Example sentences of "[pron] which it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With regard to taxation , jurisdiction , provisions , patronage and vacancies , even where the church suffered no new encroachments , it certainly recovered nothing which it had already lost . |
| 2 | They brought with them their families , particularly the young children , and under this stimulus the seaside holiday became something which it had not been in its aristocratic heyday — a family affair . |
| 3 | A governing party is apt to claim that it has a mandate for doing something which it said it would do in its election manifesto , or which it simply said it would do some time before being elected . |
| 4 | Right from the start of the period and up to this present time late in the twentieth century , it has provided numerous examples of the manner in which mankind has failed again and again , in his efforts to mitigate the suffering inherent in the ruthless laws of evolution by replacing them with something better , something which it called ‘ civilisation ’ . |
| 5 | It was actually something of a momentous decision — and one which it seemed thirty years later was never to be repeated . |
| 6 | That is , it had a similar status to the Banbury lane in medieval times but it is one which it has kept and developed in response to changing circumstances , whereas the Banbury Lane has failed . |
| 7 | One of the advantages of a religious education is the ability to identify at least the better-known texts of scripture and this was one which it needed no effort of memory to recall . |
| 8 | Both this novel and the one which it resumes are ‘ hung ’ books , in the sense that Parliaments are said to be hung . |
| 9 | Tom Shone , writing in the Sunday Times , was also struck far from dumb by Mr Meades ' novel : ‘ This novel bristles , like a Swiss army knife , with an array of pre-emptive critical barbs , with the result that there 's no abuse you can hurl at it which it has n't already hurled at itself . |