Example sentences of "which [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Widdicombe ( 1986 , vol. 1 , table 2.1 ) revealed that in 1985 the proportion of councils in party political control had risen to 84 per cent , hence in ‘ many , perhaps most … councils the party group ’ which rarely figures on organization charts — ‘ has become the focus of political decision ’ ( Alexander , 1982a , p. 97 ) . |
| 2 | The people , or " the masses " , had usurped powers and functions which properly belonged to government and the state . |
| 3 | Such a girl is being asked to behave in many ways like an adult ( mother ) in that she is being asked to carry out the nurturing and supervisory procedures which properly belong to adulthood and , traditionally , to motherhood in particular . |
| 4 | Unfortunately he found like others that even eminence in science did not automatically bring emolument , and in 1863 he contemplated moving to Manchester ; but Samuelson then came up with the proposal of producing a new Quarterly Journal of Science , which duly appeared in January 1864 under the editorship of Crookes and Samuelson . |
| 5 | The Committee accepted the prototypes first , which duly arrived in January 1934 and were placed on display in Talbot Square ( Opposite ) . |
| 6 | In short , Labour and the Liberal Democrats will have the argument won for them on the ground — and as long as they locate their policies in terms of wealth creation , rather than punitive redistribution , the current election election result has given them a platform from which effectively to challenge for power next time round . |
| 7 | The Dalai Lama has sought to secure an agreement with the Chinese Government for the future autonomy of Tibet , which effectively exists at present in name only . |
| 8 | Prior to the block exemption , such agreements would have had to be cleared individually by the Commission , a practice which effectively amounts to notification . |
| 9 | In some cases , he says , this approaches Orwellian newspeak , for example IBM 's ‘ Open Communications Architectures , which effectively withdraw from publication of newer versions of proprietary network-layer protocols that have previously been published . ’ |
| 10 | There seemed to be wide horizontal bands of light which slowly changed in intensity , with brighter spots growing and fading in places mysteriously against the deeps of eternity . |
| 11 | He described it as the ‘ best news since 1948 ’ when the National Party came to power on the policy of apartheid , which eventually led to South Africa 's ban from the international rugby arena until this year . |
| 12 | Sharpe 's current illness apart , he also missed several months with repeated hernia problems which eventually led to surgery . |
| 13 | However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police . |
| 14 | The Eastern fathers , and nearly all the Latin fathers too , held a view of the Devil which eventually fell into disrepute . |
| 15 | Bottom : Lotus four-litre V8 which eventually went to GM for Corvette |
| 16 | A gradual process began in countries liberated by the Red Army , which eventually resulted in governments across eastern Europe using police-state methods and carrying out Soviet-style economic reforms , the very antithesis of liberal democracy . |
| 17 | Frictional heat generated along the upper edge of the underthrusting lithospheric slab at depths exceeding 100km leads to the upwelling of magma in an expanding dome within the growing orogenic belt which eventually rises above sea level . |
| 18 | As a result just one Bq of Caesium-137 , contained in one litre of milk , will undergo a tiny explosion every second ; 60 explosions every minute , 3,600 explosions every hour or a total of three to seven million tiny atomic explosions in its stay in our bodies — any one of which can cause cell mutations which eventually lead to cancer or genetic damage . |
| 19 | This creates debates which eventually lead to action . |
| 20 | The works of Hamilton which eventually appear on CD-ROM will be open to basic text retrieval but that will be about all . |
| 21 | The normal pattern is for the initial expansionist phase to give way to a marginal state , which eventually leads through recession to the residual phase . |
| 22 | The possibility exists of a friendship developing between a transsexual and someone else , which eventually leads to thoughts of marriage . |
| 23 | Some miles beyond Ellon , the A92 bifurcates : the right-hand fork becomes the A952 which eventually leads to Peterhead and its gaol by the sea . |
| 24 | The three-day clash grossed £5 million which mostly came from acres of private hospitality tents . |
| 25 | You sent me 200 francs , 100 of which naturally went to Survage , without whose help I would have been completely broke … but now … |
| 26 | ‘ Increasingly , communication is seen as community , an exchange of stories , life experiences , insights — functions which build relationships in a world which naturally works against relationships , against being in touch with one another ’ , said Rev Randy L Naylor , Director of the Division of Communication and President of WACC . |
| 27 | Phrases of this sort are so familiar that it is not hard to understand a disposition which constantly interferes with attempts to understand syntactic structures , namely a tendency to regard them as transparently clear , with no need for a linguist to do more than record the existence of the surface construction . |
| 28 | The debates that accompanied the passage of this Bill through Parliament reflected two themes which constantly recur in discussions about local government reorganisation . |
| 29 | For Christianity is a historical religion , one which necessarily relates to history . |
| 30 | It had been a gloomy day which suddenly burst into splendour in the evening , the clouds rising behind the fields in the setting sun like mountains ( if only they had been ! ) and above , a darkening amethyst sky with — the finishing touch — a rose pink filigree disc of a moon foreshadowing the peace and perfection of a moonlit night . |