Example sentences of "which [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This somewhat idiosyncratic interpretation is no doubt coloured by the specificities of French history , yet there is little doubt that the British police system is also a political construction of the nineteenth century , created to contain the potential in the newly urbanized working classes for mob disorder , which the excesses of the military had seemed likely to exacerbate rather than disperse . |
| 2 | Statements made in the seventeenth century about the desirability of separating science from religion have to be read against a background in which the excesses of an enchanted universe were straining credulity . |
| 3 | Then he invoked opium directly , leaving no doubt as to the limitless power which the drug-user feels he has been given : |
| 4 | It was the excitement and potential violence which the BUF seemed to offer which proved the biggest recruiting spur . |
| 5 | Thus by the beginning of 1797 , discounting contributed to a situation in which the adding of £200,000,000 to the debt secured an effective loan of only £108,000,000 . |
| 6 | Paul Baines has shown that this is caused by the essential or volatile oils , which the alchemists considered to be the soul of a plant . |
| 7 | Thus , the pressing of a large computer-linked key identified by a pattern that the chimpanzee has been trained to associate with the availability of bananas , is no more surprising than its ability to associate the presence of bananas with the shape of a banana plant on which the bananas are hidden from view . |
| 8 | Moreover , the claimant who has been successful in a case like the one in which the SCC judgement was rendered can bring an action for compensation of any additional financial damage sustained and/or for compensation for injury to feeling . |
| 9 | The Collector himself had paid no attention to it , assuming it to be one of the many trivial ailments from which the garrison , deprived of adequate fresh food , was now suffering . |
| 10 | The passage continued narrow , clearly cut and low-roofed , a safe and secret way out of the castle by which the garrison could retreat towards Shrewsbury , if too hard pressed , and by which it could receive stores and reinforcements in time of siege , or emerge to raid and counterattack by night . |
| 11 | In their treatment of this theme both Cassirer and Hallowell point out that the crucial link between the inner world of representation and the outer ‘ reality ’ lies in the human capacity to symbolize percepts ; symbolization of events in the perceptual continuum provides the units for a pictorial logic from which the abstraction of grammar eventually emerged as a concomitant of sound production in the development of verbal communication . |
| 12 | When sailing across the wind ( reaching ) the driving force D is acting in almost exactly the required direction , giving the board plenty of forward force F , but only a small amount of sideways force S , which the daggerboard can easily resist . |
| 13 | He recalled the uncanny way in which the wizard 's sword curved up and caught his own blade with a shock that jerked it out of his grip . |
| 14 | Lio ! rt gasped at the sudden turn of speed with which the wizard had dodged his killing stroke and , with that desperation only available to the really terrified , Rincewind uncoiled like a snake and launched himself across the space between them . |
| 15 | I caught a waiter 's eye and before long the drinks arrived ; they were greeted with anything-but-ragged cheers , in which the comic wholeheartedly joined . |
| 16 | The separated ions are converted back to atoms by passing them through lithium vapour , from which the ions easily pick up their missing electrons . |
| 17 | A lion roars in the dense thicket into which the watercourse runs . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not upset , ’ says the mother , thereby throwing the mind of the child into a confusion in which the choices are either to disbelieve the mother or the evidence of the child 's own perceptions . |
| 19 | In this section we will describe some ways in which the choices involved in applying the B & B method may be resolved . |
| 20 | These situations and circumstances are not seen as operating as ‘ causes ’ , in a determinist sense , but as offering incentives or disincentives that will have some degree of probability of influencing the direction in which the choices are made . |
| 21 | But no matter whether the ballet lasts one , two or three acts the choreographer must be fully in control of his material so that every detail of the characterisation of the whole cast is appropriate to the general atmosphere and environment within which the plot unfolds . |
| 22 | A well-qualified man named Akers is selected on the basis of his impressively durable character , after which the plot takes surprising twists we dare not reveal . |
| 23 | Secondly ( Chapter 3 ) , I shall examine not only Nizan 's resignation from the party and his subsequent death , but also his dramatic afterlife , a moment of political , ideological and cultural reproduction in which the complexity of his existence is obliterated beneath politically advantageous stereotypes : traitor , police spy , rebel , anti-hero . |
| 24 | In an efficient rotation , they follow a crop for which the soil was well manured so that the roots benefit from the earlier cultivation and nutrient residues in the ground . |
| 25 | In the first place compost is made from a carefully balanced mixture of animal wastes ( the nitrogen fraction from which the soil bacteria are built up ) and vegetable matter ( the carbon fraction which provides the energy with which the bacteria heat and break down the heap ) . |
| 26 | Pravda , the leading anti-Yeltsin newspaper in Moscow , has printed excerpts of what it claims is a memo from Mr Primakov , dated March 21st 1992 , in which the spook outlined the properties of red mercury , or mercuric salt of antimonous acid as it is also known , in detail . |
| 27 | Earlier the physical journey of the pilgrimage had been one of the chief disciplines by means of which the Cluniacs had managed to reshape the consciousness of Europe . |
| 28 | Proposals will be assessed according to the level of confidence with which the OUP can anticipate the success of the strategies for each phase of the project . |
| 29 | The collapse of lightly fabricated cladding sections may well e preferable to the sudden failure of heavy masonry at high level and the more widespread dangers which the toppling effect of masonry may produce . |
| 30 | Central to problem-solving is a general approach in which the therapist tries to help the patient draw on his own resources to overcome his problems . |