Example sentences of "an [noun] which [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The menopause is an experience which causes many women considerable anxiety . |
| 2 | It functions as a ‘ master metaphor ’ , the encapsulation of an ideology which structures all domains of thought : |
| 3 | Western society places the highest value on the most abstract , thus creating an elitism which means many people feel alienated from mathematics , and , apart from small groups , feel it has little to do with their lives . |
| 4 | This was not considered in the above example , and will increase the costs of arbitraging an index which contains many companies . |
| 5 | What we really want is an algorithm which learns improved conditions for a rule . |
| 6 | An algorithm which performs this trick before it starts searching is said to be goal directed , or a backwards searcher . |
| 7 | An instrument which mitigates this problem of interest rate risk is the FRN . |
| 8 | The overall effect is of something precisely imagined yet vaguely , almost mythically , placed in time and geography — an effect which gives this novel a resonance that remains vividly in the mind . |
| 9 | On this occasion as on others Edward persuaded the church to do his bidding by an action which commanded wide support , legal precedents , and political emotions . |
| 10 | The Yasukuni shrine issue had sparked fierce controversy in 1985 when Yasuhiro Nakasone became the first post-war Prime Minister to make an official visit [ see p. 34559 ] , an action which drew fierce criticism from neighbouring countries which had suffered during the Pacific War . |
| 11 | In fact , school is an institution which has little meaning for ‘ the lads ’ : it has merely to be ‘ got through ’ as enjoyably as possible — by ‘ having a laff ’ and rehearsing the loyalties and possibilities for defiance and resistance which will be carried over into work . |
| 12 | You may be in an institution which has video-viewing facilities in the library and a selection of English language programmes for learners to borrow . |
| 13 | An episode which attracted particular concern was a strike that occurred at an obscure photo-processing plant in North London , the Grunwick works . |
| 14 | When the twelfth-century bard , Cynddelw , recalled ‘ the clash of Powys … with Oswald ’ , he was looking back on an episode which had considerable significance not only for the Welsh but also for the Mercians . |
| 15 | The death of Earl Patrick of Salisbury was still an episode which aroused harsh feelings on both sides . |
| 16 | The twenty-one defendants were accused of enormous wrongdoing before and during World War II in an indictment which took two days to read and 218 days to try before a tribunal composed of two judges from each of the four victorious countries . |
| 17 | So far they 've managed to isolate an ingredient which kills human sperm extremely quickly and efficiently . |
| 18 | It does not appear to sit easily with an Act which requires local authorities to educate children with special educational needs in ordinary schools , provided that this is in the interests of the child , that it does not adversely affect the education of the other children and is compatible with the efficient use of resources . |
| 19 | Robert Goff J used this definition of the actus reus in Collins v Wilcock [ 1984 ] 1 WLR 1172 ( DC ) : " an act which causes another person to apprehend the infliction of immediate , unlawful force on his person " . |
| 20 | An act which has this characteristic is a prima facie duty . |
| 21 | VM+ is an ASIC which incorporates various facilities needed for manipulating full motion video such as filters , scaling and incremental zoom functions . |
| 22 | Beside it was an alleyway which provided rear entrances to a row of Botanic Avenue shops . |
| 23 | The pod was four metres in height , with a single hatch and an exoskeleton which supported various instrument modules and waldo limbs . |
| 24 | Similarly , the insistence of lords that their tenants perform their feudal duty of watch and ward ( guet et garde ) , or carry out necessary repairs to castle wall or ditch , as their predecessors had customarily done , was an insistence which reflected economic necessity . |
| 25 | If this is the kind of filtering we require then we must develop an architecture which allows such changes of activity to be constantly monitored and responded to by the higher levels . |
| 26 | The decommissioning and dismantling of contaminated plant is an issue which transcends industrial frontiers . |
| 27 | This is an issue which has important implications for both policy and practice in the areas of education and social welfare . |
| 28 | Selecting the graph type from the 20 available is easy , using an InfoBox which shows graphical representations of each one . |
| 29 | Federalism did not prevent the same trends occurring in the United States , especially under Roosevelt 's New Deal — demonstrating the increasing irrelevance of the distinction between federal and unitary states in an era which generates overwhelming pressures towards a more centralized state . |
| 30 | In an era which had great batsmen like Bradman , Hammond , Ponsford , Duleep and McCabe , Stewie would have ranked with the best . ’ |