Example sentences of "which [prep] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should always be with the opposite sex only ; yet novel reading girls exhaust their female magnetism without obtaining any compensating male magnetism , which of necessity deranges their entire sexual system . |
| 2 | So I resolved to remain alive in an unofficial capacity , which of course annoys them all immensely . |
| 3 | As a result he was suspended for two years , which of course delayed his entry into first-class cricket ; but it taught him a lot . |
| 4 | Each time he 'd get to the line about going to stoke the brazier it would come out as ‘ stoke the brassiere ’ , which of course stopped everything dead and brought the Director screaming down on us . |
| 5 | Adam probably knows more about the Cairngorms than anyone , which of course explains his absence . |
| 6 | Which of course excused her sudden breathlessness when she saw him . |
| 7 | The mass of the people were not recorded because the evidence is limited to the loan book , which of course excludes everyone with less than £5 , a class which in Coventry amounted to as much as 80 per cent of the total , though in other provincial towns the proportion was not as high , that of sub-£2 assessments being lower than in the countryside . |
| 8 | Zhan Videnov , 32 , a parliamentary deputy from Plovdiv and graduate of the Moscow Institute of International Relations , was elected as party leader and chairman in place of Aleksandur Lilov : a new supreme council was also elected , which in turn elected its 11-member executive bureau on Dec. 19 . |
| 9 | A short walk from Brand , or a local bus ride , will take you to the cable car which in turn takes you to the Lunarsee , a beautiful crystal clear mountain lake . |
| 10 | A complete semantic theory , whether human or computationally oriented , must specify for each expression what semantic information that expression conveys , which in turn determines what that expression can refer to . |
| 11 | I brought the Ford to a halt only a foot or two from the fowl , which in turn ceased its journey , pausing there in the road in front of me . |
| 12 | He put me on a stretcher , had me carried about half a mile across fields to an ambulance , which in turn took me down to the local advanced dressing station . |
| 13 | Look at the diagram below and see how misery or depression can lead to physical symptoms — which in turn make you feel even more miserable . |
| 14 | Each link in the chain expressed a perceived correct place and tied this into an all-encompassing behavioural ideology which in turn determined our action . |
| 15 | We then did n't have enough materials for the wall so we had to shorten its length , which in turn meant there was not enough room for media vehicles and not enough space for VIPs to manoeuvre their cars in , and that meant altering security arrangements . |
| 16 | It tells how much of the variation among individuals in a population is due to variation in their genes ; which in turn tells us whether the population would respond to natural selection on the trait . |
| 17 | This disagreement led to a reconciliation on the tenth morning culminating in a bout of furious unaccustomed holiday sex ( the kind you do n't get anywhere else ) , which in turn led them to wander onto the beach much later in the day , feeling sheepish and rather pleased with themselves . |
| 18 | Quinton and his colleagues suggest that girls with positive experiences of school acquire a sense of their own worth and of their ability to control their own destinies , which in turn helps them to cope and resolve their difficulties and plan their own future . |
| 19 | The things they have in common , or critical attributes , are the things that help us to define a concept , which in turn helps us to identify further examples of that class of things . |
| 20 | But it is a means to more power , which in turn enables you to be choosy about your scripts . |
| 21 | I repeat it here , as in sections 3.3 to 3.5 we will be looking at three different theories , each of which takes a different starting-point to the debate over the service economy , which in turn influences their conceptual framework and what counts as valid kinds of evidence . |
| 22 | The trade routes of the Mediterranean , for example , and the volume of traffic they carried , help to explain the location , size and wealth of towns , which in turn affect their character as centres of commerce or industrial production . |
| 23 | The English law of negligence is based on the principle of fraternity , which in turn has its roots in the English common law . |
| 24 | Once women can control unexpected births through contraception they spend longer in the labour force and invest more in education and qualifications which in turn increases their earning potential and makes the economic incentives against starting a family more marked . |
| 25 | The chewy nature of our beef teriyaki leads on to Denice 's dislike of beef , which in turn inspires her to do an extremely convincing impersonation of a fish , which leads her to mention that her mother 's name is Wanda . |
| 26 | By so doing he provides her with some immunity against the chronic depression which afflicts so many mothers of pre-school age children , and which in turn undermines their abilities as parents . |
| 27 | Robert 's loyalty to Margaret of Anjou and the Lancastrians led to attainder and forfeiture , which in turn compelled his mother to sell two manors of her own to meet the demands of creditors from whom the ransom money had been borrowed ( 88 , pp.29–32 , 126–7 ) . |
| 28 | But he clearly places Leonard within this group which , he held , ‘ grasps at a confusion of symbolic images , often a ragbag of classical mythology , in the effort to organise a chaos too large for them to deal with in the light of reason , ’ which in turn causes them to express ‘ a sardonic bitterness in their social criticism , a realism without any utopian idealism to support it . ’ |
| 29 | This is good news for the company since all three markets are relatively recession-proof so far as the demand for their product is concerned , which in turn makes them a fairly buoyant customer base . |
| 30 | Unidroit , for example , goes to considerable trouble , by means of consultations with representative international organizations and by questionnaires to specialists and to governments which in turn consult their national organizations , to establish that those practising in the field in question believe that differences in national laws create a problem and that harmonization would bring benefits . |