Example sentences of "which [vb base] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this process is combined with lateral shifting of the river the result will be terraces which are not paired ( Fig. 9.7 ) and which converge downstream towards the mouth of the river ( Fig. 9.8 ) . |
| 2 | Undoubtedly the strangest of Sulawesi 's amazing fauna , the babirusa , a species of pig with four tusks , two of which curve backwards over the head . |
| 3 | My companions hurried on , desperate to get their hands on the seven hundred thousand pounds in gold which lay somewhere under the tree 's shadows . |
| 4 | Kubitsky was bringing his rifle to bear on a target which lay somewhere in the direction of the grove of trees on the river bank to Rostov 's rear , but before he could open fire three more arrows took him in the chest and he fell over backwards without a sound . |
| 5 | Mosquito netting : both doors have mosquito nets which unzip independently of the door flaps . |
| 6 | There is no way you can dig around major roots and there , therefore , is another situation in which you are forced to rely on the rabbits being bolted , recognising that you can not thereafter kill those which remain behind in the system . |
| 7 | However , looking more closely at Fig. 6.5b , we see that in the cases and there is no chance that there are any trajectories which remain forever within the region of interest except for the homoclinic orbit itself at r = r* ; for all other trajectories the modulus of the a-coordinate increases on each pass through the top of B and so all trajectories eventually wander out of the region of validity of our analysis ( and , in fact , spiral into C1 or C2 ) . |
| 8 | As the oldest trunks fall over , they are replaced by new shoots which appear continually around the base of the tree . |
| 9 | Words which appear late in the list are remembered easily when recall is immediate as they are resident in short-term memory which has not had a chance to decay . |
| 10 | There is a sad inevitability about the battles which wage continuously over the future of the wilder uplands of Scotland . |
| 11 | Early potatoes grow well on light sandy soils which warm quickly in the spring . |
| 12 | The beetles protect theirs by turning the front pair into stiff thick covers which fit neatly over the top of the abdomen . |
| 13 | Both " obscenity " and " indecency " are defined by reference to vague and elastic formulae , permitting forensic debates over morality which fit uneasily into the format of a criminal trial . |
| 14 | All are compact devices which fit easily in the pocket ; they are comparatively robust but , since they are radio-type equipment , they must be handled fairly carefully . |
| 15 | There are a few preliminaries to be seen to before the construction can begin ; these are the winding of inductors L1 , L2 , L3 and the mounting details of the switching transistor TR1 and the flyback diode D1 on small heatsinks which attach directly to the board . |
| 16 | Unlike the greenhouse gases , which spread evenly across the globe , sulphur dioxide 's effects are short-lived and regional . |
| 17 | A study of the fine structure of a spherulite shows that it is built up of fibrous sub-units , growth takes place by the formation of fibrils which spread outwards from the nucleus in bundles , into the surrounding amorphous phase . |
| 18 | All of these sciences impinge peripherally on the earth sciences , and in many cases , universities with a high research orientation ranking in these sciences are also those which figure prominently in the earth sciences . |
| 19 | It is a site reached by means of a rigorous cliff walk through the pohutukawa trees which figure strongly in the painting . |
| 20 | When John Paston wanted a favour he thought that ‘ Sir George Brown , Sir James Ratcliff and others of my acquaintance which wait most upon the King and lie nightly in his chamber will put to their good wills ’ . |
| 21 | In films such as My Beautiful Launderette , Passion of Remembrance , and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid , or in the paintings of Sonia Boyce and others which formed part of The Other Story exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 1989 , complex intersections of sexuality , ethnicity and class are imaginatively constructed through representations which break decisively with the framework of positive and negative images . |
| 22 | Dozens of such brain-acting peptides are now known to exist , including many closely related to hormones which act elsewhere in the body . |
| 23 | The fear about bed blocking is acknowledged in Newcastle 's assessment procedures , which speak repeatedly about the need not to delay discharge . |
| 24 | This produces a sequence of zones of compression and expansion which travel away from the source . |
| 25 | When inhaled , the aromatic molecules of essential oils reach the lungs from where they diffuse across the air sacs into the surrounding blood capillaries ( which lie just under the surface of the sacs ) and eventually find their way into the main blood vessels from where they circulate in the blood and exert their therapeutic effect . |
| 26 | Some topics , such as profit accountability and taxation would , however , need to be addressed differently for activities which vary greatly from the type assumed here . |
| 27 | Corinth on the other hand had kept its vase-painting on a small scale ; and the tradition of an early Corinthian school of painters is borne out by certain vase-paintings which stand aside from the rest : not in scale ( indeed they are often miniature work ) but in composition and colour . |
| 28 | Apart from the small elastic strains which recover when the load is taken off brittle solids do not distort before failure and fracture is usually by a crack or cracks which run cleanly through the material . |
| 29 | And they 're also afraid of his Indian wild animals which run freely around the garden . |
| 30 | Organisational reforms have tried to help them find a voice : through positive discrimination in the form of reserved seats on committees at all levels ; through National Women 's Officers ; through Women 's Advisory Committees which run parallel to the decision-making committees of the unions and have free access to the latter but no voting rights . |