Example sentences of "which [verb] [pron] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been some war damage but this was not on a scale which lent itself to large-scale redevelopment . |
| 2 | Therefore you will need to rewrite that in a way which mean something to modern erm , readers . |
| 3 | The proposed council tax , which offers something to each lobby , is a slick political trick . |
| 4 | There was a very long and comfortable settee in front of the window which had a view of the River Thames which mesmerized me to such an extent that I could scarcely tear myself away to go to bed . |
| 5 | According to Bede , Wulfhere reigned seventeen years ( HE 111 , 24 ) , which led him to 675 for Wulfhere 's death , reckoning forward from 658 , but if Wulfhere did not become king until 659 a seventeen-year reign would suggest 676 for his death . |
| 6 | Newton spent more time and energy on alchemical speculations than on the scientific discoveries which galvanised the Western world : Storr reconstructs the neurotic drive which impelled him to heroic intellectual feats . |
| 7 | One of the circumstances which drove me to these experiments will be familiar to most home cooks . |
| 8 | Furthermore , there are particular reasons which impel me to that conclusion . |
| 9 | Over the years , the economic pressures have grown , partly as a result of government policies which committed it to high levels of spending , and partly because of external factors such as declining terms of trade and smaller than anticipated flows of aid after independence . |
| 10 | If anything the gulf separating them from an outside world which uprooted families and whole villages for labour on distant farms , or worse still in factories and mines , which extracted taxes , recruits and grain , which subjected them to constant brutality and humiliation grew steadily wider . |
| 11 | He possessed a cheery self-confidence , which communicated itself to those around him . |
| 12 | Note also those facts vital for your purpose as well as anything which leads you to further research — names of other publications , for example . |
| 13 | Sections on Calligraphy , Illustration , Typography and Book Design make way for a commercial break which introduces us to 28 first editions of Penguin paperbacks . |
| 14 | The horror of bachelorhood which condemns you to arid thought for ever , and the horror of marriage , which condemns you to lies and hypocrisy for ever . |
| 15 | Linking the Midlands manufacturers to London by canal undoubtedly assisted the sending of goods to the capital , but conversely the canals which linked them to other major ports sometimes removed their need to send as many goods through London . |
| 16 | A particular , and in representational terms crucial , development of this new activism ( and one which links it to other movements based on class , gender , colour , and so on ) is the de-biologising nature of the disability . |
| 17 | They are subject to a work permit system which ties them to one job and makes them dependent on their employers ' goodwill to continue their stay in Britain . |
| 18 | The left-angled Swastika symbolizes the centripetal force related to the pull of gravity — the force which ties us to mental stagnation — decay and dissolution . |
| 19 | Human subjects are volunteers ; a fact which commends them to those opposed to the use of animals incapable of choice . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend is right to say that the local income tax is not an alternative to council tax which commends itself to Conservative Members — or even to most Opposition Members , and he is right to say that anybody interested in knowing why local income tax will not work could do no better than to read the report of our proceedings in Committee . |
| 21 | and the legislation which anchored it to statutory process , had secured a firmer foothold and had begun to flirt uncertainly with wider issues . |
| 22 | So Suger persuaded Louis to begin the task — not completed till the reign of Philip Augustus — of extricating himself from the bonds of homage which bound him to various bishops in the realm . |
| 23 | At sixteen he ran away from Harrow , and set up as a film director , work which took him to central Europe and east Africa , but proved financially unrewarding . |
| 24 | While the EC was debating its approach to the problems of Eastern Europe the president-elect of another distressed part of the world was nearing the end of a pre-inaugural tour which took him to all the major capitals . |
| 25 | Perhaps his father had the kind of job which took him to many parts of the country , and possibly he took the boy with him , I do not know . |
| 26 | The winner on the day was Francois Lombard — a result which took him to third place overall in the championships . |
| 27 | After lunch we took one of the trains hauled by 1618 which took us to Horsted Keynes and up the new extension to New Coombe Bridge . |
| 28 | Any or all of these factors may encourage you to seek to negotiate a settlement which entitles you to speedy payment of a lump sum and perhaps other benefits , even if the value of the total package is less than the amount that you might theoretically win if you sued and all went well . |
| 29 | Tentative proposals for research towards highly interactive systems which adapt themselves to individual users and uses were put forward in 1984 . |
| 30 | The problem was that I think David was moving so much away and into this trip of actually doing music with a message — of actually delivering something on stage which meant something to other people of his age . |