Example sentences of "which he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 2 | The past becomes present to him with a total immediacy and a complete conviction which he says intellectual memory could never achieve . |
| 3 | Lastly , there is his first ‘ model ’ of agriculture , with its paupers , ruthless exploitation etc. , of which he says pre-revolutionary Russia was an example . |
| 4 | Ramsey 's own preferred subjects were literature versus science as making for happiness , modern democracy , and internationalism , in which he denounced American isolationism and had an imaginative picture of the American Middle West as a lot of boors who did not know where Europe was . |
| 5 | After retirement he became a respected commentator , chairman of selectors and eventually president of Yorkshire ( 1981-4 ) until , saddened by the internal strife , he resigned from an office in which he took great pride . |
| 6 | He burned his bridges , and , working solely on small-scale projects over which he had total control , descended into drink and drugs . |
| 7 | He appeared regularly in the shop , invariably walking out with yet another purchase for which he had scant use . |
| 8 | Also in 1893 he undertook the restoration of St Peter 's Church , West Knighton , the only restoration for which he had sole responsibility , at a time when he was writing Jude the Obscure . |
| 9 | But the points he made were chiefly concerned with moral questions affecting the status of divorce , on which he had strong views : whereas I had been occupied more with the Baldwin government and its apparent wish to stifle certain political views , especially concerning unemployment , to which the King had given expression . |
| 10 | In the thirty-six years of which he had conscious memory of Mrs Farr Senior , their relationship had never developed beyond the ‘ is n't it a nice day ? ’ stage . |
| 11 | The ensuing clash was a symbol and a foretaste of the countless later occasions on which he challenged orthodox opinions , both religious and secular . |
| 12 | He was soon called ‘ Neil drip ’ for he had the patience to feed our worst cases of enteritis with a fountain pen filler , in which he inserted nutritious liquid to keep life in the tiny bodies , and begin to build them up again . |
| 13 | He 's making sofas which he calls driving seats … and they 're selling all over the world . |
| 14 | A car enthusiast has found a new way of making money out of Minis … he 's turning them into furniture.He 's making sofas which he calls driving seats … and they 're selling all over the world.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 15 | In 1732 Thomas Dover published a treatise in which he advocated metallic mercury as a treatment for a variety of medical complaints apart from syphilis and pointed out that , taken in this form , it did not cause the side-effects of other mercury compounds . |
| 16 | In announcing that he had signed the legislation , Bush issued a statement in which he expressed strong distaste for several ( unidentified ) provisions , and criticized as " unnecessary " the bill 's central attempt to define covert action . |
| 17 | This is the manner in which he justifies legal intervention . |
| 18 | Days Of Thunder star Cruise made the list because he has rejected ‘ hunky ’ roles in favour of films like recent outing Far And Away in which he shared top billing with wife Nicole Kidman . |
| 19 | It was only six miles from the English Border , but in his day England was friendly , and as well as an English wife he had a great many links with the southern kingdom , in which he owned large lands and from which he had brought so many sprigs of the Norman and Flemish nobility to settle in Scotland . |
| 20 | He went to India in 1870 to work first for the raja of Kathiawar , and then for the public works department of the government of India , in which he became executive engineer , military works . |
| 21 | He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1822 and spent the remainder of his life as a leading public figure in Lincoln , of which he became high steward , and its county . |
| 22 | So he turned to other forms of theatre , directing operas , writing and staging revues and musicals , to which he brought new ideas and methods that were widely admired . |
| 23 | E7.93 The European Environmental Bureau : To note that the Director was nominated as the UK EEB members ' representative to an EEB conference on coastal protection development held in Denmark on 1st & 2nd May for which he received European Commission funding . |
| 24 | My Lords , this is an appeal brought by the Director of Public Prosecutions with the leave of the Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1334 from a decision of that court on 22 April 1991 allowing the appeal of the respondent defendant , Edwin Gomez , against his convictions on 20 and 24 April 1990 at Isleworth Crown Court on two counts of theft , for which he received concurrent sentences of two years ' imprisonment , and quashing those convictions . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's got a rather grand name but we simply call him Billy , ’ said dad , who would n't let go of his famous foam mallet with which he bashes kiddy guests on his long-running TV-am show , Wacaday . |
| 26 | And this is supported by recently-appointed Employment Minister David Hunt 's statement in which he said British Government backing is unconditional . |
| 27 | TO ROUND OFF THIS PIECE , I asked Yngwie to list ten albums which he considers essential listening for all guitarists . |
| 28 | The Shah had give a press conference in which he insulted British workers , saying they were not as good as Iranian , " said Behbehanian later . |
| 29 | He established a dummy Swiss company , Lake Resources Inc , through which he laundered vast sums of cash from shady middlemen and arms dealers , right-wing American bigots , and the enormous profits out of the arms ' shipments to the Iranians , who had paid twice the going rate for what they bought . |
| 30 | The bitterness with which he attacks pastoral poetry implies a sense of loss : ‘ 'T IS all a gloomy , melancholy Scene , / Fit only to provoke the Muses ' Spleen ’ . |