Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] which the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He even rejected an emotional plea for delay which the senior French envoy made on his knees , after which the thwarted ambassador hurried back to Inverness and began to burn his official papers . |
| 2 | Severe actions may be sanctioned against Ireland because it is naturally cursed , or because it needs extreme measures to bring it the fruits of reformation ( desired by God ) , or because it holds some particular horror for England which the English will deserve unless they do something about it . |
| 3 | The SUBJECT AS AFORESAID proviso reminds the haulier that Overdrive 's rates are not based on accepting liability for matters which the prudent haulier should insure against . |
| 4 | This subsection does not , of course , affect any liability for negligence which the defendant may incur qua occupier of the premises or keeper of the animal , but it is thought that the keeping of guard dogs is consistent with the occupier 's duty to trespassers , provided at least some warning of their presence is given . |
| 5 | It will be usual practice for information which the Social Work Department receives after 1st April 1989 to be shared in a responsible and sensitive way , with the client to whom it relates , UNLESS the person providing it specifically requests that we do not do so . |
| 6 | They are quite adaptable to different illumination levels , however , and shortly after introduction to the aquarium may undergo colour changes ; these colour changes represent either the production or the loss of pigments which the corals produce to protect themselves from excess ultraviolet light . |
| 7 | The process of adopting the programme of legislation which the White Paper had originally outlined is almost complete . |
| 8 | The terms structure and structural are crucial to the programme of research which the Thèses proposed on both literature and language . |
| 9 | Nevertheless there was a central thread running through the JCPT report which linked it to the feasibility study of merger which the CHC had commissioned . |
| 10 | As the army of America waited month after month , in cantonments round Cadiz , whole regiments became infected — a concentration of malcontents which the war minister warned would destroy the monarchy . |
| 11 | But this ‘ set ’ is the product not of equivalences , nor of violation of an external norm , but of the violation of norms which the text itself creates . |
| 12 | In a way , his approach reminds me of Rob Armstrong 's , in that he views the guitar first and foremost as a sound-producer , rather than a beautiful piece of furniture which the maker hopes is going to sound good . |
| 13 | On other occasions in a , in a different though I think related way , erm Proust shows that a phrase such as , for instance , ‘ the Church of St. Hilaire ’ is a piece of shorthand which the intellect employs to define and to stabilise and to make easy to deal with what is at the sense level a complicated and continually changing reality . |
| 14 | However , there may be another implication echoing the age-old drive of women to use the night for expressing a forceful , magical side of nature which the social customs of day prohibit . |
| 15 | The clear lesson here is that the IT archive , whatever form it should take , is not only the carrier of information which the future historian would want to use , but that the very form , structure and dynamic of that archive as it is created and used will make a vital contribution to an understanding of the social relationships , the culture and the power structures of the late twentieth century . |
| 16 | Anselm seems to have treated Rufus with more generosity and trustfulness than he showed to Henry I. This can probably be explained by his greater experience of the unreliability of kings ; perhaps also by a certain attractive openness in Rufus which the prudent and wily Henry lacked . |
| 17 | ‘ There is no effect in nature which the Author of nature can not bring to pass by more ways than one . ’ |
| 18 | At a press conference in Belfast today the group also called for immediate action on measures which the Opsahl report had shown enjoyed widespread support , such as the immediate introduction of a Bill of Rights . |
| 19 | Then , in my view the recommendations of the committee and their observations on their draft Bill may form a valuable aid to construction which the courts should not be inhibited from taking into account . |
| 20 | The power resources of bureaucracies combine with what Wright has called the ‘ political incapacity of non-bureaucrats ’ ( 1978 , p. 225 ) — that is , the inability of political institutions to exercise the control and direction of bureaucracy which the classical liberal theory of the state presumes — so as to give bureaucracy a prominent role in policy-making . |
| 21 | It provides a weighty diplomatic instrument in an overall European policy aimed at maximising influence over that part of Europe which the USSR does not control . |
| 22 | The only part of France which the French kings could claim as independent territory was restricted to north-eastern France and what is now Belgium . |
| 23 | In the present case we have the advantage of evidence which the judge lacked : in particular the mother 's statement and the Official Solicitor 's report . |
| 24 | Pupils often volunteer to continue after school with their project and practical work or they take advantage of links which the Department has built up with local industry and further education establishments . |
| 25 | In the end , the radical change of direction which the country took under Mrs Thatcher was the result not merely of the party donning a new suit of clothes but of the electorate despairing at the failure of thirty years of consensus politics to do anything to arrest the inexorable process of national decline . |
| 26 | Er Ministers are often in a very grave difficulty these days , if they do n't listen er er they 're accused o o of being autocratic , i i if they do listen , er then they 're accused of making u-turns , well even the gathering swine did n't have to make a u-turn , a change of direction would have been quite sufficient and I welcome the change of direction which the Home Secretary ha has made erm the objectives of this Bill are I think to be commended , but it is be perfectly clear from the outset that you ca n't combat crime by antagonising everyone concerned with the enforcement of law and order , the police authorities , the police and the magistrates . |
| 27 | The landlord requires security of income for a long period , and this is specially desirable where the landlord is an investing institution which pays out pensions or insurance policies , because a period of twenty-five years ' secure income facilitates the actuarial calculations necessary in order to determine the level of payments which the landlord can make . |
| 28 | I will suggest in this section of the essay that the reason why the antithesis between liberal principles and contract theory is so frequently overlooked lies in a second level of debate which the discussion of liberalism masks . |
| 29 | For the moment we should merely note the high level of dissatisfaction which the general marriage and divorce figures imply . |
| 30 | Referring back to that list of priorities led me to address this thorny issue once more , only this time less from the point of view of a recording being merely compared with other recordings ( or some mean recorded standard ) , than the level of execution which the scores themselves would appear to invite . |