Example sentences of "[noun] which [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same year the Church of England led the way out of a moral impasse which trapped the Catholic Church by giving birth control its blessing under the name of Family Planning . |
| 2 | If anyone were to ask me who , above all , was responsible for the moral collapse which characterised the 1960s and 1970s , I would unhesitatingly name Sir Hugh Carleton-Greene … . |
| 3 | In some cases , the returning officer is such ex officio , as being , e.g. , the sheriff of a county compromising a single constituency , or the mayor of a London borough which comprises a single constituency . |
| 4 | There arises the problem of reconciling a religion which has a unique Christ ( who in his human nature is male ) with feminism . |
| 5 | THE furnace which powered the last bastion of North Wales 's once-mighty steel industry was last night on its way to China . |
| 6 | At many points in this chapter we have noted the problems of trying to define child abuse , identifying the characteristics which separate the high risk from the rest and hence aid prediction , together with the problems of constructing preventive and treatment interventions which concentrate exclusively on child abuse . |
| 7 | The consequence of this is that human beings have increasingly come to resemble in their adult form the immature — or even foetal — forms of their early ancestors by means of a tendency to delay their individual development and to retain into maturity characteristics which typified the immature stages of their predecessors . |
| 8 | Partnership in Learning : The Teacher Placement Service and the National Curriculum , sponsored by Lloyds Bank , comprising guidelines which recognise the four key stages of the National Curriculum and address the core , foundation and cross-curricular themes . |
| 9 | Many of the cars being repaired have been converted to accept unleaded according to manufacturers guidelines which suggest a quick correction of engine timing will do the trick . |
| 10 | Here we find songs which use the thirty-two-bar form but fill it with angular melody and tonally shifting harmony ( ‘ All the Things You Are ’ ; ‘ Body and Soul ’ ) or with polyrhythms ( ‘ Fascinatin' Rhythm ’ ) ; we find , too , a song like George Gershwin 's ‘ A Foggy Day ’ , which does not use a standard form , boasts a tune consisting almost entirely of leaps , rather than innocuous conjunct motion , and is structured with such motivic tightness as to be almost serial in method ( see Ex. 6.3 , p. 184 below ) . |
| 11 | Choose the songs which show the widest range of your abilities , and put the best one first . |
| 12 | This is a sickness akin to radiation poisoning which causes a high rate of ‘ chemical mutation ’ and makes the colourless an unreliable source of labour . |
| 13 | Now a day 's residue is some association which relates the manifest content usually to what happened to you that day , and often i they 're very oft it 's often that the day 's residue is built into the manifest dream , so it 's quite obvious , you had this dream because of something that happened to you on that day . |
| 14 | Some statisticians dislike this property : they prefer symmetric measures of association which take the same value whichever way round the causal effect is presumed to run . |
| 15 | Completely new to me was the Skybird League , an aeromodelling association which presented an annual trophy to the winning modeller of Skybird kits between 1933 and 1940 . |
| 16 | Furthermore the Housing Association which provided the main source of funds to local Housing Associations is now in financial difficulty itself . |
| 17 | Although opportunities are so obviously different from problems there is a style of management thinking which equates the two by broadening the definition of a " problem " to include anything you might want to achieve . |
| 18 | It is , I think , the logical conclusion of the line in Enlightenment thought which has run from Rousseau through Nietzsche and Sartre — the strand of truly anarchic individualist thinking which avoids the vulgar Nozickian ‘ libertarian ’ path of concentrating on the freedom of certain selected institutions such as commercial companies , and genuinely exalts only the freedom of the individual . |
| 19 | Another charge of a similar kind is that Barth was excessively concerned with ontology , with the rationale of the being of God ; that he misused biblical terms and concepts on the one hand by treating them semi-literally as ‘ ontic ’ , as descriptive of the way things actually are when they are often pictorial or metaphorical , and on the other hand by turning the whole of Scripture into a vast allegory of Jesus Christ ; and that this reflected a Platonist streak in his thinking which encouraged an unbalanced concentration on eternal realities rather than the actual world of concrete life and experience . |
| 20 | This is a dramatic disorder of the small intestine which produces a massive outflow of water electrolytes that can be fatal within a matter of hours after the onset of disease ! |
| 21 | An example may be found in Mozart 's third sentence from the Andante just quoted : This looks quite different from the previous section ( Example 26 ) , yet it is really made up of semiquaver groups which end the second sentence , with the addition of the dotted rhythm which begins the second full bar of the music . |
| 22 | In conclusion , always treat any horse which develops a sudden temperature rise and respiratory signs as potentially infectious and always isolate any cases . |
| 23 | All mammals have ears which follow the same basic plan as ours . |
| 24 | Nigel , who in any case really delighted in sows ' ears which had the faintest possibility of turning into even cotton purses , beavered away with them for an hour or more before unceremoniously dumping them in the dustbin and banging down the lid . |
| 25 | Most verbs had three consonants , and it was these scribes who superimposed a system of vowels which became the standard text . |
| 26 | A wonderful range of special painting techniques can be used on just plain flat lining paper to give completely individual pattern/colour combinations which give the overall impression of a texture . |
| 27 | Remove the four bolts each side which bolt the backrest brackets to the body sides and you now have a two seater . |
| 28 | THE high flying Canaries were knocked off their perch by an in-form Wimbledon side which produced a classy display . |
| 29 | Apart from the team and individuals at stake , athletes will be attempting to win places in the national side which to contest the European Championships , at Millfield School , Somerset , next Easter . |
| 30 | For example , Dickens is fond of parenthetical constructions which allow the generalizing authorial voice to interrupt the narrative flow . |