Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marx in many ways was the heir of the tradition which goes back to Rousseau and much of his work is concerned with demonstrating why private property equals exploitation . |
| 2 | The central thesis of the " redundancy theory " , which goes back to F.P.Ramsey , is that the predicate " true " and locutions such as " It is true that … |
| 3 | And first I want to discuss this idea of hopeful monsters , which is a phrase which goes back to Richard Goldsmith , the geneticist , who argued that occasionally a single — well he was vague about what kind of mutation he had in mind , because he had really rather odd ideas about what genes were and so on but he held occasionally that some genetic change gave rise in some sense in a single dialectical leap to organisms strikingly different from their parents and that speciation consisted of the establishment of such hopeful monsters or macro mutations . |
| 4 | This week it 's our drama series , Family Pride , the country 's first Asian soap opera , which goes out at teatime on Thursdays and will soon be shown three nights a week on Channel Four . |
| 5 | The band have little spare time on their hands , they 've just completed a 50 date tour and have recorded a session for the Bob Harris Radio One show which goes out from Monday April 13th–16th , one song each night . |
| 6 | For the International Guitar Festival of Great Britain which kicks off on Monday is now acknowledged as the largest of its kind in the world . |
| 7 | STOCKTON , thumped by 40 points in their last two games , ring the changes up front for tomorrow 's attractive home match with West Hartlepool , which kicks off at noon . |
| 8 | Martin Saunders retains the full back position for the hastily arranged game at Middlesbrough , which kicks off at noon . |
| 9 | There are only two things you need to know about the new Grand Prix season which kicks off in Kyalami , outside Johannesburg this Sunday . |
| 10 | This season a new team has been included in the competition which kicks off in mid-September . |
| 11 | he believes cumulative stress which builds up over time , should be classified as an industrial injury for which people can claim compensation . |
| 12 | People enquiring about the Allied Trust Tessa and the company 's status are accurately told by employees that Tessa deposits are covered by the deposit-holders ' protection scheme , which guarantees up to 75% of the first £20,000 of an investor 's money if a bank fails . |
| 13 | One point which cries out for consideration is this : do the Christian doctrines which Hegel has transposed into his own metaphysical key still mean the same ? |
| 14 | ‘ I believe that it is quite wrong that you should refuse this reasonable request and I regret to say that your attitude is all too typical of the secretive nature of British government , which cries out for reform . ’ |
| 15 | So , it is not at all surprising that the church which launches out in faith will find the power of God at hand . |
| 16 | A post-mortem into the cause , effect and outcome of legitimate war aims this multiple Australian Oscar winner is a devastating indictment of the nasty scapegoat zeal which lives on after battle . |
| 17 | ‘ We are delighted with the results so far , especially the performance , which stands up to comparison with the rest of the sports car world . |
| 18 | Every sequence of film has a ‘ leader ’ strip which counts down in seconds from ten to the point where the action begins . |
| 19 | The first seventeen chapters of Scale 2 provide a context for this discussion which looks back to Scale 1 . |
| 20 | In Wimsatt 's definition irony is a ‘ cognitive principle which shades off through paradox into the general principle of metaphor ’ ( Wimsatt and Brooks 1957 : 747 ) ; according to Brooks , it is the ‘ most general term that we have for the kind of qualification which the various elements in a context receive from the context ’ ( Brooks 1949 : 191 ) . |
| 21 | Molly uses soap and water to wash her face so we 're going to use the cleansing gel which lathers up like soap . |
| 22 | There remains here a certain sense of uneasiness in the face of the " desert " of contemporary culture which reaches back to Dyson 's account of the " younger " universities published in Critical Quarterly almost a decade earlier . |
| 23 | Whereas we are encouraged to remember the pre-war years as the home of traditional discipline and common sense , we can hardly fail to notice the sympathy which reaches out to Hatton 's bad boys or to Butterworth 's hyperactive little terror — a sympathy , what is more , that nowadays would often be slapped down as a sentimental , modern , postwar ‘ permissive ’ fad . |
| 24 | From paler forms of much smaller Tawny Owl , differs also in its long tail , which hangs down in flight , and relatively smaller eyes . |
| 25 | A machine which closes down with Michael Palin enthusing : ‘ Ah , I see you have the machine which goes PING ! ’ and which signals errors by way of Eric Idle 's angry , affronted ‘ Ni ! ’ is very hard to accuse of alienation . |
| 26 | ‘ Each parcel 's reference is different which cuts down on mistakes . ’ |
| 27 | This is a highly intuitive environment which cuts down on training needs , but it is not to everyone 's taste , and it needs more development work behind the scenes if we have to write bespoke software . |
| 28 | The average household throws away 3kg of waste paper every week , most of which ends up in landfill where its breakdown contributes to the production of explosive methane gas . |
| 29 | As well as being simpler , this allows us to follow a historical sequence which leads up to serialism . |
| 30 | After Canhas there is a road to the right — which it is very easy to miss — which leads up to Paúl da Serra and one of the alternative routes through to Porto do Moniz . |