Example sentences of "which [adv] [verb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Together with the Socialist Party ( 142 seats ) and a new Christian Democratic party called the Mouvement Républicain Populaire ( 152 seats ) , the PCF formed a bloc which effectively ruled out the possibility of any constitution that de Gaulle could approve . |
| 2 | The last few years have been stressful for teacher education , for it has not only experienced the constant need for self- defence of higher education generally , but also special pressures from the Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education ( CATE ) , set up in 1984 , and the new funding arrangements for in-service education started in 1986 ( which effectively wiped out the source of student funding for most full-time award-bearing courses ) . |
| 3 | The hon. Member for Barrow and Furness ( Mr. Franks ) in the course of an extremely lengthy spech did not answer the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) about fourth , fifth , sixth , seventh and eighth Trident nuclear submarines , which only points up the fact that this nation needs a programme of conversion from arms manufacture to material for peaceful purposes . |
| 4 | If we could precisely specify and conclusively verify every member of the set of observation statements which together make up the meaning of a non-observation statement , that non-observation statement would , in accordance with the verification principle , have its own determinate meaning and in certain circumstances be determinately true or determinately false . |
| 5 | It was a silent and melancholy spot because of the darkness of the evergreens and the steep sides of the declivity which together shut out the sky . |
| 6 | Perhaps the differences between the men were what caused their plans to eventually fall apart , but I think it was a combination of Cassius 's selfishness , Brutus 's nobility , and extremely bad luck which finally finished off the conspirators . |
| 7 | This tension is then ‘ satisfyingly ’ released by the resolution from the Dominant chord to the tonic chord which usually starts off the chorus of the song . |
| 8 | personal characteristics are laughed at , family likenesses in the present generations are pointed out , even among the pigs and dogs which still wander around the village . |
| 9 | ‘ Homage to the Snakes which ever move around the Earth |
| 10 | He talks of the " dark embryo " which gradually takes on the form of a poem , of " dark psychic material " with which the poet struggles ; it is a " burden " to be relieved or a " demon " to be exorcised . |
| 11 | Instead Nixon claimed to be " Vietnamizing " the war by a phased withdrawal , which gradually handed over the conduct of the war to the South Vietnamese themselves . |
| 12 | The colour of the sky permeates the mountains and is reflected by the lakes which also took on the mountain colours . |
| 13 | Setting out the authority , scope and application of accounting standards , the Accounting Standards Board ( ASB ) has published its Foreword to Accounting Standards , which also sets out the procedures whereby the ASB issues accounting standards and their relationship to international accounting standards . |
| 14 | When they arrive at the restaurant cash points they run their card through the machine which automatically flashes up the price and deducts the cost of their meal . |
| 15 | Would it not be very short sighted of the western democracies — not simply Britain — to allow the countries which now make up the Commonwealth of Independent States to drift into such a state of anarchy that a dictatorship could well return ? |
| 16 | Police harassment , which often sparked off the riots , was noted as an almost inevitable feature of life in these crime-ridden ghetto areas . |
| 17 | A friend knitted me a fabulous Nordic jumper , which immediately took on the status of security blanket . |
| 18 | The Doctor looked up and put on his spectacles which immediately slid down the perspiration on his nose . |
| 19 | These act as an unnatural fertilizer for algae which then use up the oxygen in the water during their rapid growth . |
| 20 | Losses would be twice as high if energy producers imposed a carbon tax and kept the revenues for themselves , or if a tax were levied by a world agency which then shared out the revenue in proportion to each region 's population . |
| 21 | With the final umbrella of the Charter , which theoretically laid down the principles of the paper and what it stood for , the last bricks were put into the edifice . |
| 22 | The OR Staff , as they are called , specify what is needed in two documents : the ‘ Staff Target ’ , which is couched in broad enough terms to allow several solutions ; and the ‘ Operational Requirement ’ , which subsequently narrows down the possibilities , and sets out more detailed specifications for the research and development phases of the project . |