Example sentences of "which [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tendency to centralise power over time is frankly admitted by the Commission , albeit diplomatically : ‘ the list of policies which qualify on the grounds of being more efficiently discharged at Community level than at national level is likely to evolve gradually over time . |
| 2 | Of the pelagic animals , some fish browse directly upon the plankton , as do the baleen whales , which concentrate upon the euphausiids and copepods . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | To use a single but important example , it is the difference between looking at the Great War as an event which centred around the policies and machinations of politicians and generals , or one which impinged upon the lives of ordinary people . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | He belongs to a paper society which goes through the motions of life , in the air , notionally . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You know of that music which goes with the engines ? |
| 9 | ELECTION day comes a little early for a Middlesbrough school which goes to the polls on Wednesday . |
| 10 | To the extent that agreement is reached which goes beyond the provisions of a pre-existing document or displaces the relevant provisions of the Partnership Act , the agreed terms should be reduced to writing to reduce the scope for subsequent dispute . |
| 11 | He now wants his heirs to be kings as well which goes against the witches prophecy of Banquo 's heirs being kings and not Macbeth 's . |
| 12 | ITN had said that in the 12 months before the ban was imposed , 0.01 per cent of air time would have been affected and these items could have been recast into a form which complied with the directives . |
| 13 | If you 're interested in a session , a practitioner will apply pressure to various parts of your body , which correspond with the points and energy lines ( known as meridians ) used in acupuncture . |
| 14 | The box excursions are merely the six XYZ maximum/minimum extents values which correspond to the parts enclosing box ; again , these are held in assembly/sub-assembly coordinates . |
| 15 | One very significant outcome of these linkages has been the opportunity to build exit points at HNC and HND level which correspond to the ends of year 1 and year 2 of degree courses . |
| 16 | A separate text module of type FOREIGN must be created , which points to the files to be retained in LIFESPAN . |
| 17 | The churches , slow to see that change must come , failed to take control of developments , which passed into the hands first of private enterprise , then of local authorities , under the general direction of Parliament . |
| 18 | The tympanum represents Christ as Judge of the World and , below , the architrave has a row of sculptured figures above the larger figures of saints which alternate with the columns ( 389 and 419 ) . |
| 19 | Given the sensitive functions of the librarium which doubled as the communications centre , naturally entry to that chamber was restricted . |
| 20 | Sargent 's suggested solution to this problem can be seen by looking at the simple n = 3 case , which led to the restrictions of equation ( 3.50 ) . |
| 21 | It was Mr Nofomela 's confession to the killing — the day before he was due to be executed for the murder of a white farmer — which led to the disclosures that the force has been running professional death squads . |
| 22 | By December 1858 St Petersburg had taken two of the three decisions which led to the statutes of 1861 : the decision to emancipate and the decision to emancipate with land . |
| 23 | The University appears , then , to have great admiration for the fact that , among other things , Caspar Weinberger : a ) supported the Contra rebels in a war which led to the deaths of some 30,000 Nicaraguans and which was declared illegal by the International Court of Justice . |
| 24 | Witness , for example , the wildly discrepant assessments of the effectiveness of allied air-raids in the first days of the war or the ‘ classification error ’ which led to the deaths of hundreds of civilians in Baghdad . |
| 25 | Even in 1987 the brand new ship was suffering smells similar to those which led to the deaths of Katherine and James Tomlins . |
| 26 | It is not wholly surprising , and is certainly not W. 's fault , that she remained in the grip of the disease , gradually losing weight or that on one occasion she used violence towards a member of the staff in circumstances which led to the police being called . |
| 27 | All that remains from those days is the outline of the road which led to the hangers . |
| 28 | The incident which led to the bans happened entering the last two furlongs of the You 'll Never Get Rich Handicap when Weaver , on eventual fourth Corn Futures , hampered Darley 's mount Love Jazz . |
| 29 | Mulling over these gloomy thoughts , he climbed the stairs to the gallery where Tammuz' office and labs were and the corridor which led to the rooms he and Zambia had as living quarters . |
| 30 | One of his main claims was that MI5 had been fully penetrated by Russian intelligence which led to the allegations that Roger Hollis was himself a Russian mole . |