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

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1 For reasons which baffle me , the referee thought that it was Gimbert who was pulling down the scrum .
2 I married Melanie in a rush , for reasons which embarrass me to remember .
3 Moreover , if the moral judgment which we require to make is one which involves our own personal interest we might reasonably look to the relevant law as representing a less partial view of the matter than our own ; for , without attributing to the law a non-partisan impartiality at variance with most available knowledge about the actual political and legal processes , it might still happen to be less partial and more informed than we are when making judgments about cases which affect us closely .
4 paragraphs last five er and six er identify identify the number of options for , for change which allows you to er determine the authority budget and to either go for growth to within the overall particular areas , savings in particular areas , or to make switches of resources between services or within services .
5 Men look only for signs which flatter them .
6 Her routine never varied by a second and Honor thought it was probably the spell of freedom after luncheon which enabled her to remain sane .
7 The latter now hold expectations that they are entitled to know about matters which affect them , their jobs and their lives .
8 An employee was made redundant and handed a letter saying that the cheque for £1000 which accompanied it constituted a ‘ lump sum payment for severance ( including redundancy payment ) , the acceptance of which is final settlement leaving you with no outstanding claim against the Council ’ .
9 Mr Cross walked to the signal box at Girvan and waited until the train was belled off Kilkerran which gave him sufficient time to drive to Pinmore .
10 He also headed a number of Courtaulds ' textile businesses at different times but it was mainly his knowledge of viscose which earned him a reputation as a leading world authority on the fibre .
11 That in itself is some indication of the influence his life and work still bring to bear — and , perhaps , an equal indication of the lack of progress which makes it still necessary .
12 I have chosen to focus on three types of support which help us to address this question : sharing a household , money and practical support .
13 The following case example is of a patient who was admitted to a psychiatric hospital because of reasons which placed her in both categories ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) .
14 the schizophrenic will clearly have a far more intense experience of any given present of the world than we do , since our own present is always part of some larger set of projects which force us selectively to focus our perceptions .
15 Bureaucracies are often credited with a monopoly of expertise which place them in a superior position to lay politicians .
16 It is the individual and the change of heart which prompts him to participate which matters .
17 Ferdinando surprised her by having someone write a letter for him towards the end of March which made it plain that Mrs Browning had fared no better in Rome than in Siena and was very ill .
18 We share His life through the water of baptism which washes us clean and brings new growth into our lives .
19 Griffith was never as mature an artist as Dickens and he was the product of the frontier rather than a literary city but he had a social theory of sorts , a gift to embody values in stories , and a mastery of technique which allowed him to make every setting dramatically and socially convincing .
20 Here the viewing of the sequence is used as a springboard for a set of activities which follow it .
21 I have my doubts about the latter vision since archivists , librarians and museum creators deal with materials which are differentiated by the type of activities which created them , rather than simply by the physical form of those artefacts .
22 In likening natural science to religion , Winch is presenting both as ways of ordering experience by means of rules which tell us how to go on .
23 inherit , preserve and pass on a tradition … they engender modes of life , habits of thought and standards of judgement which render them centres of resistance to crude forces which threaten steady and peaceful evolution …
24 And in France , Irigarayan psychoanalysts attained a degree of visibility which led them to appear , for a short period and to some people , as the whole French women 's liberation movement ( Turkle 1979 , Moi 1987 ) .
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26 Dr Macdonald was consulted on a series of cases which gave him clues to what was to become an accepted theory .
27 The sun on our backs and bright crystals biting into our feet , the printed pain of a sharp finger edge cutting across the joyful soft warmth of the wind ; the loving immediacy of experience which hurls us free from the containment of assessment , order and code .
28 Baker 's sanitary reports on the cholera in Tyneside , and on housing and environmental conditions in Leeds , included a use of maps which brought him to wider notice .
29 They preferred their little aerosols of teargas which gave them a false sense of security .
30 This I did at once with a feeling of self-importance which blinded me to the now obvious fact that she was abrogating her responsibilities and allowing them to devolve , once more , upon her eldest daughter .
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