Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] which [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , never park your trailer near one which has poor stands and is liable to swing in a wind . |
| 2 | The ideal environment has come to be seen as one which offers continual opportunities to maximise learning , and succeeds in engaging the attention and motivation of the individual for as near to 100 per cent of his/her time as possible . |
| 3 | The spectacle last week of 400 officers in riot gear running round the Broadwater Farm Estate and finding little or nothing in the way of drugs reminded me of Sir Robert Mark 's definition of a good police force as one which employed fewer criminals than it caught . |
| 4 | If managers say that they gain their vision and their pragmatic skill informally and from diverse sources , if they see their own development as something which took many years and came from a wide range of contexts , it is unlikely that a short-term substitute can be found which will fit into either the narrow limits of brief in-service training courses , year-long secondments or part-time study in higher education . |
| 5 | He had taken the name of Varna from the name of the port from which he had sailed but he had lived his life in terror of deportation , a fear that had haunted him long after it had ceased to be a real threat , so that he had never been able to enjoy his son 's success , seeing it only as something which drew unwelcome attention to the Varna family . |
| 6 | Whereas do situates the infinitive in a stretch of time in the past or non-past as something really existing or taking place in that time-stretch , the modals in ( 4 ) — ( 6 ) on the other hand situate the infinitive 's event merely as something which has certain chances of existing in the stretch of time which they express . |
| 7 | Then why do you plump for one which has these impediments ? |
| 8 | We will see later that a model of the company infused with the imagery of contract , suggesting negotiation and mutually beneficial exchange , or at least optimal , market-induced equilibria , supports a different analytical and evaluative approach to current corporate governance arrangements from one which views those arrangements as partially shaped by management power , but that is a different debate from the one in which we are currently engaged . |
| 9 | By its identification of , and concentration on , the ‘ gatekeepers ’ of the urban system , it gave a way of shifting research from an emphasis on empirical variables to one which stressed political processes , actual decision-making and the real exercise of political power . |
| 10 | The process was very gradual , but the evolution from an essentially contractual relationship between king and magnates to one which acknowledged some form of sovereignty ( superioritas ) had taken place by the end of the thirteenth century . |
| 11 | Professor W. F. Grimes in his essay ‘ The Archaeology of the Stamford Region ’ in The Making of Stamford suggests that ‘ the inscription on the recently erected pillar that marks the Roman crossing on the Welland ought to be replaced by one which does less violence to the facts as they appear to be . ’ |