Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] which [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman may know what a man 's intentions are towards her , long before he does himself , and can ‘ pick up ’ emotional inclinations which he has not yet recognized . |
| 2 | In an interview with the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda he complained of disastrous government economic policies which he had been powerless to influence . |
| 3 | It is a striking fact that in mania the adult with his manifold potentialities of action and reaction reproduces the uninhibited instinctual manifestations which we observe in the euphoria of the satiated suckling . |
| 4 | He showed that the mere absence from work or possession of wealth was translated into highly exaggerated forms which he termed conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure . |
| 5 | This partly explains her choice of the middle-aged widower as a husband , since he was the recipient of political secrets which she shared . |
| 6 | It is argued that these groups have a vested interest in distorting reality to ensure that America always appears to be under threat so that they can force the president and Congress to finance the lavish and unnecessary programmes which they desire . |
| 7 | These worms have a similar food-gathering strategy to the more familiar filter-feeding tubeworms , but instead of the feathery heads of fanworms have long , sticky tentacles which they wave in the current or drag over the substrate in search of food particles which are then carried back to the mouth as the tentacles are drawn in . |
| 8 | But the political solutions which he advocated in the 1930s were not so . |
| 9 | It seems to me that many of the people involved in our industry have a fundamental lack of understanding of the needs and preoccupations of the modern child , and there are far too many groups , circles , committees and working parties which we seem to form in endless pursuit of the Holy Grail of better children 's bookselling . |
| 10 | This was more a psychological war of attrition than a physical threat , but it was on just such an occasion that we used what might be called our only " weapons " — a couple of pairs of plastic , luminous , blood-shot eyes which I had picked up in an American novelty store over Halloween . |
| 11 | I am sure that the wider world think of us as all being terribly left wing , whereas in fact we 're awfully liberal and conservative and with a spectrum distribution of political allegiances which I suspect are very little different from the community as a whole . |
| 12 | The Court could also ban any political parties which it considered anti-democratic , a move partly designed to prevent a return of the Nazi party , though the Court also banned the Communist party in 1956 . |
| 13 | Proof of the cuscus ' close relationship to the kangaroo is the pouch for holding its young , common to all marsupials , also its comb-like hind claws which it shares with the kangaroo . |
| 14 | This schematic characterization , however , does not do justice either to the manner in which they attempted to keep both poles in play at once , nor to the way in which they came to concede the impossibility of the theoretical projects which they undertook . |
| 15 | One of the points you 're making there which is an excellent one , and a very strong point , is the fact that you get a lot of incoming calls which we encourage , |
| 16 | The very presence of the media also tends to alter the relationships between the political and social institutions which they link up . |
| 17 | The old cases which I have cited have to be read subject to that development and not least to what was said in Thomas 's case . |
| 18 | We 've selected just three of the many contrasting resorts which we believe will offer you a good base from which to explore . |
| 19 | His eyes filled , but he did not know it was happening , this overflowing , until I reached down , wiped his face , showed him my wet fingers which he dried with his own . |
| 20 | Cromwell and his army colleagues considered the improving of the morality of the English people one of the chief priorities of their government , and they made every effort to eradicate a range of popular pursuits which they considered to be sinful , profane , or unseemly . |
| 21 | If , in addition to the few notes which I have taken the liberty of enclosing , you feel that you need any advice , then please ask for it . |
| 22 | Yet in the States at this time there was a real explosion of sexual activity , of public sexual activity , the development of gay saunas , the development of sexually explicit magazines ; there was a huge migration , really , to New York , San Francisco , Los Angeles by gay people , a whole burgeoning of a literature and expression of new sexual activities which I do n't think was really echoed to the same extent until quite late in the seventies in this country . |
| 23 | They are expected to use a diversity of job search methods and to keep records of their job-seeking activities which they have to show when interviewed by an Employment Service counsellor . |
| 24 | Where can you take your campaign if today 's meeting at County Hall in about forty minutes which I know you 've got to dash off and and get ready for , erm where can you take your campaign , the joint villages action committee 's campaign , if erm the meeting today gives the tip at Gascoigne Woods approval ? |
| 25 | Only in modern times , since the power of ruling groups was explicitly and widely challenged in the name of democracy , and later of social democracy , has the question of the nature and basis of the state become a matter of acute controversy , giving rise to the two antithetical conceptions which I have indicated . |
| 26 | This must follow since we move away from direct taxes which we saw to be progressive , towards indirect taxes , which at best are proportional ( VAT ) , and more usually are regressive ( the community charge — now the new Council Tax , uniform business rate , excise duties , import duties , etc . ) . |
| 27 | With noble , fine-boned features that have brought comparisons with Audrey Hepburn , she could have gone to Hollywood but has chosen British projects which she feels mean something — though she has routinely worked for the mere promise of a salary at some future point when the films make money . |
| 28 | Clearly , war is an instrument of policy , and the different forms which it takes are influenced by social and cultural conditions . |
| 29 | As far as the central grant is concerned , it has developed a technique that enables it to cut the money given to some authorities which it considers to be over-spenders by an amount equal to or more than any expenditure increase . |
| 30 | Her legs were long and elongated further by the very high heels which she wore . |