Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] which [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 The element of time is a chief cause of those difficulties in economic investigations which make it necessary for man with his limited powers to go step by step ; breaking up a complex question , studying one bit at a time , and at last combining his partial solutions into a more or less complete solution of the whole riddle .
2 In both the first stages of the African Mathematics Programmes and the Regional Programmes which followed it , very considerable investment was made in both initial and in-service teacher training and international ‘ Institutes ’ designed to promote a cadre of university staff , teacher trainers and inspectors capable of carrying the momentum of the project .
3 Prior to that date , however , some of the greater landowners , as lords of regality , maintained private courts which gave them opportunities to attract lawyer-freeholders to their service and hence to their political interest .
4 Can we persuade departments of the need to ensure that creation of such directories is mapped , and that the terms of reference and composition of working groups which created them are adequately documented ?
5 And that if such openings ensue that there are supportive rituals which allow us to engage in them without offence and terminate them without insult .
6 The judicial statistics of the late nineteenth century provide more precise information , but they must be carefully assessed in light of the social , economic and administrative settings which produced them .
7 Flashback F M rewinds to December nineteen eighty three , from three meet former radio four Today presenter John Timpson with another of his wacky books which takes him all over the country looking at the unusual including some of the things you never knew existed in North Yorkshire .
8 In the former exhibition , George Mackie , DFC , RDI , RSW , one of this century 's leading graphic artists , confronts the challenge of explaining to layman and bibliophile alike the nature of his ‘ invisible ’ craft and the intellectual and emotional considerations which underline it , and this theme is further elaborated in the accompanying catalogue , Books , mostly scholarly and some Ephemera , designed by George Mackie , which was produced thanks to the generosity of The Stinehour Press , who printed it .
9 She 's totally loyal to Charles , absolutely discreet and sees it as part of her duty to provide Charles with those emotional satisfactions which set him up . ’
10 She connects psychological variables like parental contact and control , extended family and peer care and contact , the girls ' autonomy and responsibility , their hostility and suspicion towards the world , and their early sense of themselves as adult women rather than children , to specific social , political and economic oppressions which affect them .
11 It 's a remarkable musical full of tuneful songs which give it a romantic and charmingly French flavour .
12 There is also a degree of ambiguity in Doisneau 's finest pictures which allows them to be interpreted in a variety of ways .
13 Loretta would be able to recognize the road by the high hedges which flanked it .
14 The fact remains that the debate on contemporary art seems to have entered a new dimension , with doubt being cast wholesale on the quality and content of recent trends , and on the good faith of the public institutions which give them space .
15 Born into a provincial Liberal family in 1858 , Hobson developed unorthodox views which prevented him from securing an academic career in his chosen field of economics .
16 Although the chapel communities of Rational Dissent , largely identified with Unitarianism by the early nineteenth century , were fiercely proud of their constitutional autonomy , there was a framework of cultural institutions which drew them together in book societies , college trusts and publishing networks .
17 The evidence suggests that Cade 's support was fairly widely based , and that the strength of his leadership lay in his ability to act as spokesmen for all the social groups which supported him .
18 By killing off the stable element of the fictional character , she abandons a realist notion of the individual identity and the narrative norms which subtend it , freeing the way for a concept of subjectivity and a form of writing in which these factors do not come into play .
19 We will find ourselves missing golden opportunities , getting ourselves involved in time-consuming , time-wasting activities which distract us from our main goals .
20 The Soviet Union 's massive ‘ second economy ’ is as legendary as the food queues and half empty shops which cause it .
21 His devotion to the ancient universities and the public schools which supplied them — he himself was at Eton and Oxford — was absolute .
22 When national characteristics were talked about a hundred years ago , in the great days of Darwinism and eugenics and so on , it was a pseudo-scientific talk erm implying that there was some blood or racial characteristics which marked one people off from another , and this lay at the bottom of all that talk about Anglo-Saxon racial superiority , which erm led plenty of people in this country to suppose that erm the white peoples of Northern Europe and North America had some characteristics which made them superior to coloured people , and all kind of bogus scientific arguments followed from that .
23 a considerable collection of under-utilised data , possibly with some characteristics which differentiate them from the main archive collections ; and ,
24 mode of argument ( c ) : Relate a text to the historical circumstances which produced it , or in which it is read .
25 Carol H. Smith 's fine study details thoroughly connections between Eliot 's late plays and the earlier dramas and primitive motifs which underlie them .
26 Different customers have different needs which implies they seek different benefits from products they buy .
27 This was followed by four further weeks which trained them to pass on these new skills to other villagers .
28 For the former the sterling area was good for business ; for the latter , an international financial role for Britain involved direct responsibilities which placed it in the central position in government to which it had become accustomed before 1939 but had lost over the war years .
29 We have read the various articles which have appeared in the Press over the last few days which accuse us of cheating in the recent Test series against England .
30 Now in Britain farmers can buy scientific aids which help them to control these inputs .
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