Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] which [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How is God known as that which transcends the world ? |
| 2 | It was a statistic such as that which proved the best weapon in ACSS 's campaign . |
| 3 | Constructive activity can be considered as that which provides the individual with an interest . |
| 4 | 5 How would you see the formalization of our having a hand in preparing the initial print material ( colleagues have not expressed undiluted admiration for that which accompanies the 3000 ) and for producing sound pedagogic printed backup material for selling in addition to the hand held device . |
| 5 | There is a kind of innocence about this which makes the modern reader , coming upon it all sixty years after the event , squirm with embarrassment . |
| 6 | So how do you actually get across to the public something about this which makes the public love them ? |
| 7 | It seems to be commonly supposed that it is description rather than theory as such which makes the most direct contribution to language teaching . |
| 8 | But it was the Gooch-Atherton opening partnership of 168 which demonstrated the flexibility of numbers . |
| 9 | It was the fear of Labour which led the Conservatives to abandon the Lloyd George Coalition government in 1922 and to anticipate the new social policies of a ‘ new Conservatism ’ during the 1920s . |
| 10 | The Government was understood to have decided against making a statement at the request of Labour which wanted the opportunity to reply in full to the Budget . |
| 11 | The battle cry of 1948 which saved the life of an Oxfordshire village . |
| 12 | Um maybe it was particularly controversial because it seemed to be accusing er people , men in the family , particularly fathers , of having abused their children anally with all this sort of y'know homosexual connotations of that which activated the number of , as well as a number of fears about about child sex abuse and being a child abuser , it activated a number of rather more homophobic fears , both among the people so accused and in c our culture generally and er that perhaps explains why this er particular incident was so was so compelling and attracted so much com er publicity , according to Campbell anyway . |
| 13 | The finish is what Hamer refer to as their ‘ '59 Burst ’ and is indeed reminiscent of that which adorns the best Gibson Les Pauls from around that era . |
| 14 | The law against sex discrimination was strengthened by the Sex Discrimination Act of 1986 which removed the restrictions on the hours women could work , allowing both night work and shift work , and gave women the right to work until the same age as their male colleagues . |
| 15 | In 1984 the Housing and Building Control Act reduced the qualifying period of tenancy from three years to two and increased the maximum discount from 50 per cent to 60 per cent , and this was followed by the Housing and Planning Act of 1986 which increased the discounts available on flats to 70 per cent . |
| 16 | The dual system was an anomaly based on the Ausgleich or ‘ Compromise ’ of 1867 which guaranteed the independence of both Austria and Hungary except in certain matters of common concern ( see p. 202 ) . |
| 17 | My right hon. Friend then said : ’ I understand that in this instance Dr. Beer 's request was considered at some length by an assessment panel of six which included the District Chair , Chief Executive and District Director of Public Health . |
| 18 | The place seems to enshrine for the Swiss their national ideals from the earliest days of the Confederation onward , and there is an element of pilgrimage attendant on the crowds of citizens from all parts of the country , wearing many varieties of national costume , who come here , ferried across from Brunnen by relays of lake steamers , to join in the observations of the day , commemorating the solemn oath of 1307 which confirmed the earlier League Covenant of 1291 to defend inherited liberties . |
| 19 | The term ‘ continuation school ’ was derived from the wording of the Education Code of 1862 which defined the Evening School as one providing ‘ not secondary , but continued elementary instruction ’ . |
| 20 | The principle had been first established in an Act of 1662 which authorised the levying of a capital sum or an annual rent in respect of the ‘ melioration ’ of properties following street widenings in London . |
| 21 | They still have a multi-bit model in the range , the 955 at £260 , but they also make single-bit machines incorporating Philips Bitstream technology and it is the latest of these which forms the subject of this report . |
| 22 | Rituals of divination in the flat produce a combination of these which mirrors the elements of island life . |
| 23 | It was the dramatic and unexpected fall of France in the early summer of 1940 which persuaded the British leadership as a whole that , whatever the cost , it was now imperative to secure American assistance . |
| 24 | The names and dates tell their own story : the Treason Act of 1842 , passed after an impotent attempt to frighten the sovereign by a young hunchback with a faultily loaded pistol ; the Vagrancy Act of 1824 which allowed the flogging of ‘ incorrigible rogues ’ , commonly elderly tramps , and which has come into more recent notoriety through the ‘ sus ’ laws ; the Diplomatic Privileges Act of 1708 which offered protection to Ambassadors and their servants ; and the Knacker 's Act of 1786 which dealt with the irregular slaughter of horses and cattle . |
| 25 | If the system is so ‘ sophisticated ’ that outside organisations are handling our magazine and problems like the one in Autumn occur why bother with that system ? why not go back to good old postage stamps ? … the reason is because we commenced distribution by Royal Mail 's ‘ Presstream ’ at the beginning of 1992 which involves the sender sorting all its UK mail into postcode order , the benefit being considerable savings from two discounts , firstly the Presstream pricing is lower than the standard postage rate and secondly an extra discount is earned because we have done the sorting instead of Royal Mail . |
| 26 | I am speaking about a special form of small-holding — the croft , as defined by the UK parliament in legislation , from the first Crofters Act of 1886 to the Act of 1976 which gave the crofter the right to purchase his holding on very favourable terms . |
| 27 | However you feel about the useless violence of these eruptions , it was the riotous protests of 1981 which created the space in which political antiracism became an option . |
| 28 | The Fenland ( covering Cambridgeshire , Isle of Ely , Huntingdonshire and the Soke of Peterborough ) was without a tutor-organiser from the time Frank Cossey resigned in July 1956 until the appointment of Robert Darby in July 1959 : here it was the decision not to reappoint in Essex following Collingwood 's departure at the end of 1957 which allowed the District to negotiate with the Ministry for a new tutor-organiser to be assigned to the Fenland instead . |
| 29 | Ellen halted at a short wooden bridge , one of many which spanned the streams dissecting the main road through the town . |
| 30 | So Charles and his family lived in the southernmost house and shop on the east side of the street , a fact confirmed by a deed of 1783 which defined the property in question as being immediately to the north of a stable , killing house and other buildings owned by Daniel Rossiter , clothier . |