Example sentences of "[noun pl] which he [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where , for instance , the characteristics which he attributes to oral communication persist in a society with literacy , and would thus appear to undermine the case for the ‘ intrinsic ’ qualities of literacy , Goody draws a further distinction which enables him to maintain the purity of his ideal model . |
| 2 | It features new stone sculptures intended to be shown outdoors as well as in the gallery , a new red ‘ Void ’ from that continuing series of wall sculptures , one of which was shown in Kapoor 's pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1990 , and material related to the stage designs which he made for recent performances by dancer Laurie Booth at the Queen Elizabeth Hall . |
| 3 | Two other books which he wrote at this time were to cause him serious trouble . |
| 4 | Darwin delighted in the exquisite adaptations which he saw in living creatures , as Paley and other natural theologians had done before him : contemplating fossils ( or nature generally ) could bring pleasure or pain depending on one 's temperament and state . |
| 5 | John was full of invention , always making up steps and sequences which he called by odd names : for instance a stamping step he called ‘ Sherman tanks ’ , which he devised for the zephyrs in Primavera and used again for the unicorns in Harlequin in April . |
| 6 | The great Florenz Ziegfeld saw the forty-eight Girls in the Folies-Bergère in Paris and took them under contract for a six month spell into his own Follies which he extended to three years . |
| 7 | Kenneth More told me of the unfortunate happenings on the set of The Mercenaries which he made in 1966 in Jamaica with Hollywood star ( though Australian born ) Rod Taylor and American football star Jim Brown . |
| 8 | Mayne personally , together with the patrols which he led with such skill and dash , almost certainly destroyed , during some fourteen months of constant raids from desert bases deep behind enemy lines , more aircraft than any fighter ace on either side in World War II . |
| 9 | ‘ Seek the cloister ’ ; ‘ stay safe in port ’ : these were the precepts which he gave to those who desired true freedom . |
| 10 | Certainly the lectures which he delivered in 1944 — " Johnson as Critic and Poet " at University College , Bangor , " What Is Minor Poetry ? " to the Association of Bookmen in Swansea , " What Is A Classic ? " to the Virgil Society , of which he was president — are not among his best , the latter seeming particularly forced and mechanical . |
| 11 | The Oxford lectures which he gave at this time were eventually to be published as The Discarded Image , perhaps the most completely satisfying and impressive book he ever published . |
| 12 | The butler then went in for breeding dogs which he kept in large wire enclosures . |
| 13 | These feelings tend to be transitory but some patients remain psychologically disturbed for many years and , in a few psychological difficulties develop in the convalescent period which were not apparent during the acute episode.While these problems can sometimes be anticipated in hospital on the basis of the patient 's reaction to his illness , and any premorbid difficulties which he has encountered in the past , a better idea of his potential can be gained by following him during the convalescent period to observe how he copes with the various stresses and strains which he encounters during this time . |
| 14 | O'Connor , jnr , three-putted himself to extinction for he needed 22 strokes on the greens in the first nine holes which he covered in 43 shots . |
| 15 | The sacristy , reached after the second altar on the right , is widely believed to be the most beautiful in Milan because of the carved cupboards , the work of Giovanni Taurino , a master carver who was also responsible for the confessionals which he completed in 1596 . |
| 16 | The judicial reforms which he introduced in 1781 revived a number of harsh punishments which his mother 's law-code of 1769 had abolished , such as the branding of life-prisoners on the forehead and the chaining of some prisoners to the walls of their cells . |
| 17 | We shall consider the two studies which he reports in most detail , and which were most systematically carried out : a sentence completion study ( Piaget , 1928 ) , and a series of studies in which an adult interviewed children about causal phenomena ( Piaget , 1929 , 1930 ) . |
| 18 | After winning scholarships at Winchester and at Balliol College , Oxford , he took a first class in literae humaniores in 1924 and was elected to a fellowship of All Souls which he held till 1945 . |
| 19 | The lawyer advocates formal legal propositions which he supports with reasoned arguments . |
| 20 | Over the years Skarsnik has amassed a large collection of Dwarf beard scalps which he displays on long wooden stakes driven into the mountain side . |
| 21 | More particularly , Galileo used standard perspective procedures in accounting for the foreshortening of the spots which he claimed in 1613 were on the surface of the sun . |
| 22 | Of the covenants by the tenant running with the land that " to pay rent or taxes " and " not to assign or underlet , " and by the landlord running with the reversion , " to renew the lease " are the most apposite of the instances which he quotes from decided cases . |
| 23 | The earliest of these were collected in a volume of Cantiones which he published in 1575 jointly with Tallis , thus marking Elizabeth I 's grant to them of a twenty-one year monopoly of music printing ; others followed in two sets of Cantiones sacrae ( 1589 and 1591 ) and two of Gradualia ( 1605 and 1607 ) , a corpus of work almost as varied in technique and sometimes as ‘ madrigalian ’ in word-painting as that of Lassus — some of which Byrd may well have known — or of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder ( 1543–88 ) who was his friend and colleague in the Queen 's service for sixteen years and wrote not only ‘ madrigalian ’ motets but simple Latin hymn-settings in a style very similar to Byrd 's . |
| 24 | With the benefit of a later viewpoint , aided not least by the opportunity to reflect on Bolinger 's own work , we would suggest that , in most cases , other answers are more appropriate than the ones which he offered at that time ( nevertheless , we return to this article more than once in the chapters which follow ) . |
| 25 | He was fortunate not to be in prison for debt for , on the tour of British prisons which he made in 1812 , James Neild of The Thatched House Society , found debtors were discriminated against . |
| 26 | A Partner-in-Residence shared between Christian Aid Scotland and the Church of Scotland , he is on secondment from the Zimbabwe Council of Churches which he serves as Senior Development Officer . |