Example sentences of "[prep] which [pers pn] [vb -s] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is a strong , resilient , twisted rope to which the baby is attached in the womb , and through which it receives all nourishment until birth , when the cord is severed .
2 In France they have devised a logical system whereby senior officials of the Bureau d'Enquête d'Accident are formally recognised by the magistrate as officials of his court , thereby relieving the magistrate himself of much responsibility relating to highly technical matters of which he has little comprehension while at the same time enabling the professional investigators immediate access to the wreckage of the aircraft and its records , etc. in their pursuit of the cause of the accident .
3 Golding ) , he was , I agree , referring to a new phenomenon of which he has personal experience .
4 In recording life on board troopship , which she noted mainly in very quick sketches of which she has special mastery , Linda Kitson noted the macabre elements of military training and equipment against the cushioned setting of a luxury liner ; for example , the Rudolf Steiner Hair Salon , which housed the signals squadron .
5 In recording life on board troopship , which she noted mainly in very quick sketches of which she has special mastery , Linda Kitson noted the macabre elements of military training and equipment against the cushioned setting of a luxury liner ; for example , the Rudolf Steiner Hair Salon , which housed the signals squadron .
6 BA has invested £20m of its own money in the venture , of which it owns 31 p.c. , but says that further finance will come from Air Russia 's own resources , such as state loans and leasing .
7 Perhaps by the very end of his life , in 1880 , he had come to believe that a people , a nation , does not create itself according to its own best ideas , but is shaped by other forces , of which it has little knowledge .
8 The visitor to an art museum without any such training or differentiated habitus uses the classifications with which he/she perceives every-day reality to perceive the work of art .
9 The bitterness with which he attacks pastoral poetry implies a sense of loss : ‘ 'T IS all a gloomy , melancholy Scene , / Fit only to provoke the Muses ' Spleen ’ .
10 With the admirable thoroughness with which he approaches each role , Dustin took a crash course in Italian .
11 if the return to Conservatism is to be something more than the transient apparition of a spectre from the past , and its voice in national affairs not merely to be a sepulchral warning against the dangers of rash courses , the Conservative leaders must bestir themselves to some purpose … [ the Conservative Party ] must be ready to meet the programme of the Labour Party not simply with a non-possumus but with an alternative which will in some measure satisfy certain of the needs which Labour is concerned to satisfy , and at the same time avoid the perils with which it insists Labour policy is beset .
12 If Winnicott 's image of the mirror-image is a valid one and what the baby needs at a certain stage is a reflection of a meaningful world in which she/he has some place , we are also back with perception and self-perception .
13 From the opening piteous pleas with shaking hands as the dancers sink to the floor in the depths of their sorrow , the choreographic pattern of the overall rhythm is seen to swell in size and intensity as the music does until there comes the gleam of hope , a quiet moment when a child-like figure dances in wonder at the ways in which she can explore not only the space in which she moves , but also the ways in which she shapes each part of her body into an ever flowing design .
14 The major underlying issues for Joanne and for the department in which she works concerned teaching methods and the distinction between content and process in mathematics .
15 This is the manner in which he justifies legal intervention .
16 He carries a Star Wars lunch-box in which he keeps old tube tickets , cigarettes , make-up and money .
17 Erm , in fact Ted Hughes I think has largely lived in the countryside so it is quite likely that his house in which he sets this poem is in the countryside .
18 Editor , — I have grave concerns about the underlying message in the paper by Graham Butland , in which he implies that management of general practice by family health services authorities will provide better quality service than peer review .
19 And he reckons that the little costume in which he sings Any Dream Will Do is pretty amazing , too .
20 But Mr Kowalski trips up when he tries to get a bit too popular , as in another Capriccio release , ‘ Plaisir d'amour , ’ in which he sings clichéd salon music ( CD 10 324 ) .
21 It demonstrates the principle that the EEC 's worst-managed and least successful policies are those in which it has unrestrained jurisdiction .
22 The lineage of Unix System V Release comes from the SVR4.1 Enhanced Security release , from which it inherits B1/B2 security , but SVR4.2 extends the modularity of that release with the isolation of processor-specific source code modules from the main body of common code .
23 The Group 's share of results of associated undertakings [ hereafter called associated companies ] is included in respect of companies in which the Group owns at least 20 per cent of the equity and over which it exerts significant influence .
24 The Court of Justice is composed of thirteen judges and four Advocates Generals , who guard the interpretation and application of the Treaties and EC laws , over which it has final authority .
25 In fact , the dilemma of any national state in cultural terms is that it is charged with defending cultural patrimony within a world market over which it exercises little control .
26 Thus , the wizened old woman of ‘ Col Tempo ’ from the Accademia is shown in the same room as Leonardo 's drawings of grotesque heads , to which it bears little resemblance .
27 Kibbutzim , to which it bears most resemblance , do not ; nor do the traditional Eskimo communities .
28 For one school of modern historians this programme ( to which it attributes transcendent importance in the development of Carlism ) represents a reversion to a traditional monarchy ruling with the historic Cortes and subject to God and the law , a via media between imported liberalism and the equally foreign ministerial despotism of the eighteenth century , a truly Spanish solution of the political problem of modern Spain . ’
29 Steve Brockett from Cardiff , South Wales , uses the kite as a flying canvas on which he paints startling picture stories , often based on mythology or the art of the North American Indian .
30 This is partly because Spain wants ‘ economic union ’ , by which it understands more aid for poorer countries , to be in place to cushion the shock of the monetary sort .
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