Example sentences of "[noun] which gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not remember a single one where the risks which gave rise to the accident could not have been measured and prevented with effective safety training , management commitment and — above all - sufficient funds . |
| 2 | Any patient characteristics which gave a p value of ≤0.1 or less were then used together in a multifactorial model in an analysis of variance with each index of oesophageal function being the dependent variable . |
| 3 | The colonial period ushered in an era of foreign investment which gave the large scale trading houses of Europe a hold on the development of local economies allowing little room for Africa 's entrepreneurs to develop their skills . |
| 4 | It was the goals from McStay , McAllister and McClair which gave the Scots a stirring win in Norrkoping , and the bite of McCall which gave them a formidable balance . |
| 5 | It was the discussion of the contemporary civilization phase of Faustian Culture and his prophecies for the immediate future which gave Spengler his notoriety . |
| 6 | He was of middle height , well built , possibly in his mid-forties ( though Jane was not much good on ages ) with dark curly hair and slanting eyes which gave him a slightly Slavonic look , though there was not a trace of accent in his speech . |
| 7 | Let him thus lose his eyes which gave him sight of the maiden 's beauty for which he coveted her . |
| 8 | The scheme generated a significant number of additional bus trips which gave rise to the highest proportion of elderly bus passenger casualties of all Scottish local authorities . |
| 9 | Another aspect of adult education , operating mostly in urban areas , was an ‘ accelerated primary ’ programme which gave those who were newly literate access to formal education in night classes . |
| 10 | She was suffering from a stiff neck which gave her pain whenever she turned her head . |
| 11 | These broke away sharply on seeing the British fighters which gave chase but were unable to catch them . |
| 12 | They are the only British side left in Europe after Englishman Mark Hateley and lethal Scot Ally McCoist KO 'd Leeds with the goals which gave Rangers a 4–2 second-round aggregate win . |
| 13 | The name Fleet was an Anglo-Saxon word meaning ‘ tidal inlet ’ and the principle sources of the water flowing into the River Fleet , were the heights of Hampstead Heath , also the grounds of Kenwood House at Highgate , all joining just north of Camden Town , and flowing south to join the River Thames , close to the Blackfriars monastery which gave its name to the bridge over the Thames at that point . |
| 14 | It was the Second Law of Thermodynamics which gave Victorian intellectuals a certain frisson because it seemed to imply that the world was running down . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Political leaders from across the assembly had resolved earlier in the week that an apparent lacuna in the rulebook which gave the neo-fascists the chairmanship and vice-chairmanship of the delegations should be filled so that the pair could be voted out of their posts . |
| 17 | Mr Campbell was inspired to set up the fair by the publication last year of an Arts Council pamphlet which gave names and addresses of those producing books in Britain at the present and his fair is concentrating on British work . |
| 18 | It was the military deficiencies of the pomeshchiks which gave the government the greatest grounds for concern . |
| 19 | Liège municipal council found itself bankrupt in September 1989 , when Gemeentekrediet , a publicly owned financial institution which gave credit to municipalities , refused to grant the city a new loan ( in addition to its debts which already totalled BF30,000 million ) , unless a guarantee from the Walloon regional government was obtained . |
| 20 | The process is simply to find the combination of variables which gave the best fit in the past and then to extrapolate the equation to make predictions . |
| 21 | As a result of adolescence becoming a ‘ social fact ’ , a specificity was bestowed on boy labour which gave the whole subject of juvenile employment an enhanced status in part derived from its scientific description , and in part from its social relevance . |
| 22 | That , she decided absently , was the mystery ingredient which gave such mesmerising impact to his gaze . |
| 23 | One , it was true , still sported a bruise which gave her a rather raffish air , but it was already fading . |
| 24 | The occupation at Nanterre which gave birth to the 22 Mars movement was to protest against this proposal . |
| 25 | It is not hard , however , to make a strong case for the view that unrest in a particular part of the empire in 1858 loomed large in the regime 's decision to opt for the version of emancipation which gave peasants land . |
| 26 | But BodyShop 's appearance is more a reflection of accounting curiosities which gave it such a huge return on capital last year : likewise fire extinguisher company Nu-Swift , whose remarkable figures last year put it at the top of the ROC table . |
| 27 | Great though improvements in European agriculture had been and were to be , it was industry which gave Europe world leadership , as it was later to give it to the United States . |
| 28 | This attitude was reinforced by the second wave of technology which provided instrumentation , ways of sensing and recording data which gave more accurate and reliable data than that which can be detected directly by the human senses . |
| 29 | The HDI was widely criticized for its complexity and for a system of weighting data which gave the United States the lowest HDI of any developed country ( owing to its high illiteracy rate ) . |
| 30 | The few references to their own practices by members of code-switching communities which are contained in the literature are vague and general : for example , the now-famous quotation ( complete with slip of the tongue ) from a Spanish-English bilingual which gave Poplack 's important 1981 article its title : " Sometimes I start a sentence in Spanish y termino en Español " ( Sometimes I start a sentence in Spanish and finish in Spanish ) . |