Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His work with children was an adaptation of Laban 's principles of movement which became known in this country during the war . |
| 2 | The system begins with its protozoa jiggling about at random , but after a few generations , they evolve into a race of protozoa which tend to move in straight lines . |
| 3 | By the Great Semantic Shift which has operated in English politics over the past 30 years or so , opinions on this and many other matters which were once held by the majority and described as ‘ moderate ’ , ‘ of the centre ’ or merely ‘ patriotic ’ have gradually come to be described first as ‘ right-wing ’ , then as ‘ extreme right-wing ’ , then as ‘ lunatic fringe ’ and finally as ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 4 | The introduction of the card was part of the evolutionary process which has begun in 1850 when Wells and Fargo merged to form a company which transported valuables across America by Express delivery — thus American Express . |
| 5 | Bergman 's ( 1979 ) comments on Sweden indicate that it is also a belief which has appeared in other countries . |
| 6 | In a recent editorial , the Communist daily Trybuna Ludu alluded to this problem , when it warned that ‘ many comrades do n't see the danger which has appeared in recent months ’ . |
| 7 | HAVING considered the tort of nuisance , we now turn to a further tort which had its origins in nuisance but which has developed in such a way that it is now quite distinct from it . |
| 8 | The poor physical conditions under which many teachers have to work may be difficult enough , but their problems are compounded by the gulf which has developed in many schools between teachers and pupils , and the low regard in which teachers are held . |
| 9 | Budhoo asserts that the IMF and World Bank are key elements in an economic order that is deepening Third World poverty , the debt crisis , and a flight of capital from developing to developed countries which has soared in recent decades : in 1986 it amounted to well over $30 billion from the Caribbean and Latin America alone . |
| 10 | The situation which has applied in two out of the last three years , when percentage cuts or hold-backs were applied across the board by Management , is incompatible with the special factors involved in Library financial management . |
| 11 | We are aware of the practice which has prevailed in certain cases , of allowing , as costs between party and party , so much per day for the attendance of professional men , but that practice can not alter the law . |
| 12 | Given the ecumenical spirit which has prevailed in many school religious assemblies for a number of years , it was hardly surprising that serious objection would be taken to the emphasis on Christian traditions that was incorporated into the law on collective worship . |
| 13 | It is , nevertheless , the Burkean idea which has prevailed in Western democratic politics , rather than the radical democratic position of Paine and the Chartists . |
| 14 | The reality which has emerged in recent years is that those on Bank Assistant Grade in Bank of Ireland are the lowest paid , full-time career Bank Officials in the country . |
| 15 | The picture which has emerged in this chapter is , perhaps inevitably , a confused one . |
| 16 | We have seen how the corporatist welfare state which has emerged in this country over the past hundred years is a reflection of a humanist philosophy in which the creation of wealth is of less concern and morally inferior than its distribution , in which the pursuit of equality has become the dominant economic philosophy and in which the state rather than the individual has come to be held responsible for solving our problems . |
| 17 | This is partly because of the difficulty in deciding where boundaries should be drawn , a difficulty which has increased in recent years with the development of new organizational forms ( such as ‘ hived-off ’ agencies ) and with the increasing interpenetration of the public and private sectors . |
| 18 | The idealised view of the British system is that , under a head of State insulated from politics , generally admired , and with long and varied experience , the government of the day is led by a Prime Minister whose party has been given a parliamentary majority by a mature electorate which has participated in free and open elections . |
| 19 | One unexpected characteristic has been an innate shyness which has recurred in several generations . |
| 20 | Care has not been so tender for the eiderdown duck , which has perished in large numbers due to oil slicks in its Iceland habitat , as European demand for its fluffy down , mainly used in bedding , increases . |
| 21 | Northern Counties is a large housing association , with its headquarters in Manchester , which has specialised in fair rent and shared ownership housing schemes . |
| 22 | In order to prevent the kind of abuse of animals which has happened in other areas of livestock production the RSPCA commissioned Doctor Brian Bertram , an expert on ostriches to look into how to farm the birds humanely . |
| 23 | It was Samuel Heinicke who pioneered the pure oral system of teaching the deaf in Germany with the foundation of his school in 1760 , a method of teaching which has persisted in that country ever since and which in the nineteenth century came to be known as the ‘ German System ’ . |
| 24 | The internal management rule does not assist a third party which has dealt in good faith with an organisation which then defaults on its debts . |
| 25 | Magnus , said Pinchbeck , had made great strides under his predecessor , Rick Haythornthwaite , developing the asset management system which has resulted in greater teamwork and enhanced empowerment of the individual . |
| 26 | This development , in which my own ensemble Gothic Voices has been involved , and which has resulted in all-vocal recordings of songs by Guillaume de Machaut and Guillaume Dufay , for example , is one of the more obvious signs of the strength and voracity of the choral tradition . |
| 27 | Seismic data shot in 1984 ( see Fig. 5 ) have improved energy penetration and resolution which has resulted in better definition of the sub-Permian section . |
| 28 | Conservationists in Sri Lanka have launched a successful turtle breeding programme which has resulted in 600,000 newly-hatched turtles being released into the Indian Ocean . |
| 29 | However , the consumer has certainly gained by the liberalisation of the supply and maintenance of telephone equipment , introduced by the 1981 Telecommunications Act , which has resulted in lower prices , wider choice and improved products . |
| 30 | It is this which has resulted in accelerated erosion . |