Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] which [verb] [pers pn] " 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 | a considerable collection of under-utilised data , possibly with some characteristics which differentiate them from the main archive collections ; and , |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Many knitters have been put off this stitch by some manuals which instruct them to use a fine nylon thread for the fine yarn . |
| 5 | Well , you had to feed it you know erm Then there was this erm er sort of a whipping in in there was a long trough leading to the knife and then there were some cogwheels which pulled it into the knife . |
| 6 | There are a few clues which enable us to put a " value " on some of this labour . |
| 7 | I use that qualifying phrase ‘ on the whole ’ because there are some foods which allow you to get away with it , some meals in restaurants where you can and indeed have to get away with it , and some people who can get away with it . |
| 8 | I went to the doctor who did some tests which showed I had diabetes . |
| 9 | They drew up some papers which said they legally owned it . |
| 10 | After a few moments which allowed her to gather her thoughts , she replied in a quiet , even voice : |
| 11 | It is suffering such fears which make them more powerful . ) |
| 12 | Er if , if there is a sufficient er indication in these words an indication , a pointer as I say , if there 's a transparency in these words which enables us to see through to the truth then our formulation of it does n't matter all that much . |
| 13 | It is these adaptations which make it such a fascinating bird . |
| 14 | There is an old-fashioned quality to these performances which leaves me wishing for something just a little less well-upholstered , although I can imagine anyone coming to Bach for the first time with this recording could well come away with the impression that old LEAVES is quite simply the ‘ bizz ’ , and I for one would not wish to argue with that ! |
| 15 | He tells us that he ‘ spent months researching ’ ( citations from his letter , The Art Newspaper No. 22 , October 1992 , p.3 ) the texts which he uses in his work at the Neue Galerie at Kassel and he criticises me for ‘ forgetting ’ these texts which took him so long to research , even though they are clearly mentioned in the second , fourth and fifth paragraphs of my article which comprises only seven paragraphs . |
| 16 | No , it is not these articles which cause me concern , but you . ’ |
| 17 | Perhaps it was her own pride reawakening after all these weeks which prompted her to defy Luke 's distaste , albeit only after she was sure he was asleep , moving up close to his back again , lifting an arm and curving it loosely over the side of his body . |
| 18 | It is these muscles which make it possible to stand up straight and bend over to lift objects . |
| 19 | Formally , ordinal scales are asymmetrical in that if A is greater than B , B can not be greater than A. Transitivity still holds in that if A is greater than B , and B is greater than C , then A is greater than C. It is these properties which enable us to order cases along a continuum . |
| 20 | However , development work with social workers produced an analysis of these concepts which suggested they could both be encompassed for most people by the following factors : |
| 21 | Should I then go on to tell her that she should develop these gifts which frighten her ? |
| 22 | In Amalgamemnon , Xorandor , and Verbivore the fictional or mythic nature of the simulations and abstractions we take to be fact is demonstrated by simulations of these simulations which reveal them to be discursive constructs . |
| 23 | something with erm surveying or whatever erm through one of these courses which gives you exemption from their sort of passing their exams or whatever , or |
| 24 | Were it not for the single inconvenient occurrence in the data ( example 22 ) of they as the subject of a singular verb , we could set up an initial list of ‘ invariant ’ environments , which themselves are characteristic of this vernacular system , prior to an investigation of patterns underlying the variability in the many environments which permitted it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Manager of the package and those at the next level in the structure which reference it are reset to their original values for the package being updated and all packages which reference it ( see ( i ) above ) . |
| 27 | Learning hath of late years met with an obstruction in many places which suppresses it from flourishing or increasing … and that is the inquisition upon the press , which prohibits any book from coming forth without an imprimature . |
| 28 | During the First World War a box of matches cost 1d and a matchbox grip 4d : a price just substantial enough to warrant a ‘ Thank you ’ when given free to a pub or grocer 's store customer , and just substantial enough to make money for a stationer or the many charities which sold them . |
| 29 | One of the many things which made them successful was the particular dramatic frame they used . |
| 30 | I could write at greater length about the many qualities which set it way above the average . |