Example sentences of "[Wh det] gave [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Independence was not compromised , it was stated , and although the identification of causes deserving of support and finance from the advice agency might be questionable , in practice only those problems which gave real cause for community concern could be pursued successfully because of the need for public support . |
| 2 | But the disparate elements which made up his southern affinity were linked , both to each other and to the northern retinue , by the same bonds of ducal patronage and personal relationship which gave internal cohesion to the northern retinue itself . |
| 3 | But the disparate elements which made up his southern affinity were linked , both to each other and to the northern retinue , by the same bonds of ducal patronage and personal relationship which gave internal cohesion to the northern retinue itself . |
| 4 | The doctor issued a certificate which gave coronary thrombosis as the cause of death . ’ |
| 5 | The renaissance of ley research coincided with the disintegration of establishment archaeology 's ‘ woad and skins ’ attitude to British prehistory in the face of new findings within archaeology itself and unexpected material from other sources , such as Professor Alexander Thom 's studies of stone circles which gave new cause for inquiry into astronomical and metrological knowledge in prehistoric Britain . |
| 6 | A joint venture between Crediton and Exeter , which gave many people an opportunity to put faces to the voices and the evening was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone . |
| 7 | These include the abolition of selection at 12 years ( the age of transfer from primary to secondary in Scotland ) which gave all pupils formal access to certificate courses , and the raising of the school leaving age to 16 , which prevented pupils leaving school before the stage of first public examinations . |
| 8 | Unfortunately he turned on the wrong tap , which gave hot water instead of cold . |
| 9 | In the middle of the century there was no agreement on the formulae of even the simpler chemical compounds , and many chemists felt that an atomic theory was merely a distraction : that chemists ought to stick at the ‘ equivalent weights ’ which gave accurate recipes , and not bother with attempts at explanation . |
| 10 | First their report was published as a booklet , ‘ Hire purchase and Credit Buying ’ , which gave factual information about the various methods and the legislation controlling them , their advantages and disadvantages and the dangers they hold for thoughtless or inexperienced people ; and also a leaflet setting out some of the points to be taken into account when undertaking hire purchase . |
| 11 | On the morning of our departure we managed eventually to get the TAF for Porto , which gave 4 ST at 600 , TEMPO 1 CB at 1,300 , with the 0730 actual giving 1 CB at 2,000 . |
| 12 | Certainly I defended the community charge , which gave Labour councils in many areas the fright of their lives . |
| 13 | The other frequently cited example of creation during a dream is that of F. A. Kekule , a nineteenth-century chemist who knew the composition of benzene — hydrogen and carbon — and its molecular weight , which gave six atoms each of carbon and hydrogen in the molecule . |
| 14 | Harold Wilson 's government introduced the original Redundancy Payments Act 1965 , which gave redundant workers the right for the first time to a statutory severance payment if they satisfied certain qualifying conditions . |
| 15 | From women 's point of view , changes in the occupational structure which gave young women in the twentieth century more opportunity for a career also reduced the need to marry out of pure economic necessity , which in turn increased the importance of companionship within marriage . |
| 16 | I believe that these helped to combine their characteristic voices with a small element of surprise which gave each track its own fingerprint . |
| 17 | This led us to undertake a principal components transformation of the seven bands of image data , which gave encouraging results similar to those obtained by Forster ( 1985a ) . |
| 18 | The model obtained by combining rational expectations and the simple natural rate hypothesis produces a particularly dramatic policy conclusion , and one which gave rational expectations some initial notoriety , for it suggested that the Keynesian approach to macroeconomic policy which governments in many countries had adopted after the Second World War was at best unnecessary and at worst harmful . |
| 19 | The following month a much delayed fishing agreement was signed with the Soviet Union which gave Soviet vessels access to PNG 's 200-mile economic zone in return for a range of benefits including joint ventures in fish processing and the training of Papua New Guineans in the Soviet Union . |
| 20 | Over the past hundred years , various pieces of legislation , from the 1882 Married Woman 's Property Act , which gave married women the right to hold their own property , to the 1980 Housing Act , which makes it mandatory for local authorities to give married couples joint tenancies , the property rights of women both in the public and private housing sectors have been gradually extended ( Brion and Tinker , 1980 ) . |
| 21 | The 17 were reported to have been arrested after the Committee for the Defence of Democratic Freedoms and Human Rights in Syria had issued leaflets in December 1991 criticizing the Dec. 2 referendum which gave overwhelming approval to Assad 's nomination for a fourth term as President [ see p. 38695 ] . |
| 22 | These workers reported the effects of various potencies of silver nitrate ( Argentum nitricum ) on the growth of wheat seedlings which gave reproducible results over an experimental period of about a year . |
| 23 | A national open art exhibition which gave 62 artists an opportunity to exhibit their work in the studio and gallery space of Norfolk Institute of Art and Design . |
| 24 | She thus had little use for cinema which gave great weight to symbolism , and unfavourably contrasted symbolist poetry to the work of poets like Ezra Pound whose world operated , not through meaning , but through the ‘ direct impact of words ’ . |
| 25 | Is it not the case that the Minister perhaps he will confirm this — abstained to allow through an emasculated formula which gave pregnant women in this country the equivalent of sick pay ? |
| 26 | If we ask whether there were ancient documents which showed that the primacy went back to authoritative sources , the answer ( as I shall argue later ) is that there were documents which gave general support to the claim , sufficient to authenticate the living tradition of the community , but insufficient for use in a court of law . |
| 27 | Large as they were , the merged firms would still be small in relation to European or world markets , and would face relatively elastic demand curves which gave little scope for raising price above marginal cost . |
| 28 | Economists blamed the shortages on prices which gave little incentive to production . |
| 29 | The first is the creation in 1990 of the purchaser and provider split in the NHS , which gave commissioning authorities ( district health authorities and family health services authorities ) powers and responsibilities to develop health care strategies and purchasing plans that maintain good health and maximise health gain . |
| 30 | They were all things to which the audience could relate and the more they related the more they laughed — which gave instant satisfaction not just to Charlie Williams and Lou ( who , of course , thought that everything her Ken did was wonderful ) but to Michael Codron , the producer and the young man who wrote it all — Peter Cook . |