Example sentences of "which [vb base] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus in the yellow part of the Sun 's rainbow band there are two dark lines which correspond exactly to the two bright yellow lines of sodium , and we can prove that there is sodium in the Sun . |
| 2 | We can distinguish broadly between the intention of knowing , and the intention of doing , which correspond roughly to the conventional distinction between pure and applied . |
| 3 | During all this growth dodder obtains its nourishment from the host through numerous absorptive organs called haustoria which develop all along the coiled regions of the vine on the inner surface in contact with the host . |
| 4 | Thus it is only the specializing groups which fit easily into the familiar category of an open or plural society . |
| 5 | The corridor was in the embrace of a deep silence which spread right across the dark garden court below and beyond the open verandah which ran along all four inward-looking walls of the house on the first floor , on to which the bedrooms opened . |
| 6 | According to Commons research , this may be the origin ‘ of the weekend , which spread eventually to the public life of most of the world . ’ |
| 7 | The killer was not starvation , but typhus which spread quickly in the overcrowded and insanitary conditions . |
| 8 | It is also possible to discern rotary motion within the larger ovals , particularly cloud features which circulate clockwise in the northern hemisphere and anticlockwise in the southern hemisphere . |
| 9 | Now , if we think about actions which might have a beneficial effect on welfare or on conservation , there are some which benefit both at the same time . |
| 10 | Matisse and Picasso , who form the backbone of the market in ‘ classic modern ’ prints , bring sums which depend both on the actual rarity of the image and its attractiveness . |
| 11 | The starting point is those aims which depend heavily on the particular contribution of DHAs . |
| 12 | These include the curved canines and straight incisors of hippopotamus , walrus tusks , which project downwards from the upper jaw , the teeth of the sperm whale and the spirally twisted left tusk of the narwhal . |
| 13 | There are many problems which cut right across the artificial frontiers separating these subjects , particularly when attempts are made to interpret thought and feeling . |
| 14 | Thus there is a tendency , if we once accept a sharp distinction between good as means and good as end , to see the point of life in those leisure activities , or at least in activities which stand apart from the main work of the world , such as high culture and very private personal relations . |
| 15 | There is good evidence that it is associated with individual galaxies as these seem to have dark haloes which extend well beyond the visible stars . |
| 16 | Or alternatively the new situation is completely ignored and the time-space mesh contracted to such a degree that landform is almost taken as read and interest is , instead , directed at hydrological matters relating to the transmission of water and sediment across land-surfaces which look increasingly like the isotropic ones of human geographers . |
| 17 | Contrasting the brutal murder of a taxi driver with the subsequent execution of the accused , A Short Film About Killing forms the first part of Kieslowski 's Decalogue cycle — ten separate parables which draw thematically from the Ten Commandments and are linked by a common setting , an anonymous Warsaw housing estate . |
| 18 | Two console tables and two encoigneurs in the same taste complete the furniture , with the exception of the carpet , which is Axminster , of suitable design , and the rich tones of which contrast advantageously with the delicate effect of the other furniture : in the centre of the design are the Royal Arms . |
| 19 | Other occupations which deal directly with the public feature ( e.g. SEXY PRANKS OF A PC ON PATROL ) . |
| 20 | Yet with a gap of two years and a change of players from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to Kuijken 's own group , La Petite Bande , come differences which weigh significantly against the new issue . |
| 21 | City Hall has clung to its paternalist traditions — which go far beyond the municipal norm in America — and has wound up enmeshed in the social problems of a city of 7.3m people in constant turmoil . |
| 22 | A group of women who have all , as individuals , reached this level of development , has great possibilities , which go far beyond the natural bonding of women and the sharing of resources . |
| 23 | In a discipline like psychology , which insists on the specificity of its vocabulary , procedures and concerns , feminist initiatives which stay close to the traditional discipline are valuable . |
| 24 | The stimuli which the cell receives from the matrix can then initiate changes in gene expression with temporally related changes in cell structure which result directly from the same signals or are determined by concomitant but separate cell-matrix interaction . |
| 25 | Certainly it had a freshness and credibility about it which was in stark contrast to some of the other end-of-the year events which , however exciting or impressive some individual performances and achievements may have been , still involved direct or incidental features which do little for the public perception of the sport . |
| 26 | In addition to the traditional vented system , it is now permissible to have an unvented hot water storage system , which does away with the cold water cistern altogether and has other advantages ( see page 58 for details ) ; sealed central heating systems ( which do away with the feed-and-expansion cistern ) have been legal for some time . |
| 27 | This accounts for the strong sculptural feeling that characterizes so much of his early Cubist painting ; and , indeed , from the Negro period onwards , he was executing small experimental sculptures which relate directly to the contemporary paintings . |
| 28 | For the moment , we shall limit our discussion of this question to those features which relate directly to the deictic context , those features which will permit interpretation for deictic expressions like the temporal expression now , the spatial expression here , and the first person expression I. Are there standard procedures for determining what information is relevant to the interpretation of these expressions ? |
| 29 | Attributes may possibly be added later which relate specifically to the course-module relationship . |
| 30 | For really large systems this will have the consequence that the only paths which contribute significantly to the final result will be those in a region where the action changes as slowly as possible , since here the cancellations are minimised . |