Example sentences of "which [verb] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to the urban congestion , there were two new factors , more or less coinciding in impact , which operated to degrade the traditional sanctity of the grave and hit the poorest people hardest . |
| 2 | Plaintiffs must make available to the defence all documents in their possession which are relevant to the matters in dispute — and sometimes there will be found , amongst office memoranda and other internal documents , material which goes to justify the original allegation . |
| 3 | Secondly there is the product/value which goes to maintain the extra workers if production is to expand , i.e. , . |
| 4 | Even where the base cost of the shares in Target is reduced , for example if there is a claim for breach of warranty made by Newco against the vendors which goes to reduce the overall price which Newco pays for the shares , the position can be restored if the amount Newco receives in settlement of the claim is invested in the target company in return for an issue of further shares to Newco . |
| 5 | Thus reform often petered out in a rearrangement of government offices — a persistent feature of Spanish administrative history — which failed to eradicate the inherited vices of a paper-loving bureaucracy ; the navy , for example , remained a ground-based pasture for underpaid civil servants to browse on , a defect that had costly results at Trafalgar . |
| 6 | The Barcelona rising , which failed to enlist the vital support of the CNT , was quickly suppressed , but that in Asturias lasted a fortnight until finally crushed , with considerable blood-shed , by Spanish and Moorish troops commanded by General Francisco Franco . |
| 7 | THE DEATH OF THE Lotus Elan was the result of poor sales which failed to recoup the massive investment made in the car , according to former GM Europe boss Bob Eaton . |
| 8 | It is nature 's version of inductive reasoning : animals learn only cues which tend to predict the imminent arrival of something desirable , like food , and the reliability of the new cue does not need to be by any means perfect . |
| 9 | Sidonius 's writings are verse panegyrics addressed to emperors , and letters : both literary forms which tend to emphasize the traditional values of the senatorial aristocracy and imperial court . |
| 10 | The ancient Forest of Naddle , with deciduous trees , is one of the few areas which remain to show the natural tree growth of the region . |
| 11 | Attempts to develop a peinture feminine , on the lines of the écriture feminine proposed by Hélène Cixous ( whose rhapsodic feminism has had much greater impact on the Aglophone world than on her own French audience ) , led to works which sought to represent the very evanescence , immateriality , and ordinariness of women 's existential condition and past works , as in Bobby Baker 's performance art , in which she makes cakes or reproduces her daily kitchen routines , or , Susan Hiller 's cool , barometrically precise account of her own pregnancy , in the graphic work , ‘ Ten Months ’ . |
| 12 | In 1976 Britain , or more strictly England and Wales , introduced legislation which sought to control the worst excesses of the press and the courts in relation to rape . |
| 13 | As then , he dealt with the motion as a three-part whole rather than as separate clauses and refused to incorporate an amendment ( carried 2:1 ) which sought to modify the proposed Committee revision in respect of the Captains , which many members considered was a continuation of the sort of privileges previously enjoyed by bondholders . |
| 14 | A hopeful and insufficiently applauded shift in emphasis was signalled in 1986 by the Report of the Attorney General 's Commission on Pornography , which sought to identify the relative harms caused by various forms of pornography , thus making it possible to draw up a list of priorities . |
| 15 | From this impetus various theories were proposed which sought to apply the empirical method of the natural sciences to the study of society . |
| 16 | On the Tuesday night , however , my Private Secretary , Steve Godber , rang me at a dinner to tell me that at the eleventh hour Nigel Lawson had put round a minute which sought to reopen the whole issue of the replacement for SERPS . |
| 17 | And I do n't think the I do n't think the the overall scale of that issue is one which needs to reduce the strategic requirement on Hambleton . |
| 18 | Leading the first contingent will be Japan and Norway , which want to see the current moratorium on commercial whaling lifted . |
| 19 | Whether yours is a family garden which has to sustain the rigorous attentions of children , a more sedate garden for entertaining al fresco , or a small city garden with little room for more than a couple of raised flowers beds , a patio can give your home and lifestyle a whole new dimension . |
| 20 | We said that if the revolution is victorious in Russia and a republican government comes to power which wants to continue the imperialist war in alliance with the imperialist bourgeoisie of England and France , a war for the conquest of Constantinople , Armenia , Galicia , and so on and so forth , then we will be decided opponents of such a government , we will be against " 'the defence of the Fatherland " " in such a war . |
| 21 | A number of factors could be identified which helped to explain the apparent resilience of these women . |
| 22 | He was responsible for a major reform of Government administration , including a new public service act , which helped to facilitate the rapid localisation of the civil service . |
| 23 | This is one of the photographs which helped to form the earliest conceptions of the medium . |
| 24 | No more is it possible to claim that the strict code of social morality and convention which helped to sustain the political system was held in place from outside against the will of most Japanese people . |
| 25 | The preview evening and following three days enabled many people to come and appreciate the variety of gifts and talents which helped to enhance the natural beauty and lines of the Cathedral . |
| 26 | A food co-op which tried to replace the burned-out shops has been closed after several break-ins , and even the drop-in centre is burgled weekly , according to project worker Sheila Auld . |
| 27 | After the opening of the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway in 1859 , Davies constructed more railways including many which came to form the 1864 alliance of the Cambrian Railways , namely the Oswestry and Newtown Railway and the Newtown and Machynlleth Railway . |
| 28 | It was they who , at the turn of the century , founded the socialist parties which came to dominate the political scene in 1917 . |
| 29 | One explicit guiding principle of papal teaching which came to influence the Irish constitution and successive debates culminating in the church — state imbroglio of 1951 , dealt with below , was that of ‘ subsidiarity ’ : that no ‘ secondary ’ institution such as the state should take on duties which ‘ primary ’ and ‘ intermediate ’ ones , such as the family , could assume . |
| 30 | For all the pioneer ideology of frontier self-sufficiency which came to surround the early Americans , increasing in both numbers and wealth , they provided a market for consumer goods by 1740 which was not unlike that which had emerged in England itself . |