Example sentences of "which [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Sweden , a country which prides itself in the freedom of thought and action which it allows its citizens , education from elementary school to college and university is defined and controlled through state boards . |
| 2 | India , which prided itself on the self-sufficiency achieved by its green revolution , was obliged to buy wheat in 1988–9 ; China 's imports of wheat reached record levels in the last years of the decade , a reflection , no doubt , not just of two years of drought but of a situation where peasants received certificates instead of cash for their crops . |
| 3 | In July 1868 — barely a year after leaving Blomfield 's office — his first novel , ‘ The poor man and the lady ’ , was submitted to Macmillan , a firm which prided itself on the quality of its fiction list . |
| 4 | That morning an advertisement appeared in the Belfast News Letter warning that a body which described itself as the Ulster Workers Council would call a general strike if the Assembly approved the Sunningdale agreement . |
| 5 | As when you act for a seller or mortgagor , add any other documents which suggest themselves as the matter proceeds . |
| 6 | But the experts who examined him afterwards almost certainly thought he had been infected by female chiggoe fleas , which attach themselves between the toes or on the soles of the feet . |
| 7 | Once again the country which complained most about the policy was Britain , which found itself in the position of being a ‘ net contributor ’ to the EC after 1973 , paying far more into the EC than it received back . |
| 8 | The wave of interest in the rediscovery of Celtic music is particularly important , and not merely because of the Celtic-Scottish influence on Leonard 's family ( an aspect that the Montreal Gazette highlighted regarding Lyon Cohen 's Gaelic accent recently ) and American eclecticism — often little more than a slavish following of European forms — which found itself in the development of ‘ pop ’ music , notably of ragtime around 1900 and jazz around 1918 . |
| 9 | All is filtered through Hoving 's glass , which magnifies himself at the expense of his colleagues . |
| 10 | Both are relevant under this heading , which concerns itself with the benefit side of the government budget . |
| 11 | In the context of special need this means selecting competent , adaptable and understanding staff who are sensitive to the needs which present themselves in the school and who are prepared to undertake the study and training required to keep pace with developments . |
| 12 | Because this conventionally liberal response to the prevailing mood disguises the fact that the them as which arranged themselves around the flogging solution reflected a much more mature retrenchment , and a much more solid base of opinion and material circumstance than is usefully summarised by the word ‘ panic ’ . |
| 13 | There were clear regional and local distinctions , with their variable impact on economic prosperity , which imposed themselves upon the income , cultural and status divisions which had emerged in the nineteenth century and persisted into the twentieth . |
| 14 | There is little dialectic , then : on the one hand , there are ‘ those who live , in a more or less besieged manner , in a close commonality which divorces itself from the values of the prevailing culture ’ ( ibid : 163 ) ; on the other , those who are ‘ alienated from the possibilities of an immediate life of the unselfconscious body ’ ( ibid : 157 ) . |
| 15 | It is not quite the status of an accredited representative , but at least the door will not be shut in the face of any State which finds itself in the position that we and the Germans did in the early 1970s . |
| 16 | Since at least the time of Rousseau it has been the assertion of self against the preternaturally distorting effects of modern , and later industrial civilisation ; sex , that is to say , is the essence of our individual being which asserts itself against the demands of culture , and this has had a profound resonance in our thinking . |
| 17 | Of course he belongs to the class which dedicates itself from the beginning , single-mindedly to literature , but yet not in the way we would think of . |
| 18 | A gay text is one which lends itself to the hypothesis of a gay reading regardless of where the author 's genitals were wont to keep house . |
| 19 | His plea was well received by his listeners who , if they did not quite accept his characterisation of the present moment as a ‘ cultural war ’ between the advocates of free expression and individuals he referred to as ‘ know-nothings ’ , nonetheless were happy , even relieved , to have something resembling moral high ground from which to defend themselves in the controversy and even take the battle back to the ‘ enemy ’ . |
| 20 | As has been noted earlier , TANU 's cadres felt that nation-building could be achieved only through the control of the centre — a view which extended itself to the press . |
| 21 | Therefore the features which recommend themselves to the attention in one text will not necessarily be important in another text by the same or a different author . |
| 22 | According to David Hume , Locke was not alone in thinking that visual perception involves something two-dimensional : ‘ It is commonly allowed by philosophers that all bodies which discover themselves to the eye appear as if painted on a plain surface . ’ |