Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] which give " in BNC.
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| 1 | The region of Strathclyde , spreading south from the Clyde to encompass Cumberland and Westmorland , was in the hands of Britons speaking Cumbric , a Welsh form of Gaelic which gave Cumbria its name . |
| 2 | I am speaking about a special form of small-holding — the croft , as defined by the UK parliament in legislation , from the first Crofters Act of 1886 to the Act of 1976 which gave the crofter the right to purchase his holding on very favourable terms . |
| 3 | ‘ It is times like these which give us all hope , ’ she said . |
| 4 | Self-assembly is a means of organisation identical with that which gives rise to the simple spatial order of crystals , which is a concept readily appreciated by physicists and chemists . |
| 5 | This kind of survey arose in a political culture very different from that which gave rise to the factual survey . |
| 6 | It is a hard road to tread , though , for major loss means a frightening separation from that which gives life meaning , satisfaction and purpose , and it often brings other losses in its train that continue to bludgeon the spirit and create feelings of anxiety and insecurity . |
| 7 | Brokers BZW forecast a modest recovery to £130m in 1992 which gives a forward multiple of 19 at 272p . |
| 8 | Mandatory reselection was won in 1979 and a new method for electing the leader of the party was adopted in 1981 which gave trade unions and constituency parties a major say , but there has still to be a change in the way in which the party manifesto is drawn up . |
| 9 | Cambridgeshire introduced a scheme of ‘ Increased Financial Responsibility ’ in 1977 which gave schools responsibility for budgetary control of their capitation . |
| 10 | The change of ruler was formalized by the Peace of Utrecht in 1713 which gave Italy to the Austrian Habsburgs . |
| 11 | However , the edited edition of The Letters of Pte Wheeler contains several letters dating from 1823 which give an interesting account of garrison life on Corfu and other islands . |
| 12 | It was the great fire of London in 1666 which gave him his opening , however , and he became a prominent figure in the rebuilding of the city over the next decade . |
| 13 | Originally one of the four constituent elements of the UN Trust Territory of the Pacific created in 1947 , the FSM initially signed a Compact of Free Association with the United States in 1982 which gave the country internal self-government and US economic aid in return for continuing US control of its defence and foreign policies [ see p. 32130 ] . |
| 14 | Serrano was widely regarded as the architect of the unification of political parties in 1937 which gave the Franco regime its political and ideological framework , and Franco regularly sought and accepted Serrano 's judgement when making high-level political appointments . |
| 15 | There are two ways of doing that because in actual fact you could do this o over a period of thirty five to sixty which gives you twenty five years |
| 16 | Among those which gave me the greatest pleasure I remember the whole of Shakespeare , Shaw 's Androcles and the Lion , and Thornton Wilder 's Our Town . |
| 17 | Multiply 44 by 3 which gives 132 stitches . |
| 18 | So if you wan na split that up into five segments you divide three hundred and sixty by five which gives you ? |