Example sentences of "which [vb past] [pers pn] in [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 | Skirting the lakeside , she took a route which led her in the opposite direction from him . |
| 3 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The most widely accepted theory of human evolution — proposed largely by anthropologists , and based on fossil findings — connects the transformation of our early ancestors to some geological changes which trapped them in the eastern side of Africa 's Rift valley , in an environment that was suddenly drier and more open . |
| 7 | Plainly Henry Ward Beecher , the great New York preacher of puritanism , should either have avoided having tumultuous extra-marital love-affairs or chosen a career which did not require him to be quite such a prominent advocate of sexual restraint ; though one can not entirely fail to sympathise with the bad luck which linked him in the mid-1870s with the beautiful feminist and advocate of free love , Victoria Woodhull , a lady whose convictions made privacy difficult . |
| 8 | Now the factory which developed it in the 60s looks set to go the same way . |
| 9 | For the former the sterling area was good for business ; for the latter , an international financial role for Britain involved direct responsibilities which placed it in the central position in government to which it had become accustomed before 1939 but had lost over the war years . |
| 10 | As has been noted , services are far less easy prey to import penetration ; and the broad financial sector fared well out of a sharp rise in inflation and the high interest rates which accompanied it in the early 1970s . |
| 11 | God means to free us from the bondage to the self-centredness and self-vindication which marked us in the old days , and has equipped us with the Spirit of the Messiah to set us free to serve him unselfconsciously , effectively and joyfully . |
| 12 | The pluralist perspective on British politics was built up by political scientists who were predisposed to provide an account of interest-group politics which presented it in a good , democratic light . |
| 13 | Oh , I might , thought Lydia , but she said : ‘ I did n't poison Betty either ’ , in a childishly defensive way which put her in a worse mood . |
| 14 | The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years , and are left only with a few bad ones : the creation of new , ever more incompetent ‘ private ’ monopolies ; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals ; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax , which will benefit nobody , when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination — by abolishing all discriminatory rates , abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings , allowing domestic wages ( as all other forms of employment are allowed ) against personal taxation … |
| 15 | ( Left The Lycett & Conaty radial gear , with which S.M.E.T. Nos. 1–16 were originally fitted and ( right ) the Warner gear which replaced it in the 1920s . |
| 16 | To his increasing embarrassment , Montrose found himself bombarded with solicitations from three directions , which left him in an impossible situation . |