Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems from folklore that these involved dancing with music through the night , often on the Sabbath , and the legends about being turned to stone imply disapproval of the old pagan religion which kept up these practices . |
| 2 | Listening : a text is dictated at a speed which allows only key words to be noted . |
| 3 | And there is a long tradition in sociological thinking which makes precisely this distinction . |
| 4 | A horse that is underfed is likely to be dull and lethargic ; whereas an overfed horse which has too little exercise , especially if it is fed grain , is likely to be over-excited and silly . |
| 5 | Photo two is an example of a horse which has unusually high tushes . |
| 6 | The country stations also enjoyed a great range of styles , but they escaped the process of repeated renewal which overwhelmed so many large city and town stations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 7 | Jones , younger brother of Wrexham 's teenage defender Kevin , takes a midfield berth in the side which shows just one change from last weekend 's defeat by Ruthin . |
| 8 | With a Midland High Interest Cheque Account ( HICA ) you have the perfect combination of high interest and ready access plus a HICA card which offers even greater flexibility , 24 hours a day . |
| 9 | Days after finding the card which promised so much happiness for the future , Tim learned that his wife and her best friend Elizabeth Over had been beaten and knifed to death , their bodies mutilated . |
| 10 | Although primary elections took place in several states during August , the contest which captured most public attention was the struggle for the Democratic nomination for governor of Georgia . |
| 11 | Their closely cropped hair and the drawn pale look of hunger in their faces gave them that terrifying animal uniformity which falls over all human beings in permanent physical distress . |
| 12 | What will be of greater value is a partial characterization which mentions only those features ( 9 , 5 , 8 , 7 , in order of appearance in the partial characterization ) which will be of most importance in what follows immediately . |
| 13 | In a disagreeable episode which remains very obscure , Green in 1803 became involved with a woman called Agnes Brathwaite , on whose ‘ abominable perjuries ’ he was committed to Kendal jail on 24th August . |
| 14 | SQL also provides a CREATE VIEW command which sets up alternative views of the data derived from other tables and selected rows and columns . |
| 15 | These lent brilliance to the footwork which became more intricate and thus more interesting . |
| 16 | Not bad for a car which weighs as much as a Range Rover . |
| 17 | W , writes from : YOU recently published an Inspector Morse story about a nine year old Metro car which took only unleaded petrol . |
| 18 | The car which had caught the little boy 's eye was a black 6-series BMW saloon — a car which possessed far more style and expensive panache than those which were normally seen around . |
| 19 | Yet she continued to keep on her table the photograph which told so little . |
| 20 | In a programme which boasts over one hundred separate performances in some fifteen different Belfast venues , visitors to the festival will be able to enjoy the best of international music , theatre , ballet , jazz , folk , film , exhibitions and assorted other entertainments . |
| 21 | He has consistently denied that most British Muslims support Iran 's fatwa ( religious edict ) — a belief borne out by a BBC2 survey for the Public Eye programme which showed only 28 per cent of British Muslims in favour . |
| 22 | In other words , basic steward training was not financed out of additional funding , which was devoted instead to a union-controlled programme which tackled more advanced issues . |
| 23 | To top this unprepossessing appearance was a thin , scrawny neck which seemed only just to support the weight of his head . |
| 24 | I should add here that even as a junior at Halton I was in the senior cross-country team — which only people in their very last year were normally eligible to join and at this stage I was in my first year of three , I was allowed to go out on any occasion , in running gear , to train as I was a bona fide member of the team and so on one of these occasions when I was out training — I always wore a sort of towel around my neck which looked very professional at the time and quite unnecessary — I managed to conceal the altimeter , which had become very very hot property by this time because it was known that several instruments were missing and we could have a visit from the gendarme . |
| 25 | Fears were expressed by some of those present that the Government emphasis — and funding — would be concentrated on practical research for which there might be some profitable return rather than on basic research which carried less obvious spin-offs . |
| 26 | There is much research which shows how ordinary people are prone to behave ‘ out of character ’ when they are subjected to extreme conditions . |
| 27 | But even when these were overcome , and ‘ brilliancy ’ was proved beyond question , there was a psychological impediment which held back all but the most single-minded . |
| 28 | And if you slice , try the revolutionary no-slice teepeg which costs just one dollar — each . |
| 29 | It is a daily ritual which underlines how Islamic fundamentalists in Jordan have become respectable . |
| 30 | The last glacial period , the Weichsel glaciation , is represented upstream by a terrace which rises about 30 m ( 100 ft ) above the river at Sisteron . |