Example sentences of "which [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The top is quickly reached from the grassy nick which separates it from the nearby Roaches . |
| 2 | Hence the modern Oedipus complex is not wholly explicable by reference to the modern family ( and therefore not controvertible by reference to modern family arrangements which allegedly do not feature it ) , but rather to both the individual 's actual family circumstances , and to the inherited and culturally transmitted conditions of the species which produced it in the first place and which determined its particular expression . |
| 3 | The label draws attention to three important developments which distinguish it from the early Romanov State . |
| 4 | Skirting the lakeside , she took a route which led her in the opposite direction from him . |
| 5 | We walked the long , covered-in wooden bridge which led us over the Hundred Foot River to the members ' observatory . |
| 6 | A real state consists of a naive state and a sequence of naive operations which produces it from the naive start state . |
| 7 | In Britain of the 1960s this challenge of the Welfare State is not isolated : it is but one aspect of the challenge which confronts us throughout the whole political field . |
| 8 | Well did one writer say : ‘ The evidence for the resurrection is the existence of the Church in that spiritual vitality which confronts us in the New Testament . ’ |
| 9 | Typical of microscopic work might be W. C. Williamson 's work on the formation of bones and teeth in the 1850s , which got him into the Royal Society . |
| 10 | The rational consumer will choose point W on the budget line which places him on the highest attainable indifference curve , I 1 , . |
| 11 | This model confirms the importance of the greenhouse gas forcing of the climate , but it suggests that a doubling of greenhouse gas concentration will produce an increase in surface air temperature of 1.6 + 0.3 °C , which places it in the lower range of the generally accepted predictions of temperature increase ( Gilliland and Schneider , 1984 ) . |
| 12 | A longer length of rope was circled around her shoulders and under the table , then over her gorgeous breasts and downwards until her rib cage was completely covered in coiled rope , which fastened her to the hard wooden table . |
| 13 | And when , as shadow education spokesman , I was a frontline campaigner in the nineteen eighty seven election , it was the G M B which provided me with the necessary facilities to carry out that role , and I thank them for it . |
| 14 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 15 | The crumbling of the old idea of a state based on obligations and obedience may have helped increase the dynamic force that enabled European countries to spread their authority over most of the world ; the very widespread acceptance of the new idea of a state based on independence and equality gave people outside Europe political principles which helped them in the later struggle to dismantle the European empires . |
| 16 | Temple could write with perfect confidence in his audience that though he would not ‘ strain the reader 's capacity by asking him to imagine a native Governor of a Colony or Protectorate ’ or even a native Colonial Secretary of Nigeria — a proposal which ‘ does not come within the bounds of practical politics ’ — he counted it an advantage of Indirect Rule that under it ‘ the native can and does fill not only positions of great responsibility but the highest positions , positions which place him on the social scale on an equality with the King 's representative himself ’ . |
| 17 | In a sense this was so , but on the other hand the activity of town planning soon got bogged down in a technical bureaucracy , losing the dash and verve which sustained it during the 1940s . |
| 18 | It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year . |
| 19 | If he was thus eligible for that title , there must have been something which qualified him — something which distinguished him from the numerous other leaders , both military and political , who at the time were themselves becoming thorns in the Roman side . |
| 20 | The famous trip to Europe , which Lear had constantly referred to in his letters as if it were an experience which united him with the great ornithologist , became the bitter disappointment of a friendship manqué . |
| 21 | I 've heard also of courses of injections which remove it in the short term but result in a worse incidence of cellulite after the treatment has worn off . |
| 22 | On the day I drew peg 45 which put me in the private meadow below the Teme mouth . |
| 23 | I won , which put me in the final contest between all the winners of the ‘ All Winners ’ contest which was to be televised , live , from the London Palladium in July . |
| 24 | It was at such times , he said , that he was divested of all those characteristics of family , personality and reputation which identified him to the outside world . |
| 25 | Then a conceptual emotion was released in him which transmuted what he saw into theory , a recognition of the cerebral nature of an art which transported him beyond the mere explanation of the visible . |
| 26 | Mota , from Portugal , suffered yet again with a mysterious stomach complaint , which affected her during the last world championships . |
| 27 | Women lawyers are challenging the chauvinism which bans them from the higher echelons , reports Fiona Sutherland Omitted from the useful introductions to clients , business lunches , meetings and golfing sessions , women solicitors fail to acquire the vital ‘ client base . ’ |
| 28 | And the gap which separated them from the bourgeois world was wide — and unbridgeable . |
| 29 | The most widely accepted theory of human evolution — proposed largely by anthropologists , and based on fossil findings — connects the transformation of our early ancestors to some geological changes which trapped them in the eastern side of Africa 's Rift valley , in an environment that was suddenly drier and more open . |
| 30 | The wherry shot under London Bridge where the water boiled between the closely built arches , the boatmen dipping their oars so the boats could squeeze by the starlings which protected them against the thick stone arches . |