Example sentences of "was [vb pp] give the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moving the offside line from the ball to the foot of the scrum was intended to give the backs more room to run the ball . |
| 2 | Women active within the labour movement , particularly members of the Fabian Women 's Group , were concerned that women 's economic dependence had a detrimental effect on the status of the wife and mother and proposed the state endowment of motherhood , which was intended to give the married woman a degree of economic independence without undermining her role as a wife and mother . |
| 3 | This reform was intended to give the service a clearer management direction . |
| 4 | Commentators considered that the delay was designed to give the LTTE time to negotiate with the Moslem and Sinhalese communities in the Eastern Province in order to prevent them from joining to vote for the reinstatement of a separate Eastern Provincial Council . |
| 5 | Like the Cortes , opened in 1943 , the Fuero de los Españoles was designed to give the appearance of a certain free-play but , in reality , always within the Procrustean confines of the Francoist system . |
| 6 | But the idea was eventually sunk when Scarborough Council did not back the idea , which was designed to give the shipyard a new lease of life . |
| 7 | Baika , which was still at the drawing board stage when the Japanese surrendered on September 2 , 1945 was to have been powered by a Maru athoyd ( pulse-jet ) which was expected to give the aircraft a top speed of 366mph in level flight , depending on warhead size ( between 220lb and 550lb ) . |
| 8 | Additionally the GLC was empowered to give the LTE general directions , and the approval of the GLC was required for the general level and structure of fares to be charged by the LTE ( section 11 ) . |
| 9 | In the light of the failure to adopt the draft programme , it was decided to give the new party central committee the task of reworking it , and to suspend proceedings until after the 28th CPSU congress in July . |
| 10 | Although Charles II had fathered eight illegitimate sons by his five mistresses , of which Nell Gwynne was his favourite ( the New King 's Road was built to give the King access to Nell Gwynne ) , Catherine had no children and although Parliament endeavoured to persuade him to exclude his brother from succession to the throne , Charles II refused . |
| 11 | A full-scale model of the Golden Hind was built to give the story as much authenticity as possible . |
| 12 | As a er result it was agreed to give the larger share of new subscription to Institutes , in actual fact Institutes received an increase of twenty nine point sixty two per cent . |
| 13 | Hassan claimed that the extension was needed to give the UN more time to organize a referendum on the future of the disputed Western Sahara . |
| 14 | CONCEIVED with high expectations in 1954 , the B-70 Valkyrie was produced to give the USAF 's Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) a long range , high altitude Mach 3+ heavy bomber with the primary aim of delivering H-Bombs deep inside the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | Then , in 1393 , a provisional agreement was reached giving the English Calais ( which they already held ) and that part of Aquitaine south of the river Charente ( much of south-west France which was largely out of their hands at this time ) , all this to be alienated to Gaunt in the near future . |
| 16 | A period of disturbance was bound to give the more zealous of the Protestants a chance to try to gain power in order to persecute the Catholics . |
| 17 | The suspension ropes , of which there are four to each car , were made of good fishing line , as this was found to give the best results . |
| 18 | The wedding was set to give the royals their best publicity of the year . |
| 19 | That was how the policy review that followed the 1987 defeat was conducted , although a series of ‘ Labour listens ’ public meetings was contrived to give the appearance of glasnost . |
| 20 | Michael was asked to give the introductory lecture at an engineering conference on the subject of his government review . |
| 21 | This position was confirmed by the death of Yeats in 1939 , and it was an apt image of succession that Eliot was asked to give the first Yeats memorial lecture at Dublin in June 1940 . |
| 22 | I was asked to give the number of those who helped , but how does one compute good will , or the grace of God ? |
| 23 | ‘ I was held up and was forced to give the traditional welcome speech after everyone had eaten their lunches . ’ |
| 24 | I was allowed to give the impression that there was a helluva lot more going on behind her facade , but again that was taken out when we came to do the episode again for the version seen on Television . ’ |
| 25 | It was staged to give the emergency services practice . |
| 26 | The face was familiar : he had been the crime correspondent of a well-known tabloid newspaper for many years and was guaranteed to give the Yard a favourable press . |