Example sentences of "which [vb base] in a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This model incorporates all different categories of information which interact in an ongoing manner to constrain the processing of a sentence .
2 However , there are a number of post-war schools of thought which lie in a direct line of descent and which continue a distinctive democratic elitist pattern of argument .
3 Although , as I mentioned before , rival groups of psycholinguists dispute the question of whether , when , and how the central systems exert a top-down influence upon the parsing processes , contemporary psycholinguistics proceeds on the assumption that levels of linguistic representation ( phoneme , morpheme , noun phrase , clause , etcetera ) are ‘ psychologically real ’ in the sense of referring to processes in the nervous system which take a certain time , which happen in a particular order , and which have determinate causal relations to similar processes .
4 Such comparisons suggest a fixed set of symbols or rules which operate in a fixed way , whereas this is only partially true of language .
5 The University of Edinburgh is essentially a university within a city , unlike many British universities which operate in a large ‘ single-campus ’ area .
6 In other cases , if there is any suggestion that the defendant has a defence , the point can be tested immediately by treating the hearing of the motion as the trial of the action , or by some other means ( such as Order 14 proceedings ) which result in a final injunction .
7 Methane , the hydrocarbon commonly known as marsh or swamp gas , is produced by bacteria which live in an oxygen-free environment such as at the bottom of swamps and rice paddies and in the guts of ruminant or cud-chewing animals such as cattle , sheep and camels where the bacteria help to break down food into a digestible form ( enteric fermentation ) .
8 ‘ The political stance adopted by a class at any given time will be i part a function of the structure of the political system as whole and the concrete possibilities which exist in a specific situation for the application of various kinds of class alliances ’ ( Roxborough 1979 : 82 ) .
9 Pacemakers , which come in a wide variety of Dayglo colours , can be found at most branches of Top Shop for around £25 .
10 Pacemakers , which come in a wide variety of Dayglo colours , can be found at most branches of Top Shop for around £25 .
11 This brief chapter merely serves to draw together some common problems in alphabetical indexing ( which feature in a different way in classification schemes ) .
12 However , the committee was concerned about the effects on business of the high rates of interest which occur in an inflationary economy .
13 Perhaps the most important point to be made about postverbals is to distinguish them from the adjectives in the last remaining position , the extraclausal adjectives , which occur in an identical sequence of syntactic elements , but which correspond to a different surface structure as in : ( 45 ) the two reformers persevered undaunted two stagehands appeared , breathless They have the different intensional structure :
14 But a rotating craft exerts Coriolis forces , which work in a different direction from a centripetal force .
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