Example sentences of "[n mass] which [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ballot was carried out to coincide with a debate among Euro-MPs which also agreed to the ban in principle . |
| 2 | With the decline in the herring fishing , followed by a complete ban on all herring catching in an endeavour to build up stocks again , the pelagic catchers turned their attentions to mackerel which hitherto had been despised as food in the North of Scotland . |
| 3 | The French art world is already handicapped by the droit de suite of 3% which also exists in seven other European countries but not in Britain , payable to an artist and his relatives for up to fifty years after his death . |
| 4 | The choice between the two main approaches to forecasting demand for HE — aggregate and component — is often dictated by the availability of data which also affects whether the university and other sectors should be treated separately . |
| 5 | These criticisms take two main forms , the first is the difficulty in actually finding data which unequivocally support any of the hypotheses , the second is the problem of deciding exactly what is meant by arousal . |
| 6 | ‘ We had the good fortune to have fixed ropes in place all the way down but there were gusts of 100mph which literally lifted us up off our feet and threw us back down again , ’ said Harry . |
| 7 | Manuel and Eva clearly loved their dogs , and the native Bajan Blackbelly sheep which also wandered into the bar ( although one young lamb was still being housetrained ! ) . |
| 8 | At Edinburgh 's Institute for Animal Physiology and Genetics , human genes were introduced into mice and sheep which then produced valuable human proteins , including easily retrievable blood-clotting agents and insulin . |
| 9 | A PLOT 70 15ft which just accommodates three people at a time hardly seems a typical garden to open to the public . |
| 10 | Members of the Association recognized , for example , potential dangers arising from the loss of aristocratic leadership , and the rise of a cultural market.place which urgently necessitated the use of literary culture to bring about an apparently spontaneous consent to a regenerated leadership . |
| 11 | Returning , I found five panicking fish which then turned black and ‘ died ’ . |
| 12 | As we watched , peering through the mist , he hooked an enormous fish which almost pulled the rod from out of his hands . |
| 13 | • Mollies , Guppies and barbs are among the common community fish which really need a higher proportion of vegetable matter in their diet than average fish . |
| 14 | The barbels are long and are a great temptation to other fish which sometimes pick at them and damage them , P. pictus Is sensitive to poor water conditions and this often manifests itself in the degeneration of the barbels and the membrane between the fin rays . |
| 15 | Exports had doubled from 1700 to 1740 to a value of £1,164,000 which generally held steady until the 1760s . |
| 16 | She could not have brought herself to do as some did , step in and squash her body against the bodies of those who formed the dense wad of people which already bulged from the open doors . |
| 17 | Their leader , Tran Van Giau , used extreme methods to enforce compliance from the people which probably went beyond the policy of Ho . |
| 18 | These usually project unpleasant images of older people which subtly undermine their personal value and worth . |
| 19 | The major changes in their economic position which began in the late nineteenth century and have lasted until the present , essentially are responsible for creating the dependence of younger people which now appears such a natural part of human life . |
| 20 | Fitzgerald found that for some books , an increase to six or even nine samples actually produced means which systematically departed even further from the population mean — the true overall difficulty level , Only after the number of samples taken approached or exceeded the critical number did the mean of the samples agree with the population mean . |
| 21 | One of the victims of the recent art market recession is the ‘ national ’ sale , including those Scandinavian , Scottish , Irish and Belgian painting sales which briefly flourished in the late 1980s . |
| 22 | This is highlighted by the high performance of Axminster sales which now account for the majority . |
| 23 | So , too , are the increasing number of so-called closing down sales which often take place for a few days or weeks at the end of a shop lease . |
| 24 | Lake Mývatn has the privilege of being the only European breeding station for Barrow 's goldeneye , a duck of American origin , and in the River Laxa which flows from Mývatn to the sea , you are assured of seeing the beautiful Harlequin duck , another New World species which also has its only European outpost here . |
| 25 | The galeaspids are a group of about 40 species which superficially resemble cephalaspids in having a large , flattened and solid head skeleton which encloses a complex brain and inner ear ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 26 | The several carnivores , such as the badger and the skunk , which are noticeably sluggish for their size , are species which either do not need speed for capturing prey or have alternative means of self-defence . |
| 27 | But there is evidence that species which wholly abandon sex are short-lived on an evolutionary time-scale . |
| 28 | Other species which commonly occur are Agrostis canina , Deschampsia cespitosa and Nardus . |
| 29 | There are occasional species which apparently mate for life ( though imagine the opportunities for adultery on all those long-distance migratory swims and night flights ) ; but on the whole we see merely the exercise of power , dominance and sexual convenience . |
| 30 | The paper concludes with some speculations about the history of the species which inevitably raises questions about relationships within the genus Nucella . |