Example sentences of "this [noun sg] that give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it looked completely different , it was this truck that gave me the concept for ‘ MiniMag ’ , the 27ft ( 8m ) articulated truck that we used for Mrs Thatcher 's open-air meetings in the 1987 election . |
| 2 | It was this provision that gave rise to the loophole sought to be exploited by B.C.C.I. depositors . |
| 3 | It was probably this practice that gave rise to the popular image of witches flying on broomsticks . |
| 4 | All Connor did was to add a preservative to this enzyme that gave it a few months ' shelf life . |
| 5 | It was this self-evidence that gave authority and courage to Posidonius to speak out to remind the Roman rulers of their errors and misdeeds . |
| 6 | It is this quality that gives them the semblance of life ! |
| 7 | However , their influence on the Demoiselles is not the only feature of this painting that gives some indication of what Cubism was to achieve . |
| 8 | Maybe she had finished with sexual intercourse for ever , maybe it was this possibility that gave her this peculiar conviction of strength , this sense of invulnerability , of certainty , of power . |
| 9 | None of the writers realized that the Cubism of this date relied on a balance between abstraction and representation to achieve its effects , and that it was this balance that gave each work a significance on more levels than one . |