Example sentences of "which [vb base] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's little bits of progress like that which make riding young horses so much fun . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Recently the Dulverton Trust has contributed more than £1 million to charities which seek to improve industrial relations . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Its scope is very broad , ranging from research which simulates human mental activities such as perception , natural language interpretation and mathematical reasoning , to projects which seek to design intelligent machines , such as robots for deep sea mineral exploration , and consultation programs for diagnosing diseases . |
| 15 | At international level , the International Labour Organization ( ILO ) and the World Health Organization ( WHO ) collaborate to produce various recommendations which seek to establish worldwide standards of safety with the purpose of preventing avoidable accidents at work . |
| 16 | Apart from a few parts which seem to lack any antecedents , it derives variously , but less closely , from the compositions just mentioned , from the lecture on " Greek Music Drama " January 1870 ) , from the fragments on " The Greek State " and , in a few places , from the earlier preface to Wagner . |
| 17 | Unlike quasars and active galactic nuclei , which seem to require black holes to explain the enormous energies coming from very compact regions , the energy generated by Sgr A is rather feeble . |
| 18 | Can it help Third World countries as they are forced to choose between capitalism and Marxism both of which seem to have unattractive features ? |
| 19 | Both theories are exercises in analytical moral philosophy which aspire to provide rational principles to support particular conceptions of just social arrangements . |
| 20 | To quote Sir Keith : " One of the aims of studying history is to understand the development of the shared values which are a distinctive feature of British society and culture and which continue to shape private attitudes and public policy . |
| 21 | Slavery and imperial domination have been crucial social forces in the emergence of a modern world order , characterized by the striking inequalities which provide the essential backdrop to an understanding of the post-Second World War migrations of black communities to Britain , and which continue to generate migratory pressures on peoples from the Third World . |
| 22 | That is good news for those which claim to identify hidden structures and forces , although this itself does nothing to tell us how to justify such a claim . |
| 23 | They include so-called ‘ snuff ’ films which claim to show real murders . |
| 24 | If we get involved in activities which claim to contact hidden powers ( another word for ‘ hidden ’ is ‘ occult ’ ) — then , often without meaning to , we open our minds to those harmful influences . |
| 25 | Experimental investigations embrace a range of approaches which include field plot experiments , through laboratory hardware models which attempt to use scaled-down versions of the real world , to analogue models which employ a different medium for investigation . |
| 26 | ‘ American art in the twentieth century ’ , the fourth in a series of exhibitions which attempt to define national schools of modern and contemporary art , opens in Berlin next month . |
| 27 | Thus , many community mental handicap teams have devised absurdly ambitious operational policies which attempt to do all things for all persons . |
| 28 | Where these conditions do not prevail — as in health care — writing , setting , and enforcing comprehensive contracts which try to predict all contingencies and deal with all possible risks becomes very difficult and costly ( Bartlett 1991 ) . |
| 29 | More recently , books have been written which try to avoid these stereotypes . |
| 30 | Your essays are answers which try to satisfy these requirements . |