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Example sentences for "gave occasion"

  • A project of commerce to the East Indies, therefore, gave occasion to the first discovery of the West.

  • The tumults, therefore, between the Jews and the Christians, occurring about the year 51 or 52, gave occasion to this decree.

  • The war with the Turks and the building of St. Peter’s gave occasion to repeated indulgence crusades.

  • It is most probable, that an intrigue between a female named Semele and one of the princes called Jupiter having had a tragical end, gave occasion to this Fable.

  • The exorbitant power of Mago’s family, which, by its engrossing the chief employments both of the state and the army, had thereby the sole direction and management of all affairs, gave occasion to this establishment.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    gave away; gave birth; gave chase; gave command; gave great; gave her; gave him; gave himself; gave myself; gave order; gave rise; gave the; gave unto; gave way; great proportion; kind and; likely enough; moderate length; motu cordis; other cause; pure copper; short line; single city; then laid; tolerably well; various periods