Example sentences of "[pers pn] which [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , there was something about both of them which reminded her of her favourite actor , Laurence Olivier . |
| 2 | There are numerous pressures on them which manifest themselves in a variety of ways within the classroom setting . |
| 3 | ‘ I know full well that , frankly speaking , prostitutes are bad , but I feel something human in them which prevents me from feeling the slightest scruple about associating with them … . |
| 4 | There is a subtle but very real difference in where you place the emphasis , and the interviewer will not then automatically make the assumption that there was something lacking in you which caused you to be made redundant . |
| 5 | We 'd worked together on a BBC play called Shiftwork and he had a slightly wry , sullen world-weariness about him which reminded me of so many downtrodden husbands . |
| 6 | They played chess and bezique and silly paper games , Alexandra attempted sketches of him which convulsed him with laughter and read comic poems to him . |
| 7 | What it requires to extend it is what Einstein 's work on general relativity gave to the special theory , namely , a generalization of it which extends it to all frames of reference regardless . |
| 8 | In consequence , that aspect of it which links it with previous practice has diminished almost at times to the point of disappearance . |
| 9 | However , the conceptual oppositions which structure Western philosophical thought , such as sensible v. intelligible , form v. content all imply that ideas , and indeed content of any kind , exist independently of the medium in which they are formulated : the word ‘ medium ’ itself conveys the secondary status that language is given in these conceptual oppositions , always de fined as a vehicle or an instrument of something separate from it which governs it from without . |