Example sentences of "[prep] which [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By designating such materials as in varying degrees precious they have created symbols of excellence , a quality which stems from aesthetic awareness but the striving for which lies at the very root of the civilizations created by man . |
| 2 | In 1829–31 he erected two wrought-iron suspension bridges , at Scotswood across the Tyne ( demolished 1967 ) and at Whorlton across the Tees , the latter of which survives as the oldest bridge of its type in the country still supported unaided by its original chains . |
| 3 | There he built his palace and chapel , part of which survives in the present cathedral . |
| 4 | The Rectory , stands a little below the church on the site of an earlier house , some of which remains under the long lean-to at the back . |
| 5 | The intense gravitational field near the black hole causes the creation of pairs of particles and antiparticles , one of which falls into the black hole and the other of which escapes to infinity . |
| 6 | The frequency and volume of business material , not all of which falls into the legal deposit category , means that gaps do exist in the business collection . |
| 7 | For the clubs , as ever , the issue is money , most of which goes to the First Division . |
| 8 | The average family sends back $100 a month and pays a $10 fee to send it , part of which goes to the Vietnamese government . |
| 9 | But in truth their tour , the English section of which ends with the third Test at Wigan today , has been persistently downbeat . |
| 10 | The reservoir is a grim and comfortless place , flanked to north and west by the exceedingly severe Pic de Néouvielle and Pic Long — the Pic Long , 10,480 feet high , being the highest summit the entirety of which lies on the French side of the frontier . |
| 11 | On examination , it appears that some of the first papers were published in specialist journals , none of which appears in the highly-ranked journal set . |
| 12 | Mr Hague could usefully ask the same question about the Esk Valley line , part of which runs at the opposite end of his constituency . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , UMNO is using the tactics that come with experience : Malaysia 's prime minister , Dr Mahathir Mohamad , is ostracising the Kelantan chief minister and putting the squeeze on the state 's budget , two-fifths of which comes from the federal government . |
| 14 | Australia is some 65% self-sufficient in oil , 90% of which comes from the Bass Strait field . |
| 15 | The VI sports three Jaguar-like single coil pickups , with a Jag/Jazzmaster-type bridge and ‘ floating tremolo ’ , the push-in arm of which locates between the 1st and 2nd strings . |
| 16 | This unleashed such a storm of protest , in which branches in the Eastern District played their full part , that the government quickly backed down . |
| 17 | There is a familiar line of business thought behind Gencor 's break-up , in which shares in the four non-mining subsidiaries will be returned to the conglomerate 's shareholders . |
| 18 | read the following judgment of the court , prepared by Brooke J. In these two cases we have been invited to determine , as preliminary issues , the capacity in which judges of the High Court are acting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court to determine appeals against orders by which barristers are to be disbarred or suspended from practice by their Inns . |
| 19 | The purpose of this book is to look at the ways in which judges of the High Court , the Court of Appeal , and the House of Lords have in recent years dealt with political cases which have come before them . |
| 20 | Crisis became potential disaster with the approach of the date from which controls on the free exchange of sterling for dollars would be removed ( convertibility ) . |
| 21 | In Chapter 7 we shall find that there is in quantum theory a radical in-ability to pin things down which goes beyond the simple considerations outlined here . |