Example sentences of "[prep] which [vb -s] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the sherds ( fig. 14.33c ) appears to be an arm with the skin of the Nemean lion draped over the shoulder and another sherd ( fig. 14.33b ) shows a hand holding a staff or rod being thrust into a creature only the head of which survives on the sherd . |
| 2 | In this analysis er , if you set aside the effect of our sale of Elsivir er , the variance was forty nine million seventy percent of which relates to the U K. The drop in profits from our newspapers was the biggest and probably the most widely expected a substantial proportion of their costs are fixed and , er , they therefore are particularly sensitive to , er changes in volume . |
| 3 | ‘ The flow of traffic , the majority of which travels within the speed limit and many less than 20mph , would indicate a low priority rating for this road . ’ |
| 4 | The pulse.shaped output from the detectors have a slight phase displacement , the sign of which depends on the direction of rotation . |
| 5 | ( As outlined in section 1.1 , they will orbit around the centre of mass , the position of which depends on the masses M and m . ) |
| 6 | The scales on the lower half of the body carry black marks which show up as a black patterning the intensity of which depends on the fish 's mood and condition . |
| 7 | There are presently two ways to measure the fine structure constant , a , only one of which depends on the correctness of QED . |
| 8 | It is not within the scope of this book to enter into a detailed explanation of the technique of the horn , but the fact should be firmly grasped that it is based on the possibility of producing by means of varying embouchure the upper partials of the harmonic series derived from a fundamental note , the pitch of which depends on the length of the tube . |
| 9 | These three places are equidistant and , if taken to fall on the circumference of a circle , can be seen to form three points of a decagon , the centre of which falls at the hamlet of Whiteleafed Oak , where Worcestershire , Herefordshire and Gloucestershire meet . |
| 10 | Bernstein and Reynolds give a very full treatment of the subject , much of which turns on the interpretation of provisions in commercial leases . |
| 11 | Only 30 out of the 410 films launched last year raised more than $20m at the American box office ( half of which goes to the cinema owner anyway ) . |
| 12 | With every breath we should take in half a litre of oxygen , twenty per cent of which goes to the brain . |
| 13 | The height of the spliced poles is 88 feet 6 inches , 4 feet 6 inches of which goes into the ground . |
| 14 | It is , therefore , the arc of a great circle , the plane of which passes through the centre of the sphere . |
| 15 | Each of the latter consists of two bundles of fibres , one of which passes to the labrum as the labral nerve , and the other forms the root of the frontal ganglion . |
| 16 | Here , a recently polished elm coffin sits on padded woodworking trestles ; it is in the process of having its chevroned starched linen fringe gimped to the upper edge of the inner lining , a length of which hangs outside the coffin awaiting turning-in , the lid having been temporarily replaced for the purpose of photography . |
| 17 | Each manages to avoid the others by means of a special dividend antenna , one part of which rests on the water surface . |
| 18 | From the high fields , figures come down the track laden with potatoes or with a bundle of mint , the scent of which lingers in the air after them . |
| 19 | ‘ There is genuine fear , most of which centres around the exit poll , ’ he said . |
| 20 | This orbit intersects the top face of the box B in two points , one of which lies to the left of the stable manifold of the origin and which is represented by the doubly infinite sequence ( with mark ) … |
| 21 | TSTSTSTS … , the other of which lies to the right of the stable manifold of the origin and is represented by the doubly infinite sequence ( with mark ) … |
| 22 | The overlap has two corners , one of which moves to the other under F and under R , so we find that the commutator is a pair of twisted 2-cycles , affecting only four out of the six corners involved in the moves F and R . |
| 23 | There were four drawings , one of which appears to the left . |
| 24 | The answer is to use a hair-rig ( a full description of which appears in the carp chapter ) , which allows us to present the bait on a fine hookless line , backed up with a big hook with which to play the fish . |
| 25 | The eight nations that circle the Arctic have taken a first step towards protecting the fragile environment of the far north from increased pollution , most of which originates outside the region . |
| 26 | The SEA 1934 , s.21 of which deals with the liability of controlling persons , is now supplemented by ns.21A . |
| 27 | Direct binding of the recognition helix at the dyad also raises the question of how GH5 protects both entry and exit points of nucleosomal DNA with only two DNA-binding sites , one of which binds at the dyad . |
| 28 | The laborious compilation of exhaustive ‘ histories ’ , or tables of instances , is an essential first stage of Bacon 's method , the second of which consists in the scrutiny and examination of these many and varied instances to find their common form . |
| 29 | The third element , the presence or absence of which cuts across the manuscript relationships , is a short passage influenced by the teaching of St Augustine on charity which occurs in some , but not all of the manuscripts in Scale 1 , chapter seventy . |
| 30 | The adventurers end up at a confluence of shafts , one of which leads to the Bloodheart itself . |