Example sentences of "which [vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The action of the film was eclipsed by some of motor racing enthusiast McQueen 's off-screen dramas , setting his Savoy Hotel room alight while trying to prepare himself a hamburger , driving at speed into the hotel 's small forecourt and screeching into a U-turn — by hitting a large puddle on the way and drenching other guests — and overturning his car while racing , against the film studio 's orders , resulting in a cut lip , which mean rescheduling some scenes .
2 A great politician is a man who does not interpret the world in which he intends to act on the basis of appearances … he is a man who is capable at all times of making sense of the various motive forces which combine to produce historical events , and which when analysed provide a perspective on the future .
3 The species involved are characteristically tall perennial monocots which tend to form pure stands on the edge of water bodies .
4 It is quite justifiable therefore to picture polymers as made up from stiff by flexible chains freely sliding among their neighbours and constrained only by cross-links or entanglements — unless , of course , strong lateral forces also exist , such as the hydrogen bonds in polypeptides or polyamides , which tend to hold neighbouring chains together .
5 Captive-bred Pretty Tetras , have a much more brighter colouration than wild-caught specimens , the latter of which tend to lose this brightness over a period of time when kept in an aquarium .
6 Moreover , FoE also criticizes the authorities for alerting the public only to short-lived peak incidents , whereas it is the sustained eight-hour incidents which tend to affect vulnerable groups .
7 Duncan says ‘ the brute fact remains that democratic politics can not prevent the creation of remote , state-entrenched centres of power which tend to promote general apathy , cynicism , and ignorance about politics among the masses of the people ’ .
8 Whether the beta-adrenergic effects of adrenaline , which tend to increase myocardial work and reduce subendocardial perfusion , are detrimental is still controversial .
9 But it also has provisions for mineral exploration firms and investment trusts , neither of which tend to have typical trading records .
10 ‘ The most popular tartans are the more classical blue and white ranges which tend to match existing tableware colours .
11 The summer breeding season extends between November and February , so we would have to come back again earlier in the season to have a look at some of the other birds , such as the smaller land birds , which tend to present more problems to the photographer .
12 It 's little bits of progress like that which make riding young horses so much fun .
13 While there may have been isolated instances which appear to confirm this interpretation ( for example , in 1970 the Soviet Union bought up Costa Rica 's excess of coffee , which may well have been a factor contributing to the establishment of diplomatic relations the following year ) , other such instances have been similarly small-scale and the evidence overall is against it .
14 The cladograms so produced displayed a variety of patterns , many of which appear to simulate temporal diversity changes in well-studied fossil groups .
15 There are plenty of examples in English criminal law of crimes which appear to include harmful consequences as a definitional element irrespective of any actual state of mind referable thereto : s. 47 , Offences Against the Person Act 1861 ; s. 51 ( 1 ) , Police Act 1964 ; s .
16 The ability to recast an expression from one language into the form of another depends on reference to some underlying construct of meaning which may establish a resemblance between expressions which appear very different and a distinction between expressions which appear to resemble each other .
17 Table 1.1 lists six items from the DBQ which appear to imply some form of memory failure .
18 None the less there is a need to consider three countervailing social control forces , which appear to have some effect on persons contemplating ‘ conventional ’ crimes , to see if they act as brakes on persons contemplating corporate crime .
19 Those European countries which appear to place greater emphasis upon long-stay hospital care are those , such as Spain or Greece , which are currently developing their social welfare provision from a comparatively low base ( Anderson , 1992 ) .
20 Actions which appear to compromise free speech are sure to be criticised in Parliament , where the Attorney must answer for both his and the DPP 's prosecution policy .
21 In the end , however , the power bloc is working to maintain the hegemony of the dominant class and any policies which appear to question these interests are in fact nothing of the sort .
22 Almost all jurisdictions now have schemes which provide state funded compensation schemes for victims of crime , although when the ‘ Son-of-Sam ’ legislation was enacted in New York , victim compensation schemes in many jurisdictions in the United States of America were non-existent or rudimentary .
23 However , since joint production and ( more clearly ) joint marketing is much more likely to create the undesirable anticompetitive effects which cause concern than joint R&D is , it seems reasonable to insist that firms which propose extending joint activities beyond R&D must bear the burden of proving that such extensions are in the public interest .
24 The only difference you will notice in normal LIFESPAN operation is that transactions which involve reading offlined modules will take longer than usual , as the modules must first be brought back online .
25 Nonetheless , commentators say that while SCSI-2 will alleviate transaction processing problems , it is insufficient to handle multi-media applications which involve moving full-motion video images on a network .
26 You feel that you 're a bit of burden on your friends , perhaps , because you ca n't go to the pub and buy a round of drinks , because you 're bit of a drag on a lot of activities which involve spending some sort of money .
27 Most experts attributed this to the so-called " greenhouse effect " , caused by a buildup in the earth 's atmosphere of gases which act to prevent solar heat reflected from the planet from escaping into space [ see pp. 36783-84 ] .
28 In this sense all socialist parties are revolutionary , since their objective is to replace a capitalist form of society by a socialist one ; so also are nationalist parties which seek to overthrow colonial rule , and perhaps in a more limited sense right-wing parties , such as fascist parties , which attempt to restore a more hierarchical and authoritarian type of society .
29 Recently the Dulverton Trust has contributed more than £1 million to charities which seek to improve industrial relations .
30 In the past , the courts have often been hostile to exclusion clauses , particularly those drawn in wide terms which seek to negate all liabilities of the party relying on the clause .
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