Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] give [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1983 Mr St John Stevas promoted a private member 's bill , The National Audit Bill , which sought to give the Comptroller and Auditor General access to the accounts of nationalized industries so that his staff could investigate them as they do the accounts of government departments . |
| 2 | It was a small room , full of photographs , many in silver frames , which helped to give an Edwardian flavour to the general appearance . |
| 3 | Provisions in a contract which purported to give a non-judicial body exclusive power to decide questions affecting the rights of contracting parties would be void as contrary to public policy . |
| 4 | She felt cornered , counted out by this cool precision , fighting for something which had given every sign of gracious flowering … from time to time . |
| 5 | The subsequent dismemberment of Inca society showed the faint enthusiasm the Spaniards had for this opportunity , yet it was such an idea which had given the term ‘ mestizo ’ a dignity beyond its racist translations of ‘ half-breed ’ or ‘ half-caste ’ . |
| 6 | The couple thought they had done the right thing by paying £140 for a house-buyer 's survey , which had given the house a clean bill of health with only some minor exceptions . |
| 7 | There was nothing more to see in Main Street except the eternal fascination of boats bobbing in water as we set off past the ship 's chandler — and behind , as casually as an oak or a beech tree in England , dozens of the orange trees which had given the town of Anani its name . |
| 8 | Penury , moral as well as physical , is signified in the Barton household when money is wanting to purchase the soap and brushes , black-lead and pipe-clay which had given the houseplace its cheerful look in more prosperous days . |
| 9 | It had been Mrs. Bidwell 's arrival at Howarth 's house in obedience to the call which had given the Director himself the excuse for arriving so early . |
| 10 | But he was not a poor man and had been naturally and sensibly alarmed to hear of the 50,000 — disgruntled people who had attended the " martyr's ' funeral in Sheffield , which had given the Chartists something to build on . |
| 11 | The charm — that demon glitter of narrowed eyes which had given the lie to all previous insults — was conspicuously absent . |
| 12 | On Dec. 22 a panel of the Supreme Court had overturned one challenge by a group of Bhopal victims by upholding legislation passed in 1985 which had given the central government the sole right to negotiate with UCC . |
| 13 | Refusing to yield , the government said that the workers ' demands would shatter its anti-inflation strategy and warned against the strike being exploited politically by the All-Poland Trade Union Accord ( OPZZ , formerly linked to the PUWP ) which had given the stoppage immediate support . |
| 14 | Finally , when the war was over , the political groupings which had given the Nationalists their moral and material support would not only not disappear , but would expect to be duly recompensed and might even expect to take over the legislative and executive control of the New State . |
| 15 | Observers agreed , however , that it was the pro-mining delegations which had given the most ground . |
| 16 | A similar alloy to German Silver but with ingredients of different proportions , which tended to give the metal a more yellow colour . |