Example sentences of "[conj] which [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that does not mean that the particular institutional arrangements of a particular society ( namely that which provides the normal context for the use of modern English ) can serve as a paradigm for all others . |
| 2 | For now , we should look at more of the essential components of life on Earth : the energy that comes from the Sun , and which keeps the whole system rolling ; and the atmosphere itself , which protects us from too much of that radiation , and provides several of life 's essential ingredients . |
| 3 | With his precision of line , careful musicality and swift little steps close to the ground , Shaw , in ballets like Les Rendezvous , embodied everything that was best about Ashton 's choreography and which made the Royal Ballet unique . |
| 4 | Classical elitists regarded Marxism as a religious faith , a prophylactic for the downtrodden proletariat which wrongly attributes all previous systems of elite rule to economic forces , and which ignores the inescapable evidence that organizational logic and the psychological dependence of a mass of citizens on leadership makes ineluctable some such structure of domination . |
| 5 | This irony prompts the questions which guided the research and which form the central problem addressed by this book : since those who are subject to regulation have good economic reason not to comply , how is compliance secured , given the frailty of the criminal sanction and its virtual disuse ? |
| 6 | annual increases that some irresponsible Labour-controlled councils were imposing and which had the sole effect of driving businesses out of many of our major inner-city centres . |
| 7 | From the Eleventh Dynasty , in the Coffin Texts and the Book of the Two Ways , the Underworld has become a realm with many danger which must be conquered and which express the natural fear of death . |
| 8 | They are accustomed to presentations that are professionally , even slickly , performed , and which make the average class lesson seem amateur , especially in the use of communication aids such as graphics , film clips and animated cartoons . |
| 9 | And which produces the minimum amount of manipulation and that was that the second one was n't it ? |
| 10 | As a result of investigating unsolved problems in biology , including how a seed or egg can contain the essence which grows into the new individual member of the same species , he postulated ( something which has long been familiar to those with a spiritual or esoteric background ) the existence of what must , by implication , be a non-physical mould or pattern , what he calls a ‘ morphogenetic field ’ , which survives the death of the physical form , and which shapes the individual tree , animal and flower of each species , just as the individual field around a magnet can create a pattern in a scatter of iron filings . |
| 11 | It was a balanced system in which the best use was made of a poor environment and which safeguarded the long-term interest of the communities which occupied it , at the level of which the land was capable . |
| 12 | It 's important for the foreign traveller to accumulate lots of useless gadgetry and ephemera that they 'd never dream of buying normally , and which makes the whole process of travelling so much more cumbersome and awkward for others . |
| 13 | It is difficult to determine what proportion of these ships had wire rigging and which used the improved hemp but in any case it is clear that the West was largely won with better rope . |
| 14 | Mr Burtt has asked my advice on payment of the enclosed invoice for £690 for an order raised by Mrs Gregory which did not go through the agreed procedures , and which exceeds the total amount available for all staff . |
| 15 | Classicism grew out of the Enlightenment , the eighteenth-century philosophical movement which stressed the importance of human reason and which undertook the critical reappraisal of existing ideas and social institutions . |
| 16 | The chief executive or clerk of the authority will from time to time report to the council and its committees on all legislation which is new and which affects the local authority . |
| 17 | But it was the railway which pressed forward the industrialization of the United States and of parts of Europe and which confirmed the continental power of Europeans in North America , Asia , Australasia , and Africa . |
| 18 | Hellings ' fit yielded and which confirms the unique consistency of GR with measurements in the solar system . |
| 19 | Past and present struggles are transformed into ‘ epiphanies ’ , special moments in which the conditions of oppression are transcended and which prefigure the ultimate goal of Liberation . |
| 20 | ‘ So I gathered , ’ I said dryly , ‘ and would you also ask which horses are running at Winnipeg and which at Vancouver , and which in Bill 's opinion is the really best horse on the train , not necessarily on form , and which has the best chance of winning either race . ’ |
| 21 | At a time when the clarion call is for intensified training , higher education and greater specialization , it is a contradiction in terms to attempt to eradicate one of the best educated specialized sectors of the community , a sector that has taken hundreds of years to be created and which has the rare advantage of combining its specialized knowledge with a practical technique inherited over centuries . |
| 22 | They were also able to establish control over the Social Accounting Service , which is the official body through which all enterprises have to make their bank payments , and which has the specific responsibility of checking on the validity of bills of exchange . |
| 23 | When we have to compare the values of numbers it is important to know which has the greatest , and which has the least value . |
| 24 | It has been well argued that the great procession , headed by the Host and including the orders of the Church and social guilds , interrupted by the plays performed by the guild members reminding followers of the archetypal story of God 's plan of salvation from the Creation to the Last Judgement , provided opportunity for participating in that sense of unity beyond division which is the heart of Christian belief , and which underpins the social value put on the more isolated lives of contemplatives . |
| 25 | The only other iron meteorite known to contain diamonds , also in clumps with lonsdaleite , is Canon Diabolo , a huge mass of metal which shattered into hundreds of shrapnel-like fragments during the impact at enormous velocity and which excavated the I.2-km diameter Meteor Crater in northern Arizona . |
| 26 | Here landscape regions were identified which permitted an investigation to be made of the social and economic effects of land ) use patterns , and which allowed the territorial organisation of the period to be set within its geographical framework . |
| 27 | which constitute a general ethic and which provide the logical ground for his or her action . |
| 28 | We focused on the two newspapers owned by the same person , Rupert Murdoch , and which included the most rape reports — thirty-two in the Sun and seventy-two in the News of the World in which not one rape case in 1978 was covered by both newspapers . |
| 29 | The bedrock aspirations these educators have had in common , as far as early childhood educational opportunities are concerned , are expressed in a recently published book which is based on contemporary research and which shows the continuing aspiration for a comprehensive preschool service : |
| 30 | But the Sinfonia excelled in a suite from Lehar 's Merry Widow , music that would sit well in the Palm Court or the pier pavilion , but which merits the stylish performance it received . |