Example sentences of "had give [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the 653 branches only 288 had given definite support to disaffiliation , some by small majorities . |
| 2 | The First World War provided a similar test and again only the Labour and Unionist parties were able to meet it squarely , but the battles of 1912 and 1913 had given advance warning of what was to come . |
| 3 | Thereafter , as Chief of Staff under the new government and then Defence Secretary , Ramos had given unswerving loyalty to Aquino , the single most important factor in enabling her to defeat numerous coup attempts . |
| 4 | It had given great anxiety to him and his collagues on the bench . |
| 5 | It had given great anxiety to him and his collagues on the bench . |
| 6 | Mr Hurd said that because the issue was so important , he had asked the Attorney General and the Lord Advocate for their advice and on Thursday they had given contrary advice . |
| 7 | To coincide with the launch of the Constitution , the government lifted the state of siege , imposed in 1984 in response to the violent activity of drug traffickers , right-wing paramilitary groups and left-wing guerrillas ; this had curtailed civil liberties and had given extraordinary power to the President to re-establish public order . |
| 8 | Our first audit showed that in 20% of referrals the referrer had given inadequate information ; the second showed that in only 7% was information inadequate . |
| 9 | Prior to the Party 's Annual Conference the National Executive once again disbanded the Labour League of Youth , which had given official support to Cripps ' memorandum . |
| 10 | If he had married Iskandara for her sheep , he had given good measure in return . |
| 11 | Many of Johnson 's readers wished to know what kind of reading Dr Johnson thought suitable for young ladies , and it transpired , to much amusement , that he had given young Miss McQueen an arithmetic . |
| 12 | He would say , casually , to his wife later that night that he had given young Luke Bouverie a lift home . |
| 13 | The men of 1812 meant to create the legal framework of a bourgeois society ; they had given political power , by an intricate combination of universal suffrage and indirect election , to the middle classes considered as the ‘ regulator ’ of other classes . |
| 14 | In December 1989 President George Bush had given final US approval of the 50-year compact whereby the US would provide $1,000 million in aid to the heavily indebted Pacific country . |
| 15 | Congress had given final approval to the bill on Oct. 8 [ see p. 39136 ] , but the fact that the package also included some three dozen minor tax increases made it highly unlikely that Bush would approve it during the election campaign . |
| 16 | When our first Report on the primary stages was submitted to Mr Baker at the end of September 1988 , he felt that we had given insufficient emphasis to the teaching of grammar . |
| 17 | The Three Estates of parliamentary lords , prelates and burgesses , however , had given effective control to the Guardian , the fifth Earl of Douglas . |
| 18 | Journalists in Srebrenica , an area starved of aid for months , said yesterday that rumours of the drops had given new hope to those in despair . |
| 19 | In another murder case , after a 19-year-old youth had been found guilty of a stabbing murder in Oakley Street , a woman who had given crucial evidence against him was ill-treated by neighbours and eventually turned out of her Oakley Street home amidst ‘ a terrible scene ’ . |
| 20 | The Council intended to specify subject areas in which responsibility could be delegated to an institution , to authorize institutions to modify existing courses and introduce new ones in subject areas for which the Council had given prior agreement , and to determine the criteria and methods for specifying subject areas and conducting quinquennial reviews . |
| 21 | However , in relation to an experiment with the Debendox-related drug , the tribunal found proved that McBride had given conflicting evidence about its details to two court cases involving claims against a drug company . |
| 22 | The Knesset on July 11 rejected demands for a full inquiry into whether Rabin , when Defence Minister , had given illegal orders to the Israel Defence Force to beat Palestinian demonstrators and break their bones during the earlier stages of the intifada ( the Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories ) . |
| 23 | In seeking to escape from this conclusion it was submitted in argument that the reasoning of the judgment did not show , or show sufficiently , that Thorpe J. had given due weight to W. 's wishes and that accordingly he had misdirected himself . |
| 24 | British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart had given uneasy backing to the American representative , Henry Cabot Lodge , and his defence of US action . |
| 25 | But the Guider and all the Pack learned later on about her meeting with the stranger on the seat , because at the next Pack Meeting the Guider read out a letter from Mr. Bishop , the estate agent , which said the Earl of Ferngrove had given special instructions that the Brownie Guide Pack could continue to use the Park whenever they wished , as he was quite satisfied , thanks to a chat he 'd had with one of them , that they were very careful not to leave litter about in the Park . |
| 26 | The Management had given special pay increases , ranging from £500 to £1000 to members of staff . |
| 27 | Built initially around 1511 , it was extended to its present shape in the early 1540s when Henry 's religious policies had given added risk to the policy of a invasion based on claims to the English throne . |
| 28 | Held , allowing the appeal , that the retraction by a witness in extradition proceedings of evidence previously given in the requesting state did not in itself discredit that evidence and , unless it was worthless , the magistrate was entitled to act upon it in deciding whether there was sufficient evidence to justify an order for committal ; that , equally , a witness 's evidence was not to be automatically discredited by virtue of that witness having been an alleged accomplice of the accused ; and that the magistrate had given proper consideration to the retraction of P. 's evidence and to his being an alleged accomplice when deciding if there was sufficient evidence to justify the applicant 's committal ; that , further , since the provision in article 1 of the Treaty allowing for extradition in respect of offences ‘ committed within the territory of the requesting party ’ having been extended by article 3(2) to cover participation in extradition offences punishable by the laws of both states , the lack of evidence of the applicant 's presence in Sweden at the relevant time did not take the offences outside the ambit of the Treaty ; that under Schedule 1 to the Act of 1989 the magistrate was concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to the English crimes specified in the order to proceed and not with the jurisdiction of the Swedish court ; and that , accordingly , the magistrate had been entitled to commit the applicant ( post , pp. 846D–F , 850F — 851A , E — 852C , 853A ) . |
| 29 | In the view of the Court , the sentencer had given proper recognition of the seriousness of the history and the offences for which he was sentencing the appellant , and had taken into account all the relevant guidelines and principles . |
| 30 | By the eighth century the eastward drift of shingle along the coast had given natural protection to the spread of the salt marsh , and during the 12th and 13th centuries Pevensey Levels gradually changed from saltmarsh to reed and sedge meadows and ultimately pasture . |