Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] that it gave " in BNC.

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1 Even Sidney and Beatrice Webb , in their classic history of trade unionism , said of the Act that it gave trade unions ‘ an extra-ordinary and unlimited immunity , however great may be the damage caused , and however unwarranted the act , which most lawyers as well as all employers , regard as nothing less than monstrous ’ .
2 It was widely said that he had long resented the Shah 's great oil wealth and the independence that it gave him .
3 The first is that the CED worked with the semantic pairs , in the sense that it gave a statistically significant result , but it does not in this investigation .
4 That the new system generated little moral authority was less important than the fact that it gave many Sri Lankans access to the power of the state .
5 It also held East Indian bonds , and the fact that it gave substantial mortgages on land has led Dickson to suggest that to an extent it was diverting funds derived from industry and trade towards the landed interest .
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