Example sentences of "[noun pl] which [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was subscriptions from Friends through the Committee for Sufferings which contributed substantially to funding propaganda efforts in Europe in the 1820s and 1830s including the translation of existing materials into various languages and the production of new items for European readers . |
| 2 | Apart from the architecture the other arts which flourished so prodigiously were those of luxury objects : in the exhibition itself were jewel caskets , lustre ware , marble capitals , window screens , carpets , arms and armour and books . |
| 3 | These areas retained the nineteenth-century characteristics which had already focused the reformers ' minds : they were tight-knit , high-density , congested , smoky , dirty and they presented a scene of old and obsolete buildings . |
| 4 | We have noted the importance in Germany of the works council as a bargaining mechanism and there are numerous characteristics which have also distinguished collective bargaining in France . |
| 5 | A benign analysis of black psychology is usually reserved for characteristics which have relatively low status within psychology : for school students ' high self-esteem , for instance , rather than their achievement motivation ; or for supportive family and social relationships . |
| 6 | At the workshop the organisers had managed to unite informed educational opinion throughout Nigeria and to establish a productive working climate in which panels in six areas of the primary school curriculum : cultural and creative art , languages , mathematics , physical and health education , science and social studies met and in the light of the goals set at the 1969 Curriculum Conference expanded and refined objectives in these areas and produced a series of guidelines which have since been used throughout Nigeria at university and state level as a basis for detailed curriculum planning . |
| 7 | He combines wonderful playing and a unique , infinitely flexible voice with elusive songs which flirt sometimes with John Prine , sometimes Leonard Cohen , sometimes just himself . |
| 8 | ON the eve of the second anniversary of the intifada , a row has broken out over two popular Hebrew songs which protest strongly about treatment of the Palestinians in the occupied territories and Israeli indifference to the situation . |
| 9 | Birds , snakes , lizards , fish and monkeys are wild animals which adapt badly to a caged life . |
| 10 | Animals which depend more on other senses can avoid eagle-eyed predators by moving about under cover of darkness . |
| 11 | The animals which fought there gave little heed to defence ; they massed around them and tried to engulf them . |
| 12 | ‘ Rodeo is to the United States what bullfight is to Europe : a ludicrous and cruel exploitation of animals which honours neither those who watch nor those who take part in such buffoonery , ’ she wrote to the mayor , Domninique Baudis. — Reuter |
| 13 | And they 're also afraid of his Indian wild animals which run freely around the garden . |
| 14 | You may find that the animals which first come to the microhabitat are eaten by animals which arrive later . |
| 15 | Now Joyce likes cats , but is alarmed by small animals which move fast and appear unexpectedly ( this is how she described the mouse which recently terrorised her ) . |
| 16 | Animals which live permanently underwater have eyes specially adapted to the hues of their aquatic home . |
| 17 | In generative phonology , a results from vowel reduction in vowels which have never received stress in the process of the application of stress rules . |
| 18 | This he attributes to a resistance on the part of Northerners to adapt their speech towards a recognised stereotype , although they will happily adapt other vowels which carry less social significance . |
| 19 | There is a song in the repertoire of Scottish football fans which reflects unkindly on the character of those gallant heroes who have made untold sacrifices to represent their country . |
| 20 | Rohan drew up a chair with gilded legs which looked altogether too fragile for his tall frame . |
| 21 | For the moment we have to rely on intermittent subcutaneous injections which impose quite definite restrictions . |
| 22 | I had to develop communication methods which became so automatic , so intuitive , that facts , ideas and opinions flowed easily and effectively without loss of time between me and the rest of humanity living or dead . |
| 23 | Therefore complex data derived methods which obscure rather than highlight the provisional nature or sensitivity of the models should not be developed . |
| 24 | But there are three considerations which tell decisively against it : |
| 25 | However , the major concern is how to maximise the effectiveness of schooling , and for this we have to examine the learning environment and subsequently the methodological considerations which have actually been presented . |
| 26 | These limestones are completely tight and form lenses or nodules which vary considerably in horizontal and vertical distribution from one well to another ( Fig. 21 ) . |
| 27 | Ironically , it was the imperial British who were able to create syncretic styles which became distinctively Indian . |
| 28 | There is widespread recognition that nearly all discussions of international peace and security over the last 45 years , and of policy implications for the UK , have been informed by the protracted global confrontation between the superpowers which has only recently , and so dramatically , crumbled . |
| 29 | Nevertheless the rigidity of the traditional line tactics which dominated most European battlefields in the eighteenth century had been shaken , with important results for the future . |
| 30 | In September he was elected chairman of a new National Co-ordinating Commission of Solidarity , set up by representatives of the regional organizations which had recently come into being . |