Example sentences of "which [vb past] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four of these were members of the networks under observation , but lived in neighbouring townships and so were excluded from the quantitative analysis which concerned itself with the known-unknown ratio in specific townships . |
| 2 | Dope was n't , but the drug legal advice service ‘ Release ’ which concerned itself with the increasing number of busts — and junkies — began operating in West London . |
| 3 | Ms Darlow took along her wedding gown for one and her grandmother 's hat and muff for another an outfit which lent itself to a sepia finish , said Mrs Simmons . |
| 4 | But now , inspired by the example of their neighbours in the restless Islamic Soviet Central Asian republics , one group of Chinese Muslims in Xinjiang province , which borders Afghanistan , Pakistan and the Soviet republics of Uzbekistan , Kazakhstan and Kirgizia , is showing signs of dissatisfaction and a desire for greater autonomy which manifested themselves in a small but bloody rebellion in March of this year . |
| 5 | Not only were they still ignorant of the language , but they now had a sense of personal inadequacy — totally justified , I might add — which manifested itself in a stubborn refusal to learn anything . |
| 6 | They were following the concrete channel of the serpentine rill , which emptied itself into a pool of stygian blackness . |
| 7 | India , which prided itself on the self-sufficiency achieved by its green revolution , was obliged to buy wheat in 1988–9 ; China 's imports of wheat reached record levels in the last years of the decade , a reflection , no doubt , not just of two years of drought but of a situation where peasants received certificates instead of cash for their crops . |
| 8 | In July 1868 — barely a year after leaving Blomfield 's office — his first novel , ‘ The poor man and the lady ’ , was submitted to Macmillan , a firm which prided itself on the quality of its fiction list . |
| 9 | The Labour Conference , which described itself as a body uniting all forms of workers ' struggle for their rights , called for a national warning strike which would create local bodies which could participate in the struggle against the current government and its reforms . |
| 10 | That morning an advertisement appeared in the Belfast News Letter warning that a body which described itself as the Ulster Workers Council would call a general strike if the Assembly approved the Sunningdale agreement . |
| 11 | The wave of interest in the rediscovery of Celtic music is particularly important , and not merely because of the Celtic-Scottish influence on Leonard 's family ( an aspect that the Montreal Gazette highlighted regarding Lyon Cohen 's Gaelic accent recently ) and American eclecticism — often little more than a slavish following of European forms — which found itself in the development of ‘ pop ’ music , notably of ragtime around 1900 and jazz around 1918 . |
| 12 | Once again the country which complained most about the policy was Britain , which found itself in the position of being a ‘ net contributor ’ to the EC after 1973 , paying far more into the EC than it received back . |
| 13 | The black construct before her split , spun into a thin loop , fleshed into a globe , flipped inside out to reveal a hovering pink mass , which detached itself from the main bulk and drifted some distance away . |
| 14 | The NSF , which reorganized itself as a political party in January , won the elections by a landslide , while Iliescu was elected President by an overwhelming majority . |
| 15 | The labourers were drawn into a pattern of early marriages , large families and demoralisation which expressed itself in a growing surliness and a readiness to explode into violent , but contained , protest . |
| 16 | The leper had a ‘ praying faith ’ which expressed itself in a plea or request : |
| 17 | Because this conventionally liberal response to the prevailing mood disguises the fact that the them as which arranged themselves around the flogging solution reflected a much more mature retrenchment , and a much more solid base of opinion and material circumstance than is usefully summarised by the word ‘ panic ’ . |
| 18 | There were clear regional and local distinctions , with their variable impact on economic prosperity , which imposed themselves upon the income , cultural and status divisions which had emerged in the nineteenth century and persisted into the twentieth . |
| 19 | Again , beautifully rounded characters which established themselves at a leisurely pace are the secret of its appeal . |
| 20 | This moral goodness was not exactly out there as an actual property of the benevolent feelings and actions which presented themselves to an observer as possessing it . |
| 21 | Her mind was full of the future which presented itself as a bright empty space crossed by tracks of her own shining , clear-cut flights , her passage swift and sunlit . |
| 22 | As has been noted earlier , TANU 's cadres felt that nation-building could be achieved only through the control of the centre — a view which extended itself to the press . |
| 23 | The main anti-apartheid parties , unbanned by the government in February 1990 are : the African National Congress ( ANC , Oliver Tambo , pres. , Nelson Mandela , deputy pres. ) ; the Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ; Clarence Makwetu was elected president in December after the death in October of Zephania Mothopeng ; PAC general secretary is Benny Alexander — see pp. 37765 , 37910 ) ; the PAC refuses to negotiate with the government until a constituent assembly has been elected by universal suffrage ; the Azanian People 's Organization ( Azapo , Pandelani Nefolovhodwe , pres. ) , which rejects outright any negotiations with the government ; and the South African Communist Party ( SACP , Joe Slovo gen. sec. ) , which re-launched itself as a legal political party within South Africa in July 1990 . |
| 24 | Another , in the late 1960s , was the position of the Ruvuma Development Association ( RDA ) , a group of seven villages near Songea in the extreme south-western corner of Tanzania which grouped themselves in an association of mutual support designed to foster their development and which were ultimately compulsorily disbanded in 1969 . |