Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] that gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ironically , it was the Government which he partly blamed for the affair that gave him the chance to return to work after retirement . |
| 2 | It is important to remember that it was Alexander 's all-consuming passion for the theatre that gave him the determination to find out the cause of his hoarseness . |
| 3 | He drew himself upright and walked confidently through the bit of the lobby that gave onto the Cocktail Lounge , where ruddy-faced men stood panting and laughing , sleeves rolled up , ties loose , queuing for drinks or holding trays of them , laughing loudly in deep voices . |
| 4 | But they have signally failed so far to build an intellectual constituency in wider circles of the kind that gave Thatcherism — which had little intellectual depth of its own — the basis on which to construct a new kind of politics . |
| 5 | But the big news of the day that gave everyone sleepless nights was the Cuba Missile Crisis . |
| 6 | Once again the word ‘ hyperactivity ’ is used without a description of the behaviour that gave rise to its application . |
| 7 | These advanced primates had large brains and eyes at the front of the face that gave them stereoscopic forward vision . |
| 8 | We have seen that the visual areas of the prestriate cortex recode image properties into properties of the object that gave rise to the image . |
| 9 | The main outstanding issue in perception , including visual perception , concerns the processes that combine information about the attributes of a particular scene into a representation of the object that gave rise to the image , sound or pattern of touch . |
| 10 | If not , obtain an office copy of the application that gave rise to entry , which will supply not only information as to what is the protected interest but also as to who is the individual claiming protection and his or her conveyancer . |
| 11 | It was screwed to the jamb of a doorway that gave access to the premises of Henson & Burbidge , Fat and Bone Dealers . |
| 12 | Denis Smith says hopefully to get three points and play good football … there 's not much they can do in two days but his team talk will be tell the players to go out enjoy it and pass the ball … by a strange twist of fate Smith 's first match at the Manor is against the team that gave him the sack last season Bristol City |
| 13 | Sometimes it is just a matter of taking a message ; at others ( especially when we lived near a place that gave over-night accommodation to tramps ) it has involved talking — or more often listening — to them . |
| 14 | His talents were demonstrated through a system that gave him opportunities and brought out the best in him . |
| 15 | The Wearside club made a mockery of their lowly League standing with a performance that gave leaders Ipswich only their second defeat in 18 games and their heaviest reverse of the season . |
| 16 | Three minutes from the end the hard working Gardiner bowed out in style with a header that gave Crusaders their third goal of a confident display . |
| 17 | The house it penned was old and brown with a porch that gave it a sort of potbelly . |
| 18 | What else could lead researchers to test the ultimate laws of nature with machines bigger than the ancient state of Athens , or to seek to live in space , cast adrift from the world that gave them birth ? |
| 19 | Secondly , and most serious , are allegations of ‘ Clever Hans ’ errors ; named after the German horse early in the century that gave correct answers to arithmetical problems shown it on a blackboard ( by tapping with its hoof ) until it was unmasked as reacting to unwitting symptoms of tension in its trainer which caused it to stop at the right moment . |
| 20 | It had a pale beauty in the moonlight that gave him more unexpected enchantment . |
| 21 | In the deal that gave Air France part of Czech airline CSA , EBRD funds were being used to finance a deal between two state airlines , one of them run by his brother Bernard . |
| 22 | A recent objection came from a client who did not want to invest in a company that gave political donations . |
| 23 | The camera swung again , but this time George looked above it , to a monitor screen hung on a metal rafter above the audience , to see his own face in close-up , the eyes staring upward in a way that gave him an absurdly soulful look . |
| 24 | And Ewen himself , for all his outgoing charm , had certainly acted in a way that gave pause for thought . |
| 25 | The best that could be done was to influence its shape in a way that gave the greatest help to the home market . |
| 26 | NORWICH captain John Polston notched his first goal of the season at Carrow Road last night to knock Aston Villa off the top of the FA Premier League in a match that gave the Premier championship race yet another twist . |
| 27 | And in a show that gave good old-fashioned value for money Miss Lee stopped singing only long enough to declare : ‘ Ah thank you so very very much , ’ and ‘ Ah 'm so very very glad to be here . ’ |
| 28 | In the above section , the Keynesian approach resulted in an curve that gave a locus of equilibrium combinations of the nominal rate of interest and the real output level , in that the demand and supply of real output of goods and services were matched everywhere along the curve . |
| 29 | Outside the church , I found a taxi rank , jumped in a taxi and asked to be taken to the village that gave County Louth its name . |
| 30 | Under British pressure , the French eventually departed in humiliation , but only after presiding over a covenant that gave the Lebanese republic the system of power-sharing which is now disintegrating . |