Example sentences of "in a [noun] which [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew took three steps towards Horatia and caught her shoulders in a grip which made her cry out . |
| 2 | For a while she thought that her visions had been a delirium , but then fell into an exhausted sleep when she received her sixteenth revelation in a dream which reassured her and made her deeply ashamed of her doubts . |
| 3 | Her father was the greatest actor-manager since Irving ; she was proud to be taught by him , would as proudly appear in a part which left him , the great Asshe , with no other place for himself than that of Lord Capulet . |
| 4 | The disparate elements of human experience are selected and ordered in a structure which includes its own version of time , place and personality . |
| 5 | Idoxuridine , one such agent , can be applied to herpetic ulcers either in an ointment base or dissolved in a solvent which aids its absorption in the skin , and has enthusiastic followers , but again convincing evidence of its efficacy is lacking . |
| 6 | Silas appeared to be deep in thought , while Lucy sat wrapped in a gloom which sent her down a dark tunnel to the depths of depression . |
| 7 | ‘ The drugs , ’ Rain demanded in a voice which revealed nothing but composure . |
| 8 | The concept of the spectacle is an effective term which now has a wide currency , but perhaps only in a sense which approximates its use by the Situationists . |
| 9 | He was , to be fair , in a position which left him little real freedom of action . |
| 10 | Then finally , in the case of officers , employees , and others in a professional or business relationship , they must be in a position which affords them access to information which they ought not reasonably to disclose , save for the proper performance of their duties . |
| 11 | My own marginality with its reflexive potential in some ways mirrored their experience , for some members of the counter-culture stood apart , in a position which allowed them to renounce , ridicule , or reject society 's cherished structures of significance . |
| 12 | Any adaptation in a male which enables him to copulate with more females will be strongly favoured by natural selection . |
| 13 | The trouble which a political interest could encounter , however , came when friends of the political interest fell out over a choice of minister , and in a country which took its religion seriously that was all too easy to do , and that in turn opened the road to intrigue by political enemies . |
| 14 | The occupational pathology of the eighteenth century is strikingly revealed in a litany which gives us grinder 's asthma , grinder 's rot , mason 's disease , miner 's phthisis , stone worker 's lung and potter 's rot , among others , for dust-caused lung diseases , as well as occupational bursitis in such varying forms as bricklayer 's elbow , weaver 's bottom , housemaid 's knee , hod carrier 's shoulder and tailor 's ankle . |
| 15 | the smoking of tobacco will reduce the money supply in a society which uses it as a medium of exchange . |
| 16 | Women ‘ police ’ other women 's bodies because we know how important our appearance is in a society which objectifies us . |
| 17 | Liberal Democrats will neither support nor participate in a government which turns its back on reform . |
| 18 | To state the problem ( that is to say the intellectual problem we have set for ourselves ) in a way which enables us to go about finding a solution is not easy . |
| 19 | This means that we have to specify a number of assumptions , and those we have chosen are intended to conform with the Keynesian view of how the economy works and at the same time to simplify the analysis in a way which enables us to see clearly how DD unemployment can arise . |
| 20 | Of course you can make a preliminary selection using c.v.s compiled by the applicants themselves , but this allows candidates to present information in a way which suits them . |
| 21 | But they would still insist that induction into a tradition is right — it should be teaching religion not just teaching about religion in a way which distances it and effectively marginalizes it . |
| 22 | Fictional stressing of deep connections between primitive and developed man , as well as the connections between primitive ritual and modern dramatic and religious practice stressed by Cornford , Harrison , Frazer , and the others encouraged Eliot to interpret the Rivers book in a way which let him see in it a reflection of his personal crisis . |
| 23 | ‘ But I think that people were in contact all over the world , and that that there are hints of contact with Easter Island and with the Indus Valley , ’ Mr Savoy continued , warming to his controversial theme in a way which unsettles his academic admirers . |
| 24 | Firstly , by abandoning the notion that only historians can model and manage data in a way which facilitates their particular data processing aims . |
| 25 | Whenever our reality changes for the better , in a way which takes us by surprise , we should get to work on our self-image fast ! |
| 26 | It also becomes an experience which indirectly registers the resilience of the individual 's own immediate cultural past : forgetfulness and oblivion are the means of its escape , but become so in a way which register its continuing presence . |
| 27 | And if you can express what you 're doing in a way which catches their imagination , you 've got marvellous media material . |
| 28 | In order to make decisions ageing people have to view the future in a way which allows them an active and influential part in their own lives . |
| 29 | He went behind the pot house along the path he usually took with her , knowing , in a way which twisted him savagely , that she would not bother to keep their secret places private . |
| 30 | Saibol speaks Maa in a way which tells me that he comes from the Kisongo of the Ol Doinyo Lengai , yes ? |