Example sentences of "[prep] which [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the beginning of the fourth year , and especially for as long as pupils were legally free to leave school at the end of that year , very much more definite choices were made : ‘ Newsom ’ courses for those who were to leave , examination courses for most of the rest , with many decisions then to be taken about which subjects to drop , and which to pursue . |
| 2 | The US Space shuttle Atlantis landed on Aug. 8 after a nine-day mission during which astronauts failed to deploy an Italian satellite on a 20 km sheathed copper tether . |
| 3 | It was argued that , following the 1980- 1981 ‘ shake out ’ of inefficient producers , the composition of UK exports moved away from ‘ necessity ’ goods ( the demand for which tends to grow slowly as world income grows ) , towards ‘ luxuries ’ , whose demand grows relatively fast . |
| 4 | There has been some confusion concerning the status of such instruments , the accounting treatment for which has varied and sometimes been controversial . |
| 5 | Meanwhile the nuns will live close by , enabling them to supervise building work the money for which has come from donations worldwide . |
| 6 | In the second case a woman of 27 is seeking damages for contracting lymphoma in 1988 , the treatment for which has left her permanently disabled and sterile ; her father worked as a fitter at Sellafield for more than 20 years . |
| 7 | ‘ Reasonableness ’ features heavily in the guidance as a yardstick for which services to provide . |
| 8 | This single cell divides into two identical cells ( which remain joined together ) , each of which divides to give a four-celled structure . |
| 9 | Nor would the captain 's off-field obligations cause Hastings concern , for his work with the Carnegie Partnership carries a PR type of role , part of which involves meeting people and dealing with clients and the media as well as assisting his old school , Watson 's College , and his club , Watsonians , in a business capacity . |
| 10 | To this normal activity of teachers , however , the 1988 Education Act has added the competitive market aspects we have noted , the combination of which threatens to disturb and distort the normal observation and assessment techniques of the successful teacher . |
| 11 | Since the late 1960s there has been a series of overlapping periods of local government reform , each of which helps to illustrate some key theoretical debates about the state . |
| 12 | All of which helps to explain why Mr Kohl 's chances of winning re-election do not look as bad as a shrinking economy , growing budget deficit , and foreign-policy gridlock might lead you to expect . |
| 13 | These activities and many more are now resulting in valuable publicity , all of which helps to influence the sales and credibility of the Company . |
| 14 | Such contests permit ‘ horse race journalism ’ ; they make possible endless speculation about who the front runner is , who the dark horses are and who has fallen at what fence , all of which helps to make television news broadcasts more exciting and enter-taining than they would otherwise be . |
| 15 | The water used by the gas-cleaning plant is cooled by a cooling tower which itself emits two water-vapour plumes , the density of which varies according to climatic conditions . |
| 16 | All of which goes to show that masculine reason and logic are perhaps not so strong as you may have supposed . |
| 17 | I shall draw out three of these themes , each of which serves to raise further questions about understanding family obligations in contemporary societies . |
| 18 | Sir : I was interested by your juxtaposition of ‘ Poll predicts 42-seat majority for Labour ’ with ‘ Tories hold on ’ ( 30 September ) , the latter referring , of course , to the Conservative victory in Wandsworth , the significance of which appears to have been almost totally ignored by the media . |
| 19 | Patterson 's account of Belfast shows characteristics of conservative rural Scots lexical distribution , much of which appears to have been residual and is now obliterated by restructuring . |
| 20 | Morris was to become his architectural collaborator , in effect succeeding Campbell in this role , the contact presumably having originated at Pembroke House , the building of which appears to have constituted Lord Herbert 's architectural apprenticeship . |
| 21 | I ca n't see how we 've had a revue in nineteen eighty-eight which has recommended a very specific course of action , none of which appears to have been implemented , I do n't see how we get a report which describes er , the intention of the county council as maintaining the ethos of the County Farms , whatever that is , as I , I do n't recall any decisions like that , and certainly if we 've made one , I 'd be interested in being party to changing it , I think wha what we have to say is we 've got a lot of land , are we using it to the best interest of the people of Wiltshire , and that is one thing it 's addressing , not a , a way of preserving the County Estates as they are , not a way of keeping a hundred and twenty farmers and their families erm , as tenants of Wiltshire , I mean they 're not gon na be out of jobs are they ? |
| 22 | All of which tends to confirm a belief that General Holomisa has advanced far on a scheme to forge an informal alliance with Mr Mandela and his organisation , the African National Congress . |
| 23 | Thus ended an episode of high drama , the excitement of which tends to distort its significance . |
| 24 | If this is done , then the choice of which questions to ask becomes much more clear cut ( see p. 50 ) . |
| 25 | Processions — a very strange poem about religious ceremonies , the last stanza of which seems to describe the Imagination as a |
| 26 | In the general election , the incumbent , Brown had two strategies , neither of which seems to have worked very well . |
| 27 | Only from roughly the middle of the tenth/sixteenth century-perhaps coincidentally with the building of two other medreses which were to form part of the altmisli class , namely that attached to the mosque built by Suleyman for his son , Sehzade Mehmed ( the Sehzade medrese , completed in 954/1547 ) , and that built by the same sultan for his father , Selim I , apparently around 955/1548 — can one discern in the biographical sources the existence of a class of medreses , comprising these and others , one rank higher than the Sahn and normally carrying a salary of 60 akce , teaching in one of which seems to have been a generally recognized prerequisite for the holding of the highest learned offices . |
| 28 | Three games are possible , each of which makes learning to read fun . |
| 29 | Once the beginner masters the rudiments of these simple positions , he advances to body manoeuvring and turning , much of which concerns slipping from one stance into another . |
| 30 | It is easy enough to point to famous feuds such as that between Ebles II of Comborn ( in the Limousin ) and his uncle Bernard , during the course of which Ebles raped his aunt in front of witnesses and which ended when his uncle castrated and murdered him . |