Example sentences of "[noun] which the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , there are some risks which the average horse owner should not be prepared to take . |
| 2 | His blueprint for evolving ‘ a genuine parliamentary democracy ’ will be discussed at a preparatory conference next spring which the European parliament will hold with the Council of Ministers and the bureaucratic Commission . |
| 3 | A further — and connected — factor contributed to this change : the expense which the individual cavalryman had to incur in order to fulfil his proper role in war . |
| 4 | [ She constructed herself a bed so excruciatingly painful that ] although she was very generous , still she never placed herself upon it without trembling and shuddering … so violent was the emotion which the inferior [ i.e. her body ] manifested at the sight of the pain it was to endure … |
| 5 | As already noted , this was not always a smooth process , not least because this newcomer challenged the rather modest conception which the existing committee had already established . |
| 6 | Be they industrialists or Buddhist monks it is necessary to tap into those views of the future which the young people have , for they see a different perspective , and often greater opportunities , than the board does . |
| 7 | You will remember the election at Fulham in the autumn of 1933 , when a seat which the National Government held was lost by about 7,000 votes on no issue but the pacifist … |
| 8 | The result of this stage of the process is a large number of small units which the remaining young bachelors will be unable to enter . |
| 9 | This contained some very relevant names and addresses which the Pakistani owner had obviously tried to dispose of during the night , but in the confusion and darkness he had failed to realise it had not gone overboard . " |
| 10 | The test of obscenity still required proof that the matter was ‘ utterly without redeeming social value ’ , but it was not long before social value was claimed for sex , a Californian judge declaring himself unable to find such lack of social value in a film which ‘ appeals to the normal interest in sex and nudity which the average person has in such matters ’ . |
| 11 | It is also important to create what I call a maternal genealogy to add to the paternal lineage which the current histories of art canonise — the succession of geniuses passing on the Olympic torch down the ages , man to man . |
| 12 | His passion , his arousal which the mere sight of her had provoked , was so strong that he wondered that she could not feel it too ; it seemed to hang , a living thing , in the air between them . |
| 13 | The cult followers who came every night started getting a little disappointed — Ken was following the script which the tougher the regimen became more and more rigid . |
| 14 | Some of the findings are , in our opinion , misleading or incomplete given the research which the Scottish branch has undertaken . ’ |
| 15 | Meantime , Clinton is obliged to release to the states billions in Medicare funds which the last regime held back on technical grounds . |
| 16 | The breathtaking goals which the Polish pair , Dziekanowski and Wdowczyk , scored before the interval were supplemented by Walker 's score 20 minutes from the end . |
| 17 | Any other rule used during search is rewarded by the amount of weight which the next rule loses . |
| 18 | After each such movement , the small old woman , not stiff , but poised , erect and in good rhythm with her horse , responded with minute disposition of hand , leg or body weight which the informed eye could see reflected in the horse 's performance . |
| 19 | The colliding conversations are neatly synchronised but the main problem is that each part needs to convey a sense of tough experience with some firm characterisation which the self-conscious and rather tense cast could n't find in this patchy production . |
| 20 | Indeed , it was not long before some of the concessions which the British had secured — after considerable persuasive effort on their part — to assist in the postwar reconstruction and conversion of their own economy to peacetime purposes were found to be at risk . |
| 21 | At the wider scale , Baker and Butlin point to two important influences which the physical environment had on the developing cultural mosaic based on farming patterns : its influence on the pace and timing of settlement and colonization , and its influence on the amount of wasteland available , which acted as a safety valve and meant that no provision for grazing need be made within the settlement itself ( 1973 , pp. 630–1 ) . |
| 22 | Conventional experimental psychology disapproves of the methodological and theoretical uncertainty which the psychoanalytic concept of the unconscious involves ( Eysenck 1973 , Kline 1981 ) . |
| 23 | It will be seen from this passage that the question whether or not conduct can be insulting may depend upon a complex mixture of objective fact and the maker 's intention which the new Act does not entirely manage to disentangle . |
| 24 | But from the same Grammar School period Edward recalls in detail ‘ the Sunday dinner anger , which became almost a regular thing , , with the boys tittering and refusing to discuss the topic of the morning 's sermon until they received a lecture or abuse from their father , at this ‘ almost the only meal as a rule which the whole family had together ’ . |
| 25 | THREE Belgian fans were arrested after a 38-year-old German supporter was gravely injured by a signal rocket in the European Cup Winners ' Cup semi-final second leg match between Bremen and Bruges which the German side won 2–0 . |
| 26 | They may relate to one institution ( a primary school ) or to several ( linking a number of primary schools to the neighbourhood secondary school ) , they may relate to primary age children within a community centre or youth club , they may simply serve as a bridge between local pre-school playgroups and the schools which the pre-school children will eventually attend . |
| 27 | That is a major anomaly which the British Parliament has accepted because it has no alternative . |
| 28 | For producers often internalize known or possible market relationships , and this is a very complex process indeed , ranging from obvious production for the market which is still the work the producer ‘ always wanted to do ’ , through all the possible compromises between the market demand and the producer 's intention , to those cases m which the practical determinations of the market are acknowledged but the original work is still substantially done . |
| 29 | This was the kind of dilemma which the American philosopher Jerry Fodor faced up to in his important book The Language of Thought . |
| 30 | It is consequently essential in any preliminary comments on socialist realism to highlight the great hope and cause for optimism which the Soviet experiment symbolized to many Western intellectuals between 1927 and 1939 . |