Example sentences of "[noun sg] which most [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only were they more cheaply remunerated — at the church 's expense , mainly — and far more experienced in the business and technicalities of administration and negotiation , but their clerical status gave them a weight which most laymen could only acquire by aristocratic connections or by ennoblement ; lay chancellors , to be of any consequence , needed political and dynastic links , which could also spell danger for the king . |
| 2 | Wood engraving was a technique which most artists could not manage , so a craftsman was needed to translate the drawing ; on the other hand , an artist might be expected to do his picture on the stone , from which it would be directly printed . |
| 3 | The gap was less than the £1 billion deficit which most experts had feared . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Feminists in the party claim there is a glass ceiling which most women can not break through to win the most influential posts . |
| 7 | Nor was the Treasury convinced by the repeated arguments for the costly increases in police manpower which most Home Secretaries felt they had to secure in order to demonstrate their credibility . |
| 8 | But then the doubles , the match which most Canadians viewed as their ‘ legitimate shot ’ , proved to be Sweden 's toehold comeback . |
| 9 | In early June Keating unsuccessfully challenged Hawke for the ALP leadership , in a move which most commentators agreed left Hawke politically damaged . |
| 10 | The only defendant to testify was Salaam , a move which most observers saw as having increased his chances of conviction . |
| 11 | The lengthy period which most party leaders have already spent in Parliament before gaining office certainly gives them time and opportunity to acquire suitable skills . |
| 12 | This is usually a painful process which most authors secretly hate ! |
| 13 | The aim of the Quebec commission — a 36-member panel of business , labour and community leaders in Quebec — was to recommend a new relationship between the 7,000,000-strong province and the federal government , a process which most observers believed would involve the holding of a referendum on the issue of secession similar to that which was defeated in 1980 [ see also p. 38092 ] . |
| 14 | The skills they possess make them a valued commodity which most organizations would be loath to lose and keen to gain . |
| 15 | the personal community charge which most adults have to pay |
| 16 | This is the community charge which most people have to pay in the area where they live . |
| 17 | Subsequent withdrawals from the eight-member collective Presidency left it with only four members participating , and thus effectively inquorate , a development which most observers saw as being Milosevic 's deliberate intention . |
| 18 | As indicated in the recent guidelines of the Department of Health and Social Security ( 1984 ) , a sensible approach towards establishing comprehensive services would be for clinicians in each area to set up a service which most suits local conditions and needs . |
| 19 | Table 7.2 gives an example which most people would find relatively straightforward . |
| 20 | In effect , this level of service would have brought authorities close to self-sufficiency , an objective which most experts now agree is unrealistic in view of the very large numbers of titles now published ( 60,000 annually in the BNB alone , compared with the 24,000 of Bourdillon 's day ) , and the speed and efficiency of national interlending services in developed countries . |
| 21 | In order to understand what is " obvious " about sleep and dreaming it is necessary to examine some of the conventional ideological baggage which most Westerners carry about with them , and its historical origins . |
| 22 | Firstly , new and safe incinerators each cost between £40 and £50 million , a sum which most county councils are unable to afford . |
| 23 | ( One , untestable , assumption which most reductionists would make is that conscious experiences can not precede the neural events underlying them . ) |
| 24 | The image which most Shetlanders present is of new housing springing up everywhere , without any apparent pattern . |
| 25 | The heckling to which he was subjected at the Vietnam war memorial on May 31st was disturbing evidence of his failure , so far , to establish that universal respect in the country which most presidents acquire within a month of taking office . |
| 26 | This brings to light a characteristic which most Constitutions exhibit . |
| 27 | and it is the phenotype which most biologists think is the genetic mechanism for evolution . |
| 28 | In the majority of schools RE is , for political as well as pragmatic reasons , there by sufferance — occupying time which most teachers would quite happily see spent on something else of more pressing importance . |
| 29 | The natural repugnance which most people feel when homosexuality and lesbianism is mentioned can result in a harshness of attitude and thinking , which is , at least , unhelpful and certainly as unChristian as the perverse practices which are condemned . |
| 30 | Cos if he 's not being put off by a boyfriend which most men would . |