Example sentences of "which [verb] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Road pricing , which involves charging drivers directly for their use of the road network , has been advocated for several years as a means of reducing congestion and environmental impact . |
2 | The Community , which agreed last week progressively to lift economic sanctions against Serbia , should back the Americans by putting its offer on hold until the federal army withdraws and the irregulars are disbanded . |
3 | There is a shortage of suitable recruits in the diplomatic service , which offers varied experience abroad and a good career structure . |
4 | In HARPY , all the possible paths are specified explicitly before processing begins and collapsed into two dimensions , while in HWIM and Hearsay-II they are generated dynamically according to rules which combine partial descriptions linearly ( across time ) and hierarchically ( across levels of linguistic description ) . |
5 | The SCFW also discloses the change in financial wealth for the period , which represents comprehensive income less the amount of distributions to owners . |
6 | Or were the acts which produced this end so far away from them in time that somehow the temporal distance anaesthetised reality ? |
7 | In the spring of 1990 particularly , trial runs of the assessment of 7-year-olds led to revelations about strain and frustration which led central government considerably to reduce its demands . |
8 | With reference to the mentally unfit patient , I would respond that there is no authority which forbids such treatment apart from the general principle which , as has been seen , presupposes a ‘ sound mind ’ and is , therefore , a weak basis on which to rely . |
9 | This is a low-growing , submerged plant , which produces floating leaves very rarely . |
10 | Ignition involves fusion which produces enough energy both to heat the fuel and to maintain the temperature of the plasma as new fuel is added . |
11 | Further investment is needed at the colliery , which reopened last year when 160 miners invested £10,000 each to form the consortium . |
12 | Most items produced in Europe paid practically no English duty if they were to be re-exported to the colonies , but a few , including iron and steel , were taxed at a rate which made continental products very expensive and thus gave English manufacturers a clear field in the colonial market . |
13 | As he looked at her , slumped awkwardly in sleep , he tried without success to put his finger on that indefinable something which made this girl so totally English . |
14 | In this way there was in human history a cumulative build up of knowledge and success in adaptation to the environment which made human beings very quick to adapt to new problems — much more easily and quickly than if they had depended only on genetic transmission . |
15 | Without a word she left the Archimandrite 's cell , swept from the courtyard in a manner which made three sheep instinctively follow her , and started down the mountainside . |
16 | Most cranes lay two heavily marked eggs which hatch two days apart , though usually only one chick survives . |
17 | In another way , however , it can be seen as responsibly encouraging readers to challenge for themselves cultural codes and established patterns of thought , including some of those which make contemporary history so intractable . |
18 | Delusions : believing things about yourself and others which make ordinary life very difficult if not impossible , such as believing that people and even objects are working against you . |
19 | On three sides are the dark oak galleries which make Basque churches both distinctive and extremely attractive and which are , in principle , reserved for the men . |
20 | Now if there are changes , such as non-replacing teeth and non-dividing nerve cells , which make young animals more efficient , at the cost of condemning old animals to senescence , these changes will be favoured by natural selection , if only because most animals die of accidents anyway before they are old . |
21 | The neo-classical assumption of an underlying tendency towards equality is , however , most hotly disputed by a school of thought which would argue , by contrast , that the very fact of uneven development at any one time creates further processes which make that inequality hard to counter . |
22 | You see , these pipes pump some sort of stuff which make those bits up there move , and those pistons are forced out , which makes the arm thing over there — ’ said Grimma , impatiently . |
23 | There are other differences too — for example , aquatic leaves have fewer stomata — all of which make feathery leaves better underwater and stouter ones better in air . |
24 | Better instruction and the consideration of aids which make eye-drop instillation easier should be implemented . |
25 | It was clear that Hannah would not consider moving far from her native heath and after lengthy deliberations , settled on a cottage in Cotherstone which stands five miles away from Low Birk Hatt at one of the entrances to Baldersdale . |
26 | From the mid-1970s the Committee and its officers were engaged in a process of sponsoring debate and planning , including through such conferences as one on school experience and the assessment of practical teaching , held in York in October 1976 — a pioneer conference from which emerged a CNAA-funded research project which reported three years later . |
27 | Augmented by their co-religionists through the centuries , often in response to waves of persecution such as the expulsion from Spain which occurred 500 years ago this month . |
28 | ‘ If anything can be concluded from this book , it is that I was born , ’ writes Sisson after touching on that event , which occurred 75 years ago in a building since occupied by the Bristol Rovers Supporters Club . |
29 | But dealing with those in the foam ( which contains four times as much ) is more difficult — attempts to develop disposal methods have run into high costs . |
30 | The Client Money Regulations , which provide that interest below certain specified amounts is not payable to the customer , thus modify the firm 's duty to account to the customer for that interest . |