Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] that gave [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Second , once sterling left the ERM , and with inflation sharply down , we were right to take the opportunity that gave us to relax policy and get interest rates down . |
| 2 | ‘ That headache has tightened you up all over — or perhaps it was the tightness that gave you the headache in the first place . ’ |
| 3 | Those in the East End included a half-share in Chandler 's Wiltshire Brewery in the Hackney Road , Bethnal Green ( via the Lion brewery , Lambeth , the brewery that gave us the South Bank lion ) ; some of the pubs belonging to the Commercial Brewery Co in Commercial Road , Stepney , in 1927 ( the rest went to Hammerton 's brewery , Stockwell ) ; and West and Co , of the Three Crowns brewery , Hackney Road , Bethnal Green , with 60 pubs , in 1929 . |
| 4 | Some of the smokers were aware of his campaign against passive smoking — the kind that gave him cancer in smoke-tarred clubs . |
| 5 | It was the therapy that gave me the strength to leave my girlfriend because through it I established the fact that I was prone to passivity , always waiting for other people to call the shots . |
| 6 | I suppose it was the isolation that gave us such a feeling of camaraderie . " |
| 7 | It was what was within the bird the force that gave it such power , such vitality . ’ |
| 8 | Denis Smith says hopefully to get three points and play good football … there 's not much they can do in two days but his team talk will be tell the players to go out enjoy it and pass the ball … by a strange twist of fate Smith 's first match at the Manor is against the team that gave him the sack last season Bristol City |
| 9 | IT IS the magazine that gave us Sid The Sexist , Biffa Bacon and the Fat Slags and made a fortune for editor Chris Donald . |
| 10 | The environment that gave us opportunity was so dissimilar from that of the present as to seem more remote in time than it is . |
| 11 | Ironically , it was the Government which he partly blamed for the affair that gave him the chance to return to work after retirement . |
| 12 | It is important to remember that it was Alexander 's all-consuming passion for the theatre that gave him the determination to find out the cause of his hoarseness . |
| 13 | The will that gave them title had been written on a torn-out page of a 1938 diary , the only paper available when the family learnt of their imminent fate in the gas chamber . |
| 14 | The city that gave us Cheers certainly knows how to seduce visitors . |
| 15 | It had a pale beauty in the moonlight that gave him more unexpected enchantment . |
| 16 | What else could lead researchers to test the ultimate laws of nature with machines bigger than the ancient state of Athens , or to seek to live in space , cast adrift from the world that gave them birth ? |
| 17 | Each dust particle inherits the characteristic defect structure of the parent clay that did the damming , the structure that gave it its damming properties . |
| 18 | These advanced primates had large brains and eyes at the front of the face that gave them stereoscopic forward vision . |
| 19 | The house it penned was old and brown with a porch that gave it a sort of potbelly . |
| 20 | His talents were demonstrated through a system that gave him opportunities and brought out the best in him . |
| 21 | A country that gave her a cold welcome , in which the To Let signs specified ‘ No Coloureds ’ , and of which she wrote in Second-Class Citizen , ‘ If I had been Jesus I would have passed England by and not dropped a single blessing . ’ |
| 22 | The camera swung again , but this time George looked above it , to a monitor screen hung on a metal rafter above the audience , to see his own face in close-up , the eyes staring upward in a way that gave him an absurdly soulful look . |
| 23 | It 's a black celebration , a grimy , twisted tribute to an era that gave us The Black Panthers , Jeremy Thorpe and Paper Lace . |
| 24 | Belonging here defined him , made him free to wander , because here he had roots to return to , an anchor that gave him stability and a sense of permanence . |