Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [adv] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CASE STUDY 5.1 — MRS Y. For example , Mrs Y. was a nervous anxious woman , whose husband had a cerebral haemorrhage , resulting in a stroke which particularly affected his arm and his speech . |
| 2 | At best it was a snobbery which wholly overlooked his timing , eye and exactitude of judgment and imagery . |
| 3 | Fortunately , during the last few years , there has been a blossoming of research which considerably increases our understanding of how this part of the machinery of planning works . |
| 4 | According to some stock market sources , Ferranti was in talks with Daimler about the possibility of a partnership before the fraud which now threatens its future came to light . |
| 5 | Pierry derives its name from a stratum of flint in the subsoil which reputedly gives its wine a marked flinty taste . |
| 6 | There are other conceptions of consciousness which also owe their existence to the pursuit of certain virtues . |
| 7 | Close your eyes and imagine that you are centred within a sphere of white light which also permeates your body . |
| 8 | ( Please note I have a colour VGA monitor which definitely colours my opinion here ! ) |
| 9 | James Harris , writing in 1751 , saw that ‘ all Conversation passes between Particulars or Individuals ’ , and argued that when , at the formative stages of human language , a speaker met another whose name he did not know he addressed him by using ‘ , that is , Pointing , or Indication by the Finger or Hand , some traces of which are still to be observed as a part of that Action which naturally attends our speaking ’ . |
| 10 | What matters is the record of action which actually followed his visit to Klagenfurt . |
| 11 | These were the copper sheathing which greatly reduced the fouling of their bottoms by weeds and the loss of speed this entailed ; and the carronade which greatly increased their fighting power . |
| 12 | The woman was well built too , and the man had a very large stomach and was wearing a baggy shirt which just covered his belly . |
| 13 | It is a journey in time , which we begin with an experience which completely absorbs our attention but which , at a certain psychological point , demands change . |
| 14 | I wondered if they had simply forgotten to turn off the bulb which annoyingly cast its brightness through a porthole and on to the swirl and rush of white water , and I was half tempted to pull the fuse out of the circuit and thus surround Wavebreaker with darkness , but resisted the impulse . |
| 15 | Troyna and Carrington 's dissatisfaction with simplistic assumptions about the antiracist effects of ‘ culture contact ’ and white students ' ‘ direct experience ’ of black realities , as well as their growing awareness of the limits of rationalist pedagogies , points to a need on their part to break with realist assumptions about the curriculum which still underpin their antiracist projects ( Troyna and Carrington , 1990 ) . |
| 16 | Eight years later , the group still has neither a title to the 32 hectares , nor a formal guarantee of its right to occupy : its tenure rests on a letter from the National Agrarian Institute which simply acknowledges its presence . |
| 17 | It was his ability to achieve that power and well-being which alone justified his despotism . |
| 18 | Maybe the parties foolishly signed a pact which then found its way into the hands of the DTI . |
| 19 | It would be inappropriate , however , to avoid the general subject of birth control , since it was this very question which ostensibly destroyed his ambition to lead the Conservative Party , and indeed , to be prime minister . |
| 20 | Christians seem to believe themselves to be under a pressure to find texts in the bible which directly support their case . |
| 21 | Despite the agreement on the attributions to Rolle in the manuscripts , his authorship has been questioned , partly because of the lack of certainty about the authority of scribal attributions , partly because of the absence in the texts of that sense of joy springing from an inner knowledge of the reality of redemption which generally characterises his work . |
| 22 | This is the ‘ mystic cross ’ within the circle which later found its way into all religions as the Egyptian Cross , the Chinese Tau , the Cross of the Rosicrucians and the Christian cross . |
| 23 | As prices inexorably rise , so the population which actually achieves its goal of a house in the country becomes more socially selective . |
| 24 | From Moana we went down to Hokitika on the Coast , a town which now makes its living largely from the sale of bone and greenstone carving , of high quality and quite reasonable prices . |
| 25 | Originally it probably had nothing to do with Jacob , but was a local tale told in the region around the Jabbok which somehow found its way into his narrative . |
| 26 | The political crisis which vastly increased its recruitment could not help but give it an unusual character . |
| 27 | The US administration has reined back its support from Mrs Aquino after the initial commitment of air support — now widely regarded in Washington as a move which further weakened her authority . |
| 28 | In 1970 he suffered severe brain damage in a road accident which effectively ended his career . |
| 29 | Referring to an automobile accident which seriously injured his son in 1989 , he stated that his family had " been through a lot in the last two years " and that they were " more important than politics and personal ambition " . |
| 30 | in 1938 for a thesis on eighteenth-century English political history ; third , as a tutorial fellow ( 1945 ) who effectively combined a heavy teaching programme with research ; fourth , as senior tutor ( 1946–53 ) , a long period which greatly widened his experience ; and , finally , as an outstanding master from 1957 until his death . |