Example sentences of "[Wh det] give [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the psychic realm it means that we are free to follow any set of images and symbols which give us the right mental feedback — and the State encourages us . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Within fifteen months he secured a reunited Conservative Party , which gave him the longest uninterrupted party premiership between Asquith and Attlee , the final reduction to a rump of the Liberal Party , and a brief , innocuous baptism of power for the Labour Party . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I wish there was still something to look at which gave me the same feeling . |
| 6 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |
| 7 | Robyn strolled up the shopping mall with its glass and fancy tiles and green lush plants , which gave it the strange appearance of a tropical jungle littered with high-street stores , and considered which one of the high-class boutiques she should enter first . |
| 8 | a derivative of it , which gave you the same high that ecstasy does and er , and if you did n't it from the doctor you could buy it on the street . |
| 9 | All boys when about 12 undergo a great increase festival , the Sari , their second ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ , which gives them the internal clothing of the hunter and fisherman . |
| 10 | We use examples in the textbook , and often on audio , which gives them the greater realism of different voices and sound effects . |
| 11 | The quartet carries an instrumental arsenal which gives it the necessary weight to produce the ominous , bass-heavy sounds that accompany Max Schreck 's marvellously decrepit , zombie-like portrayal of Count Dracula . |
| 12 | It is best to shop around all the banks to see which gives you the best long-term deal rather than the biggest incentive to join . |
| 13 | You add on that fifty percent or whatever it happens to be to the hundred percent which gives you the new figure . |
| 14 | This is a combined account for borrowing and saving which gives you the automatic right to borrow money . |
| 15 | The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres . |
| 16 | North of Dunkery Beacon , for example , the well-preserved ringwork of Sweetworthy is next to the abandoned medieval farm site — and possibly the Saxon predecessor which gives us the -worth element in Sweetworthy . |
| 17 | In other words , it is the poll tax crossed with a capital value tax — a roof tax crossed with a head tax — a cross-bred monster which gives us the worst of all worlds . |
| 18 | What gave her the greatest satisfaction was the water , now bloodstained by the final , flamboyant exhibition of the setting sun . |
| 19 | The rules and routines of the institution made her feel secure and offered her plentiful opportunities to do what gave her the most satisfaction , to comply . |
| 20 | What gives you the greatest cause for optimism ? |