Example sentences of "which [pron] [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ego , which itself develops out of the id , excludes certain impressions and processes as a defensive process , which become not just preconscious , and therefore capable of being remembered easily , but repressed into the id , where powerful emotional factors keep them forgotten . |
| 2 | There is a poppy song , ‘ What I Do ’ , in which she dances around in leggings and a bra top , and a cover of Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz 's Sixties hit ‘ The Girl From Ipanema ’ done in smoky café style , where she takes advantage of the sensual Puerto Rican looks she inherited from her mother . |
| 3 | If it is near the nest she does a ‘ round ’ dance , in which she walks round in circles , reversing the direction every turn or two ( Figure 6.7a ) . |
| 4 | She dresses for the most part in a pink frilly fairy costume in which she walks down to the beach , paints , dances and collects snails . |
| 5 | Althusser elaborates his thesis that Marxism is not a historicism at some length , presenting a critique of the historicist and humanist traditions which he takes back from Sartre to the beginning of the century , even to the Russian Revolution itself , and in which he also includes the ‘ absolute historicism ’ of Gramsci and the Frankfurt School . |
| 6 | For example a salesman may operate with his own briefcase computer unit which he plugs in to the telephone system when he wants to obtain or transfer information . |
| 7 | These voices were all inside him , waiting to be freed , and the significant point is the formal pattern which he creates out of these disparate personalities . |
| 8 | But it does mean that the job is immensely diverse , with a lot of administration and only a small element of number crunching , which he seeks out as an extra because he likes doing it . |
| 9 | The answer is one of two things — a Labour government which he can not influence for the good , or a Labour government which he turns out in a few months , provoking another election . |
| 10 | In Berkeley 's view , the mistaken doctrine of abstraction is also involved in the distinction between primary and secondary qualities , a distinction which he rejects along with the materialism it involves . |
| 11 | His love for Edmund is a trust that the bastard exploits , planting a false letter , which he backs up with false testimony , alleging that Edgar would wish to oust his father , a hypocrite 's typical inversion of the truth . |
| 12 | He even , when accompanying , transposes a prima vista ; and everywhere Italian or French works are put before him , which he plays off at sight . |
| 13 | Police believe it 's only a matter of time before the robber uses the knife which he keeps out of sight while demanding money . |
| 14 | Super Mario exists on a sole diet of mushrooms , which he gobbles up during the game , but Mario 's favourite food is pasta . |
| 15 | From a pocket in the case , he removes a copy of a painting of Jesus , which he holds up for me to see , widening his eyes like he used to when challenging an opponent or the press . |
| 16 | But more affecting still is the first half of the record , in which he looks back with a wry , but far from dry , eye on his own childhood . |
| 17 | The fable sends the learned educationist home to divide Fred 's knowledge into parcels which he hands out to various expert textbook writers . |
| 18 | Nevertheless Todorov 's study is interesting for the principle which guides his whole enterprise , and which he sums up in his conclusion . |
| 19 | This is obviously related to Foucault 's analysis of the genealogy of the disciplinary society , a society of surveillance and control , which he sets out in his book Discipline and Punish , and to his argument that power proceeds not in the traditional model of sovereignty ( that is negatively , ‘ thou shalt not ’ ) but through administering and fostering life ( that is positively , ‘ you must ’ ) . |
| 20 | The second reason why an apparent consent or refusal of consent may not be a true consent or refusal is that it may not have been made with reference to the particular circumstances in which it turns out to be relevant . |
| 21 | The only area in which it loses out to the deeper-bodied F-model is on sheer projection , and I could well imagine some players foregoing that extra bit of welly just for the comfort and convenience of the LSE 's thin body . |
| 22 | From the smoothness of the velocity field within the filaments and the way in which it matches up with the velocities of neighbouring clouds , one infers that the arms are probably gas streams tidally stretched out as they fall towards the bottom of the galactic potential . |
| 23 | Otherwise it is still possible to evaluate the British system of social security in terms of the extent to which it matches up to the model outlined by Beveridge in 1942 . |
| 24 | There it has a store of food and a nest of grass and other materials in which it curls up into a ball , tucking in extremities . |
| 25 | North American house wrens favour sloughed snake skins and the eider duck grows special downy feathers on its own breast which it plucks off with its beak to produce a soft and warming blanket that none of man 's synthetic materials can equal . |
| 26 | This is supplemented by the department 's own financial analyses which it puts on to its own financial online database . |
| 27 | This is a penalty that Yugoslavia pays for the large share of its foreign trade which it carries on with countries having inconvertible currencies . |
| 28 | The meaning of a given sentence , so far as it has one , is not some determinate characteristic which it carries around with it . |
| 29 | The pubic louse is broader than it is long and the four hind legs are equipped with claws with which it hangs on to the pubic hairs . |
| 30 | The flood of diverse human experience which it brings down to our own life and time is in no sense or degree foreign to us , but has become the native experience of men of our own race and culture . |