Example sentences of "[noun sg] which [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortescue saw what the problem was : the defence of English interests both on land and at sea , which needed to be acted upon with a speed which only the existence of some form of permanent naval force would allow . |
| 2 | The glazed window which came about almost 2,000 year s ago was a luxury which only the privileged few enjoyed . |
| 3 | As a consequence the struggle for Palestine has been carried out on many levels , creating a complexity which even the participants have at times found difficult to follow . |
| 4 | Having held a senior position in another school , the newcomer was in a position to add status to the library venture as well as filling the gap in management which both the head and deputy had identified . |
| 5 | Taken to its conclusion , this hypothesis prefigures the paradoxical consequence that the smaller business may find itself liable to pay compensation which only the larger business is realistically able to meet . |
| 6 | This poses the interesting question which only the future can resolve : how long can values survive without the beliefs which sustain them ? |
| 7 | Mr Reilly has now embarked on a job which even the cynical Mr Darman should applaud . |
| 8 | He recalled the desire for leisure which even the most serious and industrious of workers experienced after a period of constant application , impelling them to " indulge in idleness " . |
| 9 | The site that was identified or potentially identified by by the house builders in York was a site which both the County Council and the District Council considered performed a number of greenbelt functions , I think that it would be accepted that in any development plan land should only be allocated if there were some degree of certainty that it would come forward for development within the plan period , the site that was identified , there had been no objections made to the Southern Ryedale local plan so therefore there were no indications that it would have come forward for development within that plan period anyway , had it been identified , had it been allocated . |
| 10 | It amazed him such a slip of a girl could have such passion in her , and by then he had noticed the perfect contours of her body which neither the black dress nor the prim white apron could conceal . |
| 11 | We 're seeing the end of a long period of Cold War which effectively the West have won because they have kept their defences up , er and I think as Tom King , he was out here last week , has said we need to keep a strong force here to make sure that the Soviets keep their side of the bargain and er start a withdrawal at some stage . |
| 12 | This , and the multiplication of that half-breed known as ministers of state , is a product of a political inflation which even the present Government has not attempted to control . |
| 13 | Continentals are unable to be butlers because they are as a breed incapable of the emotional restraint which only the English race are capable of . |
| 14 | In a centralised education system , the setting up of machinery to undertake curriculum planning and development is no more than a means towards making possible the six processes I outlined at the beginning of this chapter and which in our ideal world should have happened logically at national level : laying a research base for change , deciding objectives , forming a strategy , developing materials , implementing them and evaluating both the process and the result — a clinical sequence which even the methodical Swedes did not perform to their satisfaction . |
| 15 | Now I suggest Chairman that there are number of on your paper which probably the Committee could really of this stage I think the sort of important ones . |
| 16 | The " kee " part is a courtship call at another frequency which only the females are sensitive to . |
| 17 | No spark of humour ( even of sanity ) was allowed to invade the hallowed Mixture as Before : Beauty , Knitting , Fashion , Cookery , Short Story , in embalmed vacuity , delivered from that pinnacle of self-righteousness which only the mediocre could sustain . |
| 18 | His other hand cupped her chin , tilting her face upwards so that there was no escape from the gaze that held her own , trapping her in a world which only the two of them knew . |
| 19 | But the delay was sufficient to postpone the encounter which both the Duke and Prince Charles — though not the latter 's generals — were seeking , though hostility to the retreating invaders was visibly growing . |
| 20 | It supplies much information which even the specialized dictionaries of technical and scientific subjects do not provide . |
| 21 | Her acceptance of this role has not only given enormous pleasure to the membership but it has conferred upon the Association a status in society and an endorsement which only the seal of Royal Patronage can do . |
| 22 | It 's an occasion bristling with tradition — women in long hemlines and men in blazers and ties — but there is one major change this year which even the man in charge of the whole event can only approve of . |
| 23 | There is no such thing as bad publicity , and sometimes the only way to force change is to be anti-social and become a problem which eventually the authorities have to deal with . |
| 24 | ‘ If you had not been told otherwise , you might think it was all a terrific affectation — this old woman from the Dales with the luminescent skin , the saintly set of the features and the clothes from the pile which even the rag-and-bone man would probably not take … . |
| 25 | It is a remarkable feat of cultural self-assertion to claim that such a culture could be taken to , and disseminated among the " multitudes " , of a feat which only the buoyant sense of the well-evident value of imperial colonization could sustain . |
| 26 | I 'll be very , very brief erm we can not fall back the control of the country which even the highest rate of recycling that a number of them have already achieved the Government recycling target so now you 've aimed er , I think it 's something rich it more or less stands for er , I would see the role of the County is essentially is co-ordination between the various waste collection authorities through to the greater of the extense of |
| 27 | During 1296 Boniface VIII issued the bull Clericis Laicos , banning all royal taxes from the clergy without prior papal consent and threatening collectors and payers of such taxes with excommunication which only the pope could lift . |
| 28 | I am referring to a level of promiscuity which even the most liberal heterosexual would regard as immoral . |
| 29 | Its skull , however , has the crucial feature which neither the coelacanth nor the lungfish possess — a passage linking its nostrils with the roof of its mouth . |
| 30 | ‘ Sinn Fein is not the IRA and is not involved in any violence , a position which even the British Government now accepts , so we are not in a position to call on the IRA to end its campaign . |