Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The mine manager showed us a gold watch which Churchill gave to his father for hiding him . |
| 2 | When , in March 1858 , the need to cope with the technical questions to which emancipation gave rise led to the creation of two new sections within the ministry — the Land Department and the Statistical Department — it was hardly surprising that Lanskoi and Miliutin staffed them with people who combined specialist knowledge with liberal sympathies . |
| 3 | A single full description and a full set of potential risks for each section was thus produced with a note of which subjects gave which information . |
| 4 | The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals in July 1990 had overturned his conviction on the first charge and sent the other two convictions back to US District Court judge Gerhard A. Gesell , to determine whether testimony from any of the 67 witnesses at the original trial had been influenced — directly or indirectly — by information which North gave Congress under grant of limited immunity during four days of nationally televised interrogation in June 1987 [ see p. 37605 ] . |
| 5 | He pocketed the envelope which Fred gave him . |
| 6 | Burgoyne and Clark ( 1984 ) report that this was seen as a major reason for returning to live with parents after the break-up of a marriage , and the assistance which grandparents gave with child care in the short term was seen as vital in helping their daughter or son to re-establish themselves economically and to form new relationships . |
| 7 | Erm there are again there is information , there 's lots of packages on environment there 's boo , booklets on it which Catherine gave to me and I think I need to think about specific areas in the school like Milvia 's doing but not to overlap if Milvia does think about that , to try something else , some other way . |
| 8 | However , two facts suggest that the time and priority which teams gave to supporting and promoting parents ' groups was highly influential . |
| 9 | The sort of help which siblings gave included loans and gifts of money ( these came especially from brothers and sisters who were unmarried ) , gifts of food and clothing for the children ( usually from married sisters ) and help in finding employment for the male breadwinner ( from brothers ) . |
| 10 | The answer which Marx gave to this problem resembles that given later by Durkheim . |
| 11 | Workers looked to the national state , over which democracy gave them some influence , to protect them against the ravages of an unregulated world economy . |
| 12 | Is it desirable that the finest and most sensitive part of a woman — that which God gave her , should on the one hand be wounded with such a wound as no proud and gentle nature ever recovers from , or else should on the other hand be deadened so that the woman becomes only half herself , and this is what the tyranny of the medical profession has accomplished . |
| 13 | If Nice Work was the novel with which Lodge gave two of his keenest preoccupations the slip — the university , partially , and Catholicism , totally — it was also the book which should end the habitual conflation in some minds of his own career and output with that of Malcolm Bradbury . |
| 14 | Then in 1983 and 1984 came the series of attacks to which Iran gave the name Val Fajr ( The Dawn ) . |
| 15 | Our second example takes us back fifty years , to the second decade of the seventeenth century when Galileo was struggling with the question to which Boyle gave so easy an answer : whether the study of Scripture need hinder the study of nature . |
| 16 | The talks which Lewis gave to the RAF were on such basic issues as ‘ Why we think there is a Right and Wrong ’ , and from such simple beginnings he framed , in language which was meant to be arresting to ordinary men in the ranks , an exposition first of the theist position , then of the Christian religion . |
| 17 | Yet the political authority was to an extent dependent on the company 's sources of information , however suspect or inadequate they were seen to be ; according to one civil servant interviewed , the PSO requirement was ‘ basically calculated by taking on trust the figures which RENFE gave ’ . |
| 18 | I bought something very quickly in the area where we had planned to buy before , and moved in in a matter of weeks , decorating the place with the help of my mum and dad and furnishing it with the family 's cast-offs and a sofa-bed which Nick gave me . |
| 19 | Louis Vauxcelles already spoke of ‘ cubes ’ in his review of the exhibition which Braque gave at Kahnweiler 's gallery in November 1908 , and the same critic referred to the paintings which Braque exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants of the following year as ‘ bizarreries cubiques ’ , from which the style derived its name . |
| 20 | They no longer want the sort of world in which women gave painful birth to nine or 10 children in the hope of managing to rear three or four to adulthood . |
| 21 | Gratitude because of the unhesitating generosity with which Doreen gave him the hospitality of her body ; responsibility because he had ceased to be a passing visitor to that body , taking what he could get , and had become a guest , leaving behind something as a token of their intimacy . |
| 22 | Bunting , who respected Eliot , applied himself first to rebutting the reasons which Eliot gave , in his Introduction to Selected Poems ; for omitting this long and elaborate poem : |
| 23 | In order to describe the sequence , we need only turn to the lectures which Eliot gave during and just after its composition : here he talked almost coyly of a poem which might develop themes instrumentally and arrange transitions " comparable to the different movements of a symphony or a quartet " , of a poem elaborate enough to exercise the dramatic , descriptive and narrative talents of its maker . |
| 24 | Of course Rufus 's ready compliance with Anselm 's wishes , for which Anselm gave him so much credit , can now be seen to have been wholly political . |
| 25 | Above all there was rank disbelief at the figure of 542,000 dead which Hitler gave as the total German losses for the whole war . |
| 26 | But it was too late in the day to get Hungary out of its Axis alliances and it was he who annexed Ruthenia and negotiated the Vienna Award of August 1940 , by which Hitler gave back to Hungary half of Transylvania , including the old regional capital of Kolozsvár ( Cluj ) . |
| 27 | As Eric John has emphasised , early-eleventh-century kings were invited to identify not with Christ in majesty , but with the suffering Christ , and drawings of the crucifixion survive from this period in which his suffering on the cross is made very explicit ; perhaps the cross which Cnut gave to New Minster , which bore an image of the crucified Lord , did so too . |
| 28 | All the same , peacock decoration is known on surviving Byzantine silks , and it may be that the cloak which Cnut gave Edmund was one of the precious cloaks ( pallia ) which Conrad II presented to him in 1027 . |
| 29 | Thus , a major paper on US military assistance to Southeast Asia to which Rusk gave his name early in 1951 was predicated on ‘ the imminence of a communist invasion of that area ’ . |
| 30 | Hearing that man made me glad I was 64 , which fact gave me a sporting chance of dying a natural death before the inevitable holocaust . |