Example sentences of "[Wh det] gave him [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not open to Mr Tillson subsequently to say that he had no need of a tenancy of the occupied land because he already had a possessory title which gave him a freehold interest in that land … |
| 2 | He persuaded Indian princes to fund the East India Association ( 1866 ) which gave him a platform for his campaign to open the Indian Civil Service to Indians and for publicizing his ‘ drain theory ’ , which presented British rule as a drain on the financial resources of India . |
| 3 | We bought him and his friends a drink which gave him a chance to quiz us on our movements for the next day . |
| 4 | Since his win in 1987 , Swindon has grown , changing the complexion of a town which gave him a majority ofjust 5,000 . |
| 5 | It was simply their headquarters where they came to trade , where they came to er perhaps attend law courts but particularly where the prior of came when he came to do services at the Minster because he was a canon of York as well as being canon or the parish of Bramham which gave him a seat in the Cathedral . |
| 6 | It was the experimental air fields which gave him a taste for exploring ideas which he later satisfied by joining a university ; it was the German language which brought him his wife Mary ( they met through a German class in Bristol ) . |
| 7 | Moreover , he was recently married to Earl William 's sister , which gave him a family claim to an interest in the children and their estates . |
| 8 | Fabbio did his homework among the downsizing-bent corporates which gave him the idea for Dazel : exploit the need for managing information in the network environment and give them instantaneous links to fax , printers , voice and E-mail . |
| 9 | But it was the patronage of Sir John Coke [ q.v. ] , one of the principal secretaries of state from 1625 to 1639 , which lay behind his rise to complete control of foreign and domestic posts in the 1630s ; and it was that achievement which gave him the opportunity both to create a new postal service and to acquire an estate in Essex worth £800 a year . |
| 10 | His works were on a small scale until in 1823 he became engineer for the Difference Engine project of Charles Babbage [ q.v. ] , which gave him the opportunity to build highly accurate large machine tools for his workshop , the best known of which was his large planing machine , built in 1831 . |
| 11 | FURIOUS Nigel Mansell ended his Formula One career yesterday with a blast at the team which gave him the World Drivers ' Championship . |
| 12 | To him , they were something of an adventure , a small knock at the system which gave him the illusion of individual importance . |
| 13 | In November , he was given ‘ emergency powers ’ , which gave him the right to issue legally binding decrees and appoint people to any government post without reference to the Supreme Russian Soviet . |
| 14 | In preparation for the Congress , the standing parliament , the Supreme Soviet , demanded that constitutional changes be made by the Congress to allow the legislature more control over the government , since President Boris Yeltsin 's emergency powers , granted by the fifth ( extraordinary ) Congress in October 1991 [ see p. 38537 ] , which gave him the right to appoint the government , were due to expire . |
| 15 | At first Mussolini was the senior partner , a position which gave him the feeling of power he clearly relished . |
| 16 | He was wearing a homburg and his face was swarthy , thickly browed and with a thin moustache , which gave him the appearance of a continental . |
| 17 | It was almost a religious conviction he had , and one which gave him the courage to carry out his plans . |
| 18 | He is passionately devoted to the English and American novel : his first remembered literary emotion was provoked by reading Hawthorne 's short story The Minister 's Black Veil , which gave him the ambition to write fiction himself . |
| 19 | With his accountant 's help he eventually moved his accounts to the Midland , which gave him the overdraft on reasonable terms , but he is critical of the way banks look at small businesses , believing that many only look at the business sector rather than at the person running a particular business . |
| 20 | He began by saying how glad he was to be in Europe again , which gave him an opportunity to outline some of the developments taking place in other regions of the world , and to describe the next phase in the development of the world car . |
| 21 | He travelled widely , usually for reasons of health , which gave him an opportunity to observe the habits of British tourists . |
| 22 | I closed the gap , but he had gained at the start and that is what gave him the advantage at the finish . |
| 23 | What gave him the right to have it ? |