Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [verb] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years . |
| 2 | As clashes between Kirghiz and Uzbeks in southern Kirghizia 's Osh oblast ( region ) continued , reports emerged indicating the full horror of the intercommunal violence which had flared early in June [ see pp. 37540-41 ] . |
| 3 | And this from a club which stands to gain most from the package Liverpool are sure to figure highly among the clubs who go live on TV . |
| 4 | The few square inches of it that I could see were spoiled by the sticky red blood which had pooled out over them . |
| 5 | ‘ It was perfectly safe for them to cross , ’ said Mr Hubbard , ‘ but they did not take account of this car which came hurtling along through these red lights . |
| 6 | Next moment the swirling fog in the alley was suddenly lit to a brilliant white by the head lamps of the car which came roaring in at the far end . |
| 7 | The new land comprised 240 million cubic metres of lava which had spewed out at 1,100 °C ( 2,012°F ) and was cooled by dowsing with six million tons of sea water in an effort to halt its relentless drive . |
| 8 | It was an attitude of mind which had existed long before the sixteenth century ; the great change was that an attitude which could be found in a number of separate societies was suddenly turned by the expansion of Europe into a force that altered the way that the whole world ran its affairs . |
| 9 | Stories of atrocities from in and around Sarajevo by Serbs have numbed the world , but none have matched the tales of butchery and mutilation which have happened away from the cameras.The Wendlebury House normally operates as a home for underpriviledged children from London . |
| 10 | Furthermore there has been little research which has dealt specifically with Scotland . |
| 11 | The second hypothesis is that profitable entry has been deterred by the existence of barriers to entry which have arisen either as a result of actions by the incumbent public sector supplier or as a result of the technical characteristics of electricity supply . |
| 12 | He thanked her for coming and saw her off the premises , but he was left wondering at her distress which seemed to arise more from fear than from grief . |
| 13 | It is a veritable relic from the past to be observed in a setting which has changed little in the last few hundred years , thus making the pervading atmosphere one of awesome pastoral antiquity . |
| 14 | Well quite a lot of the lakes and streams have lost their fish , of course that 's the , that 's the most important thing , between , particularly salmon and trout , and we have discovered that they are killed not so much by the acid , but by the aluminium which has leaked out of the soil by the acid water , the acid rain , and er that er the fish find this very hard to tolerate . |
| 15 | Kelman 's work forms part of a flowering of talent which has come about in the urban Scotland of the last few years . |
| 16 | The revolution in New Testament scholarship which had come about during the hundred years before he wrote The Problem of Pain appears to have passed him by . |
| 17 | But it is not merely the world of ideas and scholarship which has moved on since the 19th century . |
| 18 | SCOTLAND HAS failed to fill the entrepreneurial gap which has opened up over the last decade since the decline of the nationalised and heavy industries , the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , will acknowledge next week . |
| 19 | As the rim brushed her groin Sally felt a sharp sweet pleasure which seemed to shoot up inside her on silken cords to that deep core where the trickles of excitement played every time she thought of Pete . |
| 20 | Ferrochrome is used as a basic raw material for the production of stainless and speciality steels whose performance is directly related to the steel industry , an industry which has grown enormously since 1988 . |
| 21 | The job losses are a further milestone in the decline of County Durham 's textile industry which has suffered severely during the current economic recession . |
| 22 | In the following example from the organ pedal melody of the Entrée in Messiaen 's Messe de la Pentecôte , only four pitches are used , yet the composer reshapes the rhythms and note-orders so skilfully that there is no feeling of repetitiousness or monotony : In Example 17 , from the slow movement of Bartók 's Fourth String Quartet , we have a wonderfully sweeping melody which seems to grow out of the first bar . |
| 23 | One of them was an elderly man with white hair which had turned out to be a wig , and the CID man had remembered Matthew 's remark about the men who had burgled Moorlake . |
| 24 | She brushed aside a wisp of hair which had slipped down over her face and smiled placatingly at the florid-faced docker leaning forward over the tea-stained counter . |
| 25 | Whilst it is not incorrect to identify all of these as sources , or illustrations , of moral indignation of one sort or another — indeed there are significant connections between them — attempting to fit them into a historical framework which appears to allow only for movements in one direction , i.e. permissiveness followed by control , results in a degree of historical inaccuracy . |
| 26 | One afternoon she gave a pound short on the change which had showed up in emerald numerals before her face . |
| 27 | Another great change which has come about since 1880 has been the establishment of communications and international relations which have made the whole globe ‘ one world ’ . |
| 28 | Recently , Susan Keefe has listed no fewer than sixty-one treatises on baptism which have come down to us in manuscripts from the Carolingian age . |
| 29 | Although the scope of workplace negotiations has been more restricted ( by law ) in Sweden than in Britain , in both countries the bargaining which occurs relies largely upon informal agreements and tacit understandings . |
| 30 | Sown into the constitutional fabric of the Republic of Ireland is a local and time-bound Roman catholic ethos which has changed perhaps in only minor ways since the founding of the state . |