Example sentences of "and which give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inoculations , crossbreeding of animals and the use of hormones are producing better livestock , which resist diseases , which fatten faster , and which give more milk , wool or eggs . |
| 2 | Feminist methods frequently situate themselves socially and historically in ways which distinguish the concept of the subject they work with from the one which underpins qualitative psychological methods , and which give these methods a different significance . |
| 3 | It has provisions which establish a Consumer Protection Advisory Committee and which give to it , to the Director and to the Secretary of State , certain functions in relation to consumer affairs . |
| 4 | This recalled the nuncupatio , the oral recital which in principle still lay behind every written will , and which gave validity to the dispositions recorded . |
| 5 | WITH the eradication of smallpox by WHO 's successful vaccination campaign , it may have seemed that vaccinia , the cowpox virus that is the basis for the vaccine and which gave vaccination its name , might at last be ready to bow out from its central role in world medicine . |
| 6 | the right of privacy did not extend so far as to confer a protected right on consenting adults to pursue their own choice in the matter of watching obscene and pornographic motion pictures within a theatre … [ even one ] not open to minors and which gave patrons due notice of the kind of entertainment provided . |
| 7 | Instead of a telling-off , with time to put things right , TDC found itself under a much more strict court order with which it could not negotiate and which gave it little flexibility . |
| 8 | However , it was precisely the lack of consensus about Thebes ' — or anybody else 's — leadership which in the fifth century led to federalism of so unusual and developed a kind , and which gave Boiotia the cohesion , and the manpower , to defeat Sparta at Leuktra in 371 . |
| 9 | Rhyme , measure , and the turning of verses , which is indispensable and which gives them so much vigour , are analogous to the hidden symmetry , to the equilibrium at once wise and inspired , which governs the meeting or separation of lines and spaces , the echoes of color , etc. ’ poetic painting was Delacroix 's preference , but ‘ David 's picture of Leonidas at Thermopolae is masculine and vigorous prose , I admit ’ . |
| 10 | And it is just that : a point of view , a vision , put forward through a fine prose style , that gives the work of Frazer a position above that of other scholars of equal erudition and perhaps greater ingenuity , and which gives him an inevitable and growing influence over the contemporary mind . |
| 11 | The habit of mind which opposes family and state , and which gives the family a special position in the organization of a polity , is not solely Libyan : strongly étatique societies have often tried to abolish or limit the institution of the family ; and the attempts by government to regulate family life by intervening to increase or to decrease births , by altering rules of inheritance , by inhibiting or encouraging kinship corporations , are so familiar that they are taken to be natural functions of the state . |
| 12 | This is part of the life that we have created , and which gives us pleasure , support and autonomy . |
| 13 | It is the use of this ‘ apparatus ’ which enables people to express themselves in speech and which gives speech its quality and pattern . |
| 14 | Last : a solid form of wood , plastic or metal on which a boot or shoe is built , and which gives its shape to the boot or shoe . |
| 15 | Our performance is reported every year in The Post Office 's Report and Accounts , which you can obtain from HMSO , and which gives detailed statistics . |
| 16 | What I hope to have shown , which is consistent with a certain tentativeness about what has been said , and with incompleteness , is that we do have a grasp of both dependent and independent conditionals , which grasp can be clarified and which gives to us an explicit understanding of the seven causal connections that were set out . |
| 17 | The first rests upon section 8(2) of the Act of 1986 which I have already cited , and which gives an extended meaning to the concept of membership for the purposes of the Act of 1986 . |
| 18 | We are taking forward three major initiatives : the making a corporate commitment campaign , which is designed to secure board level commitment to energy efficiency ; best practice , which is the Department 's main programme of energy efficiency information transfer ; and the energy management assistance scheme , which I have mentioned and which gives grant aid to the energy efficiency projects of smaller businesses . |
| 19 | This is called " sensitive dependence on initial conditions " , a phenomenon which persists even when the strange invariant set becomes attracting ( see below ) and which gives the typical " chaotic " , " turbulent " or " pseudo-random " behaviour which we associate with a " strange attractor " . |