Example sentences of "[noun] which [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon which first drove the colonials to independent action ; war exposed the impotence of Spain as an imperial power and revealed her incapacity to supply her colonies with merchandise . |
| 2 | Speaking about the resurgence of interest in religion which many people see in the world today , the Chief Rabbi , Jonathan Sacks , asks " Whether religious revival might be not a refreshing breeze but a destructive hurricane . " |
| 3 | They were known and named — Nero the persecuting tyrant , oppressive tax systems , organised religion which institutionalised sexual promiscuity , systems of justice loaded against the defenceless and weak , customs which outlawed lepers — as well as individuals who misused power for their own ends . |
| 4 | Other pervasive images are those of death , contrasting light and dark and the elation of speed which all contribute to the mysterious and obsessional setting the author creates . |
| 5 | A prime example this year has been the committee 's extensive concern with the prospect of standard fees being introduced in the magistrates ' courts , with the risks which that will bring to the most junior members of the profession . |
| 6 | It is to protect non-smokers from the health risks of passive smoking — risks which all those concerned with the welfare of employees , or the public at large , are having to face up to . |
| 7 | It is far better to look upon the purpose of such negotiations as to define the risks which each party is willing to accept , and what benefits or rewards he requires from the other party in order to accept those risks . |
| 8 | The practitioner is responsible for bringing to the process a wide range of knowledge and theoretical perspectives about the kinds of needs and risks which older people may face , and the ways in which these are mediated by gender , race , class , life history , and circumstances of a person 's life . |
| 9 | Those who manage the company do not own the company , If the managers of the company display the characteristics which economic theory credits to all other individuals they will be concerned to maximize their own utility rather than the profits of the company . |
| 10 | Henry Maudsley in the 1860s , for example , developed the notion that masturbatory insanity was characterised by intense self-regard and conceit , extreme perversion of feeling and corresponding deranging of thought , and later by failure of intelligence , nocturnal hallucinations , and suicidal and homicidal propensities , all characteristics which doomed the boy to social disaster . |
| 11 | Every culture contains a large number of guidelines which direct conduct in particular situations . |
| 12 | Noreen would come on first as before with her song — and then be joined by ‘ Mary ’ who would take the melody while Noreen harmonised and then Maria would conclude with a solo — usually ‘ The Last Rose of Summer ’ — and they would finish together with ‘ Let Him Go Let Him Tarry ’ , another of the O'Neil family songs which both knew backwards . |
| 13 | There is one final point regarding the changing forms of association which many of these early sociologists saw as characteristic of the new social order . |
| 14 | Funded by the Merseyside Development Corporation the NLBA is a sister organisation to the city 's Parliament Street Industrialists Association which two years ago celebrated a 73pc reduction in crime after they coordinated to defeat criminal activity . |
| 15 | He expounded to his clergy advanced books of original thinking which most of them were never likely to see or read . |
| 16 | Over her traditional ‘ pollera ’ , the wide , thick skirt which indigenous women wear , she has the bright blue overall of the CDA staff . |
| 17 | Instinctively she took a step away from him , her senses reeling as she felt the blood drain away from her face , and heard the buzzing in her ears which forewarned her that she was near to fainting . |
| 18 | Until these attitudes change , a lot of teeth — and their owners — are going to be subjected to grief which many of them could be spared . |
| 19 | The Stanford School of Medicine ( which has some 8000 animals in stock ) and the University of California-San Francisco claim that ‘ the legislation creates a great irony by increasing the number of animals which each year will be euthanased instead of being transferred to research facilities . |
| 20 | You may find that the animals which first come to the microhabitat are eaten by animals which arrive later . |
| 21 | The review model came with a colour SuperVGA display , a low-radiation CTX monitor , plus a 1Mb Trident VGA card which all adds up to a fine non-dedicated server . |
| 22 | For Study 4 the total number of films watched in the judgment phase was slightly reduced as was the mean length of a film in order to allow the full stimulus set to appear in the recognition phase , this effectively doubles the amount of information each subject gives in the recognition phase , fortunately this was a part of the experiment which previous subjects had generally found agreeably challenging and intrinsically motivating . |
| 23 | It was , after all , the conquest and settlement of Siberia in the late sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries which more than anything else — at least in terms of territorial aggrandizement — originally transformed the land-locked mediaeval Tsardom of Muscovy into the mighty Russian Empire , giving the government in Moscow and then St Petersburg virtually unchallenged , absolute sway over the whole of northern Eurasia and its polyglot peoples . |
| 24 | ‘ They already have enough to put up with the cattle market and Chatsworth Warehouse which both generate heavy delivery lorries . ’ |
| 25 | Before considering the various methods which various owners and developers have adopted to achieve the satisfactory conversion of church buildings to domestic use , it is important to be aware of the procedure through which the majority of churches become available for conversion . |
| 26 | Fourthly , the skills and methods which social workers developed during the welfare state era are relevant as never before ( Department of Health and Social Security , 1985 ; Parsloe , 1988 ; Department of Health , 1989 ) : psychosocial assessments , direct work with children , maintaining links , interprofessional collaboration . |
| 27 | By a notice of appeal dated 1 March 1991 the defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the donee of the power of appointment , the defendant 's mother , Mrs. Mary Steed , did not know that she had been appointed attorney by the defendant and accordingly could not have known that she had any power to deal with his property when she executed the transfer of 4 September 1979 , and that in those circumstances the plea of non est factum ought to have succeeded on the judge 's finding that the donee was tricked into signing the transfer ; ( 2 ) the judge having rightly concluded that the transaction as affected was not a sale , save possibly at such a gross undervalue as to vitiate it as a sale , should therefore have held that the transfer was void and ineffective ; ( 3 ) the judge having rightly concluded that he retained a discretion to rectify the charges register against the registered holder , notwithstanding , as he found , that ( i ) the title of the mortgagors , Mr. and Mrs. Hammond , was merely voidable and not void , and ( ii ) that the registered holders of the charge were bona fide mortgagees for value without notice of the facts giving rise to voidability , then wrongly exercised his discretion to refuse to rectify since the considerations in favour of rectification could hardly have been stronger and his refusal to exercise his discretion was tantamount to denying the effective existence of such discretion , as if it was not exercised on the facts of this case it could never , or virtually never , be exercised at all ; and that , in the premises , the judge had erred in law in placing excessive reliance upon ( i ) and ( ii ) above to the exclusion of the other considerations which favoured rectification . |
| 28 | This section describes the chart-based lexical access component and the theoretical and practical considerations which motivated certain choices in its design . |
| 29 | Second , the formulation of the Authority 's educational policies and programmes , especially those which teachers are expected to translate into day-to-day practice , should from now on be grounded in prior consultation with teachers and others , together with analysis of relevant conceptual and empirical research , and those devising such policies and programmes should be able to justify them in terms of the considerations which this process will reveal . |
| 30 | Within this perceptual framework , White women are frequently seen as agents in the narrative disruption which Black people initiate : it is the ‘ skirts ’ whose sexuality in one form or another is out of control or misplaced . |