Example sentences of "which he [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as to dictatorships — in which he says two people in every 100 are interested in politics as opposed to three in a hundred in a democracy — you could argue that some dictatorships succeeded because they appealed to primitive instincts in people who were not interested in politics . |
| 2 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 3 | The past becomes present to him with a total immediacy and a complete conviction which he says intellectual memory could never achieve . |
| 4 | Lastly , there is his first ‘ model ’ of agriculture , with its paupers , ruthless exploitation etc. , of which he says pre-revolutionary Russia was an example . |
| 5 | Apollinaire pointed out that Boccioni 's best works were those in which he came nearest to recent works by Picasso which he had seen in Paris . |
| 6 | His most significant paper , in which he developed much of the kinetic theory of gases , was refused publication by the Royal Society in 1845 . |
| 7 | Spells as a curate in Doncaster and Ipswich were followed by three years as chaplain at St Andrew 's in Kowloon , 1929–31 , during which he studied Chinese at Hong Kong University . |
| 8 | Ollie 's final offering looks destined to be , typically , as an uncredited sideman on Ayers ' ‘ Still Life With Guitar ’ on which he contributes one electric solo on the opening track and some acoustic bits and pieces including a self-penned instrumental . |
| 9 | Ramsey 's own preferred subjects were literature versus science as making for happiness , modern democracy , and internationalism , in which he denounced American isolationism and had an imaginative picture of the American Middle West as a lot of boors who did not know where Europe was . |
| 10 | Miandad extended his 59 to 88 before edging Munton to slip , giving the affable Warwickshire man his first Test wicket in a spell of 10 overs during which he took 1 for 22 , real Angus Fraser stuff . |
| 11 | One of his regrets is that in four series against West Indies his record is very ordinary — one innings in which he took eight wickets , but little else of note — and he is aware that not having proved himself against the best team in the world will be held against him when reputations come to be assessed . |
| 12 | After retirement he became a respected commentator , chairman of selectors and eventually president of Yorkshire ( 1981-4 ) until , saddened by the internal strife , he resigned from an office in which he took great pride . |
| 13 | This last statement should be noticed — he disliked assemblies and places where speeches were made at length and he did not enjoy being a chairman — but he made this single exception , the Convocation of York ; he always gave a presidential address , about which he took much trouble . |
| 14 | There was little else , except a small bookshelf from which he took one of several charts . |
| 15 | It was Massine 's ballets which suited him best , especially Mam'zelle Angot , in which he took several parts at different times ; the sardonic humour he showed as the bootmaker in the market scene still lingers in my memory . |
| 16 | When my Report was submitted to Mr Kenneth Baker , Secretary of State for Education and Science , he so much disliked it that he insisted that it should be printed back to front , starting with chapters 15 to 17 , which included our recommendations for attainment targets and programmes of study , and relegating the explanatory chapters 1 to 14 , which he thought unnecessary , to a kind of appendix . |
| 17 | He could have sat down with only one of them and achieved the same guidance on weight and machining capability , but three of them came to the meeting , which he thought typical of engineers . |
| 18 | He took in several exhibitions , seeing a large figure drawing of a girl and two children by Neuhys which he thought splendid , and the paintings of an artist new to him , Clara Montalba . |
| 19 | Moreover , he was a natural conservative who felt out of sympathy with Irish nationalism , a cause which he thought likely to triumph in the end . |
| 20 | Kennedy was alarmed at the 'showcase " notion , which he thought unrealistic . |
| 21 | He was fastidious about his hair , which he grew long and lacquered in place over a balding pate . |
| 22 | As a result of recent research , we can now trace possible sources for most of the individual elements in his theory , but the originality of the way in which he synthesised these elements remains his unique achievement ’ . |
| 23 | Press reporting focused as much on the reports about other women who had had sex with him as it did on the events to which he pleaded guilty . |
| 24 | He burned his bridges , and , working solely on small-scale projects over which he had total control , descended into drink and drugs . |
| 25 | I can imagine the mordant amusement with which Sir Ian watched the poll tax legislation of a government with which he had little sympathy being hissed off the statute book amid public disorder to the alarm of its erstwhile supporters . |
| 26 | In place of God-consciousness , for which he had little time , he wanted to put on the one hand the revelation made in Jesus and recoverable through the historical study of the New Testament , and on the other the moral and spiritual response to Jesus which issues in Christian living and acting . |
| 27 | Innocent was beset with problems which he had little chance of solving as the sands constantly shifted and political and economic undercurrents conditioned behaviour . |
| 28 | He appeared regularly in the shop , invariably walking out with yet another purchase for which he had scant use . |
| 29 | Gilford was the star performer with his iron play , especially in an outward 31 in which he had six birdies . |
| 30 | Also in 1893 he undertook the restoration of St Peter 's Church , West Knighton , the only restoration for which he had sole responsibility , at a time when he was writing Jude the Obscure . |