Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] which give " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scope of the legal doctrine , and its implications for constitutional change , can not be settled except by analysis of the political morality which gives it its authority . |
| 2 | He heard the calm voice , but could feel the trembling body which gave it the lie . |
| 3 | Nor is there any sense in banning strikes ‘ temporarily ’ , since the economic crisis which gives rise to labour unrest is anything but temporary , and the radical measures of economic reform ( such as market prices ) which might ultimately solve this crisis have not yet been adopted and will take years to yield results . |
| 4 | The report , in paragraph 480 , records that all the professional bodies which gave evidence recommended that patients aged between 16 and 18 should be able to give an effective consent to treatment and all but the Medical Protection Society recommended that they should also be able to give an effective refusal . |
| 5 | But the tendency was reversed in the 1986 elections which gave CCOO a clear majority of the votes ( see table 5.4 ) . |
| 6 | Another big factor , of course , is providing the proper underlay which gives the carpet extra life , and this in itself is a real investment at around £3 sq yard . |
| 7 | The fact remains that the debate on contemporary art seems to have entered a new dimension , with doubt being cast wholesale on the quality and content of recent trends , and on the good faith of the public institutions which give them space . |
| 8 | Held ( 1 ) that the public interest in preserving confidentiality underlying the particular implied undertaking by B. added little if anything to the public interest which gave rise to the basic claim of public interest immunity attaching to the authority 's documents ; so that , if that immunity ought properly to be overridden in the light of countervailing public interest arising , that countervailing interest would also outweigh such limited value as still attached to B. 's implied undertaking ( post , pp. 926H — 927A ) . |
| 9 | Tall , white-painted window frames , subdivided by many glazing bars , were placed under segmental arches of red brickwork and the most prominent features were the high gables which gave the buildings a varied and lively skyline . |
| 10 | Green sets out the climatic conditions which give rise to the different degrees of ‘ air ’ . |
| 11 | These broke away sharply on seeing the British fighters which gave chase but were unable to catch them . |
| 12 | So she found a place in the old tree which gave her a familiar view of the land . |
| 13 | The aim of the new code was to " protect the individual against all wrongs which might affect their person , their freedom , their security , their dignity or their environment " as opposed to the old code which gave precedence to the defence of the state . |
| 14 | The next extracts provide some explanation of the social context which gave this distinction such a high profile . |
| 15 | Furthermore , this is one of the few studies which gives an account of the feelings after the task was completed . |
| 16 | Myogenic control is related to the intrinsic excitability of gastrointestinal smooth muscle cells , and particularly to the constant rhythmic polarisation and depolarisation of the plasmalemmal membranes which gives rise to the electrical slow wave or electrical control activity . |
| 17 | The second function which gives the Bank power to influence financial markets derives from its management of the National Debt . |
| 18 | It is the Liberal idea which gives its adherents the freedom to think and enquire , and not follow a party leader like sheep . |
| 19 | More reference material is to be found in the 1991 Almanac which gives useful charts and lists of celestial events , units of weights , holidays , world time zones and so on . |
| 20 | It means describing the sound wave in numbers ( the binary digits which give the process its name ) and transmitting these instead . |
| 21 | Withycombe , which was demolished in the mid-nineteenth century , stood a third of a mile from Culbone Church at the head of the wooded combe which gave the farm a name . |
| 22 | The three books which give this impression of relentless fun are The ZX Spectrum and how to get the most out of it ( hardly a winner of the snappy title award ) by Ian Sinclair ( Granada , pp 144 , £5.95 ) , and Easy programming for the ZX spectrum and Computer puzzles for spectrum and ZX81 by Ian Stewart and Robin Jones ( shiva , pp 144 , £5.95 and pp 64 , £2.50 ) . |
| 23 | If , let us suppose , you were driving south from Mâcon or Bourg-en-Bresse ( I would stay chez La Mere Blanc at Vonnas ) you could drive through La-Tour-du-Pin , Saint-Rambert d'Albon , Beaurepaire d'Isère , Beaumont-les-Valence , La Garde-Adhémar , St-Paul-Trois-Chateaux — the three castles which gave their name to the Tricastin district — then down to Suze-La-Rousse and the tiny village of Donzère and its great nearby dam which is as wondrous and absorbing a spectacle in its way as any of the great Roman glories of this province through which , they claim , Hannibal marched with his Carthaginians — and presumably his elephants — two thousand one hundred and seventy-seven years ago . |
| 24 | Pakeezah nodded her head : ‘ I find it is the little things which give you away if you are royalty : how you eat , how you talk , how you welcome people . |
| 25 | All around him , squatting on the ground , were his followers ; and beyond them , around the outskirts and blocking up the mouths of the little streets which gave on to the square , was a wider , more disinterested audience . |
| 26 | Former Ireland schools star Kieran Dawson was enjoying a most impressive Bangor debut and he capitalised on a break by scrum-half Stephen Matchett to power over for a try in the 23rd minute which gave Bangor a comfortable 13-0 lead . |
| 27 | In many respects this was a return to the position of the very last years of the fourth century ; the establishment of arian kingdoms on Gallic soil had removed from the catholic bishops sole authority over the definition of the Christian community , and it was only the conversion of Clovis and the expansion of the Frankish kingdom which gave the ecclesiastical hierarchy the authority once more to define the Christian life for all the members of the State . |
| 28 | Each edition since the fifth in 1957 has , theoretically , been published in two stages : Stage I , the basic classification which gives sufficient detail for most books ; and Stage 2 , ‘ microthought ’ to cover periodical articles , patents and related materials . |
| 29 | I 'd even gone to the trouble of finding a real piece of rattan jog — the dried bark which gives a deep red colour to the dish — in the fifth Punjabi deli I 'd tried . |
| 30 | Highly charged personal reminiscence is bound up with the anthropological perspective which gives it an impersonal respectability . |