Example sentences of "which [vb base] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The action of the film was eclipsed by some of motor racing enthusiast McQueen 's off-screen dramas , setting his Savoy Hotel room alight while trying to prepare himself a hamburger , driving at speed into the hotel 's small forecourt and screeching into a U-turn — by hitting a large puddle on the way and drenching other guests — and overturning his car while racing , against the film studio 's orders , resulting in a cut lip , which mean rescheduling some scenes . |
| 2 | A great politician is a man who does not interpret the world in which he intends to act on the basis of appearances … he is a man who is capable at all times of making sense of the various motive forces which combine to produce historical events , and which when analysed provide a perspective on the future . |
| 3 | The species involved are characteristically tall perennial monocots which tend to form pure stands on the edge of water bodies . |
| 4 | It is quite justifiable therefore to picture polymers as made up from stiff by flexible chains freely sliding among their neighbours and constrained only by cross-links or entanglements — unless , of course , strong lateral forces also exist , such as the hydrogen bonds in polypeptides or polyamides , which tend to hold neighbouring chains together . |
| 5 | Captive-bred Pretty Tetras , have a much more brighter colouration than wild-caught specimens , the latter of which tend to lose this brightness over a period of time when kept in an aquarium . |
| 6 | Moreover , FoE also criticizes the authorities for alerting the public only to short-lived peak incidents , whereas it is the sustained eight-hour incidents which tend to affect vulnerable groups . |
| 7 | Duncan says ‘ the brute fact remains that democratic politics can not prevent the creation of remote , state-entrenched centres of power which tend to promote general apathy , cynicism , and ignorance about politics among the masses of the people ’ . |
| 8 | Note that , roughly speaking , ( i ) ( ii ) and ( iii ) are means to ( iv ) ends which reflect the real purposes of the college ; and it is the ends , the most important elements which tend to get lost or blurred in the confusion of the standard , over-crowded subject-based curriculum . |
| 9 | Whether the beta-adrenergic effects of adrenaline , which tend to increase myocardial work and reduce subendocardial perfusion , are detrimental is still controversial . |
| 10 | But it also has provisions for mineral exploration firms and investment trusts , neither of which tend to have typical trading records . |
| 11 | Locals on LIFFE may account for 20 to 25 per cent of turnover , considerably less than on the main US exchanges which tend to have more individual members than LIFFE . |
| 12 | ‘ The most popular tartans are the more classical blue and white ranges which tend to match existing tableware colours . |
| 13 | There are , however , broad brush constraints , many of them policy-determined , which tend to counteract these other progres-sive changes . |
| 14 | The summer breeding season extends between November and February , so we would have to come back again earlier in the season to have a look at some of the other birds , such as the smaller land birds , which tend to present more problems to the photographer . |
| 15 | It 's little bits of progress like that which make riding young horses so much fun . |
| 16 | Thus , although interest groups may look as if they are organized chiefly for public goods , in practice they are sustained by their ability to deliver selective incentives to their members which make joining worthwhile . |
| 17 | While there may have been isolated instances which appear to confirm this interpretation ( for example , in 1970 the Soviet Union bought up Costa Rica 's excess of coffee , which may well have been a factor contributing to the establishment of diplomatic relations the following year ) , other such instances have been similarly small-scale and the evidence overall is against it . |
| 18 | The cladograms so produced displayed a variety of patterns , many of which appear to simulate temporal diversity changes in well-studied fossil groups . |
| 19 | There are plenty of examples in English criminal law of crimes which appear to include harmful consequences as a definitional element irrespective of any actual state of mind referable thereto : s. 47 , Offences Against the Person Act 1861 ; s. 51 ( 1 ) , Police Act 1964 ; s . |
| 20 | The ability to recast an expression from one language into the form of another depends on reference to some underlying construct of meaning which may establish a resemblance between expressions which appear very different and a distinction between expressions which appear to resemble each other . |
| 21 | There are some cases which appear to hold that natural justice may not require a hearing . |
| 22 | Table 1.1 lists six items from the DBQ which appear to imply some form of memory failure . |
| 23 | Today the once-condemned village has lots of new houses ( including those which appear to have state-of-the-art outside netties ) and more under construction . |
| 24 | More recently , ‘ energy leys ’ have been found which appear to have some of the same characteristics . |
| 25 | None the less there is a need to consider three countervailing social control forces , which appear to have some effect on persons contemplating ‘ conventional ’ crimes , to see if they act as brakes on persons contemplating corporate crime . |
| 26 | Those European countries which appear to place greater emphasis upon long-stay hospital care are those , such as Spain or Greece , which are currently developing their social welfare provision from a comparatively low base ( Anderson , 1992 ) . |
| 27 | Actions which appear to compromise free speech are sure to be criticised in Parliament , where the Attorney must answer for both his and the DPP 's prosecution policy . |
| 28 | In the end , however , the power bloc is working to maintain the hegemony of the dominant class and any policies which appear to question these interests are in fact nothing of the sort . |
| 29 | Almost all jurisdictions now have schemes which provide state funded compensation schemes for victims of crime , although when the ‘ Son-of-Sam ’ legislation was enacted in New York , victim compensation schemes in many jurisdictions in the United States of America were non-existent or rudimentary . |
| 30 | However , since joint production and ( more clearly ) joint marketing is much more likely to create the undesirable anticompetitive effects which cause concern than joint R&D is , it seems reasonable to insist that firms which propose extending joint activities beyond R&D must bear the burden of proving that such extensions are in the public interest . |