Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 a ghastly bogye , which doth them greatly affear .
2 He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly .
3 I was also interested in the possible help for tension , worry and lowering my blood pressure which had lately begun to rise and which concerned me greatly .
4 Angry too that she had not been trusted with knowledge which concerned her so much .
5 Henry VI gave them a court leet in 1451 , which concerned itself largely with the minor social offences common to any medieval town ; poor-quality weaving and leaving dead animals lying about the streets seem to have occurred fairly commonly .
6 We are not here concerned with the elusive though connected fact that causal circumstances in a different sense explain their effects , that sense which concerned us earlier in connection with causal priority .
7 Where desire has been returned to us , it is in the shape of a ‘ masculine ’ libido which fits us very badly , and even then we have no vocabulary with which to express it .
8 Fanny drives with his usual relish , turning the wheel with exaggerated movements and indulging one of his favourite habits , which involves him sporadically singing the chorus of some great Woodstockesque opus .
9 In addition , all that is required is a chemical room-temperature mechanism which involves nothing more complicated than an experiment in a high school science lab .
10 He clearly favours a state which involves itself essentially through monetary transaction rather than direct intervention in other more qualitative spheres of life .
11 One friend said that , in later life , Eliot could never bear to mention Vivien 's named and another has written of his feelings of " guilt and horror , which haunted him daily " and how once he observed , " I can never forget anything " .
12 Perhaps the person experiences an overwhelming sense of injustice which renders them less capable of dealing with the problem a second time .
13 The distortion of scale which had appeared in the Cadaquès paintings is not encountered again in the following year , and while all subsequent paintings are understandably not as easily legible as this portrait , almost all of them do contain some kind of clue or stimulus which serves to identify the subject , and which renders it immediately recognizable to anyone familiar with Cubist iconography .
14 He 'd made his fortune selling baths , bidets and toilets , which lent him little by way of mystique .
15 Left hemisphere control of sequential motor activity which lent itself readily to a symbolic gestural system may have been the evolutionary precursor to present day lateralisation of language .
16 But , whatever their knowledge , of far greater importance in official thinking was the strategic value of a power source which lent itself naturally to centralized control , which was operated by a well paid , reliable work-force and which would continue to keep the miners at bay .
17 When Charles visited Walahfrid 's old monastery at Reichenau , the poet produced an appropriate encomium : Due glory we accord To the power of the Trinity Which conveyed you here safe and sound Through the realms of the Franks ! …
18 Obviously frost-free models which mean you never have to defrost are as useful as self-cleaning ovens , and additional luxuries include iced water and crushed ice dispensers , automatic ice makers and the kind of American model with almost instant ( that is to say about an hour ) automatic ice cream and sorbet or sherbet-makers .
19 Is there any kind of conflict which upsets you more than others ?
20 Here we have an extraordinary influence wielded by two similarly structured and ( as it must seem to many ) identical educational institutions , neither of which offers anything close to a Continental conservatory .
21 We are looking for a compromise position between behaviourism , which identified mental states with some function of behaviour , and the approach common to the sceptical argument and the argument from analogy , which separates them too much .
22 They are distinct from the longer stories not only in terms of content , but in graphology also : most are italicised , which separates them visually from the other material .
23 There was an Audi which passed me soon after I 'd left the pub .
24 It combined within itself in eloquent reflection of the age which produced it both a daring and innovative modernity and a heroic and comforting traditionalism .
25 The English-speaking world , which reveres him quite as much as does Iberia , knows him as Ferdinand Magellan .
26 In any case , the vacuous character of ( 14 ) and ( 15 ) can apparently be reduced or even made to disappear by various means without changing the elements or touching the intensional relations which bind them together .
27 But the vast majority are acted on by enzymes , which change them chemically in biotransformation reactions ( see p 165 ) .
28 Most species require very soft and slightly acid water conditions with clumps of fine-leaved plants in which to scatter their strongly adhesive eggs .
29 Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray .
30 Slipping through the nearest black hole , maybe we can retrace the giant steps for mankind which led us here .
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