Example sentences of "that [pron] gave the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 My reply to him is the same as the one that I gave the right hon. Member for Llanelli ( Mr. Davies ) , in which I said that VAT registrations had increased by 25 per cent .
2 I can not really add to the answer that I gave the hon. Member for Birmingham , Erdington ( Mr. Corbett ) .
3 I withdraw the commendation that I gave the hon. Gentleman , but only because that is damaging his political career .
4 In Athens the political equality of the citizens coexisted uneasily with economic inequality , as it continues to do today ; but the whole point of the democracy was that it gave the poor as well as the rich a part to play in governing the city .
5 The name change was necessary , it was argued , because the original name referred to a single event that had taken place over a decade previously , that it gave the wrong image , and did n't properly describe the work being done by the organisation .
6 Only the historic fact that he gave the Irish capital the first public performance of what would become the most popular of all oratorios .
7 Coleridge 's improbably romantic explanation and evident intelligence so impressed the man that he gave the remarkable child a subscription to the circulating library in Cheapside , where he began , according to his own not unlikely account , to read every book it contained .
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