Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 As things turned out , the seventeenth century saw a total collapse which left both Newbury and Reading only the remnants of their former trade .
2 In Western civilization this has generally been considered to be Christianity , as this is the religion which has most powerfully moulded the values and beliefs on which society is based , just as in a Muslim country for example the religion to be handed on would be Islam .
3 Study of the religious story shows that it has always been organised religion which has eventually retreated before the inexorable advance of science , and religious leaders should acknowledge that this retreat provides the living proof of the falsity of their position .
4 He moved with a grace and speed which surprised both Athelstan and his opponents .
5 Listening : a text is dictated at a speed which allows only key words to be noted .
6 Roseau was the active spokesman of an association which grouped together what are called ‘ pieds noirs ’ in French , literally ‘ black feet ’ .
7 Unfortunately these proposals only exemplify the muddled thinking which seems so often to lie at the heart of Edinburgh 's traffic policies .
8 Their preferred description of it has been overinclusive thinking which has frequently been used to explain certain forms of thought disorder seen in psychotic patients , such as the tendency to cognitive ‘ slippage ’ , loosely associated ideation , and difficulty in maintaining a tight boundary for abstract concepts .
9 And there is a long tradition in sociological thinking which makes precisely this distinction .
10 She had used some silky material to make a skirt which toned exactly with the wool , covered the buttons with the material of the skirt and the whole outfit was therefore beautifully co-ordinated .
11 Playbus said about a horse which goes slowly .
12 Sharpe lunged , but Nosey had frightened the Frenchman 's horse which twisted away and so carried the Dragoon out of Sharpe 's reach .
13 In 1981 , for example , a jockey who had fought back from the depths of cancer partnered a horse which had twice spent months with a hind leg in plaster .
14 A naturally placid horse will show signs of nervousness if it is brought up in a rough home , while a naturally nervous horse which has always experienced a sympathetic and secure home will be quite placid .
15 A horse that is underfed is likely to be dull and lethargic ; whereas an overfed horse which has too little exercise , especially if it is fed grain , is likely to be over-excited and silly .
16 Photo two is an example of a horse which has unusually high tushes .
17 Any horse which works hard , particularly in the summer months , or which sweats a lot at any time in the year , may be suffering from electrolyte loss .
18 The country stations also enjoyed a great range of styles , but they escaped the process of repeated renewal which overwhelmed so many large city and town stations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries .
19 Indeed , there wo n't be much alteration from the side which triumphed so convincingly in Lithuania and Latvia although we could perhaps see the return of Nottingham Forest winger Kingsley Black at some stage .
20 More than 5,000 Swindon fans have signed a petition calling on the sports governing body to return the club to the first flight , replacing another side which has already pulled out of the league .
21 Jones , younger brother of Wrexham 's teenage defender Kevin , takes a midfield berth in the side which shows just one change from last weekend 's defeat by Ruthin .
22 With a Midland High Interest Cheque Account ( HICA ) you have the perfect combination of high interest and ready access plus a HICA card which offers even greater flexibility , 24 hours a day .
23 Days after finding the card which promised so much happiness for the future , Tim learned that his wife and her best friend Elizabeth Over had been beaten and knifed to death , their bodies mutilated .
24 Or a card which contains only notes from Monk 's book The Sublime : a Study of Critical Theories in Eighteenth-Century England .
25 At the same time , UM imports had been steadily rising , including very substantial imports from UM Vehicle Divisions on the Continent which had greatly expanded their total output and exports over the same period .
26 This confirms the analogy which has often been drawn between the founding treaties of the European Communities and a written constitution in a sovereign state .
27 The ring which had originally been twenty feet across was now little wider than seven or eight feet ; the squatters were now standing and getting in everyone else 's view .
28 The gunner was provided with a .303in Lewis gun mounted on a Scarf gun ring which moved aft on rails for mooring purposes .
29 They come amid rumblings of new strikes in several key sectors , after disruption which has already cost 5 million lost working days this year , and production shortfalls of billions of roubles .
30 This is significantly less than the more substantial Spring auction which realised nearly DM6.3 million .
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