Example sentences of "[Wh det] gave [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Founders appeared in the prospectus as holders of a Golden Share which gave them six powers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The garden had to be shared with the bottom flat , so a dividing wall was built which gave them total privacy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She was heard to pause before going into the bathroom , the latch of which gave its distinctive click . |
| 7 | The constant disputes as to its use in time of scarcity were regulated by a communal organization ; the most famous was the Water Tribunal of Valencia , which gave its verbal judgements , never contested , in an open-air court outside the cathedral . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Most damaging to the action man myth of JFK was his serious adrenaline disorder , Addison 's disease , which gave him acute back pain . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The book of which gave him most satisfaction was William Neil 's One Volume Bible Commentary . |
| 12 | But it was the ability to become a socially responsible landlord which gave him most satisfaction . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His plan , with the apparent co-operation of the heiress and owner of the papers , was to write a life of Rudyard Kipling [ q.v. ] , but he unwisely signed a contract with her ( Mrs Bambridge ) which gave her sole control over the book as a condition of full access to the family papers . |
| 17 | Her own voice and word of mouth were enough to outmanoeuvre the rock stations , which shunned her steel guitars , and the country stations , which gave her sexual persona a wide berth . |
| 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 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 . |
| 21 | The Andalo is a well constructed boot designed for the wider British foot , which gave me many miles of trouble-free walking . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | During my sheltered youth I had two fleeting experiences which gave me some indication that I was not alone . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | Her long blonde hair seemed to come alive in the sunlight which gave it golden highlights . |
| 28 | Instead of a telling-off , with time to put things right , TDC found itself under a much more strict court order with which it could not negotiate and which gave it little flexibility . |
| 29 | Shortly after the sack , Stamford was granted its great Charter of Incorporation by the newly acclaimed Yorkist king Edward IV , which gave it considerable rewards for its loyalty ( an earlier charter of 972 , which was a post-conquest forgery , and only referred to the mint at Stamford , was still celebrated in 1972 ) . |
| 30 | She was always so in control about everything which is what gave her this air of being much older than just twenty-seven . |