Example sentences of "which [verb] [pron] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the process that you have to carry out , then is to find a way of transferring your literal translation once you 've worked out word for word what is being said , into terms which mean something to a modern reader or , listener . |
| 2 | I skulked down one side of the garden and went through the arch which led me to a walled garden in the middle of which there was a fountain playing . |
| 3 | Lastly , everyone I 've spoken to on the subject would shorten the length of the bass by cutting off the V-shaped cleft in the headstock , which adds nought to the decorative aspect of the bass . |
| 4 | A longer length of rope was circled around her shoulders and under the table , then over her gorgeous breasts and downwards until her rib cage was completely covered in coiled rope , which fastened her to the hard wooden table . |
| 5 | The critic , too , according to Baudelaire has a right to be independent , and to work without a system ‘ which is a kind of damnation which forces one to a perpetual recantation ’ . |
| 6 | Whilst on bail awaiting trial , he was served with statements of his co-accused which implicated him to a significant extent . |
| 7 | It was at such times , he said , that he was divested of all those characteristics of family , personality and reputation which identified him to the outside world . |
| 8 | Sampras admitted he felt powerless in the face of Ivanisevic 's 13-ace onslaught which consigned him to a 7–6 6–2 defeat . |
| 9 | I wish to suggest , also , that in describing physics , for example , as a particular kind of subject , students are also saying something about themselves , as people : the qualities which attract them to a particular subject are also , to some extent , qualities which are central to their own self-image . |
| 10 | Leaving aside the Prologue and the short Un-accompanied duet for Peter and Ellen which links it to the first act proper , each of the three acts is prefaced by an orchestral " interlude " , and there are three more of these interludes separating the scenes within the acts . |
| 11 | As long as people want to buy cakes which suggest that an old lady wearing a mob-cap is baking them in a Victorian farmhouse , the food firms will continue with dotty deceptions which add nothing to the nutritional value of our food . |
| 12 | This ‘ conveyor belt ’ view of the oceanic crust , which owed something to the earlier ideas of Holmes , was termed seafloor spreading by Dietz , another American geologist . |
| 13 | He developed a distinctive style which owed something to the German illustrator Wilhelm Busch . |
| 14 | For many black people , this is the only form of protest open to them in a society which is racist and discriminatory and which consigns them to the lowest positions in the class structure . |
| 15 | Then he received an offer to appear in Return from the River Kwai , which took him to the steaming jungles of the Philippines . |
| 16 | ‘ Television is fast-moving and relies on much non-verbal communication , such as a quick glance between the characters , which means nothing to a young child , ’ says Dr Sheppard . |
| 17 | In that sense , their political attractiveness is not likely to be as great as that of present policies which emphasize training , selecting and matching , and which address themselves to the individual qualities and characteristics of the teachers themselves . |
| 18 | In 1550 three London gentlemen paid £18,744 11 2d , which entitled them to an annual income of £939 2 5½d from the various properties . |
| 19 | The restaurant is on a lease and I understand that when the lease ran out there was a law which entitled me to a new one . |
| 20 | Which brings me to a small room in an Ambleside hotel and an impossibly short deadline . |
| 21 | Which brings me to a serious point , my dear . |
| 22 | ‘ Which brings me to the final thing we need to discuss . |
| 23 | So it seemed to me , sir , that we need a very very special justification for this all embracing E two policy which brings me to the other thing to say about it as a general principle . |
| 24 | Erm , amateur societies just ca n't exist without loyal officers and those officers have shown their loyalty by s standing again and we know the special circumstances appertaining to the , which brings us to the nitty- gritty now erm you said we have , Tracy , five erm perhaps you 'd better read those names out for us and then I think the best thing to do is to have a closed vote , where we give you all a piece of paper on which you state your nomination folded up so nobody else can see we 'll put them in a bag and then we 'll appoint a couple of to count the vote so that we do not the chairman . |
| 25 | Which brings us to the 1991 Rover 800 Series . |
| 26 | However , this line of argument still leaves unanswered the question why strikes are presented as they are , which brings us to the second of the points Hyman raised . |
| 27 | Which brings us to the Old Bailey . |
| 28 | Which brings us to the next item , the String Quartet No 1 by Srul Irving Glick ( born 1934 ) . |
| 29 | Sequencing is very often a the root of the dyslexic problem , not only in writing and reading , but also in remembering other kinds of sequence , like time sequence , which brings us to the next point . |
| 30 | Which brings us to the blockbusting Italy issue arranged by Morgan Stanley , the US investment bank which put together the first US-style issue in Europe with an offering for New Zealand in August . |