Example sentences of "which gave us " in BNC.

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1 Our resources were too widely deployed , which gave us stability , but lost us a competitive edge .
2 The Belfry was cold and wet , which gave us a taste of what was to come at Lytham .
3 To re-finance ourselves in order to finish the task , we arranged a Flexible Businessloan with a two year capital repayment holiday which gave us the breathing space we needed .
4 It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons .
5 It must all sound rather tame to today 's children , but it was a happy time ; a time of predictable routine , which gave us a sense of security .
6 which gave us life ;
7 Frustrated at the limited roles offered to black actresses , they produced On A Level , a revue-style show ‘ which gave us a chance to express ourselves as artists , not stereotypes ’ .
8 Now that we were being treated as human beings , rather than sorry creatures penned up in a basement , we could relax a bit , which gave us a chance to replenish our flagging energies .
9 Another came from Le Corbusier and pre-war German and Dutch architecture , which gave us the LCC 's Roehampton Lane ( Alton West ) Estate ; this latter style tended to predominate in the 1950s .
10 We read in the papers of continuous victories on all fronts , which gave us the impression that the war would be over soon .
11 ‘ How could anyone despise a country which gave us the Renaissance , Venice , Michelangelo ? ’
12 ‘ It happened again this year , though we won 4– 3 on penalties which gave us our fourth win of the series . ’
13 We had over three hours before our train 's timetabled departure at 4 p.m. , which gave us a chance to look round Minehead , get a meal and try to find a place where we could taste a famous local product — scrumpy .
14 Frank is a regular at the norwegian U21 team and has also played some first team matches — i remember him giving the pass to Sorloth which gave us 2–1 against Holland at home .
15 I want to welcome obviously particularly er the order relating to Wales because it confers on Wales er one additional seat , giving us five altogether because of the rise in the Welsh population over the last ten years and that er although Wales was under represented under the previous erm er you know distribution of seats which gave us only four we will be slightly over represented when we have five because you simply ca n't have four and a half seats , it 's got to be one or the other but since the Welsh population is continuing to rise very rapidly then it is likely that that will be put right .
16 You 've got ta pay to go through , all these tolls which we did okay cos what we done we bought a pack which gave us petrol coupons .
17 that and so on , erm , erm , I , it would be nice in fact if the er Ipswich evening tabloid which gave us prominence to this rule er would give just a little space to er this latest development , erm but I would like to , not being excessively caracole I mean reading this document I do feel a slight er switch on your comments on er Pipers Vale , er which you note , there are no er nationally er or er common species which sounds as though you have designs on it , erm I , I wonder if this would be the place to ask you , you know , to make some sort of statement about Pipers Vale , you know that we are basically looking for a route which does not touch on Pipers Vale
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