Example sentences of "[noun sg] which the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His blueprint for evolving ‘ a genuine parliamentary democracy ’ will be discussed at a preparatory conference next spring which the European parliament will hold with the Council of Ministers and the bureaucratic Commission . |
| 2 | A further — and connected — factor contributed to this change : the expense which the individual cavalryman had to incur in order to fulfil his proper role in war . |
| 3 | [ She constructed herself a bed so excruciatingly painful that ] although she was very generous , still she never placed herself upon it without trembling and shuddering … so violent was the emotion which the inferior [ i.e. her body ] manifested at the sight of the pain it was to endure … |
| 4 | As already noted , this was not always a smooth process , not least because this newcomer challenged the rather modest conception which the existing committee had already established . |
| 5 | Be they industrialists or Buddhist monks it is necessary to tap into those views of the future which the young people have , for they see a different perspective , and often greater opportunities , than the board does . |
| 6 | You will remember the election at Fulham in the autumn of 1933 , when a seat which the National Government held was lost by about 7,000 votes on no issue but the pacifist … |
| 7 | The test of obscenity still required proof that the matter was ‘ utterly without redeeming social value ’ , but it was not long before social value was claimed for sex , a Californian judge declaring himself unable to find such lack of social value in a film which ‘ appeals to the normal interest in sex and nudity which the average person has in such matters ’ . |
| 8 | It is also important to create what I call a maternal genealogy to add to the paternal lineage which the current histories of art canonise — the succession of geniuses passing on the Olympic torch down the ages , man to man . |
| 9 | His passion , his arousal which the mere sight of her had provoked , was so strong that he wondered that she could not feel it too ; it seemed to hang , a living thing , in the air between them . |
| 10 | Some of the findings are , in our opinion , misleading or incomplete given the research which the Scottish branch has undertaken . ’ |
| 11 | After each such movement , the small old woman , not stiff , but poised , erect and in good rhythm with her horse , responded with minute disposition of hand , leg or body weight which the informed eye could see reflected in the horse 's performance . |
| 12 | The colliding conversations are neatly synchronised but the main problem is that each part needs to convey a sense of tough experience with some firm characterisation which the self-conscious and rather tense cast could n't find in this patchy production . |
| 13 | Conventional experimental psychology disapproves of the methodological and theoretical uncertainty which the psychoanalytic concept of the unconscious involves ( Eysenck 1973 , Kline 1981 ) . |
| 14 | It will be seen from this passage that the question whether or not conduct can be insulting may depend upon a complex mixture of objective fact and the maker 's intention which the new Act does not entirely manage to disentangle . |
| 15 | But from the same Grammar School period Edward recalls in detail ‘ the Sunday dinner anger , which became almost a regular thing , , with the boys tittering and refusing to discuss the topic of the morning 's sermon until they received a lecture or abuse from their father , at this ‘ almost the only meal as a rule which the whole family had together ’ . |
| 16 | That is a major anomaly which the British Parliament has accepted because it has no alternative . |
| 17 | This was the kind of dilemma which the American philosopher Jerry Fodor faced up to in his important book The Language of Thought . |
| 18 | It is consequently essential in any preliminary comments on socialist realism to highlight the great hope and cause for optimism which the Soviet experiment symbolized to many Western intellectuals between 1927 and 1939 . |
| 19 | If we then take the effect which the southern bypass appears to have had , on the A sixty one , a two and a half percent reduction , we are then down to something marginally under twenty five percent . |
| 20 | But it is our considered judgement that this knowledge did not have the reactive effect which the sensitive nature of the issue might suggest . |
| 21 | The ideas behind it are partly derived from Hartley 's chapter on The Pleasures and Pains of the Imagination , which explained that — ‘ the grandeur of some [ natural ] scenes , and the novelty of others , by exciting surprise and wonder [ makes ] a great difference in the preceding and subsequent states of mind ’ ; he also contrasted ‘ the offensiveness , dangers , and corruption of populous cities , and the health , tranquillity and innocence which the actual view , or mental contemplation , of rural scenes introduces ’ . |
| 22 | When one considers Godwin 's illustration ( Fig. 38 ) and Disraeli 's description in Sybil of such a room , where the loom is placed centrally ‘ so as to gain the best light which the gloomy situation could afford ’ , and the ailing wife and children lie on mattresses in the comers , it is not difficult to see why many , as well as Dickens , might have thought such a separation an improvement . |
| 23 | To Bernstein this demonstrates not simply the convention of explicitness which the middle-class child has learnt and has recognised as appropriate for this context , but the development of ‘ elaborated code ’ with all its associations of abstraction , logic etc . |
| 24 | It is a technique much used by national and multinational companies — a shorthand which the general public quickly comes to identify with a particular organization . |
| 25 | The type of practice which the ordinary citizen is most likely to encounter is the partnership of between two and four solicitors , who will employ one assistant solicitor , one articled clerk ( trainee solicitor ) , two legal executives and seven clerical staff . |
| 26 | Atiyah 's doubts about this trend in late-twentieth-century family law relate to his own model of law as serving conflict-adjustment and hortatory functions , and to his concern for ‘ the generality and universality which the very nature of law seems to require ’ . |
| 27 | Ella made a violent gesture of annoyance , nearly capsizing the tea tray which the languid girl had now brought . |
| 28 | The fact that these values were linked with a conspicuous material investment in the library premises clearly corresponded to one criterion which the Coordinating Team took into account ; namely , that a school is not only interested in developing heuristic pedagogies but also willing to put some money and energy into the library as the appropriate central facility . |
| 29 | No greater incentive can be given to enter on a life of extravagant and riotous living which the sumptuary laws used to forbid , social conscience to deplore and socialist politicians to inveigh against . |
| 30 | Here and there a creeper-covered country house with a pitched roof which the French dignified with the name of ‘ château ’ , here and there a little town with broad tree-lined avenues , the inevitable ‘ Place Napoléon ’ , and the lycée in a prime position . |