Example sentences of "a [noun sg] which [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US Supreme Court has effectively limited the power of the Endangered Species Act , by dismissing a case which sought to establish that federal bodies must comply with the Act when funding projects overseas . |
| 2 | Unless you want to make things difficult for yourself do n't buy a board which fails to satisfy all three of the above conditions . |
| 3 | A Roger Rabbit-style cartoon , Evil Toons , released on video this month , promotes itself like this : ‘ Innocently the four girls unleash a nymphomaniacal cartoon monster from the pages of a spell-book which intends to scare more than the girls ' pants off . ’ |
| 4 | The duty of determining such questions is cast by law , not upon the courts after the event , but upon the police authorities at the time when the decision has to be taken ; and a court which attempted to review such a decision from the point of view of its wisdom or prudence would ( I think ) be exceeding its proper functions . |
| 5 | It was a habit which helped to avoid any major personal quarrels between them until after the demise of the Government . |
| 6 | ‘ What 's the matter ? ’ asked Penry at last , breaking a silence which threatened to last all the way to Chastlecombe . |
| 7 | However , as far as Judaism is concerned , there must have been some indication of inherent righteousness within it which made it desirable to people who were not born Jews , and the arrival of a form which seemed to satisfy that inexorable need for a ‘ god ’ , and which was available to all , gave Christianity its initial impetus . |
| 8 | IN THE FIERCEST Soviet reaction yet to the East German refugee crisis , the Communist Party daily Pravda declared yesterday that Bonn 's ‘ open door ’ policy at its embassies in Warsaw and Prague was creating a situation which threatened to destabilise all of central Europe . |
| 9 | A system which learns to solve this problem consists of two parts : |
| 10 | The definition eventually agreed for The Dartington Unit 's study of violence in residential care was ‘ the use of force in a social situation in a way that those in power define as illegitimate ’ , a perspective which sought to incorporate all the dimensions we have discussed . |
| 11 | The American sexologist , professor J L McCary , devised a pudding which seemed to have all the best attributes of an effective aphrodisiac . |