Example sentences of "and which [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , public enterprises also lend themselves to tasks that have more to do with political legitimation than with the needs of the economic system , and which increase the contradictory pressures on them . |
| 2 | He came back to her in a barely controlled rush , gently parting her legs , his mouth and hands caressing her body in a way that made her move sinuously against him , and which wrenched a low moan of need from his throat . |
| 3 | For now , we should look at more of the essential components of life on Earth : the energy that comes from the Sun , and which keeps the whole system rolling ; and the atmosphere itself , which protects us from too much of that radiation , and provides several of life 's essential ingredients . |
| 4 | On the one hand there was the assembly or Ecclesia which every citizen was entitled to attend , and which took the final decisions about policy . |
| 5 | A serious blow , of course , was also dealt to the reputation of the Labour Party , which controlled many of the councils with the greatest needs and which made the heaviest demands on the public purse , and whose members were least apologetic about doing so . |
| 6 | With his precision of line , careful musicality and swift little steps close to the ground , Shaw , in ballets like Les Rendezvous , embodied everything that was best about Ashton 's choreography and which made the Royal Ballet unique . |
| 7 | Classical elitists regarded Marxism as a religious faith , a prophylactic for the downtrodden proletariat which wrongly attributes all previous systems of elite rule to economic forces , and which ignores the inescapable evidence that organizational logic and the psychological dependence of a mass of citizens on leadership makes ineluctable some such structure of domination . |
| 8 | Hikmet Cetin , Foreign Minister of Turkey , which according to the Kars treaty of 1921 was joint guarantor with Russia of the status of Nakhichevan and which shared a small section of its border , expressed his country 's disapproval on May 19 . |
| 9 | In 1714 more than a third of the debt was in the form of fixed-term annuities , most of which had been floated before 1710 and which cost an annual £800,000 to service . |
| 10 | ‘ Appropriate ’ technology might usefully be defined as an idea which is of benefit to the people of developing countries , and which meets the following criteria : |
| 11 | We shall here use adjectival position to mean any construction which has the function of realizing some distinct pattern of intensional relations , and which meets the following criteria : ( a ) It contains an adjective as one of its elements ; ( b ) It is minimally extended for that adjective , i.e. there are no further elements dependent on the adjective ( since all such phrases will reduce in their structural effect to a single occurrence of adjective anyway ) ; ( c ) It is minimally complete for that adjective ; that is , the adjective achieves its structural effect within the construction , so that setting the whole pattern into a larger construction can not change the effective value of the adjective . |
| 12 | What did surprise him a little , and which argued a political maturity that even sensitive Western observers were sometimes inclined to overlook , was that , in three days of systematic canvassing of Libyan opinion , he encountered little or no personal hostility . |
| 13 | Polymeric phosphatidylcholines have been prepared in which the polar head group forms the interface , and which mimic the interfacial characteristics of the lipid of these natural cell and lipoprotein surfaces . |
| 14 | Any individual display of selfish or uncooperative attitudes can lead to the allocation of jobs that carry low prestige , smaller annual increments , more limited promotion prospects and which convey a humiliating stigma in the eyes of colleagues . |
| 15 | We are also developing a common funding formula for self- governing schools which is fair , both to the schools themselves and to the local education authorities which is transparent and which offers a reasonable prospect of stability of funding . |
| 16 | It seems to represent a programme which is extremely good value for the taxpayer and which offers the best prospects of much better services for the user . |
| 17 | This irony prompts the questions which guided the research and which form the central problem addressed by this book : since those who are subject to regulation have good economic reason not to comply , how is compliance secured , given the frailty of the criminal sanction and its virtual disuse ? |
| 18 | Jonathan Mann , director of the World Health Organization 's global programme on AIDS , which he founded in 1986 and which had an annual budget of over US$100,000,000 , announced his resignation on March 16 , citing disagreements with the WHO Director-General , Hiroshi Nakajima . |
| 19 | annual increases that some irresponsible Labour-controlled councils were imposing and which had the sole effect of driving businesses out of many of our major inner-city centres . |
| 20 | From the Eleventh Dynasty , in the Coffin Texts and the Book of the Two Ways , the Underworld has become a realm with many danger which must be conquered and which express the natural fear of death . |
| 21 | This has also been a way of escaping from the serious clashes which historically have taken place between different Christian groups involved in education and which remain a distinct possibility in the multi-faith situation . |
| 22 | It is within this conceptual framework that a government minister at the Department of the Environment can , with seemingly irrefutable common sense , conceptualise inner cities as the places where ‘ those living there have not been able to participate in the economic miracle of the Thatcher years ’ ( Trippier , 1989 , p7 ) and which require a strong police presence because ‘ the future prosperity of the inner cities depends directly on how safe they are in which to live and work ’ ( ibid , p22 ) . |
| 23 | There are a number of fallacies which are frequently promulgated in order to explain away the low standard of living of the farm worker and which require a brisk dismissal at the outset . |
| 24 | The Romans found an existing road pattern which went back to Neolithic times and which followed the natural corridors of movement suggested by the topography . |
| 25 | His greatest reward was the gift of a mortuary temple , the only one granted to a non-royal person , which was built near to that of the king and which raised the deceased Amenhotep to divine status , placing him amongst the cults of kings . |
| 26 | They are accustomed to presentations that are professionally , even slickly , performed , and which make the average class lesson seem amateur , especially in the use of communication aids such as graphics , film clips and animated cartoons . |
| 27 | In the summer of 1935 , George Pateman resigned following his appointment as Assistant Secretary to the Cambridge University Board of Extra-Mural Studies — a major surprise to many in the District and which precipitated a major re-casting of the District 's policies and priorities . |
| 28 | Ms Radice correctly reasons that her constituency is not the art community , but Congress , which authorises and funds the endowment , and which represents the American people in toto . |
| 29 | The fossil record shows that each new generation of dinosaur evinced marked evolutionary changes in body types which set them apart , and which fitted the ecological changes occurring coterminously around them . |
| 30 | Previously when bottlenecks arose in the benefit delivery system regional or local decisions had to be made that might affect implementation , now there is a central ‘ directorate ’ which is likely to be involved in the examination of policy feasibility and which plays an important part in determining how policy is implemented . |