Example sentences of "[noun pl] which [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The upper class has clear distinctive characteristics which give it such a sense of identity : not only its ownership of productive property ( the fundamental and defining feature ) but also its distinctive culture and status hierarchy . |
| 3 | To provide training in research methods which makes them capable subsequently of assuming the role of independent scholars and research workers at the highest level . ’ |
| 4 | Unfortunately the major forage grass species have complex life-cycles which make them unsuitable for some experiments . |
| 5 | In other words , it is easily reduced to the most basic units which makes it simple for computers to process . |
| 6 | So then you start thinking about visual images which give you this impression of power and menace , something like the Nuremberg Rallies of the 1930s , and use that as the basis of your inspiration . |
| 7 | Nathan waited patiently for the remissions which made it possible for the ruined mind to function for a time ; he sat by the sick man , who by now was almost blind ; the paralysis was , after all , general . |
| 8 | Its authority is clearly based on Smart 's intimacy with the artist 's work and the many aspects which influenced it social ( highly important in this case ) , artistic and intellectual . |
| 9 | Furthermore , there is little about splits in the various branches which makes them understandable as a product of conflict between moderate younger activists and older extremists . |
| 10 | She vents her spleen on the war , the blackout , the Zeppelins which made it imperative to shut the shutters at night ; the price of groceries ; the petty bourgeois ; the landlords and the concierges . |
| 11 | But BodyShop 's appearance is more a reflection of accounting curiosities which gave it such a huge return on capital last year : likewise fire extinguisher company Nu-Swift , whose remarkable figures last year put it at the top of the ROC table . |
| 12 | It is these adaptations which make it such a fascinating bird . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Maj. Miguel Nieto , the Chief of Operations of the National Police , was dismissed on June 18 and his immediate arrest was ordered , following government investigations which held him responsible for the failure of the security forces to quell the disturbances . |
| 15 | The party has abandoned policies which made it unelectable in the 1980s . |
| 16 | When walking the fine line between bad taste and biting satire , offending your audience and getting them to laugh at themselves , Wayans is guided by only one credo : ‘ It 's our own imperfections which make us funny . |
| 17 | Now let A , B be general , and let the equivalent transformations which give them canonical form be PAQ , RBS , where P , Q , R , S are non-singular . |
| 18 | Assuming he was in trouble , he stopped to give him a lift … but the attacker threatened him with an iron bar and forced him to take tablets which made him unconscious . |
| 19 | Non tax-exempt institutions will accordingly be attracted by investments which offer them franked investment income which they can use to cover dividend payments to their own shareholders . |
| 20 | Night Goblin and Forest Goblin shamans have special rules which make them different from other Goblin shamans . |
| 21 | There are no animal derived ingredients in any of the products which make them ideal for vegetarians and all formulations meet with BAUV standards . |
| 22 | With empowerment you can create organisational cultures which make it easier to delegate , but to some extent it must come from the subordinates as well . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Spain erects huge barriers which make it difficult , if not impossible , for vehicle and component imports to enter that country , ’ Mark said . |
| 24 | During my sheltered youth I had two fleeting experiences which gave me some indication that I was not alone . |
| 25 | Made in 100 per cent cotton , they have adjustable hooks and loops which make them easy to put on , an extra cotton inner pad for more absorbency , are washable and reusable . |
| 26 | Labour has not only neutralised most of those policy areas which make it unpopular ; more importantly , it has virtually erased the opportunity for Tories to accuse Labour of being run by the ‘ loony left ’ . |
| 27 | It comes on two CDs which makes it cheaper than either the Philips or Harmonia Mundi sets , and has a choir in Collegium Musicum 90 who for clarity of diction , and intense musicality , surpass all other versions with the exception of Eliot Gardiner 's Monteverdi Choir . |
| 28 | The result is that all the other countries which buy US manufactured aircraft are fitted with poor quality CVR installations unless , like new Zealand , they go out of their way to require ‘ hot mike ’ systems . |
| 29 | During the eighties the holders of debt from those countries which found it difficult to make interest payments found it impossible to take effective remedial action . |
| 30 | As with the higher grades of the French military , these man-management skills of the top-notch graduates are attractive to companies which consider it worthwhile ‘ buying out ’ graduates of state ‘ grandes écoles ’ . |