Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh det] [pron] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the sheriffships were also heritable offices , which again conferred powers of private patronage upon their holders where this had not been specifically reserved to the Crown , and a great magnate who had inherited a small empire of such judicial rights had considerable powers of influence in his region , both from the offices themselves and the opportunities which they gave to oblige friends , and from the powers of the courts , for regalian jurisdiction was extended over the possessions of landowners who held their estates as the vassals of the magnate . |
| 2 | Thus the Church , for all the opportunities which it gave to men to find new lives and lofty ideals , to transcend the limitations of the age , still , in its main structure , reflected the social organization of the world . |
| 3 | Well , he was more interested than he has been given credit for , and he had a wonderful collection of eighteenth-century English books which he gave to Trinity College , Cambridge . |
| 4 | If , however , I were to consider the more elaborate findings and reasons which they gave subsequently , then again I would hold their findings and their reasons to be unsustainable . |
| 5 | My Lords , I have had the advantage of reading in draft the speeches of my noble and learned friends , Lord Keith of Kinkel and Lord Browne-Wilkinson , and for the reasons which they give I agree that the appeal should be allowed and the questions answered in the way in which my noble and learned friend , Lord Keith of Kinkel , proposes . |
| 6 | I agree with it , and for the reasons which he gives I , too , would dismiss both appeals . |
| 7 | I agree with it , and for the reasons which he gives I , too , would allow the appeal . |
| 8 | The rule is firmly established that we may not look at Hansard and in general I agree with it , for reasons which I gave last year in Beswick v. Beswick . |
| 9 | ‘ The Conservative Party have cynically and ruthlessly betrayed the pledges which they gave the people of this country and they will not be forgiven for it , ’ he said . |
| 10 | ‘ The Conservative Party have cynically and ruthlessly betrayed the pledges which they gave the people of this country and they will not be forgiven for it . ’ |
| 11 | Thucydides must have perceived this , without necessarily endorsing the extreme views which he gives two of his speakers : Alcibiades who said that democracy was acknowledged folly ; and Kleon who said that a democracy was incapable of running an empire ( vi.89 ; iii . |
| 12 | ‘ Seek the cloister ’ ; ‘ stay safe in port ’ : these were the precepts which he gave to those who desired true freedom . |
| 13 | This is because as and when the trust repayed the loan which the settlor had guaranteed the settlor would benefit from being released from his guarantee obligations which he gave bounteously in the first place . |
| 14 | The Oxford lectures which he gave at this time were eventually to be published as The Discarded Image , perhaps the most completely satisfying and impressive book he ever published . |
| 15 | Faeces are used by young children as a ‘ gift ’ , and sometimes their stools are wrapped up in parcels which they give to a significant person . |
| 16 | Alexander started to direct his actions by inventing orders which he gave to himself when standing , sitting and reciting . |
| 17 | Particularly interesting is a cameo depicting a cupid 's head and wings which he gave to his wife , Fanny Waugh , whom he married in 1865 . |
| 18 | The examples which I give are only hints and pointers , and parallels can be found in many different areas of life , from the mundane to the mystical . |
| 19 | Uncle had a bitch called Jill at the time and they had puppies which we gave to the neighbours . |
| 20 | Baddam publicized in the Daily Advertiser the full range of experimental philosophy courses which he gave at the London Coffee House , Ludgate Hill , between 11 October 1732 and January 1733 , alternating with Abraham Chovet , a Huguenot anatomy lecturer who was appointed demonstrator to the Barber-Surgeons ' Company in 1734 . |
| 21 | It 's worth three times what he gave me for it . ’ |
| 22 | Which brings me really to the factors which I give the most weight to . |
| 23 | Sometimes a guarantee does more than qualify the benefits which it gives . |
| 24 | The father of an ex-soldier is asking the army to run tests on the anti-nerve gas pills which it gave out during the Gulf War . |
| 25 | Though Ismail Belig 's evidence is not perhaps the most reliable , the facts which he gives about the holders of the kadilik of Bursa in the period , facts which are at least consistent , if not necessarily accurate , indicate that Molla Yegan may indeed have left office a few years earlier than 844 : according to Ismail Belig , Yusuf Bali succeeded Molla Yegan in the kadilik in 842/1438–9 , himself being succeeded at the Sultan medrese by Molla Yegan 's son , Sah Mehmed ( or Mehmed Sah ) , who later also succeeded him as kadi in 846/1442–3 . |