Example sentences of "[n mass] which [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Just prior to the flight a 300-hour inspection had been performed on the aircraft which calls for full travel of the horizontal stabilizer in both directions .
2 The same arrangement has existed for many years with the USAF 's 170 F-111 bomber aircraft which fly from Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire and Lakenheath in Suffolk .
3 Yarnell launched 150 of his aircraft which arrived in less than an hour over Oahu , he now had the capability of destroying the ships that lay in Pearl Harbor .
4 Hough and Mayhew ( 1988 ) regard these figures as underestimates and Worrall and Pease ‘ s ( 1986 ) re-analysis of the BCS data which looked at all crimes , and attempted crimes , involving contact and where the victim could identify whether or not they knew the offender , found that women were much more likely to say that they knew the offender well and that the offender was a spouse in nearly 40 per cent of cases .
5 MAS policy on the presentation of financial data which differs from audited data is that :
6 Simple explanations are likely to come from ill-founded prejudice rather than from detailed analysis of the admittedly poor data which exist on this topic .
7 When we look at circumstances in the past , and see the patterns of support between kin which prevailed at any given point , we are looking at situations very different from our own in important and relevant ways .
8 Fish which respond to herbal treatment are not doing so because they think they should get better .
9 Brent 's success in informing and advising the immigrant community about changing legislation that directly affects them was repeated around the country , and is reflected in the immigration enquiry statistics which rose by 180 per cent in 1987/8 compared with the previous year .
10 The evidence of psychoanalysis shows that almost every intimate emotional relation between two people which lasts for some time — marriage , friendship , the relation between parents and children — contains a sediment of feelings of aversion and hostility , which only escapes perception as a result of repression .
11 Most notable was the small but marked increase in delivery time between 13.15 and 14.00 which can probably be accounted for by the gradual build-up of demand at a time when lunchtime rosters have effectively halved the number of bookfetching staff on duty , while a similar increase in delivery times for books requested between 16.45 and 17.00 ( when demand is falling ) is probably attributable to the change in shift and reduction in bookfetching staff which occurs at 17.00 .
12 The only way I can think of , or I think as far as anyone else can think of , deciding whether it has in fact been important in speciation , is to look for pairs of closely related species which differ in some striking morphological trait , but are still sufficiently similar genetically for you to be able to carry out a genetic analysis , i.e. to cross them , to get offspring , to get F two 's and it 's then possible , it 's obviously not — I 'm not going to explain the details of the technique to you now — but it 's possible to work out whether the difference is due largely , or in part , to some single large gene , or whether it 's on the whole due to quite a lot of small ones .
13 Besides these , there are several other non-lily species which belong to this category .
14 There are a number of species which occur in this way and hence define communities in a rather trivial sense , since there are few or no associates .
15 Some of those difficulties arise just from the general problem of applying biological models to a species which engages in intentional thought ; to that extent there is no special problem about altruism and morality .
16 Most fish live in water which varies from pH to 8.7 , although there are some species which live outside this range .
17 Examples of works which fall into this category are : documents produced using a word processing system ; CAD ( computer aided designs ) such as plans for a house or a new car body panel ; music written using a program designed to assist with the composition of the music ( as opposed to a program designed to write music ) ; and an accounts report produced using a spreadsheet program .
18 There is not space to enumerate all his works which arose from such associations , but The Battle of Tewkesbury for voices and instrumental ensemble for the 1971 Tewkesbury Festival and Henry Purcell for counter-tenor , clarino obbligato and strings for Alfred Deller and Stour Music ( 1971 ) , the Jubilate for Charlton Kings Choral Society ( 1979 ) , the Scherzo for piano and orchestra for Douglas Smith and the Cheltenham Sunday Players , the moving Concerto for trumpet and strings in memory of Bernard Brown ( 1976 ) , and the Cantate Domino in memory of John Clough ( 1978 ) are all interesting examples that deserve to be heard again .
19 In the first of their works which deals with this topic at any length , The German Ideology , written in 1846 , they state on page 43 : ‘ The various stages of development in the division of labour are just so many different forms of ownership , i.e. the existing stage in the division of labour determines also the relations of individuals to one another with reference to the material , instrument and product of labour . ’
20 It often surprises me still ( though I suppose it should n't ) how ideas bear fruit which come like this in the early morning , when we sit quietly and catch the unspoken whispers inside our hearts and minds .
21 What are the wage-price dynamics which ensue from this contraction in aggregate demand ?
22 Hooked is the title of the latest collection of reviews by film critic nonpareil Pauline Kael , ninth in the essential series which began with 1965 I Lost It At The Movies .
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