Example sentences of "which [verb] [pers pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We even have a tiny yellowhammer which visits us each morning . |
| 2 | I agree one hundred per cent with Graeme Souness when he insists it was that last 10 minutes in the Lenin Stadium which cost them eventual victory against Spartak Moscow . |
| 3 | Students should be advised to keep a " Difficulties Diary " in which they note those items , both phonological and grammatical , which causes them particular difficulty . |
| 4 | I desire only to know that all is well ; that it is but my own foolishness , aided by my being here at so unholy an hour , which causes me such anguish … |
| 5 | One , which caused him great distress , was that of a child . |
| 6 | Even Philip Corder felt inhibited by this evidence , although there was one sherd in this group ( no. 141 ) which caused him some concern , being obviously a Signal Station type , which should have belonged to the end of the fourth century ! |
| 7 | From then on his manner towards me was as cold as ice , which caused me great pain . |
| 8 | I implored him not to , but he was adamant , thus following Rear Admiral Poland who had resigned from Muirfield in consequence of my being blackballed there ( ‘ it makes no sense at all ’ , he wrote to the secretary , ‘ that he can be accepted as a guest but blackballed as a member ’ ) : both were sacrifices for which I felt a personal responsibility and which caused me much distress . |
| 9 | A possible clue to this unusual verbal spate of self-revelation , which caused me some surprise , was , as we now know , that he was at that time engaged in writing The Family Reunion . |
| 10 | To complicate the picture even further , there are a number of other devices which , although not strictly security interests in the sense of vesting some type of proprietary interest in the creditor or which give him possessory control over assets of the debtor company , nevertheless act as security . |
| 11 | Now let A , B be general , and let the equivalent transformations which give them canonical form be PAQ , RBS , where P , Q , R , S are non-singular . |
| 12 | The bat 's ear is similar in design to ours , but with refinements which give it great sensitivity at ultrasonic frequencies . |
| 13 | While the new group can be satisfied by the establishment of alternative facilities , which give it public presence and identity , its distinction from oppositional groups is reasonably clear . |
| 14 | Nearer to the shape of the Flexi , though sparless and using a multiple line bridle system , is the Wolkensturmer Paraflex with a span of 240cm ( 94½in ) and sixteen cells which give it exceptional lifting power . |
| 15 | So then you start thinking about visual images which give you this impression of power and menace , something like the Nuremberg Rallies of the 1930s , and use that as the basis of your inspiration . |
| 16 | ‘ It is times like these which give us all hope , ’ she said . |
| 17 | The other major concern for women is about finding ways of living which give us more independence , more control over our own lives , and more self worth than is frequently the experience of women in subordination to men . |
| 18 | The proposed areas are included among 40 National Scenic Areas , which affords them some protection , but the Commission feels that they urgently need much better management and investment if their natural beauty , range of species of wildlife and cultural values are to be preserved . |
| 19 | Mr Hall denied this and maintained his 270 new recruits had been bonded together by the ugly scenes which confronted them each day as they passed picket lines . |
| 20 | In addition , my Grandfather , for twenty-odd years prior to his death , at the age of seventy two in 1907 , suffered from a chest condition which incapacitated him each winter . |
| 21 | This is the nature with which I desperately attune , knowing no other , with which I painfully harmonise , fearful always of the loss of the love which keeps me that way . |
| 22 | It was a neat idea , and one which placed it half way between the rigid discipline of the Trotskyites and the hopeless chaos of the Anarchists ( or Libertarians , as they preferred to call themselves ) on the ultra-left spectrum . |
| 23 | We can observe that she is happy only when she is furious , and do not need to have it suggested that her earlier nickname of ‘ Thatcher Milk-Snatcher ’ derived from her own breast-deprivation , which denies her all happiness and allows her ‘ only the sadistic triumphs of tawdry political and military victories . ’ |
| 24 | However , it hardly seems satisfactory to say that it is conscience which tells us that conscience should be at the controls , for presumably self love would say the same of itself if given its head . |
| 25 | Over the next eight years he applied himself to the development and perfection of the colour printing process which brought him international fame . |
| 26 | He was elected to the Commons by 2,961 votes to 2,956 in 1892 , which brought him great popularity in India . |
| 27 | Whinfield served as an assistant director of chemical research in the Ministry of Supply during World War II and then joined ICI in 1947 , first in its plastics division and then in the fibres division , which brought him worldwide travel , including a visit to the USSR in 1961 as a guest of the USSR government . |
| 28 | He filled six key posts ( all of which were election-related ) , including that of Prime Minister , with non-party figures , an action which earned him warm acclaim from the main opposition parties both of which pledged full support for the new administration and ended their boycott of the National Assembly . |
| 29 | But for Sergeant Geoff Newitt , from Great Milton in Oxfordshire , memories of the night last July which earned him this honour are never far from his mind . |
| 30 | Non tax-exempt institutions will accordingly be attracted by investments which offer them franked investment income which they can use to cover dividend payments to their own shareholders . |