Example sentences of "[noun] which [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the rise of capitalism in a country and the religion which predominates in that country . |
| 2 | The socially undesirable characteristics which advocates of this movement felt were inheritable and should be eliminated were , as always , strongly influenced by contemporary social imperatives . |
| 3 | We could eventually remove from human life all the characteristics which make for human distress — criminality , war-making , and the like . ’ |
| 4 | The initial study of cancer cell behaviour can only be done with a living animal in order to define those ‘ test tube ’ characteristics which correlate with uncontrolled growth and spread of tumour cells within the whole body . |
| 5 | Many companies currently in existence have ‘ objects clauses ’ in their memoranda of association which run to several pages in an attempt to ensure that the company will have the power to do anything the directors feel it needs to do . |
| 6 | In 1978 the Mariana Islands ( excluding Guam ) had opted for status as a self-governing commonwealth of the USA , and in 1982 the FSM and the Marshall Islands had signed compacts of free association which provided for internal sovereignty and US economic support in return for continuing US control of their defence and foreign policies . |
| 7 | Bears , squirrels and badgers are some of the many animals which overwinter in this way . |
| 8 | Animals which live in open country , such as the African bush , tend to have their fovea elongated into a strip . |
| 9 | One of the problems that can develop through the feeding of wild animals is that of dependency , particularly in the case of those animals which live in urban areas where natural foraging opportunities are few and far between . |
| 10 | Nearby is Sea World , the home of sea lions , killer whales and other marine animals which perform before entranced audiences . |
| 11 | In his very first book his admonitions about the indiscriminate use of stock , even of fine stock , were news , and good news : Do not spoil the special taste of the gravy obtained in the roasting of beef , veal , mutton or pork by adding to it the classical stock which gives to all meats the same deplorable taste of soup . |
| 12 | And carrots which looked like impacted wisdom teeth crossed with a fantasy of Edgar Allan Poe 's . |
| 13 | ( Even with the economy-wide agreements in Sweden in the 1983 negotiations no settlement could be arrived at with the union side which insisted upon separate industry level negotiations being conducted . ) |
| 14 | Newton did n't have to be a scientist either to realise what his two goals had done for a Chelsea side which played with impressive self belief considering its young personnel . |
| 15 | They name the side which lost to Danish club Slangerup last week . |
| 16 | I have enclosed a simple card which explains in more detail how ORT works . |
| 17 | Crisis management apart , there is the constant burden of casework which calls for much reading of detailed dossiers before reaching decisions on individual cases . |
| 18 | He had paid very little attention to the section of the survey briefing which dealt with native flora and fauna . |
| 19 | He stressed the difficulties facing the coalition which according to one opinion poll , has the support of 42 per cent of Nicaraguans . |
| 20 | Apart from the use of referenda , which are a regular feature of politics in the United States , Switzerland and some other countries , jury service , as an obligation which may in principle fall upon any citizen , is almost the sole vestige of direct citizen participation in law-making and administration which survives in modern democracies . |
| 21 | But Roosevelt was close to death , and the British had to wait another two years until the " brain-wave " at last arrived in the form of discreet signals from the US State Department — signals which led in due course to the European Recovery Programme and Marshall Aid . |
| 22 | In a contest which arose from such proceedings about five years ago a Man was killed . |
| 23 | Abu Dhabi has major oil reserves which account for some 8% of |
| 24 | As the House will be aware , on 29 November , three child care officers formerly employed by Leicestershire county council were convicted on extremely serious charges of sexual assault and other acts of violence which occurred in three Leicestershire children 's homes between 1973 and 1986 . |
| 25 | Equally important is the contrast between the fault-bounded east coast which plunges to deep water in the Minches and the shallow sea bed west of the islands ; a submerged platform which extends to one of the most extensive areas of continental shelf in Britain . |
| 26 | The ES servers double the capacity of the previous top-end MIServer which came with 12 CPUs . |
| 27 | The main feature of this system was the relatively small and , on trend , declining proportion of public revenue which came from direct taxation . |
| 28 | A MUSIC club which puts on classical music concerts is facing an uncertain future due to the withdrawal of its grant from Braintree District Council . |
| 29 | MENSA , the organisation for people with very high IQs , started an investment club which bought from one sharedealer an American OTC stock Biotech Capital Corporation . |
| 30 | Sitting in one corner of the moulded seat which ran round three sides of the cockpit , she bit into a sandwich , suddenly ravenous . |