Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | After supper the ladies sung Erse songs , to which I listened as an English audience to an Italian opera , delighted with the sound of words which I did not understand . ’ |
| 2 | Denise Harriman , the senator 's aide , uttered a barely audible sigh which I translated as an expression of relief that her responsibility for the twins was ending . |
| 3 | I shall continue to pursue another matter on which I touched in an Adjournment debate , although it is difficult to arouse great interest in it among Conservative Members or among anyone else . |
| 4 | So much for the jerk-off theories put forward by the police , in which I figure as an adulterous version of George Joseph Smith — not the brides in the bath but the wittol in the water . |
| 5 | In a broken-backed 1892 edition of John Murray 's Handbook for Travellers in Syria and Palestine which I bought in an antiquarian bookshop in west Beirut , a volume with a faded title in gold on its pale red cover , I discovered an item entitled ‘ Muslim Arabs ’ . |
| 6 | Bed after regular bed shows a dark , laminated lower portion which I identify as an algal mat type deposit that has been ripped up and incorporated , in a graded fashion , in " cleaner " , paler sediment from offshore . |
| 7 | I feel would never wish to give up or reject feminism , which I see as an insistence on putting women first , an insistence on women 's autonomy and I think that the debates with National Liberation struggles , the debate in the Irish National Liberation struggle has seen the two things as going hand in hand . |
| 8 | I therefore set about devising a better mathematical treatment , which I described at an informal seminar in Oxford at the end of November 1973 . |
| 9 | I remember Nora 's first postcard — which she sent in an envelope secretly to my office . |
| 10 | Elizabeth Blackwell , the pioneer woman doctor , in The Human Element in Sex ( 1885 ) , rejected Acton 's denial of female sexuality , which she saw as an ‘ immense spiritual force of attraction … |
| 11 | She runs the advertising for Phileas Fogg Snacks , Babycham and Shell which she describes as an interesting mixture . |
| 12 | Three putts cost her a stroke at the 18th , which she followed with an eagle three at the 430-yard first when her seven-iron second finished only two feet from the hole . |
| 13 | But there was no doubting the fact that this woman had a powerful and disturbing sexuality , which she used with an expertness that was almost professional . |
| 14 | While the soft-voiced viol consort was peculiarly suitable for domestic music , there was a standard mixed consort for public occasions , of which we hear in an account ( 1591 ) of an entertainment for Elizabeth I at Elvetham in Hampshire : an ‘ exquisite consort , wherein was the lute , bandora , base-viol , citterne , treble-violl , and flute ’ . |
| 15 | Moderator the erm overture which we passed into an act er in the last sentence of section three says the names of such children , that 's those children who have been admitted to erm communion as children , shall be admitted to the communion roll of the congregation when they have made public profession of their faith that is , when they reach the point at which they make that normal statement and the my understanding would be people whose names are on the communion roll . |
| 16 | There was a lavatory in the garden — no grass — which we shared with an Irish family who lived on the floor above us . |
| 17 | I rang the owner Gary Harris , and arranged with him to go out to the USA and view the aircraft , after which we came to an agreement and I purchased the Corsair . |
| 18 | Then , just over two years later , John announced at the AGM ( which we use as an opportunity to set spiritual and practical goals for the year to come ) that he felt the time had come for church number three . |
| 19 | The main good grains on which we depend for an essential part of our daily diet come from plants belonging to the family of grasses and can not be readily digested until the tough outer shells are broken up and , sometimes , removed . |
| 20 | It is a journey in time , which we begin with an experience which completely absorbs our attention but which , at a certain psychological point , demands change . |
| 21 | We brought books to Brownies which we read for an hour and we were not allowed to say a word . |
| 22 | My annual rendezvous with Ben Holt , a climbing friend based in Geneva , came on the 125th anniversary of the first ascent of the Matterhorn , which we celebrated with an ascent of the Dent Blanche . |
| 23 | We could not avoid , we felt , erm a small part of the fixed cost to the primary schools being cut , but that was offset by a provision for additional staffing in the primary sector , which we identify as an important item . |
| 24 | Habituation and sensitization are not the only kinds of non-associative learning : imprinting , which we discussed in an earlier section , is another kind ; and the development of bird song , which we shall discuss later , yet another . |
| 25 | We refuse to accept the human and inevitable tragedy of aging , even in the case of contemporary art , which we condemn to an unwanted permanence , despite its attempt to go the way of all flesh . |
| 26 | In what follows I am going to use a general procedure for reading texts to examine specific features of racist discourse to be found in ‘ Fighting talk ’ and ‘ The last laugh ’ and to suggest a series of questions which they raise as an agenda for further research and debate . |
| 27 | Herr Kohl acknowledged that the far Right was gaining support from people opposed to the EC 's Maastricht agreement , which they saw as an anti-nationalist pact to give up the Deutschemark . |
| 28 | In 1951 Burgess and Maclean fled to Moscow ; Aneurin Bevan and Harold Wilson resigned from the Labour government in protest at the imposition of charges within the National Health Service , which they saw as an attack on the principles of the Welfare State . |
| 29 | In fact the channelling of reports and dissertations towards educationally productive goals is merely part of a wider and far more important issue , that of establishing a new climate of opinion among teachers and those who train them which regards enquiry about the learners and the environment in which they learn as an important part of a teacher 's professional life , which seeks to develop interests and provide skills for them to do so as part of their training and retraining and which rewards initiatives undertaken in college and subsequently . |
| 30 | Developing countries are unhappy about the dominant role envisaged for the Global Environment Facility , run by the World Bank and the UN , which they see as an extension of Western interests . |