Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] which [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He boasts all the trappings of a billionaire : the 385-foot yacht which also acts as a roving business headquarters ; the private jets ; a string of racehorses ; gold supposedly held in the form of bars ; the twenty-mile-square holiday island of Spetsopoula , off Athens ; the shipping fleet on which his fortune is based ; a string of trophy wives and mistresses topped only be the late Aristotle Onassis ; and prime investment property around the world . |
| 2 | Indeed , in some local areas , hospital provision was so low that ‘ it is doubtful whether some … can be considered to be offering a comprehensive service , ’ and for most people , most of the time , it is provision at the local rather than the regional level which really matters . |
| 3 | Abandoned to drink from her cup of sorrow , the asylum superintendents would have marked the baby as ‘ an accidental addition which wholly unbalances the tottering mind ’ . |
| 4 | The kick uses a turning action which momentarily exposes a large target area to the opponent . |
| 5 | There is one large broad apical papilla which sometimes lies within the mouth slit . |
| 6 | From then on , ANDES has worked with the campesino , worker , student and shanty-town sectors in the BPR to help create the mass political opposition which now confronts the regime . |
| 7 | Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson has commissioned a life of Barbara Cartland from Tim Heald , as part of a three-book deal which also includes a book about the final year before the handover of Hong Kong to China , The Last Governor , and a third ‘ highly confidential ’ project . |
| 8 | They are capable of flight at 56 days — a strange figure which nonetheless seems to be remarkably constant . |
| 9 | Hence the only thinker of the period who developed a comprehensive theory of social structure and social change which still commands respect was the social-revolutionary Karl Marx , who enjoys the admiration , or at least the respect , of economists , historians and sociologists . |
| 10 | I have long , naturally curly hair which always seems to be dry and often goes frizzy . |
| 11 | Unfortunately there is very little hard research evidence as to the sort of residential provision which best suits people with differing levels or types of disability , and fashions change as new ideas evolve . |
| 12 | They demonstrate an urge to pass on revelatory experience which quite transcends the norms of ‘ musical ’ piano-playing . |
| 13 | This is a very practically-focused course which even looks at areas such as the management of EFL institutions . |
| 14 | If there is anything to quibble about in Wilson 's thorough and engaging study which also relies on an extensive body of secondary material , as reflected in the footnotes and excellent up-to-date bibliography , it is in the section relating to the musical sources of the lauda in the 15th and early 16th centuries . |
| 15 | So I had to come back and sort of say to Ray , you know , if we go for that bid it 's not likely to be supported , erm so we , what we 'd done is a different bid which still includes investors but it 's , it 's a bit broader than that . |
| 16 | He has opted for the island county this time qualifying under the residential rule which also applies to captain Mark Harris , who has switched clubs from Menai Bridge to Bangor but stays on for his fourth campaign in charge . |
| 17 | He added : ‘ I am concerned at the whole idea of trying to whip up custom with a free deal which automatically converts into a pay-as-you-go service charged on your phone bill — unless you contract out . |
| 18 | Writers like Maudsley and Spitzka represent a form of scientific morality which simultaneously reinforces and promises to alleviate parental sexual anxieties , while underlining parental authority within the middle-class family against the demands of adolescent youth for sexual and personal autonomy . |
| 19 | Handwritten data is input to a computer via an electronic tablet which accurately captures x , y coordinate information of pen-tip movement . |
| 20 | But the case of Sartre poignantly demonstrates that the return-to-history argument can really only succeed through a form of historical amnesia which conveniently forgets that history was almost impossible to find . |
| 21 | He started his tour in Cantyre and only saw Islay from " the lumbering old coach which still runs between Campbeltown and Tarbert " and dismisses it in a single page of material which he could have taken from anywhere . |
| 22 | He started his tour in Cantyre and only saw Islay from " the lumbering old coach which still runs between Campbeltown and Tarbert " and dismisses it in a single page of material which he could have taken from anywhere . |
| 23 | After pledging £20,000 for wheelchair races , the region 's support increased to £95,000 after a substantial shortfall in the commercial sponsorship which now appears certain to be repeated this year unless additional major supporters can be found . |
| 24 | This year it has an improved range which again highlights the benefits of Torsion technology , although for the first time it 's combined with injected EVA , rather than firmer PU which turned some runners away . |
| 25 | This ‘ normal ’ requirement is seen by many commentators as being totally impracticable for most small companies , and fairly difficult even for some large companies , particularly given the extended period which now needs to be considered . |
| 26 | ‘ A small , inland town which still evokes a timeless quality and feeling of seclusion ’ |
| 27 | The significance of this proposition is that it provides the basis for a theory of literary or poetic meaning which both distinguishes this meaning from the external world and relates it to it . |
| 28 | Although it is often claimed that exercise has a beneficial psychological effect in its own right , the evidence for this is scanty and it is always difficult to separate the specific effect of exercise from the moral support and social contact which usually goes with it . |
| 29 | There are times when it might seem that this is a definition which can produce the sense of a self which is both amorphous and autonomous , of a doubtful self which also serves to cast doubt on the human world that lies beyond the subjective individual — a world which some writers are , and some are not , very cunning in , and which is inhabited by people with a working knowledge of who they are and what they are doing . |
| 30 | Many people attended the popular event which also includes the presentation of trophies that have been won during the year ( see photo ) . |