Example sentences of "[conj] which [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What name have you given to the Water Hen which migrates to us yearly — or which did migrate last year and the year before . |
| 2 | At its hard edge it is critical of the threat of socialism itself , but it is also critical of Keynesianism — that theory of economic management which dominated the political consensus from the Second World War to the mid-seventies and which sought to maintain full(ish) levels of employment on the basis of governments managing the economy by manipulating the level of demand by putting money into , or taking it out of , the economy . |
| 3 | any structural assessment exercise involving the organisation and achievement of a specific task which is resource based and which seeks to simulate real life situations |
| 4 | The meeting approved the creation of a US$10,000 million development fund for Arab countries which had supported the coalition in the Gulf war and which had suffered economic damage from the war ; Egypt and Syria were likely to be the main beneficiaries . |
| 5 | Defending , David Allan , said the crash was something his client regretted and which had caused great distress to both sides . |
| 6 | The high hopes for a new morality in Europe espoused by the Resistance movements , and which had included European union as a top priority , seemed to be dashed by the outbreak of the Cold War and the failure of the first postwar governments to include integration on their policy agendas . |
| 7 | So , around the middle years of the nineteenth century , Britain was seen to have acquired a new liberal constitution — that is a constitution of limited public participation where there was an executive which was responsible to a directly elected parliamentary assembly and which had taken few powers to intervene in economy and society . |
| 8 | The patient complained of pain to a scar on her leg which she had cut 18 mths previously and which had taken 6 weeks to heal at the time . |
| 9 | For practitioners , what was needed was an essay that was not too long , and which attempted to develop specific proposals that they could act upon . |
| 10 | One issue which the people did discuss , and which did have military implications , was relations with Egypt . |
| 11 | However , it embraces a whole spectrum — from a deeply responsible press that is extremely careful in what it publishes and which tries to balance one thing with another , to an element that many people regard , perhaps rightly , as frequently scurrilous or simply aimed at making a profit . |
| 12 | Slavery and imperial domination have been crucial social forces in the emergence of a modern world order , characterized by the striking inequalities which provide the essential backdrop to an understanding of the post-Second World War migrations of black communities to Britain , and which continue to generate migratory pressures on peoples from the Third World . |
| 13 | To quote Sir Keith : " One of the aims of studying history is to understand the development of the shared values which are a distinctive feature of British society and culture and which continue to shape private attitudes and public policy . |
| 14 | When , therefore , I say ‘ The colour I saw yesterday was a white colour , , or ‘ The sensation I feel is one of tightness ’ , in both cases the attribute I affirm of the colour or of the other sensation is mere resemblance — simple likeness to sensations I have had before , and which have had those names bestowed upon them . |
| 15 | He helped too in the development of the cardiac defibrillator , without which cardiac surgery could not have progressed and which has saved countless lives . |
| 16 | Complementing it is the British Coal Yearbook which offers a written record of the season and which has expanded this time to embrace the seasons in France , Australia and New Zealand . |
| 17 | On many occasions I have heard environmentalists say that they do not wish to be ‘ tarred by the same brush ’ which has so comprehensively covered some extremists in the Animal Rights Movement and which has brought that movement into disrepute . |
| 18 | In Africa , some of the nations which have emerged from colonial rule are socialist in diverse styles , but others , created by independence movements in which there was an important populist or socialist strain — as in Ghana — and which aimed to achieve some form of ‘ African socialism ’ , developed subsequently under military rule . |
| 19 | conducted a further study ( experiment 1 c ) that was almost identical to the first but which failed to yield any evidence for context-specificity . |
| 20 | ‘ The Disabled ’ is a non-disabled construction , a representational framework no more real than a hologram but which has to contain two properties if it is to have any cathartic meaning for society . |