Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] which [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ( d ) Structure words which indicate relationship — words like on , in and under — may first be presented through objects which illustrates their particular type of relationship ( Mackey 1965 ) .
2 The book shows that heightened social awareness , reliance on people rather than technology , and belief in self rather than ‘ experts ’ or ‘ professionals ’ can enable people to take their own decisions about matters which affect their daily lives .
3 What is seldom revealed in the history books , though perfectly easy to verify , is that Darwin 's contribution was less a paper than a rambling series of notes which contained nothing novel , whereas Wallace 's " Ternate " paper was the first complete exposition in writing of " Descent and Divergence with modification through variation and Natural Selection " — which is the very kernel of what has become known as the " Darwinian " theory of evolution .
4 One further dimension to such a system is the possibility of " networking " a number of micros This involves the interconnecting of micros which retain their full power as independent computers but gain the additional ability of communicating with other computers in the network and having access to common files The result is analogous to a minicomputer with a number of terminals but with the big difference that each of the micros has its own processing power instead of sharing that of the mini .
5 These intellectual developments , and the apparent contradictions within them , can be more satisfactorily explained in terms of models which stress their political and ideological character than by the dualistic , cognitive models proposed by Goody .
6 These were followed by a wide range of commissions which display his inventive powers , including the Gothic Marischal College of 1837 , the New Market of 1840 , and in the same year his headquarters of the North of Scotland Bank , with its quadrant corner screen and richly decorated interior incorporating the Parthenon frieze .
7 But they can discuss a range of ideas which include their own thinking , scientists ' ideas and those held by earlier generations .
8 He would simply say it refers to all those aspects of things which make them beautiful considered in some , and that , if you think of that as a sort of mental object for a moment , is a very rich one .
9 He would simply say it refers to all those aspects of things which makes them beautiful , considered in sum .
10 One of the well known and most popular Shareware programs Galaxy Lite is easy to use and full of features which make it ideal for those new to word processing and old hats like myself .
11 He was a passionate tourer , always in motion , descending on his Residents with floods of instructions which resumed their unceasing flow as soon as he returned to headquarters ; and long before Northern Nigeria was brought under effective British occupation , he was composing his Political Memoranda , which in addition to his reflections on the subject of Indirect Rule contained instructions to his officers of a comprehensiveness simply beyond satire .
12 Dimity ran the house , it appeared , and it was her slender arms that bore in the coal scuttles , the heavy shopping baskets and the laden trays , while Ella 's powerful hands designed wood blocks , mixed paint and stamped the lengths of materials which draped their little cottage .
13 The anthropological model allows us to detect within the lived experience of the play a system of complementarities which obeys its own laws , creating at the level of style a scale of discriminations that reinforce those perceived , perhaps intuitively , at the level of action .
14 If the purpose of the law is to protect women from acts of sexual intercourse to which they have not in fact consented , whether by reason of force actually applied , physical or other threat , or fear induced by the accused or by others , then the relevant question would appear to be : Did this particular woman , in these particular circumstances , submit to this particular man ; or did she in fact freely consent to have intercourse with him ? … if the law deems the woman to have consented to the act despite ample evidence of threats which rendered her submissive but non-consenting , then the law can not be said to be serving its true function of protecting individuals from the imposition of non-consensual sexual intercourse . ’
15 you divide three hundred and sixty by that number of sides which gives you this angle here , the angle at the centre .
16 Cross-stitch can be worked either on evenweave fabric — woven with single threads ; Hardanger fabric — woven with double weft and warp threads ( horizontal and vertical threads ) ; or Aida — woven in blocks of threads which makes it easier to count holes and therefore suitable for beginners .
17 Interestingly , what gave Hastings more personal satisfaction than the haul of points which took his international tally to 415 in 44 appearances was the fact that Scotland kept a clean sheet against the Welsh .
18 There were a number of factors which made it ill-advised , and indeed impossible , to ignore completely the presence of political organizations in the Nationalist rearguard .
19 His research on bereavement has led him to formulate a list of factors which make it possible to identify those likely to be at particular risk for psychiatric disorder .
20 She sets out before the sun , driving a team of horses which pull her soft blue chariot up from the depths of the ocean , and shows her brother the way to rise .
21 The face-to-face interaction feature of interviews which makes them such a potent source of interviewer bias also makes them an effective device for communicating concern , interest and priorities to interviewees .
22 If a person is rightly charged with larceny , but the jury in reliance on section 44(3) mistakenly convict him of obtaining by false pretences , the Court of Criminal Appeal can not substitute a verdict of guilty of larceny under section 5(2) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1907 ; for the verdict implies an acquittal of larceny , so that it can not ‘ [ appear ] to the Court of Criminal Appeal that the jury must have been satisfied of facts which proved him guilty of [ larceny ] ’ ( Rex v. Fisher ( 1921 ) 16 Cr.App.R. 53 ) .
23 Nearly forty per cent of people alive today live under governments which consider themselves Marxist .
24 The bat 's ear is similar in design to ours , but with refinements which give it great sensitivity at ultrasonic frequencies .
25 A good example is Dances With Wolves which cost us four thousand as a and has already sold over a hundred and twenty thousand copies .
26 The belief in relationships which outlast our present existence might explain why he 's been more complacent than Bricusse about his time since the split .
27 The persistence of this primitive conception of the nature of authority , in circumstances which rendered it plausible , was not without its consequences for the future of the empire .
28 The Tyneside experience seems to be that in ‘ gentrified ’ areas this will happen , but in areas which retain their original working-class population as owners rather than tenants , then grant aid is necessary if the stock is not to deteriorate beyond redemption .
29 Lineage shaikhs designated one of their number to be a section shaikh , to represent them in affairs which concerned them all .
30 They were situated in positions which made them visible from the pests on each side .
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