Example sentences of "the [noun pl] which [verb] [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the best known names in football has been teaching a group of schoolchildren some of the skills which took him to the top of the game . |
| 2 | One of the circumstances which drove me to these experiments will be familiar to most home cooks . |
| 3 | Her vigorous intensity made a virtue of the circumstances which confined her to the classroom . |
| 4 | It was later announced Aideed 's radio station had been destroyed by the Spectres which reduced it to rubble in a sustained attack of pinpoint accuracy . |
| 5 | Thus the ‘ Originals ’ were in a sense on probation from the moment they clambered into the lorries which took them to Kabrit . |
| 6 | Pearce pauses for reflection when asked to define the qualities which took him to the top with such apparent ease . |
| 7 | I wish to suggest , also , that in describing physics , for example , as a particular kind of subject , students are also saying something about themselves , as people : the qualities which attract them to a particular subject are also , to some extent , qualities which are central to their own self-image . |
| 8 | If , as now seems certain , that is not possible , then Flushing Meadow , where every regular tennis journalist has his own horror story to tell about the failures of the elevators which carry them to the Press Box in the sky , will remain ‘ the place we love to hate ’ . |
| 9 | Bush and Gorbachev merely represent the forces which brought them to office and merely pursue an agenda so predetermined that its outcome could have been predicted in advance . |
| 10 | ‘ The death of Marcos offers a momentous opportunity for the Aquino government to rally the people behind the ideals which swept it to power : freedom and democracy , bread and justice . |
| 11 | He lay face down beside me , not knowing that I was now painfully aware that the threads which bound me to home and the inevitable marriage had snapped once and for all . |
| 12 | Although a number of visitors had spontaneously mentioned the quality of the labels as one of the factors which attracted them to the exhibitions , the questionnaire also contained a specific question on the adequacy of the labels accompanying exhibits . |
| 13 | This arrangement should therefore mean that all the services which take you to Cameron Park will use the first stop on the Scotmid section of Nicolson Street . |
| 14 | Linking the Midlands manufacturers to London by canal undoubtedly assisted the sending of goods to the capital , but conversely the canals which linked them to other major ports sometimes removed their need to send as many goods through London . |