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

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1 After about 20 years of critical success which rarely translated into public acclaim , his new novel , Affliction ( Picador , £12.95 ) , has hit big in the US .
2 They packed a protest meeting , which most remember to this day .
3 THE ULTIMATE teen movie , a sharp-edged black comedy which mercilessly swipes at adolescent angst , peer pressure , consumerism , and that old favourite , the generation gap .
4 We interpret this result as being due to the highly repetitive nature of the target sequence which effectively competes with other amplification products resulting in their subamplification and lack of detectability on the gel .
5 The lysates also contained several immunoreactive polypeptides with smaller M r s , which presumably correspond to proteolytic degradation products of the two native PLCs .
6 Tracking along the trajectories he can establish that the electron which eventually fell onto this spot of the photographic plate was the one he called A whilst the one that collided with the gold atom was the one he had called B. Quantum mechanically ( that is to say , with the electrons of the real world ) this can not be done .
7 Rainout occurs when material is incorporated into cloud water droplets or ice crystals which eventually grow to sufficient size to overcome gravity and fall to the ground .
8 The materials which eventually evolved from this study include a questionnaire devised by the group and which has subsequently been used as a basis for further in-service training sessions in their schools .
9 Their delicacy is indicated by the opening air raid siren of the opening track which suddenly explodes into New Age of Total Warfare .
10 Life for Hannah Hauxwell then settled into a pattern which basically continues to this day .
11 Similarly , we might claim to have a right to private property on account of having interests which crucially depend on private ownership .
12 Unfortunately no situations arose during field-work where the neighbourhood police were required to use these secondary recipes , although one did state how sympathetic he felt towards adolescents in parts of Easton because ‘ they do n't stand a chance ’ there , a feeling which easily translates into sympathetic handling of situations in which youths are involved .
13 Over one half of the anticipated increase in the South 's population will reside in cities many of which already suffer from urban squalor , high crime rates , vandalism and political unrest .
14 Ceauşescu 's obsession with numbers ought to have been satisfied by the overmanning which already existed in Romanian industry which could not really provide productive employment for the existing population .
15 Bellburn Lane is a residential cul de sac which already suffers with more traffic than it can safely handle .
16 Reorganization is fitted into a model which already exists without sufficient attention always being given to those parts which do not fit very well .
17 Above the cave we found an overgrown track which soon emerged onto bare rock and led steeply up to the cliff edge .
18 The icy Benguela Current that flows along the coast of Namibia provides ideal conditions for hake , pilchards , anchovies and horse mackerel , which normally occur in huge abundance and make Namibia 's territorial waters one of the richest fishing grounds in Africa .
19 She had watched girl friends drift from affair to affair which always began with such certainty that ‘ this time it will be different ’ , and inevitably ended in tears with the realisation that it was n't .
20 But in terms of years of potential life lost , the biggest killer is lung cancer , which usually strikes in middle age .
21 This is achieved by carefully examining its structure and design , which usually change to some degree with time , and taking into account its general condition and appearance .
22 The report will be used by the Woolwich instead of the mortgage valuation report as it includes all the information which usually appears in that report .
23 This protection earned the soldiers the nickname of ‘ leathernecks ’ , which still persists to this day .
24 The debate over the radical or conservative nature of the peasantry is a long-lasting one which still continues with some vigour .
25 At a meeting in the Rummer Tavern ( which still exists in rebuilt form a few doors from Cottle 's former bookshop ) he was persuaded by ‘ sundry Philanthropists ’ and opponents of the war to begin publication of a periodical to be called the Watchman .
26 For they devised what Otto Neugebauer has described as ‘ the only intelligent calendar which ever existed in human history ’ .
27 Estimates put as low as 25 per cent the proportion of the labour market which positively benefits from organizational tenure , those male , white-collar , full-time employees of the major , core and big-name enterprises ( Hamada , 1980 ) .
28 Toshiba has not specified the size of the reduction in the half-yearly bonus , which traditionally accounts for 50 p.c. of total pay .
29 During one excursion which probably occurred at this time Tom Poole took his friends to Walford 's Gibbet on the Quantock slopes between Holford and Stowey , and there recounted John Walford 's tragic history .
30 What is more they appear to have done it , whether in small discussion groups , or the concerts and parties she helped to get under way to celebrate the ending of the war , which also came in that year .
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