Example sentences of "which give a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Firstly , before documents are available which give a general comparison and assessment at one date across an area ( like Domesday Book or a medieval Lay Subsidy ) it is very difficult to know whether all the sites we are comparing as part of our settlement pattern are contemporary .
2 The Theatre Collection later acquired the personal papers of Tree 's wife , Maud , which give a fascinating insight into the life and work of a popular actress , socialite and philanthropist .
3 Other studies which offer recommendations for buildings used by visually handicapped people in the community include those set out by the Royal Institute of British Architects ( 1981 ) which give a six-point plan to maximise safety and efficiency in the use of buildings , namely :
4 The companies publish information leaflets which give a rough guide to whether you are likely to benefit from having a meter and will tell you whether one is possible for your house .
5 Sure enough , Version 3.4 sports SmartIcons , like its Windows relation , which give a pictorial way to get at that power more intuitively than the still-resident backslash menus .
6 Their concern has been to prevent de-skilling and to exert pressure to design jobs which give a higher quality of working life .
7 Body is covered with overlapping feathers which give a smooth surface , large surface are on the wings ( for easy locomotion ) , and provide good insulation .
8 If the requirement for in situ hybridization to chromosomes is to probe for the completely unknown localization of unique sequences in the mouse genome , existing techniques are limited to tissue samples which give a plentiful supply of both slides and mitotic cells .
9 This is generally available with a choice of coloured lenses which give a single colour fountain .
10 As these will stop in 1998 , developers are favouring projects which give a rapid return on their investments .
11 Under increasing public pressure , farmers are taking a greater interest in free-range systems which give a fairer deal to farm animals .
12 Minor faults to full-blown emergencies can be realistically created on screens which give a lifelike vision of dials and control room gadgetry .
13 Density might have remained the most accepted form of classification but for three developments in the 1970s which gave a great impetus to the classification of rural populations into different typologies or groupings :
14 The engine compartment had to be outside the cockpit for acoustic and thermal insulation so we introduced a vertical backlight for good rear visibility and blended it into the fins sloping down from the roof , which gave a certain lightness to the rear pillars , This solution has become a constant feature on all Pininfarina Ferraris up to the Testarossa .
15 Spots obtained with ta ; gliadin were generally very weak , with the exception of KG42 which gave a strong spot .
16 The calculated mass was 0.056 M E , which gave a mean density of 5500 kg/m 3 .
17 =1056 , p<0.01 ) and ‘ How well does this film show what normally happens at the junction ? ’ , which gave a mean correlation with risk ratings of 0.11 ( d.f .
18 Either the debtor or the creditor could appeal from the decision of the court to a single-judge Court of Appeal which gave a final decision .
19 If an employee decides to accept the transfer as a result of a counselling session which gave a misleading impression , it can only spell trouble for his or her future happiness in the job .
20 This was brought about in no small degree by the invention in the 1890s of the safety bicycle which gave a wide cross-section of the population real mobility for the first time .
21 This is clearly illustrated by Mustill LJ 's approach in Rogers v Parish ( 1987 ) ( discussed above ) which gave a wide scope to s14(6) by bringing in defects that are , comparatively speaking , minor ones .
22 Secondly , the interest rate cartel before 1983 set rates which gave a reasonable return to most societies and inevitably therefore to some who were comparatively inefficient .
23 There were a dozen magazines , a TV set , four telephones — one red one marked ‘ emergency ’ — and a small illuminated panel which gave a current weather report .
24 Far to the west , however , a change had taken place which gave a new twist to relations between the Great Powers .
25 By the middle of the decade , they had formulated their auteur theory , which gave a new gloss to film studies .
26 They and the popular movement have their roots in both the growth of nationalist fervour in the late 1960s and early 1970s , which parallelled the growth of anti-colonial and ‘ Third World ’ nationalist movements elsewhere , and in the call from the leadership of the Catholic church during the same period for ‘ a preferential option for the poor ’ which gave a new focus to the efforts of church organizations in this predominantly Catholic country .
27 I should be very reluctant to go back to anything like the old system , which gave a perverse incentive for landlords to provide board and lodging rather than other accommodation .
28 This was well demonstrated , for example , in Huw Beynon 's famous study of a Ford car assembly plant , which gave a detailed account of the two-way relationship between official trade union activity and the shopfloor resistance of workers ( Beynon , 1984 ) .
29 He opted for a salad with leathery hard-boiled eggs under a neon dressing , and picked a table which gave a clear view of the room from the entrance to the service area .
30 I was interested to read Hugh O'Neill 's article ( The Price is Right ) in the Turning supplement to the June issue of Woodworker writes Geoffrey Heath , which gave a clear account of how the price of a finished article might be established .
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