Example sentences of "which [verb] in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that when one is treating a patient with homoeopathy , a substance is used which produces in a healthy person symptoms and signs similar to those presented by that patient . |
| 2 | But Krauss suggests that we know very well what sculpture is : it is a historically bounded category , with its own set of rules , which are not open to very much change : its internal logic is that of the monument , a commemorative representation , which sits in a particular place and ‘ speaks in a symbolic tongue about the meaning or use of that place ’ . |
| 3 | One species , which lives in a small area round the Suez , certainly does ripen its eggs at full moon , and a sea urchin off California has a similar lunar cycle , so there may be some substance to the fishermen 's claim . |
| 4 | It 's larva is a fierce predator of small fish , insects and invertebrates , which lives in a silty tunnel on the lake or river bed . |
| 5 | If there exists a word which stands in a paronymic relation to one occurrence of a word form , but does not stand in the same relation to a second , syntactically identical occurrence of the same word form in a different context , then that word form is ambiguous , and the two occurrences exemplify different senses . |
| 6 | The Val d'Azun will take you down at its eastern end to the town of Argelés-Gazost , which stands in a wide basin of the Gave de Pau , some eight miles south of Lourdes . |
| 7 | The cathedral , which stands in a commanding position on a hill overlooking the wide valley below , was begun in the early twelfth century . |
| 8 | A dramatised story of the operations of an imaginary business , which covers in a realistic way most aspects of business . |
| 9 | A more modest role model is offered in Suzy ( Chapman , 1982 ) which illustrates in a simple way some of the practicalities of coping with poor sight in day-to-day situations on the ways that friends can help . |
| 10 | They must go further and establish that there was , in a legal sense , compulsion by something actually done or threatened , something beyond the implication of duress arising from a demand by persons in authority , which suffices in a true colore officii case . |
| 11 | Some schemes did not distinguish between the two terms , others preferred " investigations " , for the open-ended problems , and " problem " for a situation which results in a predetermined answer . |
| 12 | Thus ideology is a set of beliefs and values which provides a way of seeing and interpreting the world which results in a partial view of reality . |
| 13 | Sometimes the wet ink which is sprayed on to a horizontal board can spread out sideways , which results in a reasonably-uniform layer in the middle of the board , but an excessively thick border of ink around the edges of the board . |
| 14 | Criminal Justice Act 1982 , s. 1B(5) provides that if a sentence of detention in a young offender institution is passed on a juvenile which results in a total term of detention exceeding 12 months ' , any excess over 12 months ' is remitted and the sentence takes effect as a term of 12 months ' detention in a young offender institution . |
| 15 | In numerical terms , the nursing workforce renews itself every six years which results in a large population of nurses who are not practising within the NHS . |
| 16 | A candidate for the degree of DPhil is expected , in addition , to complete successfully a programme of work which results in a significant contribution to knowledge . |
| 17 | Sometimes the channel is direct , and the goods sold are incorporated into a manufacturing process which results in a different end-product . |
| 18 | In the equal-opportunities field observers can analyse the talk which occurs in a mixed class . |
| 19 | Thus , a regularity in discourse is a linguistic feature which occurs in a definable environment with a significant frequency . |
| 20 | Not surprisingly , George Eliot shared in the Victorian enthusiasm for Dutch interior painting , which dwells in a similar way upon the potency of objects , eliciting from the contemplation of such things the expression of useful lives ( Fig. 81 ) , almost in the manner of medieval Flemish painters for whom such details are invariably symbolic of spiritual states . |
| 21 | However , there are a number of post-war schools of thought which lie in a direct line of descent and which continue a distinctive democratic elitist pattern of argument . |
| 22 | In Northern Ireland ‘ The Thing ’ eventually unchained some of the other phenomena that we have been discussing here , which are inherently separate : endemic hooliganism ; the breakthrough of the use of the firearm ; and the infinite potential for blocking the formation of antibodies , for blocking the natural reaction of a society to violence , which exists in a divided community . |
| 23 | In the same periodical , Reverdy , who admitted that much contemporary literature at this time reflected an aesthetic first developed in Cubist painting , added : ‘ the poet 's aim is to create a work which lives independently from him , from his private life , which exists in a special realm . ’ |
| 24 | We have already moved from a whole season to a single day and the next four lines are narrowed down even further from the universal sun to a fire which exists in a particular person , namely , the speaker . |
| 25 | Each had long hair which flowed in a golden mane down her back ; and despite the difference in age , they were of similar height . |
| 26 | It grew in a boggy area where there was a spring and a small stream which flowed in a desultory way after the autumn rains but almost dried up in summer . |
| 27 | Two fire crews from Bury attended the crash which happened in a torrential downpour . |
| 28 | Although , as I mentioned before , rival groups of psycholinguists dispute the question of whether , when , and how the central systems exert a top-down influence upon the parsing processes , contemporary psycholinguistics proceeds on the assumption that levels of linguistic representation ( phoneme , morpheme , noun phrase , clause , etcetera ) are ‘ psychologically real ’ in the sense of referring to processes in the nervous system which take a certain time , which happen in a particular order , and which have determinate causal relations to similar processes . |
| 29 | At the same time a change of register is always a relief , and a theme which is ‘ opened out ’ over a wide span has a greater emotional potential than one which stays in a small area . |
| 30 | This lack of ascription was subsequently remedied by the shorter prologue , which survives in a limited number of manuscripts of the Pactus : apparently known to the author of the Liber Historiae Francorum , the shorter prologue seems to date from the late seventh or early eighth century . |