Example sentences of "which [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence the modern Oedipus complex is not wholly explicable by reference to the modern family ( and therefore not controvertible by reference to modern family arrangements which allegedly do not feature it ) , but rather to both the individual 's actual family circumstances , and to the inherited and culturally transmitted conditions of the species which produced it in the first place and which determined its particular expression . |
| 2 | Where a member of a board is not re-elected to the authority which appointed him at an ordinary election , he remains a board member until the first meeting of the authority after the election . |
| 3 | It was nevertheless accepted for a number of years by the Trades Union Congress , which admitted it as an affiliated organisation until 1881 , when it was declared ineligible . |
| 4 | Skirting the lakeside , she took a route which led her in the opposite direction from him . |
| 5 | I skulked down one side of the garden and went through the arch which led me to a walled garden in the middle of which there was a fountain playing . |
| 6 | The cave itself was surprisingly warm and we realised we were walking through a gallery which led us into a lofty underground cavern . |
| 7 | We walked the long , covered-in wooden bridge which led us over the Hundred Foot River to the members ' observatory . |
| 8 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
| 9 | Typical of microscopic work might be W. C. Williamson 's work on the formation of bones and teeth in the 1850s , which got him into the Royal Society . |
| 10 | The intensified aerial bombardment and resulting civilian casualties came in for strong criticism , with all the opposition groups in parliament ( hitherto supportive of military action against the LTTE ) subscribing to a statement which described it as an inhuman action against the people . |
| 11 | A longer length of rope was circled around her shoulders and under the table , then over her gorgeous breasts and downwards until her rib cage was completely covered in coiled rope , which fastened her to the hard wooden table . |
| 12 | And when , as shadow education spokesman , I was a frontline campaigner in the nineteen eighty seven election , it was the G M B which provided me with the necessary facilities to carry out that role , and I thank them for it . |
| 13 | This is a role which provided him with a great deal of satisfaction . |
| 14 | Consequently , rather than viewing the totalitarian structure of the PCF as a source of oppression , it is more productive to view it as the chosen institution within which Nizan found not only political asylum but also emotional and moral equilibrium , a refuge in short which provided him with a necessary disciplined working environment . |
| 15 | In France many noblemen , especially those of middling to lower rank , were so impoverished that they needed the king 's wages , which provided them with a better and surer income than did their lands . |
| 16 | Japanese land forces enjoyed numerical superiority and better preparedness , which provided them with an initial advantage . |
| 17 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 18 | The crumbling of the old idea of a state based on obligations and obedience may have helped increase the dynamic force that enabled European countries to spread their authority over most of the world ; the very widespread acceptance of the new idea of a state based on independence and equality gave people outside Europe political principles which helped them in the later struggle to dismantle the European empires . |
| 19 | In a sense this was so , but on the other hand the activity of town planning soon got bogged down in a technical bureaucracy , losing the dash and verve which sustained it during the 1940s . |
| 20 | ‘ I think I 'm going to vomit , ’ she muttered to no one in particular , and sat down with a plop on a new imitation Italian chair , which received her with a reedy groan . |
| 21 | It was an experience which steeled him for the future task of having as many as a dozen major country houses under construction in any one year . |
| 22 | If he was thus eligible for that title , there must have been something which qualified him — something which distinguished him from the numerous other leaders , both military and political , who at the time were themselves becoming thorns in the Roman side . |
| 23 | The famous trip to Europe , which Lear had constantly referred to in his letters as if it were an experience which united him with the great ornithologist , became the bitter disappointment of a friendship manqué . |
| 24 | In addition to being a hunchback the painter Toulouse-Lautrec suffered from a condition which endowed him with an oversized penis . |
| 25 | Whilst on bail awaiting trial , he was served with statements of his co-accused which implicated him to a significant extent . |
| 26 | It was at such times , he said , that he was divested of all those characteristics of family , personality and reputation which identified him to the outside world . |
| 27 | But on a hummock by the road a starling-sized bird turned round to reveal a brilliant crimson front which identified it as a long-tailed meadowlark , locally called military starling . |
| 28 | Sampras admitted he felt powerless in the face of Ivanisevic 's 13-ace onslaught which consigned him to a 7–6 6–2 defeat . |
| 29 | Then a conceptual emotion was released in him which transmuted what he saw into theory , a recognition of the cerebral nature of an art which transported him beyond the mere explanation of the visible . |
| 30 | Mota , from Portugal , suffered yet again with a mysterious stomach complaint , which affected her during the last world championships . |