Example sentences of "and which [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came back to her in a barely controlled rush , gently parting her legs , his mouth and hands caressing her body in a way that made her move sinuously against him , and which wrenched a low moan of need from his throat . |
| 2 | Hikmet Cetin , Foreign Minister of Turkey , which according to the Kars treaty of 1921 was joint guarantor with Russia of the status of Nakhichevan and which shared a small section of its border , expressed his country 's disapproval on May 19 . |
| 3 | What did surprise him a little , and which argued a political maturity that even sensitive Western observers were sometimes inclined to overlook , was that , in three days of systematic canvassing of Libyan opinion , he encountered little or no personal hostility . |
| 4 | Any individual display of selfish or uncooperative attitudes can lead to the allocation of jobs that carry low prestige , smaller annual increments , more limited promotion prospects and which convey a humiliating stigma in the eyes of colleagues . |
| 5 | We are also developing a common funding formula for self- governing schools which is fair , both to the schools themselves and to the local education authorities which is transparent and which offers a reasonable prospect of stability of funding . |
| 6 | This has also been a way of escaping from the serious clashes which historically have taken place between different Christian groups involved in education and which remain a distinct possibility in the multi-faith situation . |
| 7 | It is within this conceptual framework that a government minister at the Department of the Environment can , with seemingly irrefutable common sense , conceptualise inner cities as the places where ‘ those living there have not been able to participate in the economic miracle of the Thatcher years ’ ( Trippier , 1989 , p7 ) and which require a strong police presence because ‘ the future prosperity of the inner cities depends directly on how safe they are in which to live and work ’ ( ibid , p22 ) . |
| 8 | There are a number of fallacies which are frequently promulgated in order to explain away the low standard of living of the farm worker and which require a brisk dismissal at the outset . |
| 9 | In the summer of 1935 , George Pateman resigned following his appointment as Assistant Secretary to the Cambridge University Board of Extra-Mural Studies — a major surprise to many in the District and which precipitated a major re-casting of the District 's policies and priorities . |
| 10 | A second element of the state system which requires investigation is the administrative one , which now extends far beyond the traditional bureaucracy of the state , and which encompasses a large variety of bodies , often related to particular ministerial departments , or enjoying a greater or lesser degree of autonomy public corporations , central banks , regulatory commissions , etc. and concerned with the management of the economic , social , cultural and other activities in which the state is now directly or indirectly involved . |
| 11 | Analysis was confined to those crypts whose entire lengths could be completely visualised and which contained a single layer of cells only . |
| 12 | Such old people customarily exhibit behaviour which is extraordinarily difficult to tolerate and which raises a high level of anxiety . |
| 13 | Mysticism is a particularly interesting example of the attempt to interpret the faith in a new way and which discovers a new richness that was there in embryo waiting to be developed . |
| 14 | The enactment of both provisions remained far from certain , however , as they were attached to a campaign finance bill which had yet to receive congressional assent and which faced a threatened veto from President Bush . |
| 15 | One should , for example , mention guild socialism which was much more concerned than Fabianism about the problems of establishing a strong , centralized bureaucracy and which promoted a pluralist theory of the state . |
| 16 | In reality , these devices are a form of laser whose development can be traced back to the post-war years and which have a wide range of applications beyond generating very high powers . |
| 17 | There are also a range of organisms , notably bacteria , fungi and viruses , which produce fatal infections in many insect species , and which have a restricted range of host species . |
| 18 | By making such distinctions Goody is constructing a model in which literacy is conceived of as ‘ autonomous ’ and which has a built-in tendency to determinism . |
| 19 | Such a structure is in contrast to a structure which , once negotiated , is subject to little questioning , which orders activities on a termly or a yearly basis , and which has a declared interest in the future than the present . |
| 20 | There are numerous picturesque villages to visit including Berry Pomeroy , a small village which forms part of the Duke of Somerset 's estates , and which has a haunted castle . |
| 21 | The very ubiquity of the mass media removes media as a whole system from the scope of positivist social analysis ; for how may we ‘ measure ’ the ‘ impact ’ of a social force which is omnipresent within social life and which has a great deal to do with constituting it ? |
| 22 | Songqiao ( 1988 ) describes that of the Hexi corridor which is situated between the Mongolian and Tibetan plateaux and which has a long history of cultivation based on irrigation . |
| 23 | This is an externally refereed journal with a circulation of over 500 copies , and which has a world-wide reputation for excellence in the quality of papers published . |
| 24 | This is a device which supports PostScript , and which has a specified resolution of 300 pixels/inch , both the vertical and horizontal direction . |
| 25 | The term does not apply , however , to material ejected after a major impact on Earth and which follows a suborbital path back through the atmosphere to the Earth 's surface . |