Example sentences of "[indef pn] which [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He held that the judge had done nothing which went outside the proper area of his inquiry . |
| 2 | A post-mortem examination of the occupants revealed nothing which contributed to the accident . |
| 3 | ‘ You see , we have to take an interest in everything which hinges on the strange case of Sabine Jourdain . ’ |
| 4 | She said that , in his desk , he kept a memento — something which belonged to the girl . |
| 5 | That 's one of the things , I think , that the Roman Catholics who hanker after the old Latin Mass and its ritual miss the most , and I sympathize with them in the sense that there is n't a great deal of mystery about most of the worship in most of our churches any more , and whilst it 's very right and proper for us to be very busy on practical matters , we must n't forget that there are very mysterious questions about our purpose here , about death and life , which are n't answered simply by doing things and being very busy — in fact , that may be a form of escapism — we need both , and I would hope that there will be room again in Christianity in Europe for worship to become something which speaks to the things I find mysterious , and in that respect I think the interest in spirituality and religious experience , in mysticism , in all those sort of areas about one 's personal religious life , and a lot of it not very orthodox or traditional . |
| 6 | Furthermore , since learning is something which happens to the individual and not to the group , the value of the individual to the group should be stressed . |
| 7 | As for the question of how the game develops in the wider , European context , that , like domestic reconstruction , is something which stays outwith the control of club managers , ’ Smith said . |
| 8 | In a sense the whole point of making a group protest , for example , is that you can actually display some strong feelings or other , and is n't the , the point achieving a balance between some acceptable way of maybe even physically showing your disapproval of something and something which goes over the boundaries , actually ends up with damage being done to people or property ? |
| 9 | Would you like a scrupulously faithful ‘ photographic ’ likeness or something which delves into the soul of the subject ? |
| 10 | The basis of the receiver 's duty set out above was initially considered to involve the extension of the common law of negligence to supplement equity , but the courts now treat it as something which flows from the nature in equity of the relationship between the mortgagee and mortgagor . |
| 11 | Tribunals accept that an employee can sometimes be fairly dismissed for declining to do something which falls outside the scope of his existing contract , for example if , without good cause , he refuses during a business emergency to help out when it was realistic to ask him to do so . |
| 12 | More recently it has meant developing a sex education practice for all youth workers which means avoiding heterosexual assumptions and presenting lesbianism as a positive option , something which sticks in the throat of many workers . |
| 13 | The assessment of the bidder 's capacity to run the target company is , in other words , something which lies within the range of the directors ' expertise . |
| 14 | This suggests that the modals differ from do auxiliary in involving a representation of the infinitive event , not as something whose real existence coincides with the present or past time-stretch expressed by the auxiliary , but as something which coincides with the modal only inasmuch as its existence as a potential is concerned . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't worry about it , ’ he advised , then searched in his pocket for a moment before holding out something which glittered in the palm of his hand . |
| 16 | If there was a redistributive aspect to funding of the national debt and its associated taxation , it was largely one which operated within the ranks of the better-off . |
| 17 | Burning the Bush was a ceremony on Herefordshire farms which died out just before the First World War — the ‘ bush ’ being a ball of hawthorn twigs and mistletoe , ceremonially burned on a wheatfield early on New Year 's morning , and replaced by a new one which hung in the farmhouse until next New Year . |
| 18 | The idea of ‘ Napoleonism ’ , that is , the concept of the Emperor as a phenomenon of history and therefore politically dead , was one which appealed to the conservative strata of French society , which were glad to remember the glory the Emperor had given to France but had no wish to see him re-embodied . |
| 19 | The woman brought me a chair as I bent over her , both my hands enclosing the weak one which lay on the bedcovers . |
| 20 | Johnson believed good humour an acquired quality , one which came with the ageing process , and came of learning to please others rather than the child 's instant gratification of pleasing itself . |
| 21 | An admiralty action is one which falls within the County Courts ' Admiralty jurisdiction , that is any action where a plaintiff brings one or more of the claims set out in CCA 1984 , s 27 . |
| 22 | A long shot is one which takes in the whole of a scene . |
| 23 | Although there will be little difference between what they cost new , a car registered in January 1992 is going to be more attractive to buyers than one which went on the road in December 1991 , so second-hand it will be worth about £200-£300 more . |
| 24 | We also had a modern electric one which ran off the mains and which was known as ‘ The Pay Cooker ’ , whose use was frowned upon except in cases of drought and when Nigel was making bread , for which the free oven did n't , to be honest , get quite hot enough . |
| 25 | er I 've got several favourites , er the one at Thrupp , Hampton Gay which I mentioned , where the train disaster was , that 's a particularly nice one because it 's along very nice stretches of canal and river , I like the one er up at er the Rollright Stones , and , and I like the ones in the Chilterns as well , there 's a couple in the Chilterns , one at er Watlington Hill , just outside the town of Watlington , and er one which goes through the grounds of Stonor Park , but er superb scenery up there obviously with the beech woods and so on . |
| 26 | Since a number of different initiatives on the issue of civil rights took place between 1962 and 1966 , it was probably fortuitous that the one which led to the creation of an organisation was the Wolfe Tone Societies conference , and even without their intervention , something very like NICRA would probably have emerged in any case . |
| 27 | There is yet another story of hide and seek on these hills , but there is historical evidence for this one which dates from the autumn of 1536 . |
| 28 | The difference between a machine which responds to mere sound and one which responds to the spoken language is like the difference between the speaking clock and the operator in the telephone system . |
| 29 | This species is preserved in a soft shale , but one which allows for the skeletal anatomy to be preserved in its entirety . |
| 30 | A work in which the meaning is fully apparent at a literal level is normally easier than one which depends on the interpretation of extended metaphor , analogy , symbolism , and so on . |