Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The iceberg is the result of a rapid rise in vehicle theft by young persons which goes back some time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We 're giving away 120 tickets to see the band live on their UK tour which kicks off next month . |
| 4 | The developing round peas produce a vital molecule , called starch-branching enzyme , which builds up complex starch molecules from sugar . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | If the curve is steep the implication is that an increase in government spending increases income , which increases the transactions demand for money , which increases interest rates , which chokes off private investment . |
| 7 | They are also partially visible from the coast path which passes over National Trust property . |
| 8 | It was the sound of mud and moisture , the kind of sound which conjures up bare seashores with the tide far out and clear skies overhead . |
| 9 | Freud told the old Man that had he not become an analyst , he would have been an economist , which conjures up all sorts of hilarious possibilities . |
| 10 | Even G. D. H. Cole , far more critical of the Communists than Strachey , could not see " any sharp line which marks off British Communists from other British Socialists " . |
| 11 | Each language has its own phraseology , its own idiom which rules out many options that are potentially available as grammatical sequences . |
| 12 | Perhaps no one 's missing from the Irish ferry , which rules out one line of inquiry . ’ |
| 13 | THE incidence of sexually-transmitted diseases among Plymouth 's prostitutes has been cut by Britain 's only mobile Aids clinic , which hands out free condoms and needles to intravenous drug users . |
| 14 | Washington Square ; Greenwich Village , the part of New York which stays up all night and starts waking up around midday . |
| 15 | The phenomenon here may be the breaking up ( perhaps by storm ) of the hard crusty surface which forms over deep lakes of liquid mud in the Arabah rift valley where this incident occurred . |
| 16 | To complete the game you need to photograph all 16 inventions , each of which takes over 20 shots ! |
| 17 | The social chapter , which takes up three pages of the 134-page treaty , is merely a statement of intent to implement a social dimension within the EC . |
| 18 | As you can see once again the advertising is a problem in year one which takes up forty percent of our actual cost of the total product . |
| 19 | Take for example the allusive references to the human body found in Helen Chadwick 's ‘ Nostalgie de la Boue ’ ( 1990 ) which takes on added resonance due to the visceral nature of the imagery : ‘ boue ’ is mud but also the mud of the unregenerate body that both Bakhtin and Foucault believe the bourgeoisie censor out of culture . |
| 20 | A ten minute tea-break , a telephone call , a brief conversation , anything which breaks up large blocks of concentration , improves efficiency . |
| 21 | Which opens up other areas cover . |
| 22 | It is the VPK which draws up detailed contracts for production ministries , legally binding on all parties . |
| 23 | Deviancy , so the argument runs , has its roots in generational conflict which appears along cultural lines . |
| 24 | The function contains a loop which picks up one character at a time and classifies it . |
| 25 | Manufacturers and packagers have arranged to pick up transport wrappings from retailers and have set up a parallel waste-collection scheme , called the ‘ Duales System Deutscheland ’ , ( DSD ) which picks up recyclable packaging from households and returns it to the manufacturers . |
| 26 | Where political union and sovereignty are concerned , I can see no natural political affinity between the United Kingdom and Luxembourg — a country with a population smaller than Berkshire — or with Belgium , with its divided population , Holland , with its total dependence on its neighbours , or Italy , which has so much difficulty in implementing EC directives , which moralises over other people 's shortcomings and has a new Government roughly every 18 months . |
| 27 | Richards holds that in poetry the function of " feeling " tends to dominate that of " sense " , while Jakobson identifies a special " poetic " function , which can be found in many uses of language , but which dominates over other functions in poetry . |
| 28 | New software modules include VXVMI , a virtual memory tool , which sets up virtual memory capabilities on target systems for run-time and debugging purposes . |
| 29 | SQL also provides a CREATE VIEW command which sets up alternative views of the data derived from other tables and selected rows and columns . |
| 30 | The DoE spokesman said : ‘ This issue is governed by the Waste Collection and Disposal Regulation ( 1992 ) , which sets out various categories of waste that are lifted . |