Example sentences of "of [noun sg] which [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also headed a number of Courtaulds ' textile businesses at different times but it was mainly his knowledge of viscose which earned him a reputation as a leading world authority on the fibre . |
| 2 | The model proposed embraces a concept of the aims and process of assessment which acknowledges its inherent complexity and the high level of skill required of practitioners . |
| 3 | That in itself is some indication of the influence his life and work still bring to bear — and , perhaps , an equal indication of the lack of progress which makes it still necessary . |
| 4 | I have chosen to focus on three types of support which help us to address this question : sharing a household , money and practical support . |
| 5 | Bureaucracies are often credited with a monopoly of expertise which place them in a superior position to lay politicians . |
| 6 | The news of the Seren had ignited a bright flame of hope which left her cold and utterly despondent when it shed no light at all on the mystery of her identity . |
| 7 | It is the individual and the change of heart which prompts him to participate which matters . |
| 8 | Another reason for choosing Collins was the designer 's penchant for wood epoxy construction , an attractive , strong and relatively easy method of building which allows plenty of scope for the interior to be custom-designed and completed to the owner 's specification . |
| 9 | But the Social Charter has been seriously weakened in the process of bargaining which preceded its adoption — particularly because of the opposition to all of its provisions from the Conservative government in Britain . |
| 10 | We share His life through the water of baptism which washes us clean and brings new growth into our lives . |
| 11 | Griffith was never as mature an artist as Dickens and he was the product of the frontier rather than a literary city but he had a social theory of sorts , a gift to embody values in stories , and a mastery of technique which allowed him to make every setting dramatically and socially convincing . |
| 12 | inherit , preserve and pass on a tradition … they engender modes of life , habits of thought and standards of judgement which render them centres of resistance to crude forces which threaten steady and peaceful evolution … |
| 13 | And in France , Irigarayan psychoanalysts attained a degree of visibility which led them to appear , for a short period and to some people , as the whole French women 's liberation movement ( Turkle 1979 , Moi 1987 ) . |
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| 15 | The sun on our backs and bright crystals biting into our feet , the printed pain of a sharp finger edge cutting across the joyful soft warmth of the wind ; the loving immediacy of experience which hurls us free from the containment of assessment , order and code . |
| 16 | If the staff : client ratio is low and the environment for care well equipped and attractive , -then you will have to measure this against the breadth of experience which represents your alternative within the NHS . |
| 17 | There is also a sizeable literature on explaining the size distribution of income which concerns itself with the specific shape this takes ( positively skewed ( right-hand tail ) and leptokurtic ( hump-shaped ) or leptokurtic lognormal ) , both over different time periods and in different countries . |
| 18 | They preferred their little aerosols of teargas which gave them a false sense of security . |
| 19 | This I did at once with a feeling of self-importance which blinded me to the now obvious fact that she was abrogating her responsibilities and allowing them to devolve , once more , upon her eldest daughter . |
| 20 | Each of these in isolation produces a form of curriculum which embodies its own emphases ; but it is surely better to consider them as the three necessary dimensions of any truly general education ( Squires 1987a ) . |
| 21 | As we have stated earlier , practices of meditation which require us to empty our minds are passive and so we are vulnerable . |
| 22 | I rose , broke my fast and slipped the landlord some pieces of silver which made his vinegarish face look more congenial and subservient . |
| 23 | It may be helpful at this stage to sketch some of the details of the structure of Highlander which enables it to function as an effective , independent centre of adult education . |
| 24 | Thus if I break a promise for my own convenience , I fail to treat the person to whom I made it as an end in himself , for I can hardly expect him to endorse a principle of action which allows him to be treated thus . |
| 25 | The nose and beard also seemed to imply , to produce , to secrete constantly a certain kind of mind which had nothing to do with the intelligence diffused throughout the books , books that I knew so intimately , and which were permeated by a gentle and God-like wisdom . ’ |
| 26 | Just as importantly , he is possessed of a generosity of mind which allows him to be calmly judicious about the merits of writers who can advocate militant homosexuality and drug-taking ( such as Thom Gunn ) , sympathise with feminism ( Elaine Feinstein ) or adhere to some variant of Marxism ( Hugh MacDiarmid ) . |
| 27 | He was controlling his voice to an even conversational tone , using the endearment sarcastically , as if he found it difficult to disguise the build-up of tension which tightened his jaw . |
| 28 | If one may suspend conscience , and forget the conditions and costs of labour which allowed them to create this wealth , then these streets — as they do in London and Edinburgh , and still to be seen in Dublin — define the comfort of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century middle classes . |
| 29 | The onward march of racism is traced through historical time and institutional space , from some presumed point of origination which defines its essential character , to a present conjuncture which is the summation of its effects . |
| 30 | And all the time the line of force which bound her to her husband stretched and vibrated so that her heart in secret haemorrhage , gushed blood . |