Example sentences of "which [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It follows the company 's jobs-for-life Rover Tomorrow deal signed earlier this year , which ruled out compulsory redundancies .
2 It was other evidence which ruled out this model .
3 The complication has been that because last year 's trading profits were lower than expected we did n't have any taxable profits against which to claim back this A C T so as this would be the first year in which taxable profits would arise unless we 'd not been unless we 'd been able to find some other way of dealing with it the A C T which we pay would not have been recoverable till January ninety five .
4 Since the sixth century , the Benedictine monks of Europe had evolved a uniquely Western spirituality , which centred round these disciplines .
5 The iceberg is the result of a rapid rise in vehicle theft by young persons which goes back some time .
6 Leigh is sitting in the sunshine in Spain , taking a break from filming a new series of his BBC TV drama Kinsey , which goes out next month .
7 We 're giving away 120 tickets to see the band live on their UK tour which kicks off next month .
8 The spatial differentials are , however , most marked at the local scales which pick out residential clusters with distinctive social mixes .
9 The tenant should be careful also not to agree a too restrictive period of time in which to carry out remedial works .
10 The blue water which tumbled down formal cascades fell through several levels but the lowest level fed into the highest .
11 On the one hand there was the central government and its economic ( and taxation ( plans which laid down broad policy and investment strategy ; on the other hand was the ‘ club ’ of often just two traditional suppliers of equipment .
12 Suffice it to say that , in the absence of a sufficiently ‘ mature ’ , well-educated civil society in Siberia , Speranskii sought to design a structure of bureaucratic agencies and offices in which power was vested in institutions rather than personalities , which took full cognizance of individual regions ' peculiar human and material needs and circumstances ( both Russian and native ) , and which laid down proper codes of administrative procedures , legal practices and economic policies .
13 The developing round peas produce a vital molecule , called starch-branching enzyme , which builds up complex starch molecules from sugar .
14 The bag struck the paving , bounced , and now the boy caught it and peeled away the bag to reveal a football which he struck in a high , curling shot which ricocheted off the wall slightly to the left of a priest who had emerged from the large church which dosed off one end of the piazza .
15 They should also make us determined to prevent the conditions which bring out this aspect of our nature .
16 The most spectacular known to me in Europe were the great rock-falls that occurred from tile sheer face of Ramnefjell ( Raven Mountain ) into Loenfjord in central Norway in 1905 and 1936 , producing waves which wiped out local communities and carried a steamer a considerable distance inland .
17 How stable is a system which can not employ an increasing proportion of the population , which leaves half the world destitute , which rides a switchback cycle between boom and bust , which piles up tottering mountains of debt ?
18 For the rest , there is fish ; the waters around Aegina yield lots of tasty varieties , which make up income-earner number three .
19 Company chiefs hope the industry 's prospects will be given a boost in the Budget when they 'll look to the Chancellor to help ease the situation by , amongst other things , reducing taxes on company cars which make up 55 percent of the new car market .
20 Carnivores feed on other carnivores ( which make up 10 percent of the diet of the leopard , for example ) , scavengers feed on the dead carcases of all kinds of animal , and most important , the decomposing fungi and bacteria return the nutrients from dead bodies to the soil , from whence they can be re-used by plants .
21 The women 's days are beginning to include the mix of activities , experiences and relationships which make up ordinary life for most people .
22 The great companies and other organisations which make up modern economies have considerable discretion in choosing the goals they will seek to fulfil , and even more discretion in deciding how they will fulfil them .
23 Thus in feudal society they include the relationship between the lord and vassal and the set of rights , duties and obligations which make up that relationship .
24 He is served by a lovely cast who lift a gossamer-thin veil to show the misunderstandings and subtle warrings which make up human relations in all their glory .
25 The headteacher of a day school for maladjusted pupils asked the staff of his school to keep a diary on one day , 27 November 1985 , to try to record an impression of the activities , concerns and pressures which make up daily routine .
26 There are many excellent , authoritative text books covering the differing disciplines which make up Cosmetic Science .
27 It looks through the buildings which make up English towns and cities at the processes of life which produced and used them , and so attempts to explain them in human terms .
28 Naturally the next field in which to try out this half-truth was politics , where people have been trying since the time of Demosthenes to fool all of the people all of the time .
29 The counsellor may often find that this period also coincides with the onset of a depressed or confused state of mind , suggesting that it is the problems and difficulties which occurred around this time that require counselling attention .
30 He pointed out the sloping white stripes on the walls , whose incline indicated the nearest of the niches providing protection for plate-layers who otherwise might end up under the wheels of one of the expresses which thundered over these rails , bound for famous foreign cities .
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