Example sentences of "and which [pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ objective ’ language which Olson , Lyons and others are so concerned to identify , and which they incorrectly associate with written language , turns out not to be so functional after all . |
| 2 | It might therefore seem a rather odd choice as a label , but Wimsatt and Brooks 's reason for using it is that they view these analogical or metaphorical relationships as producing effects essentially similar to those for which the word irony is more commonly used , and which they also see as an important part of poetry . |
| 3 | In drug addiction and in the eating disorders the processes may be even slower because the drugs or the distorted eating pattern may cause more confusion and damage to thought processes and also because the sufferers may be young and may need to live through the emotional pain of adolescence that is necessary for maturity and which they earlier avoided by recourse to mood-altering chemicals , substances or behaviour . |
| 4 | In this he stated his loyalty to the ‘ Church of England , whose faith and government and worship are … free from the extremes of irreverence and superstition … and which I firmly believe to be a sound part of the Church universal ; and which teaches me charity to those who dissent from me ’ . |
| 5 | The Box sent by the Herald and which I accidentally found in a warehouse in South Australia was as near being lost as possible . |
| 6 | Thus , Boswell and Johnson found a room at the crowded New Inn , which no longer exists : the corner where it stood , and which it once shared with the city jail , is now occupied comprehensively by a bank . |
| 7 | Lord Lane paid tribute to his ‘ team ’ of judges and revealed that over the past four years he had reviewed almost 1,500 life sentences — a task he had been unable to delegate and which he willingly relinquished to his successor , Lord Justice Taylor . |
| 8 | The first particular strategy which has been subject to criticism has been the reliance on possible first use of nuclear weapons as a means of countering presumed superior Soviet conventional power — a reliance which McNamara sought for a while to abandon when Secretary of Defense in the early 1960s , and which he openly challenged in a famous recent article ( Bundy et al . , |
| 9 | This brought him into conflict with a pagan critic , and the exchange of argument can be deduced from the defence ( Apologia ) for Christianity which Justin composed and which he later supplemented with a further appendix . |
| 10 | He was like a kind of martyr , it was as if all my failings were stones that were thrown at him and which he never complained of . |
| 11 | This leaves us with the possibility that , while the previous life the patient describes may not actually have happened , he is not deliberately inventing it but relating something which may have been created in his subconscious mind and which he really believes to be true . |
| 12 | However , it remains to be seen how completely the principle of antibiosis , or chemical warfare between species , has been exploited , and whether the capacity of microbes to adapt to their environment will outstrip the capacity of man to find means of destroying not only those which are his enemies but also those which are his friends and which he unwittingly eliminates by the overzealous distribution of his new agents . |