Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking about the resurgence of interest in religion which many people see in the world today , the Chief Rabbi , Jonathan Sacks , asks " Whether religious revival might be not a refreshing breeze but a destructive hurricane . " |
| 2 | Within this perceptual framework , White women are frequently seen as agents in the narrative disruption which Black people initiate : it is the ‘ skirts ’ whose sexuality in one form or another is out of control or misplaced . |
| 3 | But what was much more important was the relationship between the particular nature of this political crisis and the religious recourse which some people took . |
| 4 | Neither does the statement , ‘ All those coloured glass pictures of people which you see in the windows of churches , have been put there to remind us of the good which those people did during their lives . |
| 5 | However , the confrontation which many people feared might produce bloody street clashes passed off peacefully . |
| 6 | However , an explicit consideration of the broader themes of education management as such is a luxury which fewer people will have had the time , or perhaps the inclination , to undertake . |
| 7 | Social workers — caring workers generally — are " entrusted " with a burden of responsibility which many people would find impossible and most would find repugnant . |
| 8 | The difficulty which many people have in seeing this where religion is concerned is because of an either/or mentality . |
| 9 | The explanation of this furrow was discovered in the 1960s and restored the reputation of a German geophysicist who proposed a hypothesis which most people disregarded . |
| 10 | The point of the metaphor of father is to indicate the experience which religious people have of God as a loving creator . |
| 11 | The level of support which young people receive from parents and mentors will also have a significant effect upon the process of transition , for it is a stage in which their dependency is visibly apparent . |
| 12 | The former term simply describes the situation in which people live outside institutions ; the latter points to the support which such people may receive from others . |
| 13 | She suggests that the ‘ board ’ money which young people paid for living in the parental household was seen as an exchange , especially for daughters : they handed over their wages to their mothers and in exchange their mothers equipped them to enable them to go into service . |
| 14 | ‘ Just larger versions of the kind of Sunday lunch which ordinary people have . ’ |
| 15 | Your Committee has purchased an ex G.W.R. coach which some people believe to have run on the BCR in its last years before it went out of use . |
| 16 | Does it matter if a person derives some kind of sexual satisfaction from an act which most people or ‘ right-minded persons ’ would not regard as indecent ? |
| 17 | Reading is a skill which many people take for granted . |
| 18 | Reproduced in calendars , on birthday cards , and in coffee-table books , this painting has become almost a ritualized symbol of the reverence which English people have for their countryside . |
| 19 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 20 | The summary document or record which young people take with them when leaving school or college will need to include two main components : |
| 21 | Declaring that she believed she was speaking for everyone , she expressed gratitude for the splendour of the hospitality provided by La Belle France , thanked the president personally , and added a few more words of the sort which well-brought-up people employ on such occasions . |
| 22 | The sound which law-abiding people heard at Handsworth was not a cry for help but a cry for loot . |
| 23 | When the economics become right , when the petrol dries up , then the possibly of moving over from a gas based , petrol based , economy to hydrogen economy is a very real one , and of course again this is an exciting branch of inorganic chemistry which many people are looking at . |
| 24 | This is the community charge which most people have to pay in the area where they live . |
| 25 | History as a body of knowledge which all people who claim to be ‘ historians ’ must share has collapsed . |
| 26 | Relatively little is known of the systematic knowledge which local peoples have of forest species and dynamics , and of the various patterns of traditional extraction and their consequences , yet it may provide vital information for those concerned with effective forestry , medicine , nutrition and plant product development . |
| 27 | So we were really answerable to the Ipswich Borough Council , rather than to private enterprise which some people really wanted to sell us off as being a , you know , a weight round their necks because if we did n't make a lot of money after the war , the accounts would show that we were making a deficiency every year and erm , well there was no way that you could recoup it because our routes were n't really long enough to charge lots of fares erm , maybe tuppence was the town centre to the extreme termini |
| 28 | It was this habit of self-mastery which made one expect him always to maintain a standard of behaviour which other people felt themselves excused from emulating . |
| 29 | When they are quite innocent of certain events they are unfortunately blamed by the public in those areas , and they are seen as damaging the countryside and they are seen also they do not encourage the matter when you envisage the fact that they have these erm , for instance , animals — the dogs around their sites which are not noted for their behaviour , and there are many aspects of their behaviour which upset people around . |
| 30 | Certainly his resignation ensures that he will be in the clear when the economic roof falls in — an event which many people now regard as virtually inevitable . |