Example sentences of "and [noun] which [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Church is to keep its teenagers , especially , it has to compete successfully with many other attractions and activities which appeal to the young . |
| 2 | This partnership was dissolved in 1882 to become Robert Blackwood and Sons which lasted to the formation of Blackwood Morton , when Robert Blackwood 's son William Ford Blackwood joined forces with Gavin Morton in 1908 . |
| 3 | It is the balance between precision and imprecision which contributes to the success of his rhetoric , it seems — and perhaps to rhetoric everywhere . |
| 4 | Intriguingly , the exhibition features several pictures and objects which date from the beginning of Bacon 's career , when he was employed as a decorator and influenced by Picasso . |
| 5 | The aim of the projects is to bring about change in the degree curriculum which will encourage students to develop qualities and skills which extend beyond the specialised knowledge of their degree courses . |
| 6 | Undoubtedly much of Lewkenor 's commercial activities verged on the illegal , but few of the Sussex coastal gentry were probably uninvolved in the piracy and smuggling which flourished in the troubled international scene and which , in the guise of ‘ sea-dogs ’ , has long been acknowledged as one of the great Elizabethan attributes . |
| 7 | The algae feeds on nitrogen and phosphates which come into the water from agriculture and sewage . |
| 8 | In this context ‘ leadership ’ means more than the drive and direction which comes from the headteacher and senior staff . |
| 9 | Earlier in this article I have argued that the initial debates and policies which emerged in the wake of the growing black presence were characterized by various forms of cultural and ethnic essentialism or reductionism and that this still persists , for example , in the way ethnic monitoring and other official know ledges are produced . |
| 10 | This attitude both belittles the quality of the author 's work and also underestimates the wide reading and research which went into the creation of her most famous character . |
| 11 | The pompous little beadles ; dark-gowned priests ; the lawyers from Westminster Hall with their fur tippets ; and , of course , my favourites , the ladies of the night , with their hair piled high , low-cut dresses and heels which clicked along the cobbles . |
| 12 | But note that you must use fittings and valves which comply with the water byelaws and that if the cold supply is connected up to a washing machine from the rising main , this will be at mains pressure while the hot supply ( if there is one ) will be at a lower pressure . |
| 13 | Thirdly , there are gains and losses which arise outside the budget . |
| 14 | But the USR statistics also list ‘ other ’ and ‘ general ’ courses , and combinations which cut across the main course groupings . |
| 15 | Despite grand plans for the ‘ informationisation of society ’ , the partnership of government and industry which operated under the government of Valery Giscard d'Estaing left the French information-technology industry in a mess — at least compared with American or Japanese firms . |
| 16 | The college had been founded in 1823 by George Birkbeck as a ‘ Mechanics ' Institute ’ , enshrining those virtues of self-improvement and industry which corresponded with the best qualities in the character of William Joyce . |
| 17 | In some debates it appears that traditional farming is regarded as systems of high input of fertilisers and pesticides which started in the 1950 's and are still progressing and developing today . |
| 18 | There were also moments of aggravated political violence — whether clashes between hunger marchers and the police , bitter street-fights between fascists and anti-fascists which led to the Public Order Act of 1936 , or accusations and counter-accusations about ‘ political hooliganism ’ when public meetings were broken up , as they frequently were . |
| 19 | These are mainly for tin but also for zinc , lead and silver which occur in the same veins , and for wolfram and tungsten , which are used in making special steels . |
| 20 | It is the dialectically functioning relationship between musicians and listeners which accounts for the state and the viability of the musical language at a given time , and for changes in the language over time . |
| 21 | The individual is a living biological animal who is born , develops to maturity , grows old and dies ; the person is the set of offices and roles which attach to the individual at any particular stage in his life career . |
| 22 | Plots of vegetables were fenced in by mud-brick walls to keep out the hobbled donkeys and camels which foraged in the wadi . |
| 23 | We both are ready and willing to shoulder the responsibilities and duties which fall upon the rich and powerful nations of the world . |
| 24 | For other types of relationship do exist in which the parties may desire the system of rights and duties which flow from the legal concept of marriage , while — and this is a critical point — the common law is singularly lacking in alternative forms of institutionalized and legitimate union . |
| 25 | Before considering the implications of sexuality for personal and social problems it may be well to take a look at present-day outlooks upon sex in our society and to the norms and mores which exist in the community as a whole . |
| 26 | Rather than highlighting is internal problems — procedures , policies and matters of individual performance — the school tended to place the spotlight on external matters — the changing intake and the increase in the number of pupils with learning difficulties — and matters which reflected on the LEA 's own accountabilities — over staffing and resources . |
| 27 | Whenever a package is being approved , the approver is presented with a list of all SPRs and SSRs which apply to the modules in the package in order to judge the quality of the package . |
| 28 | Any SPRs and SSRs which apply to the modules in the package . |
| 29 | There is little or no hint of the compassion and humanity which lay beneath the cool exterior . |
| 30 | The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Great Brington contains the tombs of Lawrence , the great-great-great-grandfather of George Washington and the former 's brother Robert and sister-in-law which date from the early 1600s . |