Example sentences of "[noun pl] which [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lexical meaning can be studied by defining a particular set of words which in some way refer to the same subject , such as all colour terms . |
| 2 | They are also the very wishes which in total welfare states lead to what we may justly term the externalization of paranoia : for in these totalitarian societies the delusions of the paranoiac become actual , tangible realities . |
| 3 | The second is to act as a filter to ensure that only those cases which for some reason need to proceed to a formal process of adjudication do so . |
| 4 | Large numbers of villages , however , have very complex plans which at first sight defy description and explanation , both on the ground and on the maps . |
| 5 | However effective the departmental ordering , some central control is needed to balance up inequality of treatment between subjects , order interdisciplinary material , and fill in titles which for one reason or another have been missed . |
| 6 | In a development with far-reaching implications , USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin on Aug. 1 agreed jointly to sponsor a commission of experts which within one month would " draft a concept for the transition to a market economy " . |
| 7 | As he grew older he adopted more radical views which at one point cost him a job . |
| 8 | So , we are talking about countries which in total cover more than one quarter of the earth 's surface with a population of 400 million people |
| 9 | So , we are talking about countries which in total cover more than one quarter of the earth 's surface with a population of 400 million people , stretching from well north of the arctic circle to the Mediterranean . |
| 10 | His solution is plausible , and essentially traditional — a suite of seven tiny movements which as serious concert music might just seem too relentlessly pleasant , but which as a Glyndebourne musical appetizer would no doubt blend very agreeably with garden scents , summer evening breezes and pre-performance small-talk . |
| 11 | The deployment of a weapon system involves a threat that that system will be used in certain circumstances which to some extent can be deduced from the characteristics of the weapon system itself . |
| 12 | He posed the question whether the disadvantage of a judge speaking on matters which in one form or another — such as unfair dismissal from employment or from a trade union — might well come before him when he was on the bench was outweighed by the advantage of hearing his views or by the argument that he should not be prevented , by convention or otherwise , from speaking in Parliament on such a matter . |
| 13 | Within a week , Matilda had finished Great Expectations which in that edition contained four hundred pages and eleven pages . |
| 14 | Real attention to the quite sophisticated concepts with which religion is concerned has tended to be dismissed on the grounds that , apart from a select minority , pupils are incapable of any sustained thought , uninterested in such hypothetical and academically conceived ideas which in any case are mostly of historical interest and irrelevant to the modern world . |
| 15 | FRACTAL geometry is one of those concepts which at first sight invites disbelief but on second thought becomes so natural that one wonders why it has only recently been developed . |
| 16 | ( 8 ) Estates , interests and charges in or over land which are not legal estates are in this Act referred to as " equitable interests , " and powers which by this Act are to operate only in equity are in this Act referred to as " equitable powers " . |
| 17 | With a little ingenuity , passages which at first sight would appear to require much use of the pedals can often be made playable with very little chromatic alteration , or perhaps none at all , by using enharmonic equivalents of certain notes . |
| 18 | In support of the proposition that the development of the nouveau roman corresponds to the transition from modernism to postmodernism , it can certainly be shown that the early productions of the nouveaux romanciers are susceptible to readings which to some extent meet the criteria of psychological realism so important in modernist aesthetics . |
| 19 | Yet no country at present satisfies its preconditions for EMU — conditions which in any case are increasingly viewed as inappropriate . |
| 20 | However , by careful reading of the footnote , a manuscript was found in the Harleian Collection of the British Library which dated from 1599 and gave details of the armorial panels which at that date existed . |
| 21 | The popular Scot might not relish the thought of another 10 months on the road , but at least he departs his home in the West of Scotland secure in the knowledge that he has overcome the chronic putting problems which at one time threatened to end his career . |
| 22 | This suggests GPs were attempting to deal , both medically and compulsorily , and only in the case of women , with problems which at subsequent assessment were considered to be primarily about social relationships . |
| 23 | At the very least it was more selective than various predecessors which by that time had fallen into disrepute . |
| 24 | Conversely , and inevitably , if the joint tenancy was not severed before Mrs. Dennis ' death , Mr. Dennis as the survivor became entitled to the whole beneficial interest in both properties which in due course vested in his trustee in bankruptcy . |
| 25 | However , like many genetically determined characteristics — some of which indeed may be responsible for illness or deviance — such dispositions may not be expressed , or , if they are , expressed in incomplete form , or even revealed in qualities which at first sight seem distant from , even unconnected with , the pathology for which they are otherwise responsible . |
| 26 | With this in mind , in the following chapter , I begin my account of modern social anthropology by showing what illumination this approach brings to beliefs which at first sight appear to require a great deal of explanation . |
| 27 | Bridges reckoned that , in every new administration , ministers had a tendency in their first year ‘ to bring matters to the committees which with greater experience they would settle themselves ’ . |
| 28 | His proud boast is that ‘ the same principles which at first lead to scepticism , pursued to a certain point , bring men back to common sense ’ , and that rather than being a purveyor of wild and new paradoxes , he has ‘ unite[d] and place[d] in a clearer light that truth , which was before shared between the vulgar and the philosophers ’ . |
| 29 | Very large lenses up to 50 m thick form extensions of the permafrost , giving rise to steep-sided hills called pingos which in many tundra regions provide the highest relief Pingos may be many centuries old and covered with permanent vegetation . |
| 30 | The traction — is referred to a set of coordinates which in classical elasticity are in the undeformed material , but in large-strain elasticity may alternatively be in the deformed material Consider at first the classical theory ; if the traction — acts on a surface with normal n then we write for the components of the traction , and the scalar product — . |