Example sentences of "which gave [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Their child had been acknowledged as his daughter and raised in his house , which gave her all the privileges and benefits of belonging to one of Egypt 's leading families .
2 When at last she gained some independence by taking a job which gave her some income of her own , she suddenly put her foot down .
3 The Founders appeared in the prospectus as holders of a Golden Share which gave them six powers .
4 Local authorities assumed something like their present form after the Local Government Act of 1888 , which gave them greater powers to raise funds and pass by-laws .
5 The garden had to be shared with the bottom flat , so a dividing wall was built which gave them total privacy .
6 About half the tables in the hotel dining-room were occupied but Wycliffe , with Kersey and Lucy Lane , was placed in one of the window embrasures which gave them all the privacy they could have wished .
7 In the late 1930s the Liverpool Police brought in a new ‘ discretionary movement ’ in which constables made half-hour points , which gave them relative freedom on the beat .
8 Marx 's attempts to explore the wreck were unsuccessful ; fourteen years later Captain Herbert Humphreys Jr negotiated a deal with the Bahamian government which gave him three-quarters of the profits of all items found .
9 One of the sport 's most natural drivers — no one , ever , participated in more forms of motor sport , for as long or even remotely as successfully — he favoured , as a simple man , those things which gave him simple pleasures .
10 Most damaging to the action man myth of JFK was his serious adrenaline disorder , Addison 's disease , which gave him acute back pain .
11 ‘ I must write to Holmes at once , ’ I said , and I went straight to my room and wrote a letter to Holmes , which gave him all the details of Barrymore 's story .
12 In late August González had been granted extraordinary powers which gave him total control over central government , federal agency and state company finances and the administration of enterprises operating under the Public Works and Defence ministries .
13 The book of which gave him most satisfaction was William Neil 's One Volume Bible Commentary .
14 But it was the ability to become a socially responsible landlord which gave him most satisfaction .
15 True , he was an All-State footballer which gave him some excitement and fun ; but he always stayed in Neptune with Lorraine and with Mud .
16 For example , in Variation 5 of the above-quoted work , Bach kept all intervals true in the successive canons by inversion at the 6th , 3rd , 2nd , and 9th — a Herculean task , and surely one which gave him some satisfaction .
17 Mr Cross walked to the signal box at Girvan and waited until the train was belled off Kilkerran which gave him sufficient time to drive to Pinmore .
18 Some of you may not know that you have recently given me two lovely present , the first , for my birthday , being a beautiful flower arrangement which gave me great pleasure , particularly as I live in the centre of London and my nearest ‘ garden ’ is Regent 's Park !
19 I have received thy kind letter of February the 19th 1755 , which gave me much satisfaction : and some uneasiness , that so many years have elapsed wherein we might have reciprocally communicated our observations to each other ; and although thee had incomparably the advantage over me , yet , notwithstanding , I love to peep into the abstruse operations of nature .
20 I am certainly grateful for the three days , which gave me much that I will certainly remember beyond two months !
21 I had to stand in front of the whole school which gave me ample opportunity to observe the envy on some girls ' faces because knitting for the troops was a popular pastime then .
22 ‘ I do n't need gratitude for something which gave me such infinite pleasure .
23 The Andalo is a well constructed boot designed for the wider British foot , which gave me many miles of trouble-free walking .
24 They also had an overhead railway which gave me unlimited pleasure and I well remember a wall covered with hundreds of tiny wooden drawers filled with different sizes of screws and nails .
25 I attended a fortnight 's training course at the BBC , which gave me some understanding of the part I would have to play in supervising the work of the Burma Broadcasting Service .
26 During my sheltered youth I had two fleeting experiences which gave me some indication that I was not alone .
27 Frank is a regular at the norwegian U21 team and has also played some first team matches — i remember him giving the pass to Sorloth which gave us 2–1 against Holland at home .
28 But BodyShop 's appearance is more a reflection of accounting curiosities which gave it such a huge return on capital last year : likewise fire extinguisher company Nu-Swift , whose remarkable figures last year put it at the top of the ROC table .
29 For another generation , this Covenant was to be held up as a model of political excellence within the Middle East , especially by the Western powers which gave it such approval but which did not have to suffer its consequences .
30 The National Front 's vote increased from 10.4 per cent to 15.7 per cent , which gave it second place behind the candidate of the centrist Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) .
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