Example sentences of "[noun] which [verb] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is this thinking which has created Title VI of the Maastricht Treaty as the beginning of a process by which responsibility for justice and home affairs is transferred from the jurisdiction of the Member States to that of the European Union .
2 Animals which need to judge distance accurately have eyes at the front of their heads — like us .
3 Liam Coyle who has scored three of Derry 's four competitive goals so far this season , booked City 's last eight berth with a close range strike in the seventh minute , but thereafter , it was yet another case of Derry flattering to deceive as they quickly ran out of ideas against a United side which failed to test City goalkeeper Dermot O'Neill at any time during the game .
4 Signora Neroni is very unusual — she has a husband but is not at his side which seems to suggest independence ; however , she seems to have a need to flirt and have men about her , under her spell .
5 A stroke which fails to make contact is consigned to baseball oblivion as a ‘ swing and a miss . ’
6 I shall deal with this last question first , since I think that approaching the subject of content analysis from a cultural and qualitative perspective can be more informative than using quantitative methods which involve counting column inches and sitting with radio and stopwatch .
7 Reports in late October confirmed that France had arrested key members of a Paris-based Russian espionage ring which had gained access to highly classified information on nuclear experiments .
8 Matta had been accused of overseeing a ring which had distributed cocaine worth $72,000,000 in Los Angeles , and Drug Enforcement Administration ( DEA ) officials claimed that he controlled a drug-trafficking empire worth up to $2,000 million .
9 The Nationale Volkspartij ( NVP — National People 's Party , also known as the Partido Nashonal di Pueblo , Maria Liberia Peters l. ) , leads a centre-right coalition which has held office since 1988 .
10 A short ( eleven pages of text ) and inexpensive ( 1s. 3d. ) , but resoundingly entitled , White Paper , The War Against Crime in England and Wales 1959–64 , was published in April 1964 in the dying days of the Conservative Administration which had taken office in 1959 .
11 Among the organizations which had put pen to paper were the Farmers Union of Wales , the Somerset Community Health Council and the regional Youth Hostels Association .
12 In addition to national airlines , early users were big organizations which had to keep track of many internal operations such as many components , many spare parts or large dealer/point-of-sale networks .
13 The Americans do not seem to have had problems in setting up units which seek to provide permanence by offering specialist and intensive social work services both to natural families and to children joining substitute new families .
14 The lorry rolled on to a car after its rear wheels were hit by another car which had lost control .
15 The increasing domestic and industrial use of a number of stable chlorine-containing compounds has given rise to claims that these compounds may diffuse upwards into the stratosphere where they are dissociated by solar radiation to yield atoms of chlorine which act to destroy ozone through a complex chain of chemical reactions ( Crutzen , 1974 ; Molina and Rowland , 1974 ) .
16 Government has attempted to overcome severe discrepancies by establishing a Disadvantaged Schools Programme which seeks to provide capital development for communities which are extremely poor .
17 After the weather I 'll be back with a brand new series called , ’ Lifeline ’ , a short programme which aims to give advice on a whole range of subjects from alcoholism to education .
18 A MAJOR drive to generate successful , new Scottish companies began yesterday with the launch of the Business Venture Programme which aims to establish quality businesses , writes Graeme Stewart .
19 The titles are part of a wider programme which aims to produce communication education materials for the training of leaders of church and community groups in Central America .
20 The state field will be optional and if not specified , all DCs which have changed state since the specified date will be provided .
21 The state field is optional and if not specified , all DCs which have changed state since the specified date will be listed .
22 The talks were attended by all the other parties which had secured representation in the National Assembly [ see p. 39129 ] .
23 The first Conference of Balkan Democratic Parties in Athens on June 14 was attended by nine non-communist parties from Albania , Bulgaria , Greece , Romania and Yugoslavia as well as observers from smaller groups ; the participants agreed to establish a secretariat in Athens to promote co-operation among Balkan parties which had espoused democracy and a free market economy .
24 This chapter will concentrate on these ‘ historical sketches ’ as a way of illustrating in general terms the pattern of ‘ de-alignment ’ or the loosening of ties between the press and the political parties which has taken place from the mid-Victorian period onwards .
25 The upsurge of interest in tachistoscopic laterality research which has taken place during the last two decades or so can be traced in part to the split-brain investigations and in part to an experiment conducted by Mishkin and Forgays ( 1952 ) .
26 Research which has investigated performance hierarchies in the school years has generally done so in terms of the performance of groups of learners .
27 Although she made little initial impact in England , her scheme gained influential support in Scotland where it was adopted by the Scottish Education Department which agreed to give School Boards ‘ choice of employment ’ powers under the Education ( Scotland ) Act 1908 .
28 I am struck by the immense change from social barbarism to social civilisation which has taken place in London ( indeed in Great Britain ) during my lifetime .
29 Normally the natural challenge of adult cattle , yearlings or calves which have acquired immunity to D. viviparus , whether by natural exposure or by vaccination , is not associated with clinical signs .
30 But the wording of the ‘ appeal ’ couched the action solely in terms of justifiable retaliation for the ‘ campaign of agitation ’ and ‘ lies ’ in the foreign press allegedly initiated by Jewish emigrants , and the claim that ‘ hardly a hair had been touched ’ on Jewish heads in the course of the ‘ national revolution ’ was meant to suggest that the Party Leadership ( including Hitler ) was ignorant of the daily maltreatment of Jews which had taken place at the hands of the Party rank-and-file .
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