Example sentences of "which [pron] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 For Assiter , fantasy is not just a harmless and essentially solitary activity in which everyone engages to a greater or lesser extent , but is something which also has an effect on the way people behave towards others , and on the way they may feel they can justifiably treat each other , particularly women .
2 Like I said , I do quite a lot of other stuff as well and for that I use things like little Fender amps , and I 've got a Peavey Profex which I use with a MIDI foot controller .
3 I have three upright basses , and I take two on the road with me , plus an old ‘ 64 Precision which I use on a couple of numbers . ’
4 The theory which I commend as a guide to the fruitful development of international law in the control of force may be called ‘ ethical ’ or perhaps ‘ functional positivism ’ .
5 I shall certainly answer the question , because we have a policy to which I alluded as a result of an interruption made by the Government Whip .
6 I was playing guitar in a group which I ran for a while , and then had some success with a couple of singles .
7 My periods , which had always been topsy-turvy and which I saw as a real indicator of health and wellbeing , settled into a reliable pattern .
8 This does not extend to feeding a patient against his will , which I regard as a form of aggressive treatment .
9 On point d ) of this paper , which I regard as a separate issue , I have already made the point at Research Management that Library staff are receiving many more non-Library enquiries now , referred from Exhibition Hall staff , from Shop staff , and from new Support staff on the switchboard .
10 I hope you are both as well as you can be , and to make up for my lack of inspiration here is a poem which I discovered in a very nice book of modern Scottish poetry : —
11 The teacher punished me , and from then on I had to keep the bird in a small cage which I hung in a tree outside the classroom window .
12 The next Christmas I received a present of a metal unbreakable flask from my friends , which I cherish as a reminder not to be a grumpy bag up hills .
13 It is difficult to say how long this species lives in captivity , but I had an African Snakehead , which I acquired at a similar size to yours , and I kept him or her ( there are no external sex differences ) for 13 years .
14 Multiplied by three point five which I brought to a figure of a hundred and twenty six thousand five hundred and twenty seven pounds and fifty six pence .
15 Nevertheless , in a " matched guise " test which I administered to a class of fourteen to fifteen year-old adolescents in the speaker 's own home area , seven out of eleven black pupils judged her to be black on the basis of an extract from the story above ( see Chapter 4 for a discussion ) .
16 Around that time I wrote a piece in a journal which I co-wrote with a friend .
17 The outcome of this process , which I indicated as a possible development in the first edition of this book , is the pre-eminence in the present-day labour movement of social democratic parties ; that is to say , of parties which are themselves coalitions of diverse groups and intellectual tendencies , rather than centralized , monolithic organizations held together by strict discipline and an authoritatively interpreted ideology .
18 I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time .
19 I filled four pages which I sent with a footnote requesting that they send me some books .
20 I was driving my car along an unlit street in Bristol , England : all of a sudden the two inner wheels of the car had left the road and I travelled for quite a few yards at an angle of 45 degrees , after which I landed with a large bump .
21 Being a man myself , the similarity by which I recognize as a man must be not only to others previously classified as men but to myself ; I assume , and when close enough to read expression and gesture simulate , thought and emotion like mine , turning his observed behaviour inside out .
22 All my possessions began to smell of smoke ; even my better clothes which I kept in a closed cupboard under the bunk .
23 She certainly lived up to her name , and was the inspiration for the poem " Revenue Cutter " which I wrote after a particular stormy passage in the North of Scotland .
24 I give myself a pat on the back for every question which I answered in a way which led the pupils deeper into the problem .
25 The entire New Jersey garage movement which I documented in a 1988 issue of THE FACE was disco .
26 All I ate that day was a piece of bread , which I begged from a farmer eating his supper .
27 Yet to give instant opinions on the long term impact of the many educational reports , speeches , Parliamentary debates , learned researches , books , ideas and happenings which marked the years through which I worked as a teacher was quite impossible .
28 There were also , in more recent years , the series — like " At Home " , in which I talked to a different subject each week in his or her domestic setting .
29 Remember the acquisition problem infants acquire language on the basis of minimal evidence , that 's called a poverty of stimulus problem , which I talked about a bit in lecture one or two .
30 It was the first occasion , but by no means the last , on which I stayed in a monastery .
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