Example sentences of "of [v-ing] which " in BNC.

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1 When Raymond of Toulouse , Robert II of Flanders , Robert Curthose , Stephen of Blois , and Hugh of Vermandois responded to the call , past and present members of their military households fell almost automatically into rank behind them , to test themselves against terrible dangers , but also to enjoy the companionship in arms , the adventure , the deeds of daring which were the stuff of the chansons de geste .
2 The requirement of reasonableness is determined at the time of contracting which is an important difference from the 1973 Act .
3 It 's all part of the shallow commercialisation of surfing which is what we are really against , ’ explains the group , unloading in St Agnes [ ‘ Aggie ’ ] and preparing for the afternoon 's surf .
4 These lowland soils are called Brown Earths because there has been only a small amount of leaching which leaves the humus and chemicals fairly evenly spread between the A and B horizons of the soil .
5 G.J. Warnock , a distinguished post-war philosopher , offers a strange analysis of seeing which allows no place for judgement nor even the capability of it , as was the case with our driver , and which would include both the dog and the infant .
6 He laughed so hard that he had a fit of coughing which , in turn , caused big tears to roll down his face .
7 ‘ Betrothed ? ’ she managed , and immediately fell into a helpless fit of coughing which sent another stab of pain through her stomach .
8 As Alan sat him in his cot and left the room , Christopher began to howl in earnest again , interrupted by spasms of coughing which left him breathless .
9 In fact the elementary theory is simple enough , it is the practice of gluing which is difficult .
10 There are times when the word unbelief is used to describe the doubts of those who are definitely believers but only when they are at a stage of doubting which is rationally inexcusable and well on the way to becoming fullgrown unbelief .
11 Christian thinking has been affected not so much by specific doubts as by the general concept of doubting which is entertained today .
12 In addition to the rhetoric of law and order , they want action in terms of policing which will enable people to leave their homes in the evening and not be curtailed by fear of violent crime .
13 a method of binding which allows the insertion and removal of pages for continuous updating .
14 a method of binding which secures pre-trimmed leaves by the insertion of wire or plastic spirals through holes drilled in the binding edge .
15 In parts of England people still worship Pomona , the Roman goddess of fruit trees , through the custom of wassailing which is intended to encourage a good crop of apples .
16 faced with environmental turbulence the key managerial concern is to achieve forms of organizing which permit rapidity and flexibility of response .
17 Firstly , my thanks go to David Bowley for without him I would never have learnt the art of letching which is essential for the editorial role .
18 The main symptom is that of itching which occurs mostly at night .
19 If you are very keen to try pressing wild flowers , do go to the trouble of checking which species are protected and be strong-willed enough to leave them well alone .
20 Update Baseline may be used in two modes : either as a means of checking which packages will be affected , in which case a single log file will be produced but the LIFESPAN database will be left unaltered ; or to implement any changes which are identified , in which case two log files will be produced , detailing the processing carried out and the approver 's involvement .
21 In the leading case of Lawrence ( 1981 ) it was held that reckless driving consists of driving which creates an obvious and serious risk of causing physical injury to some other person who might be happening to use the road or of doing substantial damage to property , and that the fault element is that the driver either failed to give any thought to the possibility of such a risk or , having recognized the existence of a risk , went on to take it .
22 If an accident happens as a result of driving which deviates from the proper standard , then that may well be a case of negligence even if the driver had never thought of the risk in that particular case , because the driver is presumed to know the Highway Code .
23 He carried into 1972 the kind of driving which had made his reputation in 1971 , and if you study the fact-sheets for that year — the inaugural race at Paul Ricard in France is a good example — you will see Emerson well back on the grid and yet prevailing in the end to finish well enough .
24 This thesis attempts to make use of one particular aspect of driving which makes it nearly unique in everyday life .
25 It is thus not surprising that there is no single psychological theory of driving which adequately describes all components of the task .
26 Although it is not clear that subjective risk can be biased in this way theories of driving which stress a schematic or conceptual representation of the environment ( e.g. Dubois , 1991 ; Fleury , Mazet & Dubois , 1988 ; Groeger , 1988 , 1989 ; Riemersma , 1988 ) might suggest that biases in the perception of the environment would indirectly lead to biases in subjective risk , either because risk is an important aspect of such schemata or because subjective risk would result from the inconsistency between the environment and pre-existing schemata .
27 In an unmarked police car equipped with a speed detection computer , Peter Joslin , Warwickshire 's Chief Constable and head of Britain 's police traffic committee , showed us the type of driving which he blames for many fatal road crashes .
28 Like the politics of the miners which seamed through the talk of his brothers , never as vivid as the ‘ stories ’ but always there , those early films provided him with examples of acting which he must have absorbed willy-nilly .
29 In some other cultures , there may have been socially validated ways of defining reality and of acting which would enable them to be less socially isolated , and therefore less neurotic because less privatized .
30 And I have a passion for acting and the truth of acting which is like life to me .
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