Example sentences of "[conj] which take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something of a myth has developed about the universality of ‘ live ’ variety that can be explained in terms of generalizations based on those great centres London and New York , and by the ubiquitous nature of printed sheet music which often used the name of a star as a selling gimmick and which took songs into many pubs and drinking saloons as well as into many homes . |
| 2 | On the one hand there was the assembly or Ecclesia which every citizen was entitled to attend , and which took the final decisions about policy . |
| 3 | Next door was the ‘ Louis XVI Bedroom ’ , in which the bed and curtain fabric was also inspired by an eighteenth-century Lyons silk and which took many of its period details from an 1801 mezzotint . |
| 4 | It is no coincidence or mistake that it was the Conservative party that applied to take Britain into the Community , and which took Britain in . |
| 5 | The 1990/91 budget , which was outlined by Suharto on Jan. 4 , 1990 , and which took effect in April , departed from the general trend of recent years . |
| 6 | Kaifu 's Singapore speech , delivered to an audience of politicians , businessmen , foreign diplomats and journalists , was the key address of a 10-day tour of five south-east Asian countries which had begun on April 27 and which took in Malaysia , Brunei , Thailand , Singapore , and the Philippines , as well as a meeting with leaders of the rebel National Government of Cambodia in Bangkok , on May 1 , the day that the ceasefire came into effect [ see p. 38194 ] . |
| 7 | Shakespeare 's play has an arranged duel which miscarries , and which takes off a divided , gambling man who has wondered whether or not it might be better to end his life . |
| 8 | Mintzberg , who studied five chief executives in the USA and reviewed previous research , gives the best account of the importance of informal information and argues that : the manager 's advantage lies , not in the documented information that is widely available , and which takes time to process , but in the current non-documented information transmitted largely by word of mouth … managers seem to indicate strong preference for current information , much of which is necessarily unsubstantiated ( gossip ) , and for information on events rather than trends … |
| 9 | There must be ( 1 ) sexual intercourse ( 2 ) with a woman which is ( 3 ) unlawful and which takes place ( 4 ) without her consent , ( 5 ) knowingly or recklessly . |
| 10 | He did not ask : how much can I earn in a day if I do as much work as possible ? but how much must I work in order to earn the wage which I earned before and which takes care of my traditional needs ? … |
| 11 | Of course , we are all too aware of the physiological symptoms which result from anger and which take much more than a second to show their effect and presence : the forehead bunched in a frown , the staring eyes , the constricted pupils , the clenched mouth and fists , the jaw thrust forward , the reddened neck or face and enlarged arteries due to the increase in the blood supply to the skin . |
| 12 | Easily Accessible : There are many beautiful signposted walks which start almost directly from the house and which take you through forests , and others which take you over the moors and dales . |
| 13 | Chapman Pincher ( ‘ Reeling over a savage blow ’ , 13 March ) has directed timely attention to those obscene and gravely damaging practices still endorsed by the Agriculture and Fisheries Minister , John Gummer , and Whitehall , and which take place in the coastal waters from East Anglia to Northumberland , the north-east drift-nets . |
| 14 | This is a device similar to a normal cassette recorder but which takes bigger tape cassettes , each of which can hold all the data and programs on your computer . |
| 15 | A variation that we used to do , but which takes a little practice to get right , is to cut an elastic band , hold one end with your thumb or finger tip just below the implant , reach round the back with the other hand , stretch the elastic and , keeping it stretched , bring the end round and over the section under your thumb , grip it in the same way , pass round again and over the starting point . |
| 16 | Responsibility is an aspect of autonomy to which lip-service is commonly paid but which takes a back seat in most discussions about children . |
| 17 | A large proportion of the Company 's employees work outside the United Kingdom and the directors believe that it is appropriate to establish share option schemes for those employees which broadly mirror the UK schemes but which take account of the laws , securities requirements and tax regimes in the countries where the employees live and work . |
| 18 | The road goes on , in spectacular scenery , to Ullapool , thirty-four miles from Kylesku , a journey now easily accomplished in an hour but which took half a day before the roads were widened and improved to their present high standard . |
| 19 | This was not to be a matter of mark-books and tests but a freely managed regular assessment which depended first on the subject-teacher but which took in the view of everyone who had dealings with each individual pupil . |