Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strip goes through a rolling mill and a furnace which burns off the cellulose binder , leaving a strip of metal alloy . |
| 2 | THE NUNS in Northamptonshire who are battling to save their 5,000 chickens from slaughter said yesterday that the Ministry of Agriculture had changed its story over the type of salmonella responsible for the outbreak of food poisoning which led to the flock being tested . |
| 3 | These interventions , associated with the Keynesian revolution in economic thinking which called for the state to become involved in maintaining the level of aggregate demand in the economy through the use of budgetry policies , have been seen not as a triumph of democratic struggle but as a further example of the use of the state as an instrument of the interests of the ruling class . |
| 4 | When war broke out in South Africa MacBride was one of the first and most prominent members of the Irish Brigade which fought for the Boer republics , and at Ladysmith , Colenso , and elsewhere he proved himself to be a brave and resourceful soldier . |
| 5 | Knitters who have machines with a mirror image facility could use this technique to match up patterns at the centre , but remember that you lose the two centre stitches plus the one on each side which goes under the band — it would never do to have two ducks without heads facing one another , would it ! |
| 6 | These gateways gave entrance to avenues with covered arcades on each side which led to the centre of the enclosure . |
| 7 | A state entrance was under a porte-cochère on the Downing Street side which led to the suite of reception rooms occupying the entire first floor of the northern wing . |
| 8 | With Bruce Grobbelaar suspended following his dismissal in Russia a fortnight ago , Souness knows the importance of not conceding an away goal against a side which specialises in the counter-attack . |
| 9 | We shall join them in trying to root out open and covert subsidies on the Continent which work against the principle of the single market and which put British firms at a disadvantage . ’ |
| 10 | He found the warehouse which corresponded to the number on the invoice lying beside him on the passenger seat and slowed the Golf to a halt in front of it . |
| 11 | This was the reasoning which lay behind the foundation of the Zollverein in 1834 . |
| 12 | Reference has already been made to the examination by the Sumner Committee of the 1905 Hague Convention , and the reasoning which led to the Committee 's recommendation that the United Kingdom should not accede to that Convention but proceed rather by way of bilateral treaties . |
| 13 | The reasoning which led to the discovery of the antimalarial pyrimethamine was applied equally fruitfully 15 years later , to the drug trimethoprim , which was as specific for certain bacteria as pyrimethamine was for malaria parasites . |
| 14 | I am content with the orthodox view that the spring which flows into the Brigach in the Schlosspark at Donaueschingen , and which shortly thereafter is joined by the Breg , constitutes the source of the greatest of European rivers , all 2,840 kilometres of it . |
| 15 | There was nothing imaginary about the shooting which erupted in the street outside . |
| 16 | that workers and managers together are enabled to develop alternative , civilian production strategies for their firms , that investment in R&D ; is shifted from military to civilian purposes , and that the enormous skills and technological investment which exist in the defence industries are harnessed for environmental protection . |
| 17 | the analysis could be damagingly influenced by the ‘ folk ’ theories about violence which obtain in the analyst 's lay culture . |
| 18 | The declining historical significance of nationalism is today concealed not only by the visible spread of ethnic/linguistic agitations , but also by the semantic illusion which derives from the fact that all states are today officially ‘ nations ’ , though many of them patently have nothing in common with what the term ‘ nation-state ’ is commonly held to mean ; that therefore all movements seeking to win independence think of themselves as establishing nations even when they are patently not doing so ; and that centralisation and state bureaucracy will , if they possibly can , put on the fashionable national costume . |
| 19 | A short user 's guide at the front of the dictionary which explains to the learner in simple terms how to make the best use of the dictionary . |
| 20 | Firms in North Wales here along the coast which came after the war of course . |
| 21 | It 's a fight against all that dehumanises , blocks and blights those who are made in God 's image and do n't know their God-given potential in the present and in a future which goes beyond the grave . |
| 22 | At an informal meeting of the Sino-British Joint Liaison Group , China also approved a 15-year extension to a licence for local utility Hongkong Electric which expires at the end of 1993 , and gave the go-ahead for a landfill project . |
| 23 | Prevailing winds from the north-east ( the Trade Winds ) very occasionally bring a leste , a hot , dry wind which blows from the desert areas of North Africa . |
| 24 | The logical alternative was to promote the " ministerial " principle by strengthening the chain of command which led from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the provincial governors . |
| 25 | A creature appeared , a lion , red and huge , bounding up the narrow winding streets of Edinburgh , splashing through rivers of blood which poured from the castle . |
| 26 | Sarah Leigh , prosecuting , said the two men were in a car which drove into the rear of a parked car in Reaper Close , Great Sankey . |
| 27 | The fundamental difference between the traditional City and Guilds awards and the new NVQ award is that the former were awarded by City and Guilds to students who had attended an approved course of study in a college which led to the student successfully passing the relevant City and Guilds examination . |
| 28 | Volanic eruptions can involve both lava which flows over the surface , and fragmented particles , or pyroclasts , thrown into the air by violent explosions . |
| 29 | 1991 saw the first time that the Open School was able to run a summer holiday programme which culminated in the performance of dance , music and drama work done by the children . |
| 30 | Replace this seal ( the large seal which rubs against the chrome swivel ) and the universal joints in the front drive shafts and the problem should be solved . |