Example sentences of "[adv] gave the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This finding naturally gave the RTO some confidence in dealing with the arguments of the Claybury and Friern districts that they needed very large increases in revenue to fund community replacement services . |
| 2 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 3 | But Malcolm suddenly gave the job to Chrissie instead Because , I suppose , she was older and more rock ‘ n ’ roll with her leather jackets , whereas I was still at school and pretty straight . |
| 4 | There was much to be said in favour of the view that it did , in respect that doing so gave the shopper control of the article and the capacity to exclude any other shopper from taking it . |
| 5 | Stephen Lazarević , Lazar 's successor , actually fought for Bayezid 's Turkish army at the battle of Ankara in 1402 when Timur defeated the Turks and so gave the Byzantines a half-century respite before the conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed II in 1453 . |
| 6 | Sting and Peter Gabriel had committed themselves to the Amnesty world tour later that year so gave the June concerts a miss , and Simple Minds had already said yes to the Nelson Mandela birthday celebration the week before . |
| 7 | He swore viciously , turned the mare a touch westward again , but that merely gave the pursuers a better angle to close on him . |
| 8 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 9 | Indeed , his account of their interests gives the impression — and perhaps gave the same impression to Lanfranc — that they were a lot of old gossips chattering about wonders and miracles and gifts of relics , when they should have been engaged on more serious religious observances , or on the studies laid down in the Rule . |
| 10 | The language of the letter itself made her shiver — the ‘ we hereby , being the parents of one Oreste Romagnoli ’ , seemed so important and the ending , though it only gave the date of the document and names of the witnesses , truly portentous . |
| 11 | Jackson agreed , saying that a regulation only gave the illusion of application and that a directive ‘ gives national flexibility which is very necessary ’ . |
| 12 | Which only gave the Duchess a new detail to worry over : how would the orchestra leader know when to stop his men playing so that the pipers could begin ? |
| 13 | One possible explanation for China 's changed attitude is that previous protests only gave the Dalai publicity and made it look silly . |
| 14 | The government not only gave the second TV channel to the BBC but slapped the excess profits levy onto ITV . |
| 15 | This not only gave the masters an extra hour 's work but saved them having to pay the breakfast allowance of 1½d ( 0.6p ) . |
| 16 | Being made of metal obviously gave the designers a problem , how to isolate the Spectrum 's PCB from the case . |
| 17 | That , however , did not mean that the clause necessarily gave the sellers a valid defence because the clause still had to satisfy the recent legislation on exemption clauses ( see further , paragraph 10–21 below ) . |
| 18 | However later tests ( Harrington and Johnstone 1987 ) found that it was not necessarily the case that longer input utterances ( where length is defined as number of phonemes or number of words intended by the speaker ) necessarily gave the greatest number of parsings into word strings : there was no correlation between number of phonemes in the utterance and number of parses into words ( r = -0.07 , not significant ) ; neither was there a significant correlation between number of words produced by the speaker and number of possible parses of its phonemic representation into words strings ( r = 0.11 ) , although there is a trend to show that these two variables are positively correlated . |
| 19 | He appealed to most New Zealand judges simply because he made good use of the blindside , mixed up his passes and kicks and generally gave the impression that he could play the percentages very much in the New Zealand fashion . |
| 20 | ‘ Sara finally gave the game away when she sat in front of her make-up mirror and started singing her own version of that song from Oklahoma ! — ‘ I 've got the dad in the morning and the son at night … ‘ . ’ |
| 21 | The Court of Appeal finally gave the " aimed at " rule its quietus in Goodfellow . |
| 22 | It somehow gave the impression that the fowl had led such a delightful and pleasurable existence that it was a positive act of virtue to eat it . |
| 23 | Beside her hovered Legion , in a multiplicity of bodies , all of which somehow gave the impression of looking directly at her . |
| 24 | Lepine had accompanied the cai who had lured him and his brother to the plantation eighteen months earlier , but despite the feeling of hatred the sight of him inspired Dong scarcely gave the recruiter a second glance . |
| 25 | I say unwittingly because originally the second nine was intended to be the first , but this was changed and thus gave the second nine its water-strewn flavour . |
| 26 | He said he just gave the driver an ‘ actor 's slap ’ to the face . |
| 27 | ‘ I just gave the knob on the end a push ! ’ |
| 28 | A stranger entered the bidding and soon gave the impression that he was determined to carry on for as long as was required to obtain the Baron . |
| 29 | The cumulative effect was to make Brighton the fastest growing town in England between 1811 and 1821 ; the new inhabitants soon gave the resort an ‘ artificial ’ unhealthy climate to add to its more ‘ natural ’ freshness . |
| 30 | Newspaper publicity always gave the impression that the school could train anyone from scratch with little or no dance experience so young readers felt that they could just turn up without an appointment and would immediately be seen by this apparently motherly woman called Jennie Tiller . |