Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] that give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas Philip V succeeded ( where two hundred years of Hapsburg effort had failed ) in dismantling the political institutions that gave Catalonia , Valencia , and Aragon a quasi-independent status his successors failed to diminish the fueros of the Basque Provinces — Guipúzcoa , Vizcaya , Alava — and of Navarre . |
| 2 | The perfect house — a beautiful golden stone Elizabethan manor of steeply pitched roofs , the tall chimneys that gave the house its name , pointed gables and mullioned windows . |
| 3 | By the time they are mature , hedgehogs can have several thousand of the modified hairs that give them their prickly appearance and an ideal form of defence against attackers . |
| 4 | Indeed , traditional archivists devote much time and resources to providing users with a description of the administrative framework that gave rise to the generation of a particular record or class of records . |
| 5 | If , for any reason , the new variety is competitively superior to the old one , superior in the sense that , perhaps because of its low ‘ stickiness ’ , it gets itself replicated faster or otherwise more effectively , the new variety will obviously spread through the test-tube in which it arose , out-numbering the parental type that gave rise to it . |
| 6 | It is now appropriate to consider the extension of the solution into the prior regions I , II and III which describe the approaching waves that give rise to this particular interaction . |
| 7 | It is the curved arrows and printed numbers at the left-hand side that give the numbers of rows knitted with the main carriage . |
| 8 | Hallowell ( 1950 , 1956 ) went on to argue that the emergence of culture was due to a novel psychological structure rooted in the social behaviour of the gregarious primate that gave rise to Man . |
| 9 | Those who pass along it without divergence , however , remain unaware of the interesting features that give Ingleborough its unique distinction , hazards and difficulties also being avoided on the straightforward climb . |
| 10 | Language in its significant sense is that vocal gesture which tends to arouse in the individual the attitude which it arouses in others , and it is this perfecting of the self by the gesture which mediates the social activities that gives rise to the process of taking the role of the other . |
| 11 | It is the pre-intellectual awareness that gives rise to it . |
| 12 | To conclude that the potential for peasant revolution against the status quo remained undiminished in the decade after 1905 does not of course , dispose of the liberal contention that given a longer period of peaceful development the prospects would have changed . |
| 13 | From the noise and excitement of London 's West End to the savage beauty of the Scottish Highlands , Spotlight on Britain enables your students to get off the main roads to explore the many regions that give Britain its unique character . |
| 14 | First of all , take a part of a subject that you are studying and write down the key words that give the basis of that aspect of your studies . |
| 15 | Holly stood beside a poorly dug hole and he looked down at a T-shaped junction of pipes and saw that the screw-fastened aperture that gave access to the pipe join and its subsidiary were swathed in doth and knotted around in plastic sheeting . |
| 16 | In the meditative life , we exchange the worldly things that give us delight for the full commitment of loving God above all . |
| 17 | One hundred and fifty-five years on from Darwin 's marital dilemma , the major pre-occupation that gave rise to the organization of the conference to which this paper is submitted , is a marriage of a different sort : the study of history and the use of information technology . |
| 18 | Mackenzie Walcott lamented ‘ it is almost inconceivable the waste that has mercilessly made havoc of the ancient Memorials that gave renown to Stamford ’ . |
| 19 | Christian joy is the essential spark that gives vitality to true worship . |
| 20 | Beginners appreciate the help given by moving together with the teacher after technical movement coaching , while more advanced movers respond to the various nuances that give added pleasure to the performance of travelling movements , creative variations or structured patterns . |
| 21 | The higher power that gave Zagrat their music was warning the Wizard King in those words . |
| 22 | It would seem as if people were ready to write about every aspect of higher education — its aims , policies , governance , finance , organization , staff , students — except the one thing that gives all these their raison d'être . |
| 23 | A fully secularized society was a contradiction in terms , for there could be no society that would not feel the need to uphold the collective sentiments that gave it its unity and individuality . |
| 24 | There was a handsome portico outside and four mock Grecian columns at the back of the front hall that gave the house a museum-like effect . |
| 25 | The living amphibians that give the best impression of the appearance of the early ones are the salamanders and newts . |
| 26 | GHI comment : The only sets that gave us a really good picture on the loop aerial were Philips and Sony . |
| 27 | The only detail that gave any clue to his character , his description of his hobbies as ‘ the pleasures of Lawrence 's prose and vintage port ’ , did little to endear him to her . |
| 28 | Here is this man , never previously seen doing his public duty , always seen merely roaring at the Labour Party or being interviewed like any tuppeny-ha'penny minister , now occupying the despatch-box which is the only site that gives credibility to his claim to be a prime-minister-in-waiting . |
| 29 | Having to make hard decisions involving people is the only thing that gives Haslam sleepless nights . |
| 30 | Achieving profit is the only thing that gives identity to a PROFITBOSS . |