Example sentences of "which [noun] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BROOD parasites and their hosts are thought to engage in a coevolutionary arms race in which parasitism selects for adaptive defences by the host ( such as egg rejection ) , which in turn select for counter-adaptations by the parasite ( such as egg mimicry ) . |
| 2 | In practice , finding which operators apply to some node is often a substantial part of the searching process . |
| 3 | Walker Greenbank , a wall-coverings group , had claimed £15m from the firm and Alan and William Carr , owners of a shelving company , Alkar , which WG bought in 1987 . |
| 4 | In 1989 nickel production reached 46,935 tonnes , of which exports amounted to 46,071 tonnes worth 715,000,000 francs and equivalent to one-fifth of the territory 's budget . |
| 5 | Canada , with which Newfoundland had by this time merged , duly requested and consented ; Australia , New Zealand and South Africa merely ‘ assented ’ . |
| 6 | The state of continual fear which Hobbes attributed to natural man outside society was , for Vico , a characteristic of emergent civilized man inside society , and this became the generative source for much of human culture . |
| 7 | The poem , of epic proportions , illuminates the way in which Will arrives at such " kynde knowynge " which embraces both knowledge of himself and of the love of God . |
| 8 | The project will consist of four seminars at which researchers working in different disciplines in both countries will meet together in order to develop this analysis . |
| 9 | There are many reasons for this , which Romaine discusses at some length . |
| 10 | Thunder rolled over and round them from every direction so that Trent had the sense of being in the interior of an enormous drum on which giants beat from all sides . |
| 11 | Social service departments in general , and social workers in particular have no wish to interfere in peoples ' lives unless there are difficulties , of which inability to cope with current circumstances is the most obvious . |
| 12 | ( Wonder which genius thought of that . ) |
| 13 | The reputation for energy and honesty which Truman gained from this work helped him win the nomination for the vice-presidency in the 1944 election , after more prominent candidates had cancelled each other out . |
| 14 | There was to be no debate about which direction to take in economic policy ; the essentials of supply-side theory were to be taken as given and the criteria for appointment to the major economic policy posts were to be , ‘ competence , experience , and absolute , complete loyalty to Reagan 's economic policies … . |
| 15 | The inventions which Salomons patented from 1874 included an automatic railway-signalling system . |
| 16 | One of the things which religions have in common , as John Taylor , the then Bishop of Winchester , noted , is " the capacity for categorical assertion " : " It is the nature of religious experience to put into the believers ' hands a key which is absolute and irreducible . |
| 17 | This table was made like a tray ; when lifted , its legs could be snapped up or snapped down — a solemn sort of conjuring trick which Twomey performed with quiet authority . |
| 18 | As part of this study , it was additionally possible to investigate ( a ) a variety of domain-specific dictionaries and compare their performance with the general dictionary , and ( b ) the extent to which collocations compiled from one domain could contribute to the recognition of text from another . |
| 19 | Another objective of this investigation was to determine the extent to which collocations taken from one domain could aid the recognition of text taken from another . |
| 20 | This technique shows the entities most likely to be mentioned by the reader and , hence , indicates which entities predominate for various reasons . |
| 21 | The characteristics of the controlled authority are in some ways those of the classic bureaucracy , in which rules provide for all cases of need . |
| 22 | By contrast , the Historia Brittonum claims only a ten-year reign for Penda , dating it evidently from the battle of Cogwy ( ch. 65 ) — Bede 's Maserfelth , which Bede dates to 642 but which again may need to be emended ( in accordance with any adjustment of Bede 's other Northumbrian dates ) to 643 ( HE 111 , 9 : V , 24 ) . |
| 23 | Child-care was the only area in which husbands participated at all actively , and they saw that as helping with her job . |
| 24 | This chapter reviews the research evidence which sheds light on the-economic circumstances of mothers in low-income households . |
| 25 | In particular Jones had a complete count of neutrons and also of their energies , so he could tell which neutrons came from cosmic rays and which were possibly the result of fusion . |
| 26 | This was a modern device , electronic in operation , in which pulses recorded on fine wire the binary coded values of five basic flight parameters . |
| 27 | You live in a frozen universe in which emotion resonates without any chronology . |
| 28 | The alacrity with which northerners enlisted for military service whenever warfare flared up on the Border speaks for itself . |
| 29 | To end this book a chapter will , therefore , be devoted to the history of a fictitious place called Combsburgh , with the objects of demonstrating ways in which data obtained by careful research may subsequently be incorporated into a narrative . |
| 30 | But in the Colbeck Collection there is a manuscript of about 2,300 words which Edward wrote in 1895 ; it is corrected in his much later I handwriting and is entitled ‘ Dad ’ . |