Example sentences of "which every [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guidebook which every Madeiran quotes and which is invaluable if you want to go levada-trekking is Landscapes Of Madeira ( Sunflower ) by English couple John and Pat Underwood . |
| 2 | The doctor and the engineer were but the latest to follow the folly and beggary route , the minority which every generation throws up thinking they can beat the system . |
| 3 | These are the cases of which every newspaper reader in the country is likely to see some mention . |
| 4 | The basic principle which the Act lays down is that to become a member , and thereby a shareholder , there must be agreement and entry on a register of members which every type of registered company is required to maintain and which , in relation to a company with shares is also a register of shareholdings . |
| 5 | " The Meeting have taken it into Consideration the Complaints which every member of this Meeting have now stated , that their Dykes and Inclosures are very much Damaged and broke down by passengers assuming to themselves a right to take Cross and Short Cuts thro' Inclosures … |
| 6 | O'Hara , he said , was the terrifying shadow on the wall which every child saw through half-closed lids once the nursery door had shut . |
| 7 | Yuletide always brought back the memories of little Matthew , taken by the plague , but not before the mite had shown Sir John the wonder with which every child greeted Christmas . |
| 8 | This hardly looks the same principle , but the connection lies in the fact that for Kant the sense in which every person is an end is that each is a rational agent who , as such , should be conceived as potentially cooperating with me in settling upon and living by universal principles of behaviour taken as binding on all rational agents . |
| 9 | They believe that it is possible for man , and that it is indeed his highest intellectual and emotional task , to survey his own being , to call into the forefront of his mind every attitude and habit of mind , of emotion , of passion and feeling , to penetrate down beneath these superficial layers , to deeper and deeper and ever more tranquil , untroubled generalized forms of the self , until eventually you come within sight of some inner absolutely undisturbed pool which every person has within himself , and which if he finds it removes him finally from the distracting passions of ordinary life , and with this rider , that in proportion as you get there and find this thing , this true self within yourself , you find that it is n't just something subjective and peculiar to you , it is something identical with the world , so that in solving your own problems in one sense , you do it by transcending your ordinary nature . |
| 10 | Hence it is a duty which every race owes to itself , and to the human family as well , to cultivate by every possible means its own strength ; directly it falls behind in the regard it pays to this duty … it incurs a penalty which Natural Selection , the stern but beneficent tyrant of the organic world , will assuredly exact , and that speedily , to the full . |
| 11 | The proposal of the Leader of the Opposition to spend the money that is now spent on British farmers on farmers in southern Europe is something about which every farmer should know — unless the Opposition spokesman will advise him differently and tell the House when he has so advised him . |
| 12 | Long before the examination the student should have practised and perfected a clear , incisive style in which every word is made to count . |
| 13 | This involved signing the " Articles of War " which included a statement of belief in Christ , renunciation of such evils as swearing , smoking , drinking and violence , obedience to officers and allegiance to " carrying on the war " in which every Christian is involved . |
| 14 | ‘ The joiners shop contained scores of carpenters ’ benches , upon which every species of detail work was to be seen … door panels , door pillars ; … window frames and skirtings , … panels … ventilators , sashes , rests for water bottles . ’ |
| 15 | Baldersdale was far too remote for any of the gentry to be interested in building a country residence there All the more accessible dales had their halls , manors and castles , but the high moors sweeping up to 1,500 feet above the valley of Baldersdale was the habitat of a creature which every aristocrat , and many wealthy merchants and other nouveau riche with aristocratic pretensions pursued , then and now , with fanatical zeal — Lagopus scoticus , feathered-footed member of the Tetraonidae family , otherwise known as the red grouse For the locals it meant an extra cash crop during the days following the Glorious Twelfth — the shillings and sovereigns tossed , somewhat disdainfully , at them for providing a back-up service , such as beating the heather to alarm the birds into the air and towards the buckshot , or placing their horses and wagons at the disposal of their lordships so that ammunition , lunch and the essential bottles of whisky could be transported to the guns and the day 's bag of slain birds brought safely to the all-important count . |
| 16 | He continued with his tour of inspection , in which every knot , cleat and screw came in for daily scrutiny . |
| 17 | By the end of The Order of Things , however , he revises this somewhat conventional thesis to suggest that what was involved was not so much a move from a static to a historical view of things as the break-up of a common , unified historical time-scheme in which every phenomenon had had its place in the same space and chronology . |
| 18 | Again , if we can understand the reasons for these choices , we may go some way towards explaining that strange feeling teachers have when reading a piece of written work in which every sentence is grammatically correct , and yet there is something not quite right . |
| 19 | The lengthy section in the same report on the persecution of the Jews in Germany began by stating that what was currently taking place was the ‘ irresistible extermination of a minority ’ , comparable to the genocide against the Armenians by the Turks during the First World War but carried out in Germany against the Jews ‘ more slowly and in more planned fashion ’ , adding accurately that ‘ in reality a lawless situation has long prevailed , through which every act of force against the Jewish minority is sanctioned ’ . |
| 20 | Repetition , according to Brook , beautifully captures the endless practice in which every artist must engage . |
| 21 | As a positive step towards ensuring some uniformity of treatment of all other non-secret operations , in both public and private sectors , the Committee strongly advocated a set of publicly known Codes of Practice , to one or other of which every user would be required to subscribe . |
| 22 | Roxburgh believes that the minnows of Group Two in the European Championship will employ every negative tactic available to them , so the Scots boss has included only five out-and-out defenders in an attack-minded squad of 21 for a game in which every goal will be precious . |
| 23 | His original mind and interests in music , linguistics and the human voice led him to study the problems of deaf education and to invent " The New Sign Language , " in which every sign was a pantomimic version of the spoken word and in which signs were made in the same order and in the same sequel as the words of normal speech . |
| 24 | He designed from the inside out and , despite the basic similarities of his main plan types , he never had difficulty in giving his major buildings a very individual architectural expression in which every element of the design was exactly what it appeared to be . |
| 25 | In the flyer produced by Oxford University Press , Peter Fusco , Curator of European Sculpture and Works of Art at the J. Paul Getty Museum , writes that the catalogue is ‘ a work which every art library and student of sculpture will need to own ’ . |
| 26 | You might even recognise these … silk stockings which every girl , was wearing when the Americans were in town . |
| 27 | But Wordsworth had already proposed in his Guide that the Lake District should be made ‘ a sort of national property in which every man has a right and interest who has an eye to perceive and a heart to enjoy ’ ; we can now see that , over a hundred years before his time , he had come up with the idea of a National Park . |
| 28 | Such thinking is part of a long tradition , finding its most clear formulation in the political philosophy of Hobbes where human society is presented as being in a state of ‘ warre ’ in which every man fights every other man for control of resources and for the ( presumed ) pleasure of dominance . |
| 29 | And then , walking behind her at a rather greater distance than might have been thought usual , came Linnet Gage in a dress that fell from her tiny waist as gracefully and naturally as a waterfall , each diaphanous tulle frill overlapping the other with perfect simplicity , her face as delicate and beautiful as rare porcelain , her blue eyes clouded by a dream of remote but tantalizing sweetness , which also touched the corners of her lips , raising them very slightly in a smile of which every man present must have wished to know the secret . |
| 30 | The idea that a contritional experience is an ongoing activity in which every man fights and conquers those elements of his fallen nature as Christ fought evil on the Cross and that this is part of the continuing process of redemption — indeed its very condition — was at the heart of their preaching and teaching which developed the monastic piety of an earlier period for a lay audience . |