Example sentences of "[adj] which [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was blamed for being too lax a disciplinarian , and indeed for the defeat on the snap ‘ cordite ’ vote on 21 June 1895 which saw the government resign . |
| 2 | Since the kite has a lift component to enable it to accelerate at certain positions around the hemisphere it also has what is known as an ‘ apparent wind ’ and it is this which sustains the motion within the flight envelope . |
| 3 | It is this which caused the Employment Secretary , Michael Howard , to claim that under Labour the unions would become more privileged than when Michael Foot was Labour 's Employment Secretary from 1974 to 1976 . |
| 4 | It is this which offers the greatest challenge to a photographer . |
| 5 | It is this which offers the greatest challenge to a photographer . |
| 6 | It was an attitude like this which made the individual transfer to community relations in the first place , as all those in Easton 's Community Relations Unit did , one even from the Traffic Branch . |
| 7 | The favourite explanation , however , was ‘ speculative hoarding ’ , and it was this which became the target for government action ( in addition to a series of measures designed to speed up the release and development of land ) . |
| 8 | When depreciation is deducted from gross investment , we have what is called net investment and it is this which measures the true addition to the country 's capital stock during the year . |
| 9 | This continually recurring disharmony Marx attributes to the nature of class relations , and it is this which produces the forward movement of history . |
| 10 | It is this which produces the combined bracing of the right foot , leg and hip which produces the wound-up spring resistance at the top . |
| 11 | But while the handicapped get the support they need the carers are ofrten forgotten and it was this which insprired the Princess Royal to set up a special trust . |
| 12 | It was this which led the following day to Eighth Army 's request for authorization to negotiate with the Soviets for a hand-over , " on advice Macmillan " , and which led to Robertson 's order from AFHQ later that day for negotiations to begin . |
| 13 | It is unlikely that Gloucester could have flouted the council 's wishes without at least tacit royal approval , and it is this which distinguished the duke from his predecessor as chief steward . |
| 14 | It is unlikely that Gloucester could have flouted the council 's wishes without at least tacit royal approval , and it is this which distinguished the duke from his predecessor as chief steward . |
| 15 | It is this which establishes the control of the people over their political leaders or of the shareholders over their directors . |
| 16 | It was demonstrations like this which swung the decisionmakers . |
| 17 | Exactly how zoos are expected to dispose of their lar gibbons is not clear , and it is this which concerns the International Primate Protection League ( IPPL ) . |
| 18 | It is this which makes a structure made out of timber such a safe one , generally one can very nearly get away with murder . |
| 19 | It is this which makes a patterned woven carpet something special , a point not always understood by the customer . |
| 20 | It is this which makes the performance capable of repetition . |
| 21 | There is a kind of innocence about this which makes the modern reader , coming upon it all sixty years after the event , squirm with embarrassment . |
| 22 | The conflict arises in two major ways : firstly , the most basic need of all , to understand the functioning of the child , is confounded by a need to hide this functioning , since it is this which makes the child most different from the community . |
| 23 | So individualism must regard them as being in some way free from the determining influence of society , and it is this which makes the properties of individuals into a suitable stopping point for explanations . |
| 24 | It is this which makes the next section of Simmel 's work so difficult to accept , in that it appears to work so deeply against the grain of modern consciousness . |
| 25 | So how do you actually get across to the public something about this which makes the public love them ? |
| 26 | The MINIS and Joubert systems , with due allowance for departmental differences , were to be universalized throughout Whitehall , and it was this which provided the impetus for the launch of the Financial Management Initiative ( FMI ) in 1982 . |
| 27 | Under normal circumstances the bulk of government patronage in Scotland would be distributed through the agency of ministers familiar with local politics , and it was this which gave the crown its commanding influence in the country . |
| 28 | It was this which gave the family its peculiar importance in the surveillance , and control , of sexual behaviour . |
| 29 | It is this which marks the discourse of the Report as distinct from strategies for " rational " public policy and social administration . |
| 30 | It may be this which signals the high-water mark of Oswiu 's intervention in Pictland , analogous to his activities in Mercia in the three years after Penda 's death , and it does not imply an obvious community of interest between Oswiu and the sons of Donuel . |