Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was elected Right Hand Man to the Duns Reiver which involves taking part in Border festivals as far afield as Langholm , and Lanark . |
| 2 | Early feedback from bankers at the 90-minute City meeting is that the plan , which involves splitting debt into two categories , was ‘ greeted respectfully ’ . |
| 3 | Dittany when dried is greyer than malotira , although the leaves are similarly furry like so much of the vegetation , which needs to conserve moisture in the hot atmosphere , and the tea made from it has a muskier , more soothing quality . |
| 4 | In the case of the Stommeln Synagogue , located in Pulheim-Stommeln in the extreme west of Cologne , an unusual exhibition venue has been created which has excited attention with its sensitive presentation of single works by Jannis Kounellis and Richard Serra . |
| 5 | We know all about that , ’ said Mr Heath , referring to the headquarters of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre , which has collected evidence of Nazi war criminals . |
| 6 | The Museum is a registered Charity with no public funding and Mick Miller , Finance Trustee , said : ‘ This sponsorship is a very generous gesture and we are delighted that this has come from an enterprising local company which has pledged support for our activities for the next three years . ’ |
| 7 | Such acts come as no surprise from a Government which has implemented measure after measure in a similar vein since 1979 . |
| 8 | The concept of mixed race , which has become part of conventional social work language , is misleading because it causes confusion in the minds of transracial adopters . |
| 9 | To meet such objections Ross developed a very useful concept which has become part of the regular stock in trade of moral philosophers , the concept of a prima facie duty . |
| 10 | The nightmare of childhood lived daily by orphan children in Romania is another example of a state of dreadful innocence abused by adults which is too painful to comprehend and yet which has become part of the domain of childhood as understood in Britain , just as images of the abuse of children by adults are also part of our daily reference to the violent world of childhood . |
| 11 | ( Note that " recreolisation " can also mean the development of a new Creole language from an existing one which has undergone pidginisation for a second time . |
| 12 | Cocaine , which has replaced heroin as the drug of concern in America , and has thus been extensively researched , works on nerves that use the neurotransmitter dopamine . |
| 13 | Taking a counter-example , the success of a project reported by Veblen ( 1978 ) for an area in western Guatemala was attributed to the institution of communal forest holdings , or ejido , which has favoured preservation of the forests of Totonicapan . |
| 14 | Looking back , this extraordinary sequence of events carries all the hallmarks of the institutional deception which has fuelled mistrust of the nuclear industry . |
| 15 | She urges the excellence and dignity of courage , a glittering idea which has dazzled mankind from age to age and animated sometimes the housebreaker and sometimes the conqueror . ’ |
| 16 | And John Grierson persistently praised Hitchcock for putting ordinary people on to the screen , while attacking Asquith for making films that reflected ‘ a leisure-class England which has lost contact with fundamentals , with the toiling earth and the men who go with it . ’ |
| 17 | Does he also agree that one state which does not meet the generally accepted criteria for recognition is the federal state of Yugoslavia , which has lost control of its own army ? |
| 18 | Wall Street has been hitting new peaks this week too , which has given support to the London market ( and even Japan 's Nikkei index , in a typically erratic period , has gained nearly 800 points while London added its 245 ) but London has real strengths of its own . |
| 19 | But the Banbury environmental research group which has given evidence to the select committee on energy over Harwell says the reasons for the shut-down are more complicated . |
| 20 | It is in this form that I would express the challenge of the social and medical revolution which has given rise to the modern problem of old age . |
| 21 | It is a house which has given rise to much aesthetic conjecture , and for a long time it was deemed to be the first seed of the modern movement in England , for it did not appear to be built in any revival style , but in a fresh new one . |
| 22 | The police and the Army were caught up in a public order crisis which continues to plague us and which has given rise to the most damaging terrorist campaign . |
| 23 | Position not being a quality , and sensations not being in parts of the body as pins , wounds and broken bones are in parts of the body , it would seem that the only way in which a part of the body can enter into one 's experience of a pain is as the apparent place of the prick , scratch , cut , or whatever it may be , which has given rise to the sensation . |
| 24 | One of the most puzzling features for historians has been the apparent rise in illegitimacy , a European-wide phenomenon , in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century , which has given rise to various interpretations of working-class sexual life . |
| 25 | At no time did the defendants tell the plaintiff of Mr. Perot 's proposed purchase of Vertigo and it is this fact which has given rise to the present litigation . |
| 26 | The most probable outcome of all class struggles , according to this view , is civil war ; and it is the use of the term ‘ revolution ’ in this context by many Marxists , and by other radical thinkers , which has given rise to the close association in modern thought between the ideas of revolution and armed conflict . |
| 27 | There is a growing realisation that science and technology have embodied within them many of the ideological assumptions of the society which has given rise to them . |
| 28 | It is probably this incidental side-effect of education which has given currency to another widespread heresy of our times : that education is desirable because it promotes economic growth . |
| 29 | However , what we are dealing with here is a magic formula of a type which has characterised legislation from Brussels before . |
| 30 | For example , it is used in West Africa to control blackfly which is a carrier of the disease onchocerciasis and which has developed resistance to many pesticides . |