Example sentences of "[verb] which [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 His occasional outbursts of anger shocked those around him , but he felt an uncontrollable flame of fury whenever he saw a child being bullied or mistreated which blinded him to all else .
2 In a sense this was so , but on the other hand the activity of town planning soon got bogged down in a technical bureaucracy , losing the dash and verve which sustained it during the 1940s .
3 He thought of his own rigorous training , the constant reports on his work and conduct which followed him from computer base to computer base .
4 The common complaint that luxury extends itself even to the lowest ranks of the people , and that the labouring poor will not now be contented with the same food , clothing and lodging which satisfied them in former times , may convince us that it is not the money price of labour only , but its real recompense , which has been augmented .
5 Again , there will be cases in which an event occurs which affects everyone in a given vacancy — recruitment is held , or the position is filled .
6 The fact that review may occur relatively rarely for any one agency , the fact that the agency may still be subject to pressures of time and cost which incline it towards a narrow bounded rationality , the relative strength of different interest groups pressing upon the agency , and the competence of the court to assess whether such an authority has improperly excluded a particular policy option , can all combine to limit the effectiveness of this aspect of judicial scrutiny .
7 Hereafter the penicillins were studied in countless laboratories , academic and commercial , and discoveries were made which enabled them to be better understood and used as the foundation for many new drugs .
8 A DARLINGTON man was yesterday recovering in hospital after a Good Friday attack which left him with broken bones in his face .
9 Appreciative though he was of Penny , ally though he felt her to be , there is between nineteen and twenty-three a great gulf fixed which prevented anything in the way of advances .
10 It was only when I was involved in learning which allowed me to be creative and to develop without feeling threatened , that statements like this became meaningful .
11 In other words his is not the sort of playing which grabs you by the scruff of the neck , but rather disarmingly makes the whole process of playing this hugely demanding music appear the most natural thing in the world .
12 Uninterested in material things , and conspicuously more at home in jungles than in drawing rooms , he possessed a sweet distinction of bearing which impressed itself on all who met him .
13 This last drawing exercise is a summary of the simple process of thinking which leads us into a deeper appreciation of how we have come to be what we are .
14 At sixteen he ran away from Harrow , and set up as a film director , work which took him to central Europe and east Africa , but proved financially unrewarding .
15 As it is they have to brave all kinds of weather , from high winds which whip away their hymn books to snow which engulfs them in that unsheltered spot .
16 If you are going for a job that you have never done before , either from necessity or because you are looking for a change of direction , you should take care to prepare for this question by listing all the experience and personal qualities you have which suit you for the job .
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