Example sentences of "which [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dates are significant , for they show that the spirit which ruled in the Italian city republics had noisy echoes in Germany and France — all over northern Europe indeed ; and that Italy and the northern communes were not so far apart as the northern monarchs and many modern historians have wished them to be . |
| 2 | The Somali Patriotic Movement , which operated in the southern Ogaden , in November 1989 agreed to co-operate with the SNM . |
| 3 | Extensive stretches of mudflats also seemed likely to disappear at Strangford , Co Down , the province 's most important estuary — endangering 50,000 waders , 25,000 wildfowl and 90 per cent of the pale-bellied Brent geese which wintered in the British Isles . |
| 4 | We can contrast the Government 's approach with Labour 's approach , which goes in the opposite direction , once again leading industry and the public as lambs to the militant trade unionist slaughter . |
| 5 | " The skeleton of a micro-organism which lived in the ancient seas from which the chalk in the putty was deposited . |
| 6 | Now there was once a Queen , who might have been thought to have everything she could desire in the world , but had set her heart on a strange silent bird a traveller had told of , which lived in the snowy mountains , nested only once , raised its gold and silver chick , sang once only , and then faded like snow in the lowlands . |
| 7 | The rooks and crows which lived in the decaying stumps of the castle 's high towers could talk ; they had been given the voices of Quiss and Ajayi 's respective rivals , unfaithful lovers and hated superiors . |
| 8 | At the time of this study , which ceased in the early 1980s , average interest payments for the 73 countries were $27.50 per capita . |
| 9 | I shall return to this point later , but must first record how matters went in the Divisional Court , omitting for present purposes any reference to an alternative ground of relief concerning the Director 's refusal to wait whilst the applicant pursued his application for legal aid , which failed in the Divisional Court and was not renewed on appeal . |
| 10 | The 1830s saw the foundation of hundreds of small banks like the Midland , many of which failed in the successive financial crises of the following decade . |
| 11 | The Poles looked back to two periods of greatness — the kingdom of the Piasts , which disintegrated in the twelfth century , and that of the Jagiellonians under whose rule Poland 's frontiers were extended from the Baltic to the Black Sea . |
| 12 | Yet another new style was created when Nonconformist buildings adapted the designs of the public buildings which arose in the final years of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | It could successfully handle the problems which arose in the therapeutic setting with the masochistic patients , always a key requirement of a theoretical change for Freud 's theorizing . |
| 14 | Bultmann , as I mentioned , never speaks in terms of a two-nature Christology of the type which arose in the Greek world . |
| 15 | The immediate impulse was the prospect which arose in the 1830s that Canada might go the same way of rebellion as the American colonies . |
| 16 | They have also worked to rally Third World opinion , especially in the United Nations , against various island dependencies which remain in the American and Western orbit . |
| 17 | Eggs laid by the root form which hatch in the late autumn , turn into larvae which hibernate in the roots , not emerging until the spring temperatures rise above 10°C the following year , when they attain maturity . |
| 18 | Similarly it seems unlikely that the reader will bother to construct a three-dimensional , photographic representation of ‘ the baby ’ which cries in the first sentence and which is picked up in the second sentence . |
| 19 | You have to pay SMP to any woman who has been continuously employed by you for at least 26 weeks into the qualifying week and whose average weekly earnings are at least equal to the lower earnings limit for NI contributions which applied in the qualifying week . |
| 20 | Secondly , this sector is highly competitive , there is a complete absence of the monopolies which predominate in the formal sector . |
| 21 | To catch a web-building spider , look for a web in the early morning after a still cool night when there will be dew on the web , which glistens in the early morning sunshine . |
| 22 | The blue-ringed octopus , which lives in the subtropical and temperate shallow waters off eastern Australia , is comparatively small , with a diameter of only 20 cm ( 8 in ) . |
| 23 | It is characteristic that the more modest member of these august committees fail to recognize themselves as belonging to the Great and Good , a tribe which lives in the great terra incognita of Quangoland . |
| 24 | The Ammophila wasp , which lives in the open desert lands of the American mid-west , when breeding time comes starts digging a burrow . |
| 25 | The nearest you get to this is the thrilling moment at the end of Act One when , as though he had engendered them , the thunder and lightning which usher in the next act and a complete change of country , melodramatically erupt during Iago 's concluding lines . |
| 26 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 27 | These are SOURCE , PMODEL or FOREIGN modules which appear in the primary directory but which are not contained within any user-package . |
| 28 | We shall consider words , phrases and sentences which appear in the textual record of a discourse to be evidence of an attempt by a producer ( speaker / writer ) to communicate his message to a recipient ( hearer / reader ) . |
| 29 | These are followed by documents relating to the SI in Britain which include Ralph Rumney 's Psychogeographic Map of Venice ( 1957 ) , and brief statements by Michèle Bernstein which appear in the British press in the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 30 | He imagined the personal messages which appear in the back pages ( usually on cheaper paper , and often coloured a dull pale yellow or pink ) of such magazines , and he imagined writing replies to these messages , imagined exactly what he would say , even imagined meeting some of these men . |