Example sentences of "which [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He provided time rapidly for the Select Committee on Sittings of the House which concerned curtailing hon. Members ' hours . |
| 2 | I teach materials science to dental students which involves using chemical names . |
| 3 | A major transport contractor was asked to quote for carrying out the work , which involves delivering huge wing boxes to Manchester Airport for collection by Super Guppy air transporters . |
| 4 | Barbados , which involves dialling 14 digits , costs 79p a minute standard rate . |
| 5 | Fourth , Sa nyāsa , the ascetic stage , which involves abandoning all attachment to worldly things . |
| 6 | He went on to commend the interpretive skills of Richard Benson , who made the halftone negatives and worked closely with the craftsmen at Meriden Gravure in Meriden , Connecticut , who printed the plates in tritone ( which involves making three negatives — for light , dark and middle tones — for each print , and two passes through the press ) . |
| 7 | To get motorists to switch modes there must be financial incentives , such as a big environmental tax on petrol , the revenue from which goes to improve public transport . |
| 8 | The action of the film was eclipsed by some of motor racing enthusiast McQueen 's off-screen dramas , setting his Savoy Hotel room alight while trying to prepare himself a hamburger , driving at speed into the hotel 's small forecourt and screeching into a U-turn — by hitting a large puddle on the way and drenching other guests — and overturning his car while racing , against the film studio 's orders , resulting in a cut lip , which mean rescheduling some scenes . |
| 9 | A great politician is a man who does not interpret the world in which he intends to act on the basis of appearances … he is a man who is capable at all times of making sense of the various motive forces which combine to produce historical events , and which when analysed provide a perspective on the future . |
| 10 | The official receiver has been called into the firm , which ceased trading last June . |
| 11 | conducted a further study ( experiment 1 c ) that was almost identical to the first but which failed to yield any evidence for context-specificity . |
| 12 | It may be noted that the experiments by Siegel ( 1970 ) , James ( 1971 ) , and Crowell and Anderson ( 1972 ) , which failed to find any loss of latent inhibition at longer intervals , all gave repeated presentations of the target stimulus in pre-exposure ; that is , they gave training likely to establish a context — target association . |
| 13 | Of the three patients that died , the cause of death was not mentioned in one case , a second patient died of oesophageal recurrence , the third succumbed to systemic lymphoma five years after irradiation of a single oesophageal manifestation ; local treatment had been completely successful , as indicated at necropsy , which failed to reveal any signs of malignancy in the oesophagus . |
| 14 | Imported products which failed to meet these standards could be subjected to extra duties providing that : the environmental standards had a scientific base ; the same standards must be applied to all competitive domestic production ; and imported products could be proved to be causing economic damage to competitive domestic industries . |
| 15 | But a spokesman for Wrekin council , which admitted losing 600 protesters ' letters , said : ‘ There is nothing like it in Europe . |
| 16 | To make tritium you can fuse a neutron onto a deuteron , or alternatively add a neutron to 6 Li ( lithium-6 ) which splits to yield one atom of tritium and one of 4 He . |
| 17 | Here we can mention only a few events which led to major therapeutic developments , and pass by much else which gave the clues and spurs for progress . |
| 18 | The species involved are characteristically tall perennial monocots which tend to form pure stands on the edge of water bodies . |
| 19 | It is quite justifiable therefore to picture polymers as made up from stiff by flexible chains freely sliding among their neighbours and constrained only by cross-links or entanglements — unless , of course , strong lateral forces also exist , such as the hydrogen bonds in polypeptides or polyamides , which tend to hold neighbouring chains together . |
| 20 | Captive-bred Pretty Tetras , have a much more brighter colouration than wild-caught specimens , the latter of which tend to lose this brightness over a period of time when kept in an aquarium . |
| 21 | Moreover , FoE also criticizes the authorities for alerting the public only to short-lived peak incidents , whereas it is the sustained eight-hour incidents which tend to affect vulnerable groups . |
| 22 | Duncan says ‘ the brute fact remains that democratic politics can not prevent the creation of remote , state-entrenched centres of power which tend to promote general apathy , cynicism , and ignorance about politics among the masses of the people ’ . |
| 23 | Whether the beta-adrenergic effects of adrenaline , which tend to increase myocardial work and reduce subendocardial perfusion , are detrimental is still controversial . |
| 24 | But it also has provisions for mineral exploration firms and investment trusts , neither of which tend to have typical trading records . |
| 25 | ‘ The most popular tartans are the more classical blue and white ranges which tend to match existing tableware colours . |
| 26 | The summer breeding season extends between November and February , so we would have to come back again earlier in the season to have a look at some of the other birds , such as the smaller land birds , which tend to present more problems to the photographer . |
| 27 | Political unrest in Yugoslavia could have spelt bad news for Airtours , which planned to send 7,000 sunseekers there this summer . |
| 28 | For example , Proposition 13 , which sought to curtail local government expenditure , can be related to antipathy towards property taxation . |
| 29 | In spite of a number of important publications in the early 1980s which sought to take Edwardian Conservatism seriously , notably the work of Geoffrey Searle , Alan Sykes , and Gregory Phillips , the Conservative party remained the Cinderella of Edwardian historiography , languishing in the shadows while its ugly sisters , the Liberal and Labour parties , hogged the limelight . |
| 30 | A government immigration decree was issued in 1990 which sought to restrict foreign investors from entering the retail trade and other sectors of the economy . |