Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that have give " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are now being told by this arrogant and incompetent lot that having given us record unemployment , bankruptcies , house repossession , liquidations , factory closures etc , that they are the only ones fit to govern when surely that record should make them hang their heads in shame . |
| 2 | Victories in three primaries , including the battle of New York , were a turning point that have given the Arkansas governor an unassailable lead in delegates needed for the Democrats ' presidential nomination . |
| 3 | It is these positive examples of what is generally taken to be a negative force that have given rise to such concepts as ‘ white ’ ( i.e. good ) witchcraft ; they are part of our European tradition and lend a certain credence to Margaret Murray 's exaggerated presentation of a satanic underground cult of evil co-existing with orthodox Christianity . ’ |
| 4 | The distinctive characteristic of these writers was their belief in progress : the belief , in particular , that the system of international relations that had given rise to the First World War was capable of being transformed into a fundamentally more peaceful and just world order ; that under the impact of the awakening of democracy , the growth of the ‘ international mind ’ , the development of the League of Nations , the good works of men of peace or the enlightenment spread by their own teachings , it was in fact being transformed ; and that their responsibility as students of international relations was to assist this march of progress to overcome the ignorance , the prejudices , the ill-will , and the sinister interests that stood in its way . |
| 5 | They wish to develop alternatives to the traditional approaches that have given privileged positions to discoveries , innovative theories , to the world of ideas . |
| 6 | A club spokesman said : ‘ It was a win over an in-form side that has given the whole team great hope and we will go to Wasps with nothing to lose . ’ |
| 7 | A third notion is that organic life — carbon-based life — was preceded by ‘ living ’ clays , based on silicon , as described by Professor Cairn-Smith that some of these clays gathered organic molecules around them , which increased their chemical versatility , and that the organic components eventually abandoned the silicon-based templates that had given rise to them . |
| 8 | Creggan said nothing but stared over the grey rolling sea that had given the eagle whom he loved most in the world her name . |
| 9 | So much for a romantic myth that has given Hollywood scriptwriters a nice living . |
| 10 | It captures the fundamental agreement that has given a unity to the perspectives of leading constitutional authorities , but it does not reveal the disputes that have existed within liberal-democratic constitutional theory . |
| 11 | Dale 's studies of fetal response to moderate cardiovascular exercise showed increased breathing movements , transient bradycardia or tachycardia , or changes in uterine bloodflow , but there does not appear to be a systematic study that has given clear guidelines for safe levels of maternal exercise . |
| 12 | In an ideal world , there would be no need for either , but for now I would rather see the frustration expressed in these light-hearted terms than in the sort of man-hating bitterness that has given feminism such a bad name . |
| 13 | Her great good fortune has been an electoral system that has given her power on a minority vote . |
| 14 | Lloyd George discovered in 1919 , as Law had done in 1914 , that a Unionist party that had given its total commitment to a cause would not be fobbed off with a compromise . |
| 15 | Pamela had n't been to the tiny next-door island for years but she remembered its wild , deserted beaches , its spectacular rocky promontories , the surprising wheat fields among the rocky landscape that had given the island its name . |
| 16 | His glorification of the subtle and simple cocks a snook at the overblown excesses that have given Paris couture the kiss of death . |
| 17 | Other states that have given the impression of having comparable senses of destiny are Libya and Iraq . |
| 18 | ‘ To date there are only fourteen families in the whole district that have given BP Coal right of access to their land . |