Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [pers pn] the [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Publication of the Crofting Forestry Handbook follows last year 's Crofter Forestry ( Scotland ) Act , which gave them the chance to plant trees on common grazings . |
| 2 | The buyers rejected them but , before doing so , obtained from an Italian court a sequestration order which gave them the right to detain the goods against payment of damages . |
| 3 | Deliberately nurtured as an élite destined to man the upper reaches of the State , they developed a sense of their own importance and dignity which gave them the confidence to question the conventions of Tsarist society . |
| 4 | Yet far from ensuring loyalty to the status quo , their elevated position developed in them a sense of their own importance and dignity which gave them the confidence to question the conventions of tsarist society . |
| 5 | His works were on a small scale until in 1823 he became engineer for the Difference Engine project of Charles Babbage [ q.v. ] , which gave him the opportunity to build highly accurate large machine tools for his workshop , the best known of which was his large planing machine , built in 1831 . |
| 6 | In preparation for the Congress , the standing parliament , the Supreme Soviet , demanded that constitutional changes be made by the Congress to allow the legislature more control over the government , since President Boris Yeltsin 's emergency powers , granted by the fifth ( extraordinary ) Congress in October 1991 [ see p. 38537 ] , which gave him the right to appoint the government , were due to expire . |
| 7 | In November , he was given ‘ emergency powers ’ , which gave him the right to issue legally binding decrees and appoint people to any government post without reference to the Supreme Russian Soviet . |
| 8 | It was almost a religious conviction he had , and one which gave him the courage to carry out his plans . |
| 9 | He is passionately devoted to the English and American novel : his first remembered literary emotion was provoked by reading Hawthorne 's short story The Minister 's Black Veil , which gave him the ambition to write fiction himself . |
| 10 | Aside from this , there was an invitation to take part in Poll Tax Bingo , an introductory subscription to a new magazine called Torture , Bestiality , Ritual Murder And Game Shows On Cable and Satellite ! and a letter which gave me the chance to send £10 notes to ten strangers . |
| 11 | On June 8 , 1989 , the bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly granted Hungary , Poland , the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia " special guest status ' , which accorded them the right to attend and address the Assembly 's sessions . |
| 12 | What gave him the right to have it ? |
| 13 | Sometimes I think that 's what gave me the strength to deal with all that 's happened to me since , ’ she says . |