Example sentences of "which [noun] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Canada , with which Newfoundland had by this time merged , duly requested and consented ; Australia , New Zealand and South Africa merely ‘ assented ’ . |
| 2 | The state of continual fear which Hobbes attributed to natural man outside society was , for Vico , a characteristic of emergent civilized man inside society , and this became the generative source for much of human culture . |
| 3 | The reputation for energy and honesty which Truman gained from this work helped him win the nomination for the vice-presidency in the 1944 election , after more prominent candidates had cancelled each other out . |
| 4 | This table was made like a tray ; when lifted , its legs could be snapped up or snapped down — a solemn sort of conjuring trick which Twomey performed with quiet authority . |
| 5 | The alacrity with which northerners enlisted for military service whenever warfare flared up on the Border speaks for itself . |
| 6 | When Ruth entered the study the vicar was sitting at his desk ; a large mahogany desk with a green leather top , which Ruth polished with loving care every Wednesday . |
| 7 | Central to this compromise was an agreement to increase support to " southern " countries for which Spain argued with particular vehemence and success . |
| 8 | A further benefit which England gained from continued possession of the residual Plantagenet inheritance was maritime supremacy . |
| 9 | Social life for Malinowski was like capitalism for Keynes : ‘ a going concern ’ , in which individuals interacted with each other in pursuit of mutually rewarding transactions . |
| 10 | Next month , the first £15m phase of Carden Park , which Broome acquired as sole proprietor in 1988 , will be opened . |
| 11 | The sixth medium featured on the tape , recorded in January last year , said the dog she ‘ saw ’ had a short tail and was pushing her head into Tom 's hand , which Tom confirmed as typical Border Terrier behaviour . |
| 12 | The distrust which Dicey felt concerning this tendency of party government to destroy the balance of parliamentary institutions caused him to advocate the use of various institutional control devices . |
| 13 | The suspicions which Englishmen voiced about papal intervention in the realm had various roots , but one of them was surely the disproportionately small representation of the English church in the Curia . |
| 14 | The answer which Marx gave to this problem resembles that given later by Durkheim . |
| 15 | It is a central doctrine of Christianity that the womb of the Virgin Mary became the means by which God descended into human form and was born as Jesus Christ . |
| 16 | The old religions under which people lived for ninety-nine point nine per cent of human history have decayed or are irrelevant . |
| 17 | Further , the data can be used to reveal a good deal about the composition of households — who lived with whom — but far less about the character and quality of relationships which people had with each other ( Laslett , 1972a , p. 1 ; Anderson , 1980 , pp. 36–7 ) . |
| 18 | Some Franks were prepared to fight under the Roman Paul , just as Childeric 's men had once followed Aegidius according to a rather more legendary story which Gregory of Tours knew , but which Fredegar related at greater length . |
| 19 | His name suggests that he was the scion of one of the great families of fifth-century Gaul , a family , indeed , which Sidonius held in great esteem . |
| 20 | The real problem was the Britannia Works in Middlesbrough which Skerne acquired after leading partner Walter Pease died in 1872 . |
| 21 | Before filming was finished , she had left Vadim , her director husband , for Jean-Louis Trintignant , her actor husband in the story , a situation which Vadim took with apparent aplomb as he continued to encourage her to strive for even more realism in his rival 's arms . |
| 22 | The arguments which Cassius made before this speech probably also helped to swing Brutus ' ides . |
| 23 | The note which nurses found with abandoned toddler Debbie |
| 24 | As this was an art movement which America embraced with unprecedented enthusiasm and unrivalled breadth of vision , and as we specialise so much in American art objects ( we showed at the Modernism Fair in New York last year ) , the theme has provided a vehicle to address the famously discriminating audience of Grosvenor House with objects normally found only in a handful of the most forward looking museums . |
| 25 | In fact the limitations which Baldwin accepted on this occasion were almost meaningless . |
| 26 | She shot him a baleful look , which Lori intercepted with sly malice . |
| 27 | England led by 14–10 at the interval through tries by O'Leary , Nick Smith ( Northampton ) and centre Jason Keyter ( Harlequins ) plus a Burke penalty goal to which Wales replied with two penalty goals from full-back Ian Jones ( Camarthen Quins ) and a try by Allnut . |
| 28 | The idea of ‘ distraction ’ , so strongly linked with London in ‘ Burnt Norton ’ was one which Eliot saw in this period as politically as well as spiritually dangerous . |
| 29 | The Waste Land hardly suggests that the inhabitants of the twentieth-century city are conscious actors in fertility rites , but since these , long forgotten , underlie our behaviour , since the ‘ sexual instinct ’ plays a role in ‘ the religion and mythology of primitive peoples ( indeed in all religion ) ’ , and since Christianity and primitive ritual are linked , the poem expresses despair at the change and decay not only of city churches which Eliot visited at this time , but of all belief . |
| 30 | Anselm met them as best he could as they arose , and we may trace them step by step , less to recall the stages in an archbishop 's promotion , than to understand the state of mind in which Anselm progressed from one stage to the next . |