Example sentences of "which [vb base] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Now if we can give a sense to a residue of basic rules which qualify as human rights , as I have argued , then a respect for life would certainly be one of them .
2 Illusions , dreams , and fancies , on the other hand , consist of ‘ ideas of imagination ’ which are voluntary and subject to our wills , and which lack both lively strength and orderly coherence .
3 The emphasis on fast food operations has brought into play appliances which concentrate extremely high temperatures on raw products containing fats and other volatile substances .
4 increasingly I think nowadays people converse in not a foreign language , because the terms that people use are familiar but meanings that they intend are not , and th th th the computer people are the worst because they use ordinary words which mean completely different things in the
5 The spatial differentials are , however , most marked at the local scales which pick out residential clusters with distinctive social mixes .
6 They should also make us determined to prevent the conditions which bring out this aspect of our nature .
7 There is room for organising in a non-party political way , and for the creation of umbrella organisations which bring together gay men or people with AIDS , representing not any attempt at service delivery , but a demand for government action .
8 Sandvik paint scrapers have blades made from extremely hard-wearing tungsten carbide , which remain sharp 10 times longer than conventional steel blades .
9 Formations of the more modern kinds may be seen to occur , typically , at points of transition and intersection within a complex social history , but the individuals who at once compose the formations and are composed by them have a further complex range of diverse positions , interests and influences , some of which are resolved ( if at times only temporarily ) by the formations , others of which remain as internal differences , as tensions , and often as the grounds for subsequent divergences , breakaways , breakups and further attempted formations .
10 For the rest , there is fish ; the waters around Aegina yield lots of tasty varieties , which make up income-earner number three .
11 Company chiefs hope the industry 's prospects will be given a boost in the Budget when they 'll look to the Chancellor to help ease the situation by , amongst other things , reducing taxes on company cars which make up 55 percent of the new car market .
12 Carnivores feed on other carnivores ( which make up 10 percent of the diet of the leopard , for example ) , scavengers feed on the dead carcases of all kinds of animal , and most important , the decomposing fungi and bacteria return the nutrients from dead bodies to the soil , from whence they can be re-used by plants .
13 The women 's days are beginning to include the mix of activities , experiences and relationships which make up ordinary life for most people .
14 The great companies and other organisations which make up modern economies have considerable discretion in choosing the goals they will seek to fulfil , and even more discretion in deciding how they will fulfil them .
15 Thus in feudal society they include the relationship between the lord and vassal and the set of rights , duties and obligations which make up that relationship .
16 He is served by a lovely cast who lift a gossamer-thin veil to show the misunderstandings and subtle warrings which make up human relations in all their glory .
17 The headteacher of a day school for maladjusted pupils asked the staff of his school to keep a diary on one day , 27 November 1985 , to try to record an impression of the activities , concerns and pressures which make up daily routine .
18 There are many excellent , authoritative text books covering the differing disciplines which make up Cosmetic Science .
19 It looks through the buildings which make up English towns and cities at the processes of life which produced and used them , and so attempts to explain them in human terms .
20 Crucially , therefore , the task is to identify groupings which make both medical sense — in that all patients in that group are clinically similar — and accounting sense — in that treatment of all such patients will require similar resources .
21 We organise activities which make very limited demands on the language control of the participants .
22 The last-named are useful in creating faster movement or in extending the material into slow sections , thus giving those speed changes which make more extended forms possible .
23 It comes with its own good reviews in the form of sleevenotes which make amusingly extravagant claims , including that it is a record about ‘ how you sometimes feel like the sky will peel away like a mask and reveal something more brilliant behind ’ , which may tell some of you not just a little of how this record sounds , but how it got to sound that way too .
24 In the more generalized insects the wall of the head-capsule is reinforced by a number of inflected ridges or sulci which occupy relatively constant positions and delimit to some extent the morphological areas into which the wall of the head can be divided ( Figs. 5,6 ) .
25 According to COSLA officials , it can result in a potential loss of houses at prices which provide unduly favourable discount entitlements to individual purchases and can lead to unredeemed debt charges having to be met by remaining tenants .
26 The search for such dating methods has continued for some time , but in the second half of this century several methods have been developed , which provide much better ways of dating some sites and finds .
27 The fact is that unemployed people already have access to a range of programmes through the employment service , including job review workshops , which provide precisely that service for those who are unemployed .
28 Oil pastels can produce extremely vivid , vibrant and lively sketches which provide very useful reference material .
29 OIL PASTELS CAN PRODUCE EXTREMELY VIVID , VIBRANT AND LIVELY SKETCHES WHICH PROVIDE VERY USEFUL REFERENCE MATERIAL .
30 There is often a fast turnover of patients especially if the surgical ward is one which deals with a large number of minor procedures , which involve only one night in hospital or for which the patient is admitted as a " day case " .
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