Example sentences of "which [verb] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Jess Reid 's chapter undertakes an analysis of children 's literature , which involves instances of the written speech and thought of individuals other than the author of the story .
2 Third , Vanaprastha , the forest-dwelling stage , which involves withdrawal from the normal requirements of social and family life , after the fulfilment of all necessary obligations , to a place of solitude for study and meditation .
3 We will continue our Estate Action and Housing Action Trust programmes which concentrate resources on the worst council estates .
4 It was only in the mid twelfth century that the growing concentration of mercantile wealth led to the recognition of the oligarchy as the permanent government , which ruled Venice throughout the later centuries of her glory and her decline .
5 Without high social standards throughout the Community , the Single Market will encourage companies to continue trying to compete by cutting costs — moving to the areas with low wages , low environmental protection and low skills — instead of pursuing the only strategy which offers success in the global economy , that of high-skill , high-wage , high-quality production .
6 He met the local Voice of the Innocent group , which represents relatives of the seven men .
7 We should be suspicious of any school of thought which separates spirituality from the natural and human as if God comes to people independent of this context .
8 It suggests there was an Oxford spy ring in the 1930s which passed secrets to the Soviet Union .
9 Victory , therefore , solves nothing unless it eliminates the source of the antagonism which produced war in the first place .
10 For they always avoided towns and traffic ; they avoided also the larger roads which became turnpikes in the eighteenth century and were subject to tolls , and they were short-turfed for the cattle and sheep , grazing as they went .
11 In 1894 he replaced ( Sir ) T. E. Thorpe [ q.v. ] as professor of chemistry at the Royal College of Science , which became part of the Imperial College of Science and Technology in 1907 , two years before Tilden retired in 1909 .
12 Later , the restrictions solidified into blocks which became part of the genetic make-up of humanity .
13 In explaining the sequence of thought which led Keynes to the General Theory , Dr Clarke has taken full advantage of recently discovered sources , including students ' notes of Keynes 's lectures at Cambridge .
14 This calls into use a response buffer which produces articulation of the translated message .
15 Fawley power station , which supplies electricity to the National Grid , operated at reduced capacity to avoid sucking up the oil in its water cooling system .
16 They had emphasised agitation on the concrete issues of electoral reform and discrimination in housing and employment , but NICRA originally operated as a body which made representations on the broad issues of civil liberties and took up individual cases of infringement of rights .
17 The result was urban chaos but a richness of building styles which redeemed Brighton from the overbearing formality of its more classical contemporaries .
18 Any single form or cohesive group of forms ( e.g. , a bunch of intertwining leaves ) which constitutes part of the overall design .
19 In order to obtain more information about those RNA polymerase subunits which make contacts in the -40 region , we also carried out protein-DNA crosslinking experiments with both enzymes , using a UV laser ( Fig. 4 ) .
20 The substance to be odorous must have a measure of volatility , so that it constantly loses molecules which make contact with the olfactory sensitive region of the nose .
21 There are also individual bureaux which develop extensions to the minimum national demands of enquiry classification .
22 It is a praiseworthy achievement to produce a result in line with last year in an economic climate which dampened demand in the retail market and caused considerable well publicised problems for certain companies in the industry .
23 If this is approved , British Airways , which holds 38% of the available slots , will suffer .
24 French PABX manufacturer Barphone SA , which holds 25% of the French market for PABXs of less than 25 ports , has said it is close to being taken over by an un-named foreign industrial group .
25 Namibia was to be invited to accede to the Lomé Convention which regulated relations between the European Communities ( EC ) and the 68 ( with Namibia ) developing countries of Africa , the Caribbean and the Pacific ( the ACP countries ) [ see p. 37210 ] .
26 The plateau above was a hollow basin , ringed with bold peaks and holding several large meadows where millions of mini-daffodils overhung the rushing stream which head east as the Oued Nfis .
27 The tier of local government which accepts responsibility for the major spending departments of education and social services becomes dominant in financial terms and consequently in status .
28 Yet this is not the cold , off-putting abstraction which arouses incomprehension in the ordinary spectator .
29 Brother Mark is no outsider to Continental markets , having done his MBA at Insead , the business school at Fontainebleu , which trained executives for the Single Market .
30 The 77,000 acre Mar Lodge Estate , which contains remnants of the ancient Caledonian forest , had been put up for sale by its American owner , John Kluge , at an asking price of £10 million .
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