Example sentences of "which [be] [verb] [pron] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The centre has now gathered a number of signatures from other voluntary and community groups which are supporting its request to the Office of Wages Councils to reconsider the abolition of the Wages Council . |
| 2 | ‘ In full awareness of our responsibility , we reject the policies of the present leadership which are diverting our country from the socialist path and leading it into catastrophe . ’ |
| 3 | She looked in horror at his hand , and the small specks of rust which were staining his skin from where he was exerting such extreme pressure . |
| 4 | These bases — Hassani , Argos and Molai — were in use by the Luftwaffe for attacks on Crete , which were reaching their climax at this time . |
| 5 | From the start of his personal rule Edward showed the qualities of leadership , affability and sympathy with the aspirations of the nobility which were to characterize his reign until its last decade , and which underlay the domestic political harmony of the ensuing years . |
| 6 | We all met at a pre-luncheon reception and then adjourned to the dining hall to sample the culinary delights which were to space our classes for the next five days ; four classes with dancing after dinner was the order of the day , all meticulously time-tabled . |
| 7 | And if recent reports are anything to go by it was n't only aircraft which were paying their respects to Parham yesterday . |
| 8 | It was on a fishing expedition in late autumn a year or two ago that we were visited by a number of pomarine skuas , no doubt birds from northern Siberia which were making their way towards wintering quarters in the south Atlantic . |
| 9 | I had not in those days looked at the real aspects of the drink question — had not seen the responsibility that rests on each one to be guiltless in regard to that which is sapping our country of some of its brightest intellects , and killing numbers of her sons possessed of generous impulsive natures . |
| 10 | To pay the bank daily to do things with it and then to start adding to those costs which a bank charges by using all these sophisticated methods when we can in fact do what most staff want , which is to give them cash in a little brown envelope on a Thursday . |
| 11 | Terry Johnson , general manager of Whitby Port Services , said he is having talks with three potential customers to replace the Norwegian Stream Line which is switching its operations to Killingholme , Humberside , at the end of the month , after ten years of using Whitby harbour . |
| 12 | BBC Enterprises , which is funding its share from profits not the licence fee , will take around 20 per cent of the channel . |
| 13 | There are n't very many , I mean , it gets back to the other thing which is underlining my thinking about this stuff because erm you 're dealing with cultural form . |
| 14 | RUGBY LEAGUE : Andy Gregory checked into a top London clinic yesterday in an attempt to cure a worrying groin injury which is threatening his chances of a record breaking eighth Wembley appearance in Saturday 's Challenge Cup final against Castleford . |
| 15 | C Itoh Techno-Science , a distributor of Sun Microsystems Inc workstations in Japan owned by the giant C Itoh & Co trading house — which is changing its name to Itochu — has developed a Japanese version of computer-aided manufacturing software from US company Point Controls Corp . |
| 16 | One of Robert Steel 's principal sponsors was Country Walking magazine , which is continuing its support by giving £2 to Enterprise Neptune every time a National Trust member takes out a year 's subscription . |
| 17 | China Merchant Holdings , one of China 's two biggest shipping operators , is paying £55m to P&O , which is reducing its interest in Modern Terminals from 23 p.c. to 14 p.c . |
| 18 | Baillie-Stewart had renounced his British citizenship before the war and applied for German naturalisation , a gesture which was to save his life in 1946 . |
| 19 | She wondered whether there was something else that she had blocked from her conscious memory which was affecting her feelings towards men . |
| 20 | The character of the design does not differ from that of contemporary marbles , but arms and hands free of the body ( cf. fig. 72 where , in spite of the struts , the hands are lost ) demonstrate the much greater tensile strength of bronze , which was to allow its use in the classical period for compositions which the Greek marble-worker would have shunned . |
| 21 | More recently , the Court of Appeal set aside an order prohibiting reporting by radio or television of a trial of fraud and corruption charges which was nearing its end at Stafford Crown Court . |
| 22 | In 1253–4 he went peacefully to visit Louis IX at Paris and , as duke of Aquitaine , to arbitrate a feud which was dividing his city of Bordeaux into two powerful factions . |
| 23 | Although publicly scathing about the student left and the anti-Vietnam movement , Healy none the less cultivated a discussion circle of London writers , actors and television producers , it is said with some charm and intellectual force , which was to presage his fixation with Equity , the actors ' Union which increasingly provided personnel and finance for the ERP . |
| 24 | Ed Riverton was a top executive in INCUBUS , the great American banking syndicate which was spreading its tentacles across Europe , investing in just about every type of company which existed . |
| 25 | He also started the city 's silk industry which was to underpin its economy for many years . |
| 26 | To a large extent , the cabinet reshuffle of 1957 marked the point at which the Franco regime adopted the style which was to become its hallmark in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 27 | This chapel marks the ultimate halt in a via sacra of 14 chapels which was to wind its way down the hill to the Malá Strana . |
| 28 | This was used as one of the major defences of the British aid programme in Nepal which was to concentrate their efforts in villages with a predominant presence of ex-Gurkha soldiers which would encourage both better rapport between British field officers and farmers , as well as an ( ex- ) army-style sense of organisation , discipline and work-practice within the village itself . |
| 29 | Vanguard was breaking up and its supporters were either rejoining the Unionist Party or moving to Paisley 's DUP , which was consolidating its position as the more militant and more populist loyalist party . |