Example sentences of "which [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such example is : ( 189 ) … the cry which made me suddenly to re-enter the dimension of distinctness . |
| 2 | It is too soon to reach any definitive judgement , given the relatively few companies privatized and the extreme movements of oil prices which make it hard to compare that industry with others . |
| 3 | There was only a scattering of snow across the wheatlands , the area which needs it most to moisten the soil for the growing season . |
| 4 | that people can make their o , they have a balanced education which allows them then to make their own choices about , that things are n't over , I mean if we 've lived in a patriarchal society in which men are in power and that kin , and male sexuality maybe has come through more in sex education , those have been the issues that have been co , ha have been given more importance and female issues have maybe been neglected a little bit and now erm , with Aids as a problem we do n't want to turn out and suddenly become really homo homophobic or really , you know , right condoms , condoms , it has to be you know , you need to kind of keep the balance so that people are given the information and then have the freedom to make the choice themselves . |
| 5 | What we have here is , is a huge sheet of this material on the wall , and the visitors stand in front of this and press a flashlight which allows them then to make all sorts of poses on the wall , and as they then move away , their shadow is left on the wall so they can look back and see what their , their shadow was like in the pose . |
| 6 | Sentence 12a has two possible readings , which can be roughly glossed ( i ) ‘ I did something which caused him almost to die ’ , and ( ii ) ‘ I almost did something which caused him to die . ’ |
| 7 | These increases resulted from three major factors : the cuts imposed on the university student population and the resulting competition for places in public sector institutions , the difficulty which eighteen-year-olds are experiencing in finding jobs which leads them instead to enter full-time higher education , and the fact that the eighteen-year-old population is larger than ever . |
| 8 | The large area of flat water and lighter winds are ideal for RYA level 1 and 2 courses , which teach you happily to sail triangular courses and enjoy puffs of stronger wind . |
| 9 | Engineers have invariably passed through Western universities and polytechnics , which train them more to run projects for the Thames Water Authority than for undertakings in the Third World . |
| 10 | Now there are savings and investment schemes which allow you either to put in a lump sum or tuck away regular savings . |
| 11 | What if she had had a threatening letter which worried her enough to make her turn to pills ? ’ |
| 12 | This may have been the factor which enabled him alone to burn clinker successfully , since a glass kiln would be more likely to reach the temperatures required for successful burning of Portland cement rather than the lime-burning kiln used by his competitors . |
| 13 | If Liz and Owen had n't had that accident , which brought us together to look after the twins , we might never have found each other again ! ’ she cried , feeling almost faint as she fell back on the pillows , hardly able to bear the thought of how narrowly they had averted a lifetime of unhappiness . |
| 14 | the schizophrenic will clearly have a far more intense experience of any given present of the world than we do , since our own present is always part of some larger set of projects which force us selectively to focus our perceptions . |
| 15 | In New York they were called an hour before the show opened , and once they had done their face make-up , they only had to put on tights rather than spend a long time carefully using wet white , which gave them longer to gossip . |
| 16 | If we look at the reasons why kin shared homes with each other in the past , three themes emerge which help us further to understand why there have been fluctuations in co-residence . |
| 17 | Our Western culture , so heavily influenced by Enlightenment thinking , values and attitudes , has banished any vocabulary which enables us seriously to reckon with the ‘ dark powers ’ . |
| 18 | The gentle fanfare-like first movement melody tenderly laid out by the flautist , John Grant , Yuasa had the strings repeat with an ungainly skip , which left him little to develop . |
| 19 | The hardest problems are those where simple processes are hard to find , usually because of some complexity of the puzzle which makes it hard to see the effects of moves , or those where the basic coordinate system and hence a notation is hard to find . |
| 20 | It is thought that the government will follow the Iraqi cause , but the country depends on US and French aid to an extent which makes it hard to believe that the government will take any action to prejudice its continuance . |