Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] which [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | THE monolithic facade which Eastern Europe once presented to the world never seemed the same after West Bromwich Albion visited Bucharest in 1968 to play a Cup Winners ' Cup match against Dinamo in the August 23 Stadium , where it was rarely the 23rd and seldom felt like August . |
2 | The almost incessant labour which that art requires leaves so little time for study that one can hardly find any person of sufficient experience capable of writing . |
3 | As part of a sexual sub-culture which conservative America would rather did not exist — but fears to attack in the open — Mapplethorpe was an obvious target for the new Know Nothings . |
4 | The harness stank of dog , that unpleasant smell which big-dog owners never seem to notice in their own house . |
5 | But the Czech crisis of September 1938 , which took Europe to the brink of war , did produce the kind of public response which popular frontists were looking for to transform the political situation . |
6 | The bass cut which this control provides has the effect of removing some of the boxiness that clutters up the lower mid-range at high volumes . |
7 | Within this perceptual framework , White women are frequently seen as agents in the narrative disruption which Black people initiate : it is the ‘ skirts ’ whose sexuality in one form or another is out of control or misplaced . |
8 | The asocial attitude which these pictures call for is not one normal to human beings of either sex . |
9 | With ‘ Come gentle swains ’ ( xxiv ) Cavendish has the distinction of being the first composer to introduce into a printed collection the English refrain which three years later concluded every composition in Morley 's collection dedicated to Elizabeth I , The Triumphs of Oriana ( 1601 ) : then sang the shepherds and nimphes of Diana Long live faire Oriana . |
10 | The ‘ magic realism ’ is conjured up with great skill and paints a vivid historical picture which few history books can better . |
11 | This is usually a painful process which most authors secretly hate ! |
12 | And so behaviourist weight loss programmes offer both women and men the possibility of replacing the feminine body which excess weight represents , with a more masculine , in-control one , which will also provide women with some female-specific gains ( e.g. Rachlin 1980 ) . |
13 | Prime among these is Wilson Bowden , the Leicestershire-based housebuilder which increased profits despite a 25 per cent fall in house sales . |
14 | All these schemes begin with a public meeting which local chiefs and members of parliament attend . |
15 | Coningham said that he had looked more closely at Scott 's scheme since the last debate , and ‘ could not acquiesce in the high opinion which that gentleman appeared to entertain of himself , judging by the long string of superlatives in his own praise with which he wound up his recent letter to The Times ' . |
16 | His Bach-Busoni is strong , no nonsense stuff , and he commands the sort of tonal palette which this music really needs . |
17 | Training is an on-going process which all members of staff take part in . |
18 | Training is an on-going process which all members of staff take part in regularly . |
19 | Whatever it says about an achieved consensus on the slave trade , the 1814 campaign provides no support for a developing popular antislavery which incorporated emancipation . |
20 | However , that is not to say that the appearance of the pool should take precedence over the well-being of its inhabitants , for , as will be seen later , the correct ratio of plant types is necessary to ensure the sparkling clear water which all pool-owners desire . |
21 | What is clear is that civic or community pride — essential if urban decline is not to turn into urban collapse — and the view of local government as an honourable profession , can not survive unless the public service which local authorities provide rests on principles of local democracy . |
22 | Their lives , or more precisely their ‘ moral careers ’ , are certainly regulated by bureaucracy and officialdom , and , eventually , by dominant social interests ; but again , the word ‘ surveillance ’ overemphasises the degree of detailed , continuing and direct control which any state would find difficult to sustain . |
23 | The 30 New Zealand supermen — they are only human actually , but they have something like divine status in their own land — fly into Heathrow at lunchtime today for a 13-match tour which next month moves on to Ireland . |
24 | Instead , they are questions about the sort of social vision which social psychology should express . |
25 | In the proposed research the potential contention and ambiguity in British social life which such matters entail are addressed through the study of self-consciously peaceful communities . |
26 | Children learn better within a clear structure which traditional methods impose upon them ’ . |
27 | Yet , as I pointed out above , it is the origin and causes of these circumstances which really need to be explained — not to mention other , non-individualistic phenomena like religion and cultural tradition which this approach , with its narrow focus on childhood conditioning , usually quite ignores . |
28 | She was n't a pioneer with rhythm or phrasing like Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby were , but she embodied and invaded lyrics and exuded a peculiar pain which tormented rock stars have tried to emulate ever since . |
29 | Another approach is typified by BTR , an acquisitive British conglomerate which this month made a $1.6 billion bid for Norton , an American abrasives group . |
30 | An in-depth study of our early land law reveal(s) the existence of a substantial body of Islamic legal principles , a historical fact which contemporary scholars find themselves in difficulty to accept , having been so engrossed with the civil law system introduced in these shores after the arrival of the English administrators towards the close of the eighteenth century . |