Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] which [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present stance involves banning the people of the province from its ranks yet drawing up policies for them which will radically affect their lives . |
| 2 | We see our own dissatisfactions , our own pointless , unfocused longings in her and we are forced , because we are shown the terrible thing that happens to her , to question aspects of ourselves which might otherwise remain unexamined . |
| 3 | He played that aspect of himself which could well have been in a war — after all he had trained long enough for it — and the result was the sort of performance he was to deliver several times in his film career and none the worse for that : professional , convincing . |
| 4 | That term was automatically held to be satisfied when the effects on the interests of the individual were felt to be serious enough to warrant procedural protection , and this was so whether the context was deprivation of an office , expulsion from a trade association , the destruction of one 's property , or the loss of something which would juridically be called a privilege . |
| 5 | And so you need to think of something which will actually keep people listening . |
| 6 | He is unable to ‘ switch off ’ his analytic mind , for he becomes possessed of something which can best be described as ‘ special knowledge ’ . |
| 7 | Rowden is a fine school and it 'll give him plenty of sports and develop a side of him which could never see the light of day in Ireland . |
| 8 | This article , then , is motivated by a dissatisfaction or a discomfort with most of what passes for television theory : the doubts about the existence of anything which can usefully be called television theory are real . |
| 9 | But there 's something in even the very best of us which would really prefer to take the easy way out , if that 's at all possible . |
| 10 | It is submitted on behalf of the Attorney-General that there was no delay , either in the investigation of the complaint against the respondent or in the bringing of proceedings against him which could properly be said to amount to an abuse of the process of the court . |
| 11 | First , again , Nozick relies on the argument , internalist or not , to provide the independent support for something which would otherwise look like a counter-intuitive consequence of his theory . |
| 12 | The poem is rich in language , vivid in imagery , mysterious and enchanting in its overall effect and uses to its best advantage various language features to evoke an atmosphere of grandeur and magnificence conveying the author 's passion for something which would otherwise remain a mere vehicle to the reader . |
| 13 | The concept of differentiated costs as one which must necessarily emerge from services driven by the assessment of individual need . |
| 14 | A survey conducted in the United States in 1981 revealed that directors considered the feature that made a company most attractive as a take-over target was that it had ‘ excellent management ’ and the majority of respondents regarded management inefficiency as something which would actually put them off . |
| 15 | William Wordsworth described the river Duddon as something which would always be recognized by succeeding generations : |
| 16 | ‘ No prudent Chancellor can ever regard taxation as something which can only ever be reduced , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ‘ No prudent Chancellor can ever regard taxation as something which can only ever be reduced , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ No prudent Chancellor can ever regard taxation as something which can only ever be reduced , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Theorists of the ‘ regulation ’ school , such as Aglietta ( 1979 ) , regard Fordism as something which will increasingly be con fined to the less developed industries , themselves tending to be located within less developed areas of the world economy , as capitalism becomes ever more institutionalized . |
| 20 | Their history , the interests of their members and the circumstances of conflict in Northern Ireland do not permit the evolution of Orangeism into something which would still have meaning if it abandoned its evangelical Protestant symbols and stated beliefs . |
| 21 | ‘ It bothers me that , as a designer , I take natural resources and turn them into something which will eventually be thrown away to become landfill . |
| 22 | Although he died in 1807 , he had by then planned the ‘ canalization ’ of the three rivers and the construction of the walls alongside them which can still be seen today . |
| 23 | If the explanation for the violent outburst lies in something which might understandably lead a person to be so angry as to lose self-control , then this supplies an added reason for mitigating the offence and the sentence . |
| 24 | She had agreed — no , worse than that , she had volunteered , to help him in something which could ultimately lose her the club . |
| 25 | You 're tangled up in something which will probably end in humiliation . |
| 26 | Sometimes this results in a major objection being reduced to one which can easily be dealt with . |
| 27 | Thomas Walsingham , who stood in the St Albans tradition of writing history from the baronial point of view , wrote a ferociously hostile attack on him which may well reflect popular feeling . |
| 28 | This expectation has rather been confirmed than otherwise by the superimposition in the last two years of an element of graduation in the contribution , the additional yield of which for many years to come will mainly help to finance the standard pension but which creates a right to additions to it which will gradually build up over the next forty years on an actuarial basis . |
| 29 | Defence against acqua alta concentrates on the restructuring of the Lido , Malamocco and Chioggia entrances to the Lagoon , and the positioning of mobile barriers across them which would normally lie flat on the sea bed . |