Example sentences of "which the [noun sg] [verb] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Birks is perhaps on stronger ground , although the basis on which the court proceeded is not altogether clear . |
| 2 | The Old Testament 's understanding of the character which the name reveals is well seen in passages such as Exodus 34:6ff. ; Psalms 103 ; 111 ; 146 ; Micah 7:18–19 . |
| 3 | Hence there follows a full description of the origin and staple features of the constituent parts of the traditional farmstead because it is important that the untutored town dweller who is contemplating the purchase and conversion of an old farm building should recognise the different building types , understand the operational influences which shaped the form of each structure , and frame his or her ideas for the conversion so that any permanent evidence of agricultural history which the building provides is not erased . |
| 4 | The seminal analysis of Dixit and Norman ( 1978 ) suggested that competitive advertising by oligopolists ( which the evidence suggests is mutually cancelling ) generates a welfare loss , and that agreements to limit competitive advertising would therefore be beneficial . |
| 5 | Further , the physical and sexual abuse of women , which the evidence shows is much more widespread than is popularly believed , can not be understood in terms of anything other than patriarchal relations . |
| 6 | The pond in which the tadpole develops is only temporary , so it must complete its metamorphosis into a toad as quickly as possible . |
| 7 | One can not say , for instance , that the artist 's portrait is serious but the wallpaper on which the picture hangs is not , or vice versa . |
| 8 | Several themes recur throughout the book , grit and courage , an inexplicable sense of insecurity , a solemnity which Gooch has cultivated almost consciously as an image , and a love of playing for his county which the author suggests is not often seen elsewhere in county cricket ( although one or two from Yorkshire might disagree ) . |
| 9 | His chapter on the post-1857 situation is confined to a charting exercise in which the context provided is often misleading ( married women 's participation in the labour market did not rise rapidly in the interwar years ) , and in which the facts are sometimes shaky ( not all working-class women were opposed to divorce in the early part of the century ; the Women 's Co-operative Guild gave evidence to the 1909 Royal Commission in favour of it ) . |