Example sentences of "the [noun] which [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cumulatively the features we have examined represent the world of a child surrounded and overawed by dimly grasped presences , a world in which the meanings which shape our own response to life are dissolved and reconstituted . |
| 2 | I was even more impressed with the jacket 's performance when I wore it next to my skin — it has an antibacterial finish to the fleece which makes it suitable for this purpose . |
| 3 | If Rassendyll escapes being a sentimental hero it is because of the spare , simple plots and the headlong speed of the narrative which carry his idealistic musings along . |
| 4 | I lunged for the computer which contained my first four hard-laboured chapters , and it literally burst into flames at my touch . |
| 5 | We all see things differently , according to the karmas which determine our own personal mind set . |
| 6 | There are no animal derived ingredients in any of the products which make them ideal for vegetarians and all formulations meet with BAUV standards . |
| 7 | Murphy and Taggart led for much of the way but missed out a loop section of the route which cost them 30 marks and they dropped back . |
| 8 | In the case of mythology the saga teller will always produce a version of the story which puts his own ancestors in a particularly favourable light . |
| 9 | Nathan waited patiently for the remissions which made it possible for the ruined mind to function for a time ; he sat by the sick man , who by now was almost blind ; the paralysis was , after all , general . |
| 10 | According to the theory of universal grammar , children start outlife with a universal grammar or language ‘ blueprint ’ in the mind which gives them some idea of the form that any language will take . |
| 11 | She vents her spleen on the war , the blackout , the Zeppelins which made it imperative to shut the shutters at night ; the price of groceries ; the petty bourgeois ; the landlords and the concierges . |
| 12 | He saw her change from a carefree girl into a woman in the space of two seconds , the eyes which met his filled with pain . |
| 13 | The killing is repeated on ritual occasions , perhaps at first because the protection the totem gives them is not enough , or because they need to band together again to re-enact the crime which binds them all together , although they use a surrogate for the crime , not the actual father again . |
| 14 | Not that I am deliberately distorting or mis-speaking our findings , but because I have selected and imposed an order on the research which suits my theoretical and creative purposes and which therefore paints nature in the colours in which I wish to view it . |
| 15 | CRYSTAL PALACE , the club which ordered its non-playing staff to take a 10 per cent drop in salary , are shortly to announce profits of £1 million . |
| 16 | Temple defined the relationships which constituted our real wealth as existing in terms of family , community and nation . |
| 17 | Such questions begin to evoke the crumbling processes of The Possessed , the instability which flushes its entire structure . |
| 18 | His light eyes swept in quick appraisal from her new hairstyle to the sandals which graced her nyloned feet , before he opened the door leading to the patio , standing back so she could precede him . |
| 19 | In contrast to an institute such as the Courtauld which offers its own degrees , the courses at the new centre will be run independently by the various departments of the Parisian and provincial universities which have , in the past , offered courses in the relevant subjects . |
| 20 | They all called him ‘ Father ’ and he drank in the glowing warmth of the heatwave which comforted his tortured bones . |
| 21 | This threw his weight onto the outside of the feet which affected his whole balance , causing excessive stress throughout his entire body . |
| 22 | Indeed , Anselm 's greatness as an influence in the Christian world must rest almost entirely on his Prayers and Meditations , on his Monologion , Proslogion , and Cur Deus Homo , and on the sanctity which pervaded his whole life after his conversion in 1059–1063 . |
| 23 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that , although the definition of ‘ family proceedings ’ in section 8 of the Children Act 1989 did not specifically refer to the provisions in Part III of the Act , the section was to be read with section 92(2) of the Act which made it clear that all applications to the justices under the Act were family proceedings ; that , accordingly , the application to the justices for a secure accommodation order under section 25 in Part III of the Act were family proceedings ; and that , therefore , the statements of evidence and the psychiatrist 's report should have been admitted in evidence in accordance with the provisions of the Children ( Admissibility of Hearsay Evidence ) Order 1991 ( post , pp. 91E–G , H — 92A ) . |
| 24 | In the Comstock-Needham system the terminology of the cells is derived from the veins which form their anterior margins . |
| 25 | Captured by the Japanese in 1941 , David was interned in Shanghai for nine months , and contracted the sclerosis which caused him difficult last years and finally ended his life . |
| 26 | De Niro had to fight for him to co-star in GoodFellas , but that was the picture which changed it all . |
| 27 | That is the difference which makes it irrelevant and misleading to say ( Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1971 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 28 | Stephen Emerson , the new Maxol Northern Ireland rally champion , was still slightly bemused today in the aftermath of the celebrations which followed his second place finish on the Lakelands Rally in Fermanagh . |
| 29 | Social justice , according to Belloc , could be attained only by destroying the concentration of power and wealth in the hands of a few , which bred inevitable contradictions between the values of self-respect and self-help preached in capitalist society and the material condition of the mass of the population which rendered it impossible for them to practice such principles . |
| 30 | Helen Gardner was aware of the problem , observing that the pursuit of image patterns , or of the ideas in a poem , can be useful to the interpreter , but can not ‘ be more than auxiliary in leading us to the true ‘ meaning' ’ of the work , which is the meaning which enlarges our own imaginative life . ’ |