Example sentences of "[noun] which [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of August when the heat , humidity and despair reached their zenith in the Residency , when all eyes searched the Collector 's face for the signs of collapse which they knew to be imminent , two babies were born . |
| 2 | The discontinuity with religion which he saw as the dilemma of modern art he takes for granted , and even a cursory knowledge of twentieth-century art confirms this . |
| 3 | In W. J. Perry 's The Origin of Magic and Religion which he reviewed in July 1924 , four months before these lines appeared , Eliot read of ‘ old stone images ’ of the Melanesians , of mana , of the handing down of rituals , and of W. H. R. Rivers 's work on ‘ an extensive literature in which attempts are made to bring the symbolism of myth and ritual into relation with modern views concerning its rôle in the dream and disease ’ . |
| 4 | No longer hiding behind the screen memories , the stories told to us by others , we began to unpick our social and psychic formations , within the support and containment , permission-giving and encouragement to take risks which we offered to each other . |
| 5 | These are his charm , his instrumental attitude towards his own goodness , and his fundamental opacity of mind — all characteristics which he shared with Gandhi to some degree . |
| 6 | Most of the good songs which I heard about came to me that way . |
| 7 | ‘ A method of poisoning which I learnt of during a sojourn in Bulgaria . |
| 8 | The former Royal Artillery man had been accused of stealing three hundred and forty three pounds from the Gulf Families Association which he founded in Gloucester . |
| 9 | The gentleness and kindness which they preached as the very foundation of its teaching , and as insisted on by Jesus Christ himself , now stands starkly contrasted with the history of cruelty and violence perpetrated over the centuries in the name of Christianity . |
| 10 | Drawing a number of bolts , she opened its door and withdrew from the interior an elderly , moth-eaten wig which she flourished in front of Huy . |
| 11 | Without consulting her it began to move faster , inciting her lover to a rhythm which he responded to triumphantly , accelerating in time with their heartbeats , taking her with him towards the culmination she 'd been given a foretaste of , which paled in comparison to the flooding rapture which overtook her seconds before Penry gasped , stiffened , then crushed her in his arms as their breathing slowed in the shared diminuendo of the aftermath . |
| 12 | Western observers commented that Gorbachev was apparently looking to religion to help provide the spiritual renewal which he saw as an essential part of perestroika . |
| 13 | As for outside events , in these three years or so there was a cluster of royal funerals , weddings and the Coronation which I watched on Janina 's new television . |
| 14 | There was a card which you received from the er clerk at the desk , they were introduced , the clerks were introduced in order to note everybody 's time . |
| 15 | The only terminal casualty of this extraordinary occurrence , apart from the aeroplane , was a hare which it struck on landing . |
| 16 | Weber was impressed with the development and accomplishments of bureaucracy , and especially with the role of technical knowledge in bureaucratic administration which he regarded as the primary source of the superiority of bureaucracy as an organisation . |
| 17 | Sir Keith gave them a very warm welcome , allowed the meeting to be televised and expressed appreciation of the case put to him by this unusual delegation which he engaged in talk , interpreted into English and BSL respectively , for almost an hour . |
| 18 | Without a backward look , Beth went from the room , along the softly lit hallway and on to the bedroom which she shared with her husband . |
| 19 | Mrs. Morgan testified that she had been dragged by her husband from the bedroom which she shared with her small son . |
| 20 | The bag struck the paving , bounced , and now the boy caught it and peeled away the bag to reveal a football which he struck in a high , curling shot which ricocheted off the wall slightly to the left of a priest who had emerged from the large church which dosed off one end of the piazza . |
| 21 | This suited the prejudice which he shared with ruling circles in Germany against liberal , constitutional , and above all , republican states . |
| 22 | There are many cases recorded in which Christian subjects petitioned the sultan to redress grievances which they suffered at the hands of overbearing church leaders , and where the sultan acted in the interests of the petitioners . |
| 23 | Undoubtedly the risings were connected with each other in so far as the news of the initial outbreak in Essex seems to have sparked off further unrest in adjacent counties , and later in more remote parts , and it is certain that the general circumstances of the time created an atmosphere which was ripe for revolt , but the differences of aim among the different groups of rebels suggest that each had its own grievances which it hoped to right by force . |
| 24 | She was still exhausted from the night before , shattered from trying to keep up her bravado with Steve , trying not to let slip what she knew and trying to sound enthusiastic over Steve 's business plans for the future which she knew with a certainty she wanted no part of . |
| 25 | … a particular account of the soil , productions , mountains and lakes which I observed in my journey thither … but I have lately heard that Reeves is taken by the French . |
| 26 | I was hustled away to a cold , stone-flagged cell beneath the Guildhall which I shared with two of the biggest rats I have ever clapped eyes on . |
| 27 | It appears that he had a recurring dream in which he was told , " Socrates , be an artist " , a command which he ignored at first , supposing that nothing could be a higher " art " than his own philosophizing , but eventually complied with by writing some poetry while waiting for death in prison . |
| 28 | From such ideas he formed dances which did away with pointes but retained much of the classical footwork which he co-ordinated with the less familiar action of the arms and hands . |
| 29 | A humiliating defeat which he suffered at the hands of Lord Peyton in the house of Lords , has concentrated John Macgregor 's mind . |
| 30 | In 1929 he won his Woodvale seat which he held until his death in 1949 . |