Example sentences of "which [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very often the chair in which the dead person used to sit most when they were alive , becomes a chair in which no-one else sits . |
| 2 | But the Rector , the Rev William Mompesson , stood firm and declared a kind of quarantine , setting bounds round the parish beyond which no-one was supposed to pass . |
| 3 | President Truman did so in a campaign which no-one expected him to win , and he won . |
| 4 | I have shaken hands with a great many friends , but there are some things I want to know which no-one seems able to explain . |
| 5 | Mr Rumback either read to them from books , which no-one heard because the words got caught in his big moustache , or slept . |
| 6 | He went on to top our list of goalscorers for each of his first five seasons ( another record ) and , between September 1929 and April 1935 , played in 180 league and 15 FA Cup matches for us , scoring a fabulous 153 League and 12 FA Cup goals to establish a tally which no-one in the club has ever approached before or since . |
| 7 | For the next fourteen days I spent all the daylight hours either on the forest road , on which no-one but myself ever set foot , or in the jungle , and only twice during that period did I get near the tigress . |
| 8 | Quite a few ‘ do n't likes ’ from around the office on opening the carton ; the wider front , squarer edges and lack of the traditional Fender rake back for the control panel take most of the criticism , although Fender 's spindly new knobs , which no-one here much cares for , received their share of whinges . |
| 9 | An intrinsic and notorious part of the '70s rock scene , Kiss created a personal performing arena for themselves which no-one else dared to enter , with their outrageous costumes and make-up , extravagant stage presentations and riffy pop-metal songs . |
| 10 | Among his sacred possessions were an enormous club which could raise the slain to life again ; a magic harp whose music made its listeners forget sorrow ; an inexhaustible cauldron from which no-one is turned away hungry ; and two marvellous sheep — one eternally roasting , the other forever feeding in readiness for slaughter . |
| 11 | I saw several brand new technical institutes , complete with Japanese-equipped language laboratories , which no-one knew how to use , and libraries stacked with scientific books . |
| 12 | JUST AS the world succumbed to the vile peace and love mumblings of ‘ Sgt Pepper ’ and San Francisco flower-in-the-hair wearers , former session hack Lou Reed , art bod John Cale and friends teamed up with foghorn-voiced German model Nico and made the album without which no-one from The Jesus And Mary Chain to Ride would have a clue . |
| 13 | That only perhaps left him one alternative — an ultimate alternative which no-one , not even Carnelian , could reasonably expect him to invoke , let alone soon … |
| 14 | It is unfair to Moniz because he probably would have developed the technique of prefrontal leucotomy anyway and it is unfair on Jacobsen because the substance of Jacobsen 's work was that frontal lobe removal produced a severe cognitive deficit which no-one would wish on another person . |
| 15 | It was like in films when people have a heart attack — they mumble something which seems very important to them but which no-one can understand . |
| 16 | More positive thinking survived in one or two parts of the monolithic building in Queen Anne 's Gate , but the overall impression gained by outside observers was of a dispirited department in which no-one really seemed to know what could be done about crime in general and the prisons in particular . |
| 17 | Added together , market forces generate an overall result which no-one can predict . |
| 18 | So notices for insurance premia arrive at Trivandrum in South India , say , printed only in Hindi , which no-one in the area can decipher . |
| 19 | Do not keep saying to yourself ‘ But how can it be like that ? ’ because you will get … into a blind alley from which no-one has yet escaped . ’ |
| 20 | Early reports played down the seriousness of the incident , in which no-one was injured . |
| 21 | Security was intensified in preparation for Bush 's visit ; there were six bomb attacks , in which no-one was injured , against US targets in Athens on July 16-17 . |
| 22 | I had seen things which no-one should ever see . |
| 23 | It would be counter-productive to include a clause which no-one really regards as appropriate to the particular circumstances of the firm just because that clause is commonly found in the precedent books : better by far to leave it out until agreement on a satisfactory alternative can be agreed . |
| 24 | Tom Jones says that Central has given him the opportunity to do a musical show which no-one else is doing . |
| 25 | Which no-one escapes from ; |
| 26 | I mean there 's no earthly use doing a beautiful piece of evaluation erm which no-one wants to know about at the end , or publishing something that has no affect . |
| 27 | But something I would like to say , which no-one has touched on at all ; we 've all been talking about the laws that affect women and equal opportunities , and no-one has mentioned anything about the horrendous hours that are worked in parliament making it not impossible , but extremely difficult for women to become politicians working in parliament to be the people who make the laws , to be the people who can actually affect women 's roles in society erm everyone seems to accept the fact that our own parliament , totally dominated by men , and the sort of hours that only men can work , making it extremely difficult for women . |
| 28 | Along with luck , this is the scarce commodity which no one in the music business can manufacture and which everyone in the industry is looking for . |
| 29 | It set West Indies a target of 225 , which everyone knew was about three hundred too low , and inevitably Greenidge and Haynes began with a century partnership . |
| 30 | He describes ufology as ‘ a war zone in which everyone desperately defends their own theory and hates everyone else . ’ |