Example sentences of "which [vb base] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This heading is quite extravagant on fabric and needs fullness of three times the track length for true box pleats which butt up against each other .
2 These trays take four or six PP3s ( depending on the model of detector ) which push on to snap terminals in the bottom of the tray .
3 Food , of course , remains a topic of passionate concern — the focus of minor complaints and disagreements which rumble on for long periods — and outbursts of contentment which are extremely short-lived .
4 We 're looking at sizes of nests bigger than dustbin bags , which service up to 25,000 wasps , which produce 4,000 to 5,000 Queens , which survive until next year .
5 Indigenous communities in Guatemala , which make up between 60 and 75 per cent of the total population , form an underclass .
6 We are thus given a means of exploring some of the behaviour ( especially the ‘ irrational ’ behaviour ) of our users , of exploring stories some of which cry out for psychoanalytic examination ( particularly ‘ classics ’ such as Lewis Carroll 's Alice stories and J. M. Barrie 's disturbing Peter Pan ) , and of understanding the profound impact of such books as those of Maurice Sendak .
7 We also seek to give some indication of the overall role we would expect the business to play in our picture of the future of the company , and ask them to develop plans which fit in with that role .
8 Among the most cost-effective holidays to Euro Disney are those run by Eurocamp ( 0565–633844 ) which sells accommodation in a 130-acre ‘ wilderness retreat ’ where guests stay in log-cabin- style trailers which sleep up to six people .
9 There are also sets of tiles which build up into larger designs ( known as feature panels ) , and which can look quite striking when surrounded by an area of plain tiling .
10 Yet here is a natural means of self-gratification and of relief from sexual tensions which build up in all of us , which is widely viewed ( regardless of whether it is practised ) as somehow wicked , aberrant , distasteful or shameful .
11 Those which cost up to 2 times the yardstick rugs .
12 Basalts , because of their low viscosity , tend to form low , thin flows which spread out over large areas , and are rarely more than thirty metres thick .
13 Despite the introduction of phosphorescent strips which show up under ultra-violet light , and a security shield on the new 10 pound stamp , counterfeits still cost the postal service millions of pounds a year .
14 Disposal of the Trabants has presented problems since the chassis is constructed of synthetic resin and Soviet cotton wool waste , which break down into low-level toxic materials .
15 The main frame is constructed out of three shock corded poles which break down for convenient transportation whilst the dome itself fits away compactly .
16 But the security and long-term attractions of many of the investor/developers , as opposed to the property traders which hold on to little of what they develop , makes many of the downgradings a nonsense .
17 The NTV , with its headquarters in Lagos , had television stations in all nineteen state capitals which link up at certain times — especially for the main evening news bulletin — and have federally appointed management .
18 The forgiveness offered by her young blue eyes , which peep out in mortal embarrassment from the old sneaker of her face , so puffed , so pinched , so parched .
19 It is important for RE to engage explicitly with those aspects of experience which open up for many people a religious frame of reference .
20 On a gentler note , two richly evocative novels which look back to different eras .
21 There are great chunks of life , after childhood , which drop out of conscious memory .
22 Use the same list of numbers and arrange them in groups which add up to 10 — we all know how to multiply by ten .
23 The benefit of this revolutionary diet is based not on just one advantage over other diets but on many factors which add up to faster , easier , more effective slimming .
24 The acquisition of Walker will put British Steel on a par with its rivals in Germany and France which control up to 70 per cent of the stockholding outlets through which their steel is sold to industrial customers .
25 Through Colquhoun and MacBryde , who were receiving patronage from two sisters who lived in Lewes , Mrs Frances Byng Stamper and Caroline Byng Lucas , he became associated with the Society of London Painters-Printers which set up in 1948 , in conjunction with the Redfern Gallery .
26 Appendices , which set out on separate numbered pages any detailed material , unsuitable for inclusion in the body of your report .
27 The adult worms which measure up to 2.5 cm are bloodsuckers , have a reddish colour and can be seen by the naked eye .
28 The stone nave piers are grouped columns which soar up to tiny capitals and then to the beautiful vault which springs from them ( 538 ) .
29 The U K is the wettest country in Europe and water companies should be forced to cut leakages from corrode corroded pipelines which allow up to twenty five percent loss from the water supply before it reaches the consumer .
30 For each attainment target there are statements of attainment which define up to ten levels of attainment specifying what pupils should know , understand and be able to do , appropriate for pupils of different ages and abilities .
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