Example sentences of "of [noun sg] which [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They frequently break down , dealing , as Berridge ( 1985 ) argued , a very personal blow to the children and young people ; they are difficult to find ; they demand , if they are to work , levels of support which field social workers can not guarantee ; and some young people , and some children , do not want them .
2 For the educated mother in particular , it took a great deal of courage to reject a system of upbringing which combined quasi-religious appeals to ‘ duty ’ and ‘ rightness ’ and ‘ goodness ’ with a claim to be based on the rational attitudes which she herself , as a ‘ modern ’ woman , was supposed to have embraced .
3 A magic circle in which she locks our destiny to this increase of tenderness which renders this work human , moving and unchallengeable .
4 It seems that in Japan microlights are restricted to flying no more than 1.5 kilometres from point of take-off which gives little chance of developing mature navigational skills .
5 It is beautifully detailed but in a musical rather than analytical sense , offering a degree of presence which communicates real emotion where the programme offers it .
6 We looked in some detail at some aspects of protection which included certain kinds of technical and formal performance , the indirect handling of painful subjects and projection , the latter including some aspects of the teacher 's most flexible strategy , teacher-in-role .
7 ‘ The kind of smell which makes sick people worse must interfere with the vigour and vitality of those who are well , but at all events it is sufficient to show that sick persons are injured thereby ’ , per Stephen , J. in the Malton Manure case .
8 Seen from a purely theoretical standpoint , the leap of faith which produces this kind of doubt completely bypasses the question of truth .
9 Others have sought a reconciliation of the positions that these terms represent , and there is an abundance of literature which examines this relationship in advance of the Situationists .
10 Such power is represented by the official hierarchy of subordination which characterizes formal organization .
11 Indeed , as we shall see later , a rise in total output accompanied by a change in the distribution of income which makes some people better off and others worse off can not necessarily be interpreted as an improvement in the country 's living standards .
12 Yew ( Taxus baccata ) commonly occurs in the ash woods , and on the National Nature Reserve at Kingley Vale there are large stands of yew which support good populations of common species , particularly Great Tit , Coal Tit , Chaffinch and thrushes .
13 Types of stock which need special care
14 Consequently , I am going to start off by outlining some of the philosophical beliefs about the nature of mind which underpin contemporary research in the cognitive sciences , including cognitive neuropsychology .
15 New terms ‘ mental impairment ’ and ‘ severe mental impairment , are introduced , the latter defined as ‘ a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind which includes severe impairment of intelligence and social functioning and is associated with abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct on the part of the person concerned ’ .
16 To this extent , in establishing the service , certain governmental and educational authorities were signalling with all the pomp and circumstance of legislation that youth did constitute a separate and , in important respects , an immature source of labour which required special treatment .
17 But there is a margin of sufficiency which demands vigorous work and quarter-mastering ; earth that takes its tribute of sweat .
18 All these are not merely parts of our descriptive model ; we assume that they correspond very directly to aspects of the activity which goes on in the mind of speakers ; by contrast the relation of instantiation which links particular items of the English vocabulary and the elements E and P is metalinguistic , since in any particular use of a linguistic structure the word-meanings which are present , supported of course by the word-forms which are the overt carriers of the meanings , are the Es and the Ps , rather than being related to them .
19 If law can contribute to the control of the sort of force which threatens nuclear catastrophe then it is likely to be law seen as a morally authoritative contrivance for securing the overriding objective of human survival .
20 Concomitant with the mystical theology inherited by the medieval English mystics , and also governing their thought and expression was a dialectic about the mode of living which enabled mystical experience and a vocabulary to express it .
21 The effectiveness of retirement pension schemes is greatly threatened by increasing longevity , the problem of keeping pace with the cost of living in an inflationary economic situation , and the problem of rising standards of living which bring new affluence and expectations .
22 The " Big Book " of alcoholics Anonymous describes some unfortunate people as being " naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty " and says that " they are not at fault ; they seem to have been born that way " .
23 Whether " a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty " is all that is required is quite possibly true but there may be any number of blocks in the road towards that manner of living .
24 To go on to say that " they are naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty " is also true but this may not be the whole truth .
25 Langenderfer ( 1973 ) suggests a normative view of accounting which considers three aspects : the nature of the information it provides ; to whom the information is provided ; and the purposes for which information is to be provided .
26 To develop a meaningful measure of readmission which has any validity as a measure of clinical care requires that the admission be unplanned , related to the index admission , and in some way avoidable .
27 It was the Second Law of Thermodynamics which gave Victorian intellectuals a certain frisson because it seemed to imply that the world was running down .
28 Cathedrals are also , to a small extent , helping to revive the tradition of patronage which produced such riches in the past .
29 Farmers throughout the region have welcomed the end to the months of uncertainty which surrounded recent EC talks to reform the community 's farming policy .
30 In the five days of violence which resulted official estimates suggested that at least 30 people died ( including one MP ) and several hundred were injured .
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