Example sentences of "[adj] which [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is less widely known that there was a comparable ( although much smaller ) dyeing industry in Ireland based on Nucella lapillus which seems to have been known of as far away as Minehead in Somerset ( Cole , 1685 ) . |
| 2 | He was blamed for being too lax a disciplinarian , and indeed for the defeat on the snap ‘ cordite ’ vote on 21 June 1895 which saw the government resign . |
| 3 | Since the kite has a lift component to enable it to accelerate at certain positions around the hemisphere it also has what is known as an ‘ apparent wind ’ and it is this which sustains the motion within the flight envelope . |
| 4 | It is impossible to conceive of dialectical materialism without atheism , and it is this which underlies Marxism as an ideology . |
| 5 | It is this which caused the Employment Secretary , Michael Howard , to claim that under Labour the unions would become more privileged than when Michael Foot was Labour 's Employment Secretary from 1974 to 1976 . |
| 6 | It is this which offers the greatest challenge to a photographer . |
| 7 | It is this which offers the greatest challenge to a photographer . |
| 8 | It is this which helps us to recognize that an object is from a certain period or particular place . |
| 9 | This alternative strategy is in many respects less coherent than Owen 's and it is this which helps to explain the fact that Roger 's approach is often misunderstood by those outside the unit . |
| 10 | I 'd like to give you this which spells out clearly my status and what I can do for you , it simply states that I work for |
| 11 | It was an attitude like this which made the individual transfer to community relations in the first place , as all those in Easton 's Community Relations Unit did , one even from the Traffic Branch . |
| 12 | The favourite explanation , however , was ‘ speculative hoarding ’ , and it was this which became the target for government action ( in addition to a series of measures designed to speed up the release and development of land ) . |
| 13 | A journal such as this which seeks to facilitate the spread of technology is therefore very much to be welcomed . |
| 14 | When depreciation is deducted from gross investment , we have what is called net investment and it is this which measures the true addition to the country 's capital stock during the year . |
| 15 | It is this which produces Leonard 's startling use of juxtaposition , which goes on to become a disavowal technique . ) |
| 16 | This continually recurring disharmony Marx attributes to the nature of class relations , and it is this which produces the forward movement of history . |
| 17 | It is this which produces the combined bracing of the right foot , leg and hip which produces the wound-up spring resistance at the top . |
| 18 | The key is the understanding of deaf children 's processing of their own language , and it is this which requires our immediate and continued attention . |
| 19 | This is ‘ up front in consciousness ’ and it is this which determines his answer , in the absence of central control . |
| 20 | The determination of the equilibrium level of national income is of central importance in macroeconomic analysis because it is this which determines to a large extent the level of employment in the economy . |
| 21 | This is one of the few indications that Eliot gave of the fact that , in the periods between illness when he carried on with his ordinary duties in London ( as much as anyone 's life was " ordinary " then ) , he experienced the horror of the German raids : the nightly bombings , the streets blocked with rubble , the glow in the evening as fires burned throughout the city , and the peculiarly dank smell of ruined buildings : it was this which provoked fear , precluded concentration on other things , and destroyed the will to work . |
| 22 | It is just this which allows subversive potential to parodic repetition but which also means that the parody will typically be inflected with the ambivalence I have described and , partly because of that ambivalence , oscillate between the political and the anarchic . |
| 23 | As far as I can read her argument , it is precisely this which allows recognition of it to model our human position as suspended between , as she says at another point , unconditioned actor … and conditioned agent . " |
| 24 | As acting Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces under Marcos , Ramos had led a military mutiny in support of Aquino , and it was this which had finally convinced Marcos that he could no longer continue to cling to office . |
| 25 | The agency gave assurances that this new evidence had been passed to the relevant prosecuting authorities , and it was this which had led to the prosecutors ' decision to withdraw from their plea bargain arrangement with Drogoul , thereby allowing him to change his plea to innocent . |
| 26 | They were not here , nor was Thor of Allerdale himself ; but , after all ; it was strategy such as this which had kept Allerdale free despite the wolves at his frontiers . |
| 27 | The entrance was through a small separate cell to the north-east , and it was this which had been tampered with . |
| 28 | I think TV needs a show like this which presents all types of music . |
| 29 | But while the handicapped get the support they need the carers are ofrten forgotten and it was this which insprired the Princess Royal to set up a special trust . |
| 30 | There is a marked concentration in the region of Sagittarius ( the Archer ) , and it was this which led to the discovery that we are having a lop-sided view of the Galaxy because we are not in the middle of it . |