fresh air , but now it seems to me that he 's become entirely institutionalised , can he explain that to the house ? |
| 4 | It offered to give the unions a large role in the proliferating machinery of worker participation and to consult top union officials on a range of business issues . |
| 5 | I had to rinse quite often to get rid of debris , but it did give a close shave . |
| 6 | The Crofting Reform ( Scotland ) Act of 1976 did not go quite as far as this , but it did give the crofters the incontestable right to purchase their house and garden , and the optional ( though not incontestable ) right to purchase their land for 15 times the annual rent . |
| 7 | It did n't shed much light , but it did give the darkness a shape … |
| 8 | For Stenton , the half century before 716 when no Anglo-Saxon king had been able to establish more than a local ascendancy , had ‘ little significance in English political history ’ because it had given no promise of the great advance , as he saw it , towards the unity of England which was to be made by the Mercian kings before the end of the eighth century . |
| 9 | Mixed , she said , because it had given the theatre the opportunity to invite P.L. O'Hara to step into the breach . |
| 10 | De Klerk said later that the visit was successful in that it had given the US side " the correct perspective " on developments in South Africa , and that the meeting with Bush had amounted to important progress towards " the final normalization of relations between South Africa and the USA " . |
| 11 | From the Communist viewpoint their campaign had been justified by the vote of 592,000 for affiliation and by the importance which it had given the Party in the eyes of militant Labour Party members . |
| 12 | One of the miners , Jim Hunter , said last night that it had given the men a tremendous boost . |
| 13 | At Chelsea they burned coal in winter as it tended to give an even heat , whereas wood burned too quickly and peat had a strong smell . |
| 14 | It wanted to give the club a different style of management . |