Example sentences of "which [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is perhaps characteristic that the best evidence for the appointment of household officers in the first half of the eleventh century should come from Normandy , which combined reverence for the Carolingian past with respect for efficiency to a degree unparalleled elsewhere . |
| 32 | She gave her daughter a look which combined challenge and malice and then left them . |
| 33 | In 1890 he had published , with Nathan Adler 's authority , the Authorised Daily Prayer Book , which combined accuracy of Hebrew with a vibrant and intelligible English translation . |
| 34 | A crucial element in this process was Ireland 's unique demographic experience which combined emigration with celibacy and relatively high fertility among those who did marry and remain in Ireland , as mechanisms in balancing population growth against resource development . |
| 35 | By that time there were three supersonic contenders for the medium term : the English Electric Company 's P-1 , which later became the Lightning , the Saunders Roe P-177 , which combined jet with rocket propulsion ; and the Fairey delta-winged PD-2 , in which Peter Twiss wrested the air speed record from the Americans in 1956 with a speed of 1,132 m.p.h . |
| 36 | The consultative paper explicitly identified the ‘ terms on which sole practice should be allowed to continue … ’ as ‘ a key question ’ in the debate over the cost of default . |
| 37 | Shamim 's village is like many others from which Pakistani immigrants have come to Britain . |
| 38 | The latest raid , following a day in which Pakistani UN soldiers shot dead at least 2O demonstrators , suggested that the UN peacekeeping operation might degenerate into an undeclared war against Somalia 's gunmen . |
| 39 | Unless one wants to deny the involvement of cytokines in the course of gram-negative sepsis , one is left with the question : which cellular component of the L-form is responsible for the induction of cytokines ? |
| 40 | The bid price is equivalent to $293 ‘ per pop ’ — the way in which cellular radio licences are valued in the US , based on the population of a catchment area . |
| 41 | Instead she called for a kind of fiction that would record the atoms of experience ‘ as they fall upon the mind , in the order in which they fall ’ , that would ‘ trace the pattern , however disconnected and incoherent in appearance , which each sight or incident scores upon the consciousness ’ . |
| 42 | It seemed a reasonable bargain in which each superpower could exert restraint over its regional allies . |
| 43 | The proliferation index was also calculated separately for each of five compartments of equal size into which each crypt column was divided . |
| 44 | Since the launch of our newsletter , ‘ The Botanics ’ , and the proposed issuing of a newsletter by the Friends of the RBGE , it is probably time to take stock of the total amount of news material which we are now producing , the staff effort involved , the uses to which the information is being put , and the efficiency with which each vehicle reaches its target readership . |
| 45 | The Sub-Committee examined the contribution which each proposal made to the Development Programme and the extend to which it met the Council 's stated objectives for Phase 2 Pilots . |
| 46 | The yardstick by which each proposal is judged is its potential for success within C&P ; , or it may be passed on elsewhere in the group . |
| 47 | The reason for this , continued James , is that ‘ the exact combination of ideals realized and ideals disappointed which each decision creates is always a universe without precedent , and for which no adequate previous rule exists ’ . |
| 48 | Alternatively , filmmaking is seen as a sort of relay race in which each member of the creative team has control of certain moments — the producer handing over to the writer , who hands over to the director , who hands over to the lighting cameraman and so on until everything comes back to the producer again . |
| 49 | There are plenty of cases in which each member of a co-operating group is better off than it would be on its own . |
| 50 | Let us begin by considering how we might obtain a random sample ; that is , one in which each member of the population has the same chance of being chosen . |
| 51 | When an international organisation is unable to meet its liabilities , the Members are obliged to stand in , according to the amount by which each Member is assessed for contributions to the organisation 's budget . |
| 52 | the part which each member of the organisation is expected to perform ; and |
| 53 | His early life was regulated by strict discipline , his only contact with art being the family orchestra , to which each member contributed by playing a different instrument . |
| 54 | Instead of seeking a random sample from a population in which each member has a known , calculable and non-zero probability of inclusion , the quota sample proceeds by deliberately selecting a sample which reflects the known composition of the target population . |
| 55 | Or , more accurately , hierarchies , including those of class , race , and gender , and within each of which each subject is situated differently . |
| 56 | External anal sphincter function was investigated by : ( 1 ) the threshold of external anal sphincter contraction ( smallest volume of rectal distension causing a phasic sphincter contraction of at least 3 mm Hg ) , ( 2 ) maximum voluntary contraction ( mean of three trials of maximum voluntary squeezing lasting for five seconds ) , and ( 3 ) squeeze duration ( length of time during which each subject could voluntarily keep a pressure rise of 10 mm Hg in the lower anal canal balloon , mean of three trials ) . |
| 57 | The ratio of locals to newcomers in the village today depends not only on the accessibility to nearby urban centres , but , now that most of lowland England has been subject to these changes , by the mixture of housing which each village contains . |
| 58 | The use of chronology in historical writing , or in literary history , gives the illusion that the whole operates by a uniform , continuous progression , a linear series in which each event takes its place . |
| 59 | In the words of an SR worker , ‘ The ‘ self-made ’ agitator spoke of that which each worker had in his head but , being less developed , was unable to verbalize . |
| 60 | Even if there existed a uniform nationwide trend in the birth and death rates of each population sub-group identified on the basis of sex , age , occupation , ethnic status and so on , local populations would still develop differently from one another , and from the ‘ national ’ trend , because these rates would be operating on the distinctive demographic structures which each locality has inherited from its past histories of fertility , mortality and migration . |