Example sentences of "gave the [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gave the total abstinence movement the eye-catching label it needed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A meeting of EC finance ministers gave the European exchange-rate mechanism a clean bill of health . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He gave the explicit coordinate transformation by which the line element ( 10.24 ) becomes , ( 10.26 ) where the coordinate t is not the same as that used elsewhere in this chapter , and ( 10.27 ) which clearly satisfies the necessary conditions . |
| 6 | The introduction of the All Ireland League competition two years ago gave the Irish club scene a much-needed boost but the hoped for flow-on effect to top level rugby has yet to be realised . |
| 7 | NORWICH captain John Polston notched his first goal of the season at Carrow Road last night to knock Aston Villa off the top of the FA Premier League in a match that gave the Premier championship race yet another twist . |
| 8 | Sanchez collected the winnings , pushed half the roll into his shirt and gave the other half back . |
| 9 | Second , if Alice gave the hot water bottle to Bert as a present , then Bert would be a donnee and have no contract with anyone . |
| 10 | It gave the poor girl hope , where there was none . |
| 11 | ( c ) A description of the mechanics of ‘ netback ’ pricing ( the device to conceal discounts which became widespread during the mid-1980s ) in November 1985 gave the actual spot freight incurred on 1 tonne of Iranian Light crude travelling from Sirri to Rotterdam as $6.70 . |
| 12 | In last month 's issue , the page one article on EC regulations governing the restitution of cultural property gave the incorrect conversion rate for the ECU . |
| 13 | ‘ Since you gave the strategic movement order , General Fakrid , ’ the first replied briskly , ‘ there have been no further engagements with the enemy and no further casualties . ’ |
| 14 | The colonial period ushered in an era of foreign investment which gave the large scale trading houses of Europe a hold on the development of local economies allowing little room for Africa 's entrepreneurs to develop their skills . |
| 15 | Joe left the shop blushing and as soon as he was safely away from it , gave the brown paper parcel to an old woman who shuffled along , her worn shoes held together with a large safety pin . |
| 16 | But yesterday as they gave the clenched fist salute of the Spanish republican army and planned another ceremony next year , they smiled a smile of inner satisfaction at having taken part in a fight which they had no doubts was well worth fighting . |
| 17 | Violence erupted after Jonas Savimbi , leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( Unita ) , rejected the results of UN-supervised elections in September which gave the ruling MPLA party a victory . |
| 18 | All five human DNAs gave the human restriction pattern , and all five mouse DNAs gave the mouse restriction pattern . |
| 19 | Hughes and Elner ( 1979 ) gave the favoured whelk size for a large Curcinus as I 4 mm , with the maximum at 27 mm . |
| 20 | Squeezy-mopped the lino , gave the white fur rug a groom , stuck |
| 21 | Two years ago , Norman Lamont gave the uncaring Conservative view on unemployment . |
| 22 | Superior gunnery and , by the eighteenth century , larger fleets , gave the royal navy command of the seas , but merchant shipping needed a different type of help . |
| 23 | This is not due to a simple depletion of transcription factors as twelve copies of the transgene in Long 7 , and 30 copies in Long 12 gave the expected expression ratio . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , the French performed a volte-face worthy of their government 's foreign policy habits , and gave the cardiac arrest generation nouvelle cuisine , or cuisine minceur and then cuisine naturelle , as it quickly became when the first fanatical asceticism mellowed . |