Example sentences of "in a [adj] [noun sg] which " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other recent applications have included the entire works held in a prestigious library which were infested with booklice . |
| 2 | For example , at the end of 1986 a small fund owned and administered by a group of workers in a nationalized industry which we shall call ‘ The General Sickness and Funeral Fund ’ had the following investments : Notes : The figures for the gross yield on equities takes into account the time over which the investment has been held ( unstated ) and can not be used as a holding period return for CAPM as the periods are unequal . |
| 3 | There are advantages to listening in a face-to-face conversation which communication links such as the telephone and tape recorder do not offer , although being in the presence of the speaker is not an absolute prerequisite for ‘ effective listening ’ . |
| 4 | Even in a legal system which had the narrowest of definitions of murder — say , premeditated intention to kill — there would still be an argument that some cases which fulfil that criterion should have their label reduced from murder to manslaughter because of extenuating circumstances . |
| 5 | The US decision was criticized by ASEAN in a final communiqué which stated that " attempts to change the [ UN ] representation of Cambodia at this time … would set back the search for a comprehensive political solution to the problem " . |
| 6 | That 's one of the reasons why I 'm , why I 'm also interested in er in Freud because I think Freud provides that , I happen to think that Freud 's studies of , of crowd group psychology actually explain that , although it takes time to you know , certainly not at five minutes to four , it takes time to explain , but I think there is an explanation there and I think you c y y you can claim that there are certain emotions to do with identification and idealization , th that our genes have a programmer which things like erm nationalistic erm , erm er kind of jingoism can exploit in a modern culture which in primal cultures would have primal cultures people identify with their , with their local kin and their local culture and that 's that might ultimately promote their reproductive success , but that in modern cultures , this identification occurs with erm on a completely different level and with lots of people will not merely because you need so many more people modern cultures you have much more erm much bigger groups and you just meet many more people that , than you were ever th there is some interesting research , research recently published for instance which shows erm organizations seem to have a critical size and that people are not really able to track more than about two hundred and fifty other people , in other words you can have face-to-face relationships with up to about two hundred and fifty others , but once it gets beyond two hundred and fifty it 's too much and you start forgetting somebody as if the brain was primed to an optimum group size and once you get above that you just ca n't keep . |
| 7 | Thus was Cu Sith , and he differed from other dogs in having paws that left prints the size of a man 's , and a long tail plaited in a flat braid which lay coiled upon his back . |
| 8 | Success in education has come largely through a process of social indoctrination ; if the young person has been brought up in a supportive home which was valued education and encouraged the youngster to stick at the work in order to pass through the hoops which lead to higher education and the professional occupations , the young person has very often done well at school . |
| 9 | Figure 1 a and b depicts , from behind , a pair of eyes viewing a rectangular pattern lying in a fronto-parallel plane which is either close to the observer ( a ) or far away ( b ) . |
| 10 | Paul Simpson broke free on the left , raced into the box and fired in a low-angled shot which keeper Ludo Miklosko fumbled . |
| 11 | The harddisk does not suffer from the same problems as it is in a sealed unit which should not be tampered with in any circumstances . |
| 12 | Dawn Allenby presented Richard St Ives with an oil-painting of a bull in a tortoise-shell frame which had caught her eye at the back of a butcher 's stall in St John 's Market . |
| 13 | Koeman was involved everywhere and cracked in a 35-yard shot which cannoned back off the post after 48 minutes . |
| 14 | There is little dialectic , then : on the one hand , there are ‘ those who live , in a more or less besieged manner , in a close commonality which divorces itself from the values of the prevailing culture ’ ( ibid : 163 ) ; on the other , those who are ‘ alienated from the possibilities of an immediate life of the unselfconscious body ’ ( ibid : 157 ) . |
| 15 | He then construed the words in a restrictive covenant which prevented the defendant from working for Great Universal Stores ( GUS ) or any of its subsidiaries . |
| 16 | Throughout 1802 she had entertained at Merton Place , where she and Sir William and Horatio had a strange ménage à trois , in a lavish style which cost around £65 per week . |
| 17 | In her opinion , her love for her husband was not diminished at all just because another man could raise her to sexual satisfaction in a devastating fulfilment which was lacking in Stephen 's love-making . |
| 18 | The legislation embodies numerous illogicalities and anomalies , including the double capital tax charge on gifts made within seven years before death , the taxation of some settlements as if no interest in possession exist when , in fact , they do , and the effect of the ‘ pooling ’ rules for shares etc , which can result in a chargeable gain which greatly exceeds the actual gain on a disposal of a recently acquired holding , eg on a rights issue . |
| 19 | and they 've also got it in a dark green which is really nice . |
| 20 | They are partially derived from the conventional or literal meaning of an utterance , produced in a specific context which is shared by the speaker and the hearer , and depend on a recognition by the speaker and the hearer of the Cooperative Principle and its maxims . |
| 21 | Five seconds later they opened again , and I was in a wide corridor which appeared to lead right to the rear of the building . |
| 22 | Coaches on the way to Hastings made their last stop for horses at Battle 's George Hotel , where the ostler lived in a tiny cottage which still stands in the yard , to be roused by the bell outside his front door . |
| 23 | Within a few moments I had been directed to the Gasthof zur Alte Post and installed myself in a tiny room which was to cost about £12 for the night , including breakfast . |
| 24 | For the reverse engineering provisions to have any real effect , the word " substantial " would have to be interpreted in a quantitative sense which would run counter to copyright law . |
| 25 | Wigan held the previous record of eight players for the 1950 tour and there can be no argument about their representation in a 32-man squad which is ‘ stronger and better equipped ’ than any sent previously , according to Malcolm Reilly , the British coach . |
| 26 | Relate real or imaginary events in a connected narrative which conveys meaning to a group of pupils , the teacher or another known adult . |
| 27 | But it does so in a relativistic way which needs to be examined with care . |
| 28 | The whole process can be summarized in a simple diagram which looks like this : |
| 29 | In a particularly difficult matter which necessitated a partner dealing with it throughout then the rate would be £108 per hour , and in a simple matter which was dealt with by a legal executive or newly qualified solicitor , the rate will be about £75 per hour . |
| 30 | She is clothed in a simple shift which reveals the outline of her thighs , the slight curve of her abdomen , her small round breasts . |