Example sentences of "the [noun] which [verb] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the thing he most lacked in Salzburg was the scope to exercise his powers as composer of opera , the genre which interested him the most . |
| 2 | Even if there never will be any easy answers to such questions , and certainly not ones which could be read off from some kind of ‘ correct analysis ’ , it is still the case that the better informed we are about the complexities which underlie them the quicker we will be able to learn from our mistakes . |
| 3 | In our transit across public places we rely on others recognising the rules which assign us the right to proceed without being inconvenienced by impudent stares or unsolicited conversational openings . |
| 4 | Worse still , the new Leeds are as sly and provocative as Don Revie 's sides , with none of the skills which made them the Liverpool of the Seventies . |
| 5 | In 1861 Crookes made the discovery which brought him the necessary eminence ; he identified the new element thallium . |
| 6 | Northumberland senior boys 110 metres hurdler Kevin Lumsden knocked four barriers down but won in 14.9 secs , a three-second improvement on the run which earned him the county title seven days earlier . |
| 7 | The swiftlets which produce what the Chinese consider the most desirable edible birds ' nests roost in caves beneath these cliffs . |
| 8 | The regular conductor Bruno Walder was taken ill , and Bernstein suffering from a hangover had to take over for a Sunday afternoon concert broadcast on radio across America ; he captivated the audience and the critics , as much with his conducting prowess as with his gyrations on the podium which earned him the nickname ‘ Leaping Lennie ’ . |
| 9 | The players with the required letters then form a line to make up the word as fast as they can , and the team which does it the quickest gets a point . |
| 10 | FURIOUS Nigel Mansell ended his Formula One career yesterday with a blast at the team which gave him the World Drivers ' Championship . |
| 11 | His muscular prose — at its best it has the insistent rhythm if a middleweight boxer pounding the heavy bag — with its imaginative flourishes , was perfectly suited to the age which brought us the utterly modern talents of George Best , Rod Laver , Jack Niklaus , Jim Clark , Pele and Jackie Stewart . |
| 12 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |
| 13 | The Royal Africa Company had to provide slaves for English colonists as a condition of keeping the charter which gave it the monopoly of the trade , and the colonists added to the injury of leaving their debts unpaid the insult of complaining that too few slaves were being delivered . |
| 14 | Boston ( 1086–1113 ) too is a planted town , its plan related to the curving banks of the River Witham along which came the trade which made it the second most prosperous town after London by 1206 . |
| 15 | The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres . |
| 16 | Our Borders MP was David Steel ( who had beaten Robin McEwen at the by-election which won him the seat ) and as a member of his local Liberal party , I was invited to join the Scottish Liberal Party 's Council . |
| 17 | Reach the bollard which gives you the opportunity to pause , and take your time before you look in the opposite direction and cross the other half of the road . |
| 18 | The 32-year-old Irishman said his struggle to return to the form which won him the world title and Tours of France and Italy in 1987 his 1987 level , when he won a world title and the Tours of France and Italy , had placed strains on his family . |
| 19 | Although she was anxious to be able to travel on the underground and in aeroplanes , she felt that the problem which caused her the most inconvenience was her inability to go into any large shop or department store without experiencing extreme panic . |
| 20 | A cold breeze was blowing in off the sea which blasted them the moment they stepped on to the pavement . |
| 21 | In the earlier view a work was regarded as a more or less arbitrarily agglomerated collection of defamiliarizing devices , but now it becomes important to see it as an entity , a structure or a system where it is the system which determines what the function of a given device will be , whether it will be foregrounded or automatized . |
| 22 | To him , they were something of an adventure , a small knock at the system which gave him the illusion of individual importance . |
| 23 | But what is important in the episode is what the narrator takes for granted : that when men of standing disputed , arbitration was hard to arrange , and often immediately unacceptable to the party which felt itself the loser by the judgement , even where monetary compensation was offered to soften the blow . |