Example sentences of "which [adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE are investigating the cause of a fire which badly damaged a large mill last night . |
| 2 | Can I can I say that in my opinion that the county council 's current budgeting strategy which effectively imposes a two percent efficiency saving which I might add in figures come to something like one point five million erm is , is of concern but what is of greater concern is the further possibility of a four percent er reduction which is being sought in blocks of three percent and one percent next year for ninety four ninety five which is to the amount of two point eight million at the current prices will in my opinion decimate the present level of service provision in policing . |
| 3 | A single-union agreement was negotiated with the Amalgamated Engineering Union ( AEU ) , which effectively provided a no-strike deal for Nissan . |
| 4 | I 'm thinking , for example , it 's not a medicine as such , but I 'm thinking of the birth control pill , which presumably has a possible effect in its particular form over a period perhaps twenty years , rather than five years , on a person . |
| 5 | Two of his most memorable innings came in one-day internationals , the 138 not out in the 1979 World Cup final and the 189 not out at Old Trafford in 1984 which single-handedly transformed a desperate situation into a winning one , and which will surely never be forgotten by anyone who saw it . |
| 6 | The first stage in the transfer is a preselection process , involving informal discussions with tenants where they may make their own alternative suggestions , which eventually produces a single applicant to go forward to the final stages . |
| 7 | In their place she pinned up a poster of a starving black child and a chart which eventually recorded a handsome donation to the Biafran famine relief fund , amassed by the girls from a summer fair , Christmas carol-singing and a sponsored fast during which Suzie Chamfer histrionically fainted in the lavatories . |
| 8 | this soon tangles itself in a web of white noise and frantic improvisation which eventually has a hypnotising effect on the audience . |
| 9 | They have become impotent — a fact which naturally causes a great deal of anxiety to them and to their wives . |
| 10 | In 1900 Edinburgh Waverley Station boasted forty lady operators working in the telegraph department , sending out 4,000 messages a day.a But it was of course the First World War which suddenly gave a tremendous fillip to women 's employment in stations . |
| 11 | In the same way , self-evaluation can mirror those things which require reappraisal , those which only require a little attention , and those which need a complete overhaul . |
| 12 | The island of Porto Santo has a regular air link with Madeira by a small Air Portugal plane which only takes a few minutes . |
| 13 | The 34-year-old star of Bonfire Of The Vanities has had the implants — which only last a few months — twice before . |
| 14 | The bill has already been modified by the Senate following amendments presented by various political groups who were pressing for tax reductions for buildings of artistic or historic interest which only generate a small income but which are expensive to maintain . |
| 15 | Bayer now supplies the paint industry with binding agents which only need a small proportion of solvents and in some cases no solvents at all . |
| 16 | What intrigued me most , however , was the arrangement of four dangling neck-ties , like swaying cobras , which only needed a squatting snakecharmer to really hypnotise . |
| 17 | Volcanic clusters occur both on continental and oceanic lithosphere , and are particularly common on the African Plate which apparently has a high concentration of hot spots ( see Section 4.2.1 ) . |
| 18 | Few historians today place much trust in the sagas ( which apparently included a lost work on Cnut written c.1200 ) as sources for the eleventh century , but the verses which they quote are another matter . |
| 19 | The clearest example is Charterhouse which relied on the exploitation of lead and silver from the Mendips ; mining occurred over an extensive area , largely to the south-east of the town , which apparently possessed a complex street system and a small amphitheatre . |
| 20 | But he said the province was now faced with ‘ a quite alarming series of incidents , which perhaps marks a new phase in the terrorist campaign , and it has serious implications for people in Northern Ireland . ’ |
| 21 | Part of the process has been to leave melodies incomplete , in an enigmatic and obscure fashion , sacrificing them to the technical prowess of symphonic ‘ textures ’ which perhaps have a greater degree of interest and a more intellectually appealing complexity . |
| 22 | The accumulation of an ever-increasing number of empirical case studies which together comprise(d) a broadening data base to describe users , activities and patterns of use in relation to the existing supply of opportunities . |
| 23 | On the one hand this expansion offered for the first time a substantial number of teaching posts which together formed a fully-integrated career structure , and on the other it considerably lessened the security of both the " historical " and " critical " paradigms for which Bateson had been at such pains to seek some form of mutual accommodation . |
| 24 | Good public relations were made a priority , so that the atmosphere surrounding the team was always cordial , which obviously had a beneficial effect on the players . |
| 25 | One fourth-year student at C explained to me that several experiments conducted in the lab in the first term of the year could not be written up until the second term , after the theory had been presented in the lecture course , which obviously meant a tremendous backlog of work to catch up on . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , he does report many developments in the American social scene , which obviously owe a great deal to the careful monitoring of many local newspapers . |
| 27 | And then found her thoughts , which desperately needed a new direction , turning slowly towards the mill-school . |
| 28 | Some computer systems use raster graphics which generally have a lower resolution than the more expensive vector graphics . |
| 29 | This was recently confirmed by the discovery of an F0/F1-type ATPase in an archaebacterium which already harbours a V-type enzyme . |
| 30 | The developer hopes it would link with the existing Magnetic Imaging Centre , which already operates a sophisticated body scanner . |