Example sentences of "which gives [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It has published a booklet , called New Arrivals — A Guide to Non-religious Naming Ceremonies , which gives five alternatives , ranging from the personal to something similar to the vows in the Christian ceremony but without reference to a deity .
2 This voluntary scheme , which gives general practitioners control over budgets to cover prescriptions , specialist outpatient consultations , and elective surgical procedures for their patients , has been embraced with enthusiasm by some general practitioners , but others have been concerned that it could encourage the development of a ‘ two tier ’ service , in which the advantages gained by fundholders for their patients are achieved at the expense of patients in other practices .
3 The Home Office has also put in half a million pounds into car crime prevention schemes like the Trax project in Oxford , which gives young offenders the chance to play with cars legally .
4 The Home Office has also put in half a million pounds into car crime prevention schemes like the Trax project in Oxford , which gives young offenders the chance to play with cars legally .
5 They will run community care , a programme which gives co-ordinated help to the old and feeble .
6 The Family Heart Association charity launched a special Cholesterol Countdown week and now the pharmaceutical companies are offering GPs testing equipment which gives immediate results .
7 I enclose for your interest a copy of Sports Participation in Scotland 1988 which gives overall participation rates , outdoor and indoor , and individual figures for those sports where the sample size was adequate .
8 Welcome back : The Anglo-Italian Cup … a new football competition which gives first division teams the chance to play in Europe kicks-off at the Manor Ground tonight with Central South rivals Oxford and Swindon playing each other …
9 We mistakenly followed the instructions in the NCM manual which gives two ‘ correct ’ settings — one in the text and one detailed in a photograph .
10 Now I am one of the officers on there which gives two members from Wiltshire a seat on this particular committee .
11 For although Force Orders inevitably direct that such material will be submitted for assessment , it is typical that in a task-orientated institution which gives low priority or credence to the academic tome , the systems to ensure submission of the essays , or the ability to make much use of any useful ideas they contain , often remains sketchy .
12 North Uist is circled by a most convenient road which gives easy access to some marvellous beaches : the magnificent sweep of Valley Strand , guarded by deserted Valley Island ; Traigh Leathann , by Claddach Kirkibost and Kirkibost Island ; small , secret coves , at Scolpaig , Raikinish and Hougharry ; near the Balranald Nature Reserve , home of rare red-necked phalarope and grating corncrake .
13 Tandy sell a book called Scanners which gives hundreds of mobile phone frequencies .
14 It meets the running costs of the Public Health Laboratory Service , which gives technical assistance , for example , to local districts facing an outbreak of an infectious disease , perhaps spread from abroad .
15 Many states in the United States recognise the authority of a ‘ living will ’ , which gives prior authorisation for the cessation of life-prolonging medical intervention in the event of terminal illness or irreversible brain damage .
16 The case could interfere with Annie Murphy 's plans to promote her book ‘ Forbidden Fruit ’ , which gives intimate details about her affair with the bishop .
17 The highlight is ‘ Nhan Tin ’ ( or missing persons ) , which gives individual inmates a few moments to appeal to relatives living in America , Canada or Australia .
18 More reference material is to be found in the 1991 Almanac which gives useful charts and lists of celestial events , units of weights , holidays , world time zones and so on .
19 One local education authority , which gives all children a written test in the final year of junior school ( 10+ ) , offers help from advisory teachers to those schools where many pupils achieve only low scores in the test .
20 He simply will not achieve it , because the British public share the view of the Labour party that social decency and economic efficiency are assisted by a minimum wage which gives all our people a long-term secure role for them in the labour market .
21 On the vital Finance Committee , they have only 11 seats out of 20 , which gives substantial leverage to dissidents .
22 It is design activity which gives designed products significance , which finds solutions to the problems .
23 A common modern technique is similar to guitar finger style using a CC-G-C or a similar fifth and octave tuning which gives greater versatility without re-tuning and can be further extended by the introduction of an extra fret between the 6th and 7th .
24 A true geodesic has a criss-cross of poles which gives greater stability in high winds
25 But in any event , the mathematical model will usually involve the finite element concept which gives accurate values for the lower band of frequencies , but is often quite unrepresentative of the top frequencies .
26 This , from an administration which routinely blocks moves to a cleaner sea , which gives occasional wrist slaps to regular industrial polluters , which encourages the import of dangerous waste for processing , which has starved rail freight services and increased road haulage and which somehow thinks the answer to the giant car-park which masquerades as the M25 is to add yet more lanes in which to crawl .
27 In the light of this worrying development the C.C.P.R. has negotiated a Civil Liability Insurance policy , on behalf of all its members , which gives wider cover , for more people , at lower premiums that our own current policy .
28 There can be no other climb at this standard which gives such a big-wall feel .
29 But it is the very acuteness of his suffering from this starvation which gives such poignancy to his art .
30 Some animals have a red spot over the eye giving them good protection from sunburn and eye cancer in warmer climates , and the mossy , curly coat , which gives such good insulation in temperate regions , is replaced by a smooth coat in hotter parts of the world .
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