Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A company which dares to be different . |
| 2 | For that sweet odour which doth in it live . |
| 3 | It begins as a sharp and funky hang-out movie which drifts towards real political complexity ( and absurdism ) before retreating to the safer territory of a ‘ black gangster/psycho movie . |
| 4 | The First is that period which recedes from the very beginning of life on earth and reaches far back into the unknowable depths of the timeless universe . |
| 5 | One can compare the passage just quoted , which insists on the unknowability of the real world , with some of her subsequent remarks ; as , for instance , when she refers to her argument ‘ that literature represents the myths and imaginary versions of real social relationships ’ , and claims that ‘ a form of criticism which refuses to reproduce the pseudo-knowledge offered by the text provides a real knowledge of the work of literature ’ , or says that ‘ the task of criticism , then , is … to produce a real knowledge of history . ’ |
| 6 | That last evening , as unable to settle I wandered round the house , the computer within which insists on running hither and thither matching like with like ( laying its finds before us like a cat presenting a dead mouse ) now threw up the words of a hymn from long ago . |
| 7 | There is clearly a self which needs to be repudiated , an ever-changing , superficial , grasping , possessive thing , the stream of feelings , thoughts and desires , which insists on taking over the direction of life . |
| 8 | In a discipline like psychology , which insists on the specificity of its vocabulary , procedures and concerns , feminist initiatives which stay close to the traditional discipline are valuable . |
| 9 | Erik Keiserud , the head of UNI 's board of administrators , says a foreign investor , which insists on being nameless , has also proposed a solution . |
| 10 | Officials are now negotiating a $1 billion facility with the IMF , which insists on tougher credit overall . |
| 11 | There is also more overlapping , of a kind which insists on the notion of depth : a despairing woman on the far side of the statue from which the lesser Ajax is about to drag Cassandra to rape her ; hidden faces ( Priam 's and Aeneas 's — he is shown at one end , escaping with his father and son ) . |
| 12 | You may find a stream , a cave , a factory , a prison you did not know was there but which insists upon itself as a landmark . |
| 13 | This oracle speaks of a brother as the instrument of death , which fits with the case as it is yet known . |
| 14 | There also seems to be a stress on the function of bishops which fits with Bethurum Loomis ' view of Wulfstan 's attitude to them late in his life . |
| 15 | The really important task facing all religions is whether these particular categorical assertions can be unpacked in such a way as to reveal a piece of the jigsaw which fits with others . |
| 16 | The six screws at the front of the bridge plate are different to those of a Strat in that each one has a V-shaped groove which fits into a corresponding knife edge on the bridge plate . |
| 17 | This year , BT and IBM plan to market a £3,000 video phone card which fits into a PC . |
| 18 | A grass collection box at the rear is easy to attach and empty : it simply locates on wedge-shaped protrusions under the flap , and is held in place by the flap , which fits into a recess on top of the box . |
| 19 | Instead , the initial implementation will appear as an Ethernet switch called the DragonSwitch , which fits into its existing Access/One hubs . |
| 20 | You can only clean the read/write heads of the floppy disk drives with a special cleaning kit which fits into the drive in the same way as a normal floppy disk . |
| 21 | The Drayton Drain Easy kit consists of a stopper which fits into the cold feed pipe outlet of a cistern and a plug which fits over the end of the open vent pipe to allow , say , a radiator to be removed from a central heating system without draining down the whole central heating system , which could well mean losing all your corrosion inhibitor . |
| 22 | Another way to heat water is to have an electric immersion heater which fits into a ‘ boss ’ on the hot water cylinder . |
| 23 | The thermostat , which fits between the element loops , is usually sold separately — so make sure you have got one . |
| 24 | There is a collar component , plus a nose band which fits across the bridge of the nose . |
| 25 | If the lavatory is too low for an elderly person , a raised polypropylene toilet seat which fits over it , but is easy to remove and to wash , can be very useful , and a chromium-plated hand-grip fixed very securely to the wall at the side of the lavatory can also be helpful . |
| 26 | A condom ( rubber , sheath , johnnie , French letter ) is a thin rubber sheath which fits over the man 's penis so that semen does not penetrate the woman 's vagina or anus during penetrative sex . |
| 27 | The Drayton Drain Easy kit consists of a stopper which fits into the cold feed pipe outlet of a cistern and a plug which fits over the end of the open vent pipe to allow , say , a radiator to be removed from a central heating system without draining down the whole central heating system , which could well mean losing all your corrosion inhibitor . |
| 28 | One of the oddest of the new inventions is the Splashguard , a musical gadget which fits inside your toilet bowl . |
| 29 | At times Levitation attempt to musically shock but it rarely works , ‘ Squirrel ’ has a weird keyboard break which fits in as much as George Bush would at a peace benefit punk gig , but at least they try to bemuse . |
| 30 | Would you like a scrupulously faithful ‘ photographic ’ likeness or something which delves into the soul of the subject ? |