Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The inspectorate in 1990 could only visit , according to the Low Pay Review , some 7 per cent of firms , which averages out at a visit every 14 years .
2 We follow our own way , the way which fits in with the conditions of our time and our country . ’
3 All of which fits in with the differences of stomach contents with which we began .
4 This is a ‘ partial subjectivity : that which fits in with the subject-of-science of the positivist ideology of science ; also , it is a subjectivity which is consistent with the rationalising subject of capitalist economic exchange ’ ( Henriques et al .
5 It also has three good , markedly dissimilar towns in Bayonne , Biarritz and Saint-Jean-de-Luz ; and a little inland , mercifully , a motorway from France into northern Spain which drains off from the coast the nuisance of merely transient cars and people .
6 He regretted the Opposition had not agreed a bipartisan policy and it had to be asked why they had no similar feelings about the forced repatriation of people from Hong Kong to China ‘ which goes on on every bitas big a scale as anything we are contemplating now ’ .
7 The House of Commons , particularly , but also the House of Lords , is often thought of as a club and the exchange of views and striking of bargains which goes on outside the chamber can be and frequently is of much greater significance than the public posturing which goes on within it .
8 Few of the million or so visitors who take advantage of the Garden as a public amenity each year are aware of the scientific heritage behind the Garden , or indeed of the high level of scientific work which goes on behind the scenes today .
9 All these are not merely parts of our descriptive model ; we assume that they correspond very directly to aspects of the activity which goes on in the mind of speakers ; by contrast the relation of instantiation which links particular items of the English vocabulary and the elements E and P is metalinguistic , since in any particular use of a linguistic structure the word-meanings which are present , supported of course by the word-forms which are the overt carriers of the meanings , are the Es and the Ps , rather than being related to them .
10 There are many who are surprised to discover that the words you see before you have been brought to you with little electronic influence beyond that which goes on within the brains of the writer and reader .
11 ‘ There is a main road soon , which goes up to the pass , but it has no cover . ’
12 It is a link which goes back to the Bronze Age and was common throughout the British Isles in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries .
13 The Library Association is deeply concerned that the imposition of these bans constitutes a major breach of the traditional principle that public libraries should be a neutral and non-partisan service , a principle which goes back to the beginning of the public libraries in the middle of the nineteenth century .
14 He charts an unfolding if uncertain logic which goes back to the way in which the welfare state was put together after the war , as pieces were tacked on in a rather haphazard way to existing state institutions .
15 Man too has a mechanism of mimicry which goes back to the baby in the cradle answering its mother 's smile , older than any utilization for learning how others feel or how to pick up skills or even for play , and which can get out of control in neurotic echolalia and echopraxia .
16 He will make a recommendation which goes back to the Department of the Environment , who will make the final decision as to whether the building should be listed .
17 The descent to the south passes the relics of an abandoned lead mine and arrives at Clouds Gill to join the old mine road which goes down past the limekilns to The Street and the waiting car .
18 Between the admirable houses in the so-called Quartier de la Barre , which goes down to the harbour mouth , and the sandy beach , a dike has been built up , twelve or fifteen feet high , to protect the town from the waves .
19 The other would allow the smart to inherit the Earth ( plus a legacy from their wealthy parents ) and console us with the exhortation to work harder if we want more , which goes down like a glass of sand in the unemployment deserts .
20 You will be asked whether you want an S or a P trap , which often causes amusement : an S trap fits to a soil pipe in the floor , and a P trap to a soil pipe which goes out through the wall .
21 All model ship in the first quarter of next year , except the 755 , which goes out of the door the following quarter .
22 Keep to the bottom of the small valley rather than following the track which goes off to the left .
23 The result is an oxygen linkage and a molecule of water which goes off in the sap .
24 Tepilit is led by the askaris out of the small police station to a waiting van , which drives off down the track in a billowing cloud of dust .
25 Sentence ( 2 ) is connected to ( 1 ) , for instance , by the phrase " for such reasons " , which refers back to the reasons listed in ( 1 ) , as well as by the fact that the " dream vision convention " is recognisable as an aspect of " a literary work " referred to in ( 1 ) .
26 NI takes a different subject every month , making its a valuable part-work which builds up into a library on development , a handy source of reference .
27 Almost opposite this is a road which turns off to the right down to Rabaçal ( 64km ) at a height of 1,070m .
28 This does not imply that this sociological approach would not be interested in the influences which inhibit some parents from looking after their children in a manner which lives up to the standards set by the rest of society .
29 It is not every failure to comply with law or every constitutional and non-constitutional short cut which adds up to an approach to powers which give rise to questions of legitimacy .
30 Which adds up to the Eclipse doing things your way , not vice versa .
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