Example sentences of "which [pron] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is possible for us to image a society of saints in which no one committed what we see as crimes , in which everyone behaved in an impeccable manner .
2 After supper the ladies sung Erse songs , to which I listened as an English audience to an Italian opera , delighted with the sound of words which I did not understand . ’
3 Perhaps these contradictory interpretations illustrate the dangers , to which I alluded in the earlier discussion , of assuming an automatic association between classicism and positivism and specific political ideologies .
4 This created two new corners , which I treated in the same way , and so on till I achieved the shape marked out .
5 My periods , which had always been topsy-turvy and which I saw as a real indicator of health and wellbeing , settled into a reliable pattern .
6 I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes .
7 It is difficult to say how long this species lives in captivity , but I had an African Snakehead , which I acquired at a similar size to yours , and I kept him or her ( there are no external sex differences ) for 13 years .
8 The revenue settlement is matched by the substantial local government capital settlement for ninety four five which I announced on the thirtieth of November .
9 As they went downstairs , Joanna said , ‘ I 've got one dress which I wore to the veterinary congress banquet .
10 ‘ As I told you , I did n't go out much when I worked in London , but I 've got a silk dress which I wore on the few times I went to the opera .
11 The outcome of this process , which I indicated as a possible development in the first edition of this book , is the pre-eminence in the present-day labour movement of social democratic parties ; that is to say , of parties which are themselves coalitions of diverse groups and intellectual tendencies , rather than centralized , monolithic organizations held together by strict discipline and an authoritatively interpreted ideology .
12 I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time .
13 ‘ I certify that I have known Colour Serjeant William Nicholl late of the 8th ( or King 's ) Regiment for the space of ten years , six of which I belonged to the same Company and always considered him a man of most exemplary character .
14 I was driving my car along an unlit street in Bristol , England : all of a sudden the two inner wheels of the car had left the road and I travelled for quite a few yards at an angle of 45 degrees , after which I landed with a large bump .
15 I poured him a glass of the special malt which I kept for the rare occasions of celebration or consolation in my life .
16 All my possessions began to smell of smoke ; even my better clothes which I kept in a closed cupboard under the bunk .
17 She certainly lived up to her name , and was the inspiration for the poem " Revenue Cutter " which I wrote after a particular stormy passage in the North of Scotland .
18 He is , however , right about the basic seriousness of the problem , which I discussed with the Indonesian Foreign Minister — as , perhaps , the right hon. Member for Manchester , Gorton ( Mr. Kaufman ) has done .
19 The entire New Jersey garage movement which I documented in a 1988 issue of THE FACE was disco .
20 A coherent school policy on Standard English can be based on the different views of the main aims of English teaching which I listed in the previous chapter. :
21 There were also , in more recent years , the series — like " At Home " , in which I talked to a different subject each week in his or her domestic setting .
22 except for the last one which I missed off the last time .
23 I 've got the first issue which I bought at the away match at the Arse earlier on .
24 I had erm an eight ba er eight band wireless which I bought for a hundred and twenty quid when I was working .
25 The relevance of the lengthy preliminary exposition which I devoted to the modern Freudian theory of society should now begin to become apparent .
26 I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 .
27 In terms of Julia Kristeva 's model , which I introduced in the last chapter , this would be a first stage , liberal equal-rights-and-opportunities response .
28 I heard them no sooner I turned to walk away which I did after a brief moment 's hesitation when I wrestled with the foolish notion of somehow eliciting a confession out of the florid man that he was lying and that Leicester Square did indeed exist ; not realizing then that he was right , and that there really was no such place as Lei-cester Square .
29 I had them to dinner at my principal residence , having prepared a tagine of lamb with apricots , which I teased with a husky Australian Shiraz from the Mudgee River .
30 It 's been known for a very long time that from these cases you can isolate this organism C diphtheria bacterium which you saw in the practical classes and has this distinctive stayed property where er certain granules can be stayed up and also the arrangement of the cells is rather reminiscent of what called Chinese lettering .
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