Example sentences of "which gave them [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parliament did not often pass laws with any wide-ranging implications , and the most wide-ranging recent laws , the religious legislation of the Reformation , were never applied at all precisely in America , but no legal framework could have been imagined for the colonies which gave them a legitimate position under English law without putting them under the legislative supremacy of Parliament . |
| 2 | This meant that people were no longer willing to put up with unsatisfactory Church officials ; laymen especially were developing a personal spirituality which gave them a new confidence and commitment to their faith and which also enabled them to form an independent view of theology and Church organisation ; they no longer had to rely on the educated establishment . |
| 3 | The achievement of Edward IV and Henry VII lay less in the size of their income than in their creation of a landed estate which gave them a substantial revenue over which they had complete control . |
| 4 | In due course , all South Metropolitan cars were fitted with these hoops , which gave them a distinctive appearance . |
| 5 | They preferred their little aerosols of teargas which gave them a false sense of security . |
| 6 | It was for this reason that the fieldworkers in the other areas , who were not local residents , adopted the role of ‘ a friend of a friend ’ which gave them a clear status of an informal kind . |
| 7 | The doctors in poorer areas , in particular , were major beneficiaries of this arrangement , which gave them a secure income for the first time . |
| 8 | In a bid to simulate a cave of ice the set walls were coated in a fibre-glass matte mixture which gave them a shiny , brittle look under the correct lighting . |
| 9 | It was the goals from McStay , McAllister and McClair which gave the Scots a stirring win in Norrkoping , and the bite of McCall which gave them a formidable balance . |
| 10 | Life continued as normal at Marham with four T.4s and two or three B.2s , two of the latter being designated B.2T because of a change in nav fit which gave them a Green Satin doppler and a GPI IV . |
| 11 | Scientism is a not-unattractive doctrine , and was especially so to a rising professional middle-class who associated with it theories of eugenics and of mankind which gave them a pleasing sense of class and racial superiority ; but in the later nineteenth century there was no reason to anticipate these darker sides of progress . |
| 12 | Furthermore , their ascendancy accompanied the severest phase of the recession , which gave them the added incentive to try something different as some of their own areas were among the hardest hit . |
| 13 | In addition , many rural areas were traversed by the rail network , which gave them an additional lifeline and a link with main centres . |
| 14 | They were placed in the tribune of St Longinus , close to the moderators ' table , both for the conciliar proceedings and other events , which gave them an excellent view . |
| 15 | Moreover , traditional family networks not only offered the elderly relative a place , but one which gave them an important and respected role within the family group . |
| 16 | These were innovated in the United States , where the innovating exchanges quickly built up a form of " first mover advantage " via endogenous economies of scale , which gave them an impregnable position in the market for their respective instruments within a very short span of time . |