Example sentences of "which [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The mystery therefore , remains , but it is not the only mystery attached to the Charfield disaster , indeed the one which most concerns us in the context of the strange and uncanny is the riddle of the unclaimed bodies .
2 Back in the main town , we explored twisting alleys which eventually led us to the old Frankish quarter .
3 Earlier in the year fittingly , during Passover , the festival which celebrates the Israelites ' escape from Egypt and the beginning of the journey which eventually took them to the Promised Land — Rabbi Moishe announced with quiet satisfaction that their contributions had mounted up to a sum sufficient to buy three hundred dunams of land in Palestine , that the purchase was in the process of being arranged on their behalf by the Jewish National Fund , and that he himself would lead an advance party of settlers from Cork before the end of 1920 .
4 Southwell Southwell faces Mansfield which rather gets us in the stick you see because we have to come here for Benefit Office interviews and things like that but you got to Mansfield
5 While Gould 's first impressions were not favourable , he was determined , as he wrote to Sir John Franklin , to keep an open mind : ‘ The heat and dust of Sydney is extremable neither does the presence of Drunkards which constantly present themselves in the streets add to the interest of this place , time and better acquaintance with the country will however perhaps enable me to speak better of it . ’
6 He obtained the second by pretending to trip over an unseen obstacle , which inadvertently threw him against the foreman , knocking him to the ground and depositing his daily schedule papers all over the floor .
7 Vasquez argues that the work carried out by Behaviouralists was based on three central assumptions of Realism , which together put them in the same broad camp .
8 After a hesitant start , the other leftwing and progressive parties who were defeated in the first round have joined Mr Da Silva 's campaign , along with the Socialist and Communist parties , which already supported him in the Popular Front coalition .
9 The other moments I will treasure were the near-perfect serving of Michael Stich in his first Wimbledon final against Boris Becker , which puts a new and totally unexpected name on that historic trophy ; the charmless street-fighter qualities of Monica Seles which nevertheless took her to the number one spot in the world while showing total contempt for most of the accepted standards of behaviour that should belong to a champion ; and finally the conversion of Andre Agassi from teenage rebel to near-establishment idol at Wimbledon , where he appeared in shining white and won the hearts not only of his adoring army of fans , but also of most of the middle-age traditionalists .
10 She sports a high-riding mini-skirt — which scarcely endears her to the strict Hasidic sect .
11 Was she the author of the Casket Letters , those letters which totally implicated her in the murder , or were they forgeries ?
12 I walked through the big , wide classroom door , and into the hall which always reminded me of the giant 's room in ‘ Jack and the Beanstalk ’ .
13 As the droplet leaves the jet it is held in position by an electric field which further propels it towards the paper .
14 It is a resort proud of its fascinating heritage which once placed it among the wealthiest of trading republics — rivalling both Venice and Genoa .
15 And this would explain a further problem affecting the order of things in the quarto : this song comes between the Dialogue of Coridon and Mopsa — the Haymakers ' scene — and the Dance of Haymakers which directly follows it in the score and belongs to it musically in every way : both are in G major and a quick 6/4 , and share the same bucolic atmosphere as well as their thematic material , whereas ‘ When I have often heard young maids complaining ’ is a sophisticated song in C major and stately triple time .
16 These seven authorities had constantly exceeded government expenditure targets and had frequently engaged in ‘ socialist ’ policies which hardly endeared them to the Thatcher government .
17 In the autumn of 1861 the Slavophile Ivan Aksakov tried to dissuade students from engaging in disturbances by urging them to return to their books and to " study Russia and the Russian nationality ( narodnost ) , in order to fill the gulf which still separates us from the people " .
18 At first the freemen of both town and country had an organization and a type of property which still retained something of the communal as well as something of the private , but in the town a radical transformation was taking place .
19 It was the latter which still found itself on the drawing board when the rest had hit the cutting room floor .
20 Man , by contrast , has the potential to make this ability subject to conscious control , and it is this very difference which clearly divides him from the animal world .
21 He then fires the weapon , which automatically steers itself toward the target and dives on to its vulnerable upper parts .
22 Feminist criticism , like Marxist , is avowedly evaluative , which sharply distinguishes it from the generality of current academic criticism , of whatever school .
23 Whether or not they were former members of Big Flame , the International Marxist Group , or any of the other sects which now dissolved themselves into the Labour Party , the Right-Ons ' most effective weapon was an endless capacity to attend even the most obscure meetings .
24 In a nonsense poem addressed to Virginia Woolf he described himself as " upper-middle " , a class distinction which immediately associated him with the kind of solid and respectable Englishmen amongst whom he passed his business life and to whom he went for — to use one of the characteristic words — " convivial " social life .
25 Teachers retain control of registration — keeping the important element of one-to-one contact — and perform it in the usual time , but instead of noting absences on paper , they feed the information directly onto a portable electronic register which then passes it to the central computer .
26 In ways more amenable to women 's visual pleasure , off-beat films which then made it into the mainstream distribution circuit such as Lianna ( Nelson/Renzi ) , Desert Hearts , I 've Heard the Mermaids Singing ( Rozema ) and Percy Adlon 's work with Marianne Sagebrecht in Baghdad Café and Sugar Baby have achieved a degree of success in changing the dynamics of female objectification and sexual fantasy in an entertainment setting .
27 An attacker throws a right punch which is blocked with an outside palm , which then wraps itself around the attacker 's wrist in a grabbing movement .
28 Elizabeth gave him a push , which almost toppled him to the ground !
29 Product stability is the stability of the product stored in an inert , impermeable container with which it does not interact and which fully protects it from the ambient atmosphere .
30 More recently , we have amended the legislation in the Environmental Protection Act 1990 , which again places us in the vanguard of Europe , with additional provisions for integrated pollution control for those industrial processes with the most potential for pollution , and for a duty of care for all producers and handlers of waste .
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