Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And first I want to discuss this idea of hopeful monsters , which is a phrase which goes back to Richard Goldsmith , the geneticist , who argued that occasionally a single — well he was vague about what kind of mutation he had in mind , because he had really rather odd ideas about what genes were and so on but he held occasionally that some genetic change gave rise in some sense in a single dialectical leap to organisms strikingly different from their parents and that speciation consisted of the establishment of such hopeful monsters or macro mutations . |
| 2 | Returning briefly to Dublin , she next went to Rome and Athens to do more studying before coming to work in the British Museum , and going to live in Knutsford , Cheshire , where she did her greatest work , the bust of Archbishop Alexander , Primate of All Ireland , which stands today in Armagh Cathedral . |
| 3 | I am saying we must not supplant Anglican worship for a free-wheeling non-conformist style which owes more to Spring Harvest than the A.S.B . |
| 4 | For generations my family have been staunch Conservatives , but I am afraid my immediate family will no longer support a Government which cares little about animal welfare . |
| 5 | Such an ambitious Tuscan confection surely deserves a cakestand , assembled as it is on a noble pedestal of rock , its buildings ( mixed plain and fancy ) composed of that porous tufa which looks much like sponge cake and which comes in all the golds , pinks , browns and mauves of the best Battenberg . |
| 6 | GRAHAM Davidson , of Langholm , who earned the Daily Telegraph Junior Golfer of the Year title last year , is one of the front-runners in the Peter McEvoy Trophy , which starts today at Copt Heath . |
| 7 | Thus , a ripple pattern with a wave length corresponding to one characteristic grain path , which depends ultimately on wind velocity , will be formed . |
| 8 | After crossing the stream turn right along the track which passes close to Trepewet Farm . |
| 9 | There is also more formalised learning through an educational system which concentrates mainly on information processing : reading , writing and arithmetic and more elaborate symbolic and organisational skills . |
| 10 | Take the first turn left onto Sweden Bridge Lane and branch off this road onto Belle Vue Lane which leads eventually to Nook End Farm ( 0.5 miles ) . |
| 11 | Studland Heath is an area of heath land which stretches away towards Poole Harbour and the sea . |
| 12 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
| 13 | An exhibition of watercolours , which opens tomorrow at Abbot Hall Art Gallery , Kendal , will emphasise the love of the North of England of two noted artists , Norman Adams and the late Basil Rocke ( writes a correspondent ) . |
| 14 | Therefore , it is in the vital and vested interests of the universal bank , which relies mainly on relationship banking , to take the necessary internal precautions ( including Chinese [ Walls ] and possibly firewalls ) and carefully weigh the interest involved when deciding how to solve a conflict of interest resulting from inside information . ’ |
| 15 | Roughly speaking , the parts of England most affected by this type of planning form a great belt which sweeps round from Flamborough Head on the Yorkshire coast , down through the Midlands as far as the Dorset coast , and thence north-eastwards along the chalk uplands to the Norfolk coast . |
| 16 | On US television , it may be the crime series subgenre which comes closest to naturalist verisimilitude , and certainly the eighties generation of Hill Street Blues and Cagney and Lacey ( 1981–8 ) seemed to resemble more closely what people believe to be true than the more apparently formulaic structures of Kojak ( 1973–7 ) , Starksy and Hutch ( 1975–80 ) and Charlie 's Angels ( 1976–81 ) or the more obviously cinematic forms of Dragnet ( 1951–8 ) . |