Example sentences of "which [vb base] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This dissonance is one of the most characteristic sounds of Bulgarian women 's traditional singing ; other striking features are the high-pitched yips which punctuate singing from the Shop and Pirin regions , and Pirin songs also feature strikingly beautiful na visoko ( high ) voices . |
| 2 | This may be true , and many advertisers of these categories of goods — which tend to account for the majority of advertisements appearing on TV and in major national newspapers and magazines — behave as if they believe it . |
| 3 | Unlike conventional football books , which tend to skim across the surface of disappointment in chapters entitled ‘ The Lean Years ’ , Hampden Babylon finds a certain self-mocking delight in disappointment . |
| 4 | It is the latter view which at first sight seems to challenge Tormey 's theory , for any ‘ expression ’ by the actor implies a subjective/objective relationship , the inner meanings of which remain hidden from the audience . |
| 5 | There are only a few species of plants which grow floating on the water surface and are considered as useful for the heated aquarium . |
| 6 | Two of them do reach results which appear to conflict with the wording , and for which no good reason can be found other than the one they give themselves : that this was the testator 's intention . |
| 7 | The risks are thought to be very small : ( 1 ) because the balance of the natural environment is primarily controlled by the species already present which appear to operate to the detriment of new introductions ; and ( 2 ) because in new releases of microorganisms to date , all very closely monitored , there has been no evidence of any of them getting out of control or adversely affecting the environment . |
| 8 | After synthesis of the initial strong stop cDNA , a 5'-3' jump must occur in which base pairing between the R sequence at the 3' end of the cDNA and the complementary R sequence at the 3' end of the viral RNA occurs , and there is evidence that NC protein is required for this jump ( 34 ) . |
| 9 | If we are outside , we shall not enjoy the advantages of a single currency or have the investment in this country of those companies — our own and overseas firms — which want to invest in the core of Europe and enjoy full access to all that goes on in Europe . |
| 10 | While Fisher is right to argue that some important principles can , nevertheless , be applied , he is also right to say that the consumerist philosophy and concepts of compulsory care which involve acting in the individual 's interests are basically incompatible . |
| 11 | It is your responsibility and yours alone to choose which voice to listen to , which voice to accept as a guide throughout your daily life . |
| 12 | And that prediction comes from a man who should know — George Best , who witnessed the brilliant individual goal by Giggs which put United in the driving seat at White Hart Lane . |
| 13 | None was so sweet ( without being cloying ) as that burst of theatrical sunshine at the Comedy Theatre in the West End during a fatal summer heatwave which put paid to the show 's box office takings as well as Warren 's plucky managerial debut . |
| 14 | He may be a bit ropey at times but he plays his best for us and do n't forget the goals he scored , including one which put paid to the scouse red shite in 1991 . |
| 15 | Untrained in any art school , commencing his career in the early 1930s , a homosexual , addicted to the sleazier pleasures of Soho , living for a large portion of his life in the same seedy studio in South Kensington , eschewing all official honours , and a stranger to what used to be called the ‘ salons ’ of high society , he succeeded in expressing in frightening imagery the horrors which lie embedded below the surface of life . |
| 16 | Rats run freely over the shrouded corpses which lie abandoned in the corridors . |
| 17 | There are several forms of the species , which vary according to the terrain and conditions of growth . |
| 18 | Other fixed assets are depreciated on a straight line basis at annual rates which vary according to the class of asset , but are typically : |
| 19 | He said that in the business of insurance and insurance broking , a successful enterprise depends upon a number of factors which vary according to the nature of the customer , or client , with whom business is done . |
| 20 | The Thai government has ordered the border to be closed but Thai logging companies , which stand to lose by the ban , are arguing for a delay in its implementation and have intensified logging in recent weeks . |
| 21 | Last year the event raised more than £6,000 and this year other local charities which stand to benefit from the run are the Sefton Resource Centre for the Physically and Mentally Handicapped and Great Crosby RC Primary School . |
| 22 | The aim is to invest in Chinese stocks and shares which stand to benefit from the upsurge in economic growth which China is experiencing . |
| 23 | Having read the article I turned to p 110 , Report of the Disciplinary Committee , and wondered about the double standards which seem to exist in every walk of life today . |
| 24 | Only a few pages later Freud withdraws his connection between the ego instincts and the death aims of those instincts which seem to push towards the death of the organism . |
| 25 | They were both hugging me and I was crying the kind of tears which seem to come from a part of you which you never knew you had . |
| 26 | Marxists have discovered the state to be relatively autonomous and classes to be composed of ‘ class fractions ’ which seem to interact in a manner curiously reminiscent of the pluralist account . |
| 27 | The arch consists of two sets of colossal forearms , each weighing 20 tons and higher than the Arc de Triomphe , which seem to burst from the ground at opposite ends of a 90-metre public space . |
| 28 | Those firms which get caught in the middle appear not to do so well . |
| 29 | At the top of the fountain , the spray breaks up into individual droplets which get carried by the wind and fall a long way from the vent , so that downwind of the fountain there is a shifting curtain of glowing droplets showering down . |
| 30 | It has peacocks , which like to sit on the seats when visitors are scarce , a compound with a few docile wild animals in , a small lake , a free-standing part of a Gothic cloister from the ruined abbey of Saint-Sever-de-Rustan which was removed and re-erected here , and , if you can find them among the shrubbery , busts of two French poets , one of whom was born in the town while the other went to school here : the native was the arch Romantic Théophile Gautier , whose bust in the Jar din Massey was sculpted by his exotic daughter Judith , the outsider Jules Laforgue , the strange , consumptive young poet who so influenced T. S. Eliot and died at twenty-seven . |