Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] which give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They preferred their little aerosols of teargas which gave them a false sense of security . |
| 3 | The other major concern for women is about finding ways of living which give us more independence , more control over our own lives , and more self worth than is frequently the experience of women in subordination to men . |
| 4 | Early air travellers often flew for adventure , not just speed , and some travellers today , who do not have to cram a two-week break into a busy year , have gone back to earlier forms of transport which give them a far sharper sense of going places . |
| 5 | Religious language provided women with a powerful critique of male sexuality , a language of outrage which gave them their means of representation into the male world of public political debate . |
| 6 | Early on , he was anxious to combine the view that our beliefs about the social world are determined by the structured whole with the claim that historical materialism has achieved the status of a science , a body of knowledge which gives us a true account of the world . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As the outcome of official action by an organ of the state , the police case comes before the court stamped with a seal of authority which gives it a powerful influence . |
| 9 | In the light of Point Two , Russia was deprived of the sliver of territory which gave her a toe-hold on the Danube . |
| 10 | Their expressions were drained of personality which gave them the family resemblance possessed by a flock of sheep . |
| 11 | ‘ People ought to be able to decide whether they want to take risks on the basis of information which gives them an idea of how much risk there is , ’ says Helen Peggs , ‘ but at the moment the information they get is often distorted . ’ |
| 12 | It is peculiarly English and should be bought from a round loaf , covered in strings of fat which give it flavour . |
| 13 | ‘ We must set up processes of measurement which give us the basis for improvement targetting and monitoring progress . |
| 14 | If professions have an implied contract with society which gives them ‘ status , authority and privilege ’ then society wants certain assurances in return … skill is not enough , there must be a code of ethics which indicates how clients and patients should be served and the attitudes that should be accepted … |
| 15 | cylinders of butter wrapped in butter-muslin which gives them a ‘ cloudy ’ appearance . |
| 16 | Jumpman lives is another excellent game from Apogee which gives you the arcade action of video games combined with the brain teasing problems to be solved before carrying on to the next stage . |
| 17 | Frank is a regular at the norwegian U21 team and has also played some first team matches — i remember him giving the pass to Sorloth which gave us 2–1 against Holland at home . |
| 18 | Her Black Sea fleet had by this time been destroyed , the allies had landed not only in the Crimea but also at Nikolaev to the west and Novorossiisk to the east , and the Turks retained a position at Sukhumi which gave them the chance of counter-attacking in the direction of Tiflis . |