Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [adv prt] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is a main road soon , which goes up to the pass , but it has no cover . ’ |
| 2 | It is a link which goes back to the Bronze Age and was common throughout the British Isles in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries . |
| 3 | The Library Association is deeply concerned that the imposition of these bans constitutes a major breach of the traditional principle that public libraries should be a neutral and non-partisan service , a principle which goes back to the beginning of the public libraries in the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | He charts an unfolding if uncertain logic which goes back to the way in which the welfare state was put together after the war , as pieces were tacked on in a rather haphazard way to existing state institutions . |
| 5 | Man too has a mechanism of mimicry which goes back to the baby in the cradle answering its mother 's smile , older than any utilization for learning how others feel or how to pick up skills or even for play , and which can get out of control in neurotic echolalia and echopraxia . |
| 6 | He will make a recommendation which goes back to the Department of the Environment , who will make the final decision as to whether the building should be listed . |
| 7 | Between the admirable houses in the so-called Quartier de la Barre , which goes down to the harbour mouth , and the sandy beach , a dike has been built up , twelve or fifteen feet high , to protect the town from the waves . |
| 8 | Keep to the bottom of the small valley rather than following the track which goes off to the left . |
| 9 | Almost opposite this is a road which turns off to the right down to Rabaçal ( 64km ) at a height of 1,070m . |
| 10 | Which adds up to the Eclipse doing things your way , not vice versa . |
| 11 | It 's tempting to stop at every village you come across on your travels — at Spili , we paused to drink from a Venetian fountain where stone lionheads spouted clear spring mountain water ; at Preveli we visited the famous monastery which looks out to the south coast ; driving through the Psiloritis mountains we braved the wind to climb down the Kourtaliotiko Gorge and saw the tiny church of St Nicolas . |
| 12 | Revising the original articles for Notes towards the Definition of Culture , he complicated his argument 's texture by involving more material relevant to his personal history and to the history of his work , such as that mention of Heart of Darkness which looks back to The Waste Land . |
| 13 | For high-pass walkers there is also from that road end a track up the spectacularly wild little valley of the Etzli which climbs up to the south . |
| 14 | In a bureaucracy such as a pollution control agency , the organizing principle is administrative efficiency — ‘ an orientation to the expeditious attainment of the given objectives ’ ( Blau , 1963 : 264 ) — which reaches down to the field officer in the form of a number of imperatives about getting the job done in certain ways that have profound implications for his exercise of discretion . |
| 15 | People might say that a woman is depriving a baby of the chance of life which leads on to the argument of ‘ when is a foetus human ? ’ etc … |
| 16 | This is a length of pipe , with a gentle bend in it , which leads up to the surface where it is fitted with a removable cover . |
| 17 | The Castle can be approached either via a narrow path leading up the mountainside which approaches the gates directly , or by a safer and wider path which leads up to the mountain peak and a pair of half-derelict mountain gates . |
| 18 | Note that the view assumes that the adventurers are approaching the Castle along the lower path , which leads up to the Castle . |
| 19 | Notable is the outstanding , densely-wooded Haleakala National Park which leads down to the sea . |
| 20 | A woman living in Melsonby Crescent , which backs on to the plant , told Darlington council 's planning applications committee she would no longer put up with the ‘ disgraceful conditions ’ . |
| 21 | But they also have the possibility of taking a spectacular minor road which branches off to the left , ie south , at Wiggen . |
| 22 | Of more use us the rounded front handle , which twists on to the neck of the body , just aft of the chuck , and serves to hold the depth stop . |
| 23 | This small site is simply a three-sided plot which extends down to the road , its largest border merging into a vast hectarage of vines which have to be grafted in order to survive the threat of phylloxera . |
| 24 | Pride of place is given to a Conestoga Wagon which dates back to the time the Mellons crossed the Appalachians . |
| 25 | Rising stress claims have also been bad news for big employers like Wells Fargo Bank , the California institution which echoes back to the stage coach era . |
| 26 | People do n't take up what they are entitled to , which comes down to the way the government presents the information . |
| 27 | Which comes back to the question which Miss raised yesterday What is in reality the Greater York area . |
| 28 | It is only a five minute walk to Taormina 's historic town centre and the cable-car which runs down to the beach below . |
| 29 | It began life , probably in the Severan period , resembling a winged-corridor villa , which had been terraced into the slope which runs down to the river ; it contained several heated rooms in the west wing and a water tank , possibly fed by local collection , in the front courtyard Later additions and alterations greatly improved and enlarged the building ; an ornamental fountain behind the house , from which came the famous Corbridge lion , was now linked to the aqueduct . |