Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] which [adv] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her voice had the overtones of gentility which only Northerners seem able to achieve . |
| 2 | Like almost all other ministers he avoided visiting the defeated South as such a trip would not have fitted the received view of America which both hosts and visitors wished to retain . |
| 3 | Rather it will be a case of the researcher finding a means of recording and sorting the mass of detail which continuously bombards him and presents him with the lateral possibilities which make the discipline potentially dangerous . |
| 4 | Possibly , the River Thames had a very different appearance and variations in its route , so it would not have been possible to pin-point the position of Chiswick which now lies nestled in a compact ‘ U ’ bend of the river . |
| 5 | He is the motor of the whole musical action ; he must guide , hold back , or animate the GENERAL ENSEMBLE ; his task is , by a certain skill in movement which strongly imprints both rhythm and character in every ear , to make it understood where the phrase begins , where it develops , and where it ends … it will be difficult , my friend , to replace that intelligent maître de musique , Rey … |
| 6 | It is one part only of an attack upon five great evils : upon the physical Want with which it is directly concerned , upon Disease which often causes Want and brings many other troubles in its train , upon Ignorance which no democracy can afford among its citizens , upon the Squalor which arises mainly through haphazard distribution of industry and population , and upon Idleness which destroys wealth and corrupts men , whether they are well-fed or not , when they are idle . ’ |