Example sentences of "an [noun] [Wh det] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So : In most analogues , the cradle-switch is performed , quite logically , after one of the characters has gone out to relieve him or herself : an action which allows the cunning clerk to perceive an opportunity and to take advantage of it . |
| 2 | Two of the attacking aircraft were destroyed in an engagement which underlined the technological superiority of the allied weapons systems . |
| 3 | A parliament is an institution which implies the common governability of those represented in it . |
| 4 | To create an experiment which yielded the maximum information without becoming boring for the subjects the design is slightly altered from that used in Studies 2 and 3 . |
| 5 | They had accepted an itinerary which offered the fierce opposition of Canterbury and Auckland as the second and fourth games , followed by the two tests . |
| 6 | Habituation and sensitization , the two forms of non-associative learning , are shown by Aplysia , and the neurophysiological control is understood : habituation is caused by decreased release of neurotransmitter from the sensory neuron ; sensitization by release of a chemical from an interneuron which renders the motor neuron more easily depolarized . |
| 7 | It is generally accepted that a crime is an act which breaks the criminal law . |
| 8 | The fact that what is seen as crime varies with different societies does not affect the definition of crime — as an act which breaks the criminal law of the particular society . |
| 9 | We have defined crime as an act which breaks the criminal law and deviance as behaviour which breaks or departs from the norms or standards of the majority in society . |
| 10 | Thus it is not every appropriation which falls within the section but only an act which answers the composite description . |
| 11 | I tried an Indian-looking middle-aged man with a pouchy face hidden beneath a large brimmed hat , and a paunchy stomach that seemed to run a perfect little circle round his navel hidden beneath a scruffy fair-isle sweater hidden beneath a wrinkly brown jacket hidden beneath an overcoat which brushed the homeless autumn leaves strewn despairingly across the lawns . |
| 12 | Déby 's rebel forces , a serious irritant throughout 1990 , took power at the end of the year with an ease which revealed the final failure of Habré 's so-called national reconciliation . |
| 13 | There is a long tradition among revolutionary thinkers and activists that communist society would be administered without bureaucratic relationships between political leaders and the people — without , that is , an apparatus which represented the particular interests of a dominant class and which was divorced from those engaged in production ( Hegedus 1976 , p. 17 ) . |
| 14 | In England The Times reported its proceedings daily and on 28 September 1880 summed up with an editorial which included the following sentences : |
| 15 | In the small hours of the morning , after they had all gone , there was an explosion which shook the whole town . |
| 16 | TEHRAN ( AFP ) — At least 300 homes were destroyed in an earthquake which shook the south-western Iranian town of Sisakht on Mount Dena early yesterday , the news agency IRNA reported . |
| 17 | Within this dynamic , we can affect and create cultural forms and an agenda which bring the non-disabled world to us , not we to it . |
| 18 | ‘ My study reviews the evidence that a genetically-determined maternal response to influenza results in production of an antibody which crosses the fetal blood-brain barrier and , by acting as a fetal auto-antibody , induces neurodevelopmental damage , ’ added the Professor . |
| 19 | ‘ It is very difficult to see that the public can be educated to accept anything less than the fact that if there is a fraud present in an organisation which prevents the financial statements from showing a true and fair view , then it is up to the auditors to find it . ’ |
| 20 | But it was an age which saw the slow , sure , and steady progress of social improvement and it was an age of hope , of optimistic belief in the future , unashamed aspiration for better days and better conditions in the world . |
| 21 | However , in an age which demands the separate definition of the vocational argument it would be unwise to merge all the arguments in favour of teaching history . |
| 22 | Habermas sought to develop an argument which introduced the individual actors within the political system to a Marxist account of the state . |
| 23 | State officials must be interested , for the sake of their own power , in guaranteeing and safeguarding healthy capital accumulation , an argument which anticipates the neo-pluralist position of Charles Lindblom ( pp. 293 — 5 ) . |
| 24 | Joseph Frazer 's noted Ship Chandlery , one of many such businesses once so common in Butetown , has been adapted to house an exhibition which tells the fascinating story of the Port of Cardiff and the people who came here from all over the world to create a remarkable cosmopolitan community . |
| 25 | Relocation to an area which presented the right company image together with good facilities for employees could ease the problem . |
| 26 | Poindexter was the last and most senior of the Iran-Contra defendants to face trial on charges arising from an operation which involved the clandestine sale of United States arms to Iran and the illegal diversion of the profits to assist the right-wing contra rebels in Nicaragua . |
| 27 | What seems to be needed is an approach which recognizes the necessary contrivance of pedagogy and seeks to guide learners through graded negotiating tasks . |
| 28 | This is clearly an approach which takes the communicative function of language as its primary area of investigation and consequently seeks to describe linguistic form , not as a static object , but as a dynamic means of expressing intended meaning . |
| 29 | Consequently modern elite theory bifurcates between an account which follows the democratic elitist line initiated by Weber and a radical elite theory account which adopts a much more critical approach to administrative power . |
| 30 | Riffaterre 's criticism of Jakobson is to be found principally in an article of 1966 on Jakobson 's analysis ( with Claude Lévi-Strauss ) of Baudelaire 's poem ‘ Les Chats ’ , an analysis which follows the same model as that of the Shakespeare sonnet . |