Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I have a job which involves quite a lot of travel so I am not too restricted about where I live . |
| 2 | In Wales , the ‘ derwyn corp ’ , is the name given to a large , ghostly bird which flies around a house where there is sickness , stopping only to tap loudly at a window if the patient is to die . |
| 3 | However his second Service is marked by a peculiarly English innovation : the introduction of passages for solo voice and organ , which plays not a continuo role but polyphony to which the voice doubles a part or supplies an otherwise missing one : |
| 4 | It is followed by a sentence of seven verbal phrases dependent on one main verb " is " which builds up a sense of being actively extended " lufand — thynkand — desirand — anedande — syngand — byrnand " yet also paradoxically " restand " . |
| 5 | Examples are La Male Honte , noted already , and Les deux Anglois et l'anel , " The two Englishmen and the anel " , which turns around a joke based on an Englishman 's inability to make a[g]nel ( lamb ) distinct from a[s]niel ( young ass ) in his attempt to speak French . |
| 6 | Mann tries to combine the desperation of their plight with a more lyrical look at Indian respect for struggle and death , all of which sits together a smidgeon uneasily until the final reel . |
| 7 | ask it questions , it 's obviously on the telephone because you can ask what the balance is and it will tell you , and it ca n't possibly know that and Cleethorpes , when you put the card in the Cleethorpes thing , that , you know , your bank balance at Nottingham is so it 's obviously on the telephone erm and it 's on the telephone to a central computer which holds quite a lot of information , it accesses |
| 8 | A fraught fivesome with ants in their pants and , presumably , cockroaches in their coat pockets , they 're all about threats and menace and a three-guitar assault which owes rather a lot to tykes like the Pixies but has absolutely no intention of paying the buggers back . |
| 9 | The other thing there is the evidence from the Law Society in England to the committee appointed by the government to look into the question of press self-regulation which has quite a lot to do obviously with privacy for everybody , but also |
| 10 | This is the route that Data Logic thought IBM was originally treading , a CICS/Open strategy in which the OLTP environment , plus the wealth of CICS applications already available , could be brought to the open systems market which has only a handful of fledgling OLTP technologies to offer , and few software packages . |
| 11 | In the case of the matching open-ended grant the effect is that of a price reduction , which incorporates both a substitution effect and an income effect ; hence the shift along the price consumption path PCC . |
| 12 | This is an organization that listeners may not realize , which meets probably a couple of times a term , and which members of the university and people outside community meet , have some supper together , perhaps , and actually hear some talks , either from people inside the university or outside , about topics of current interest . |
| 13 | There is also a Senior Liaison Committee , which includes representatives from the three departments , and from the Police and the Justices ' Clerks , which meets twice a year under the chairmanship of the Director of Public Prosecutions . |
| 14 | The Assembly ( which meets twice a year ) elects a Council of State ( the collective presidency , whose Chairman , currently Heng Samrin , was head of state ) as its permanent organ from among its members . |
| 15 | It elects from among its own members a reorganized bicameral 542-member Supreme Soviet , which meets twice a year for three- or four-month sessions and is responsible for all legislative and administrative matters [ see pp. 36659-60 ] . |
| 16 | There is a National Assembly of 180 members which meets twice a year . |
| 17 | The Assembly ( which meets twice a year ) elects a Council of State as its permanent organ from among its members . |
| 18 | There are now over 20 members in the judo club which meets twice a week in the Egremont market hall . |
| 19 | Violations — poaching in another household 's area — is referred to a special council of eunuchs from all over India and Pakistan which meets once a year . |
| 20 | A self-help support group which meets once a month in the evenings ( usually the first Friday in the month ) to talk informally , or to listen to a speaker . |
| 21 | One of these is the methanation reaction which occurs over a nickel metal catalyst and which was originally discovered by Sabatier and Senderens 80 years ago , Although this is widely used to make synthetic natural gas for example , there is even more interest in the production of compounds containing higher numbers of carbon atoms . |
| 22 | With this type of valve ( of which the Garston or BRS valve is the best known ) , there is no moving piston — rather a rubber diaphragm which closes over a nylon seating with the last movement of the float arm . |
| 23 | Description is a heading which includes both a description of the work itself and of the critic 's response to it . |
| 24 | Interested users of a DC are the creator of a DC , any user who subsequently owns the DC , any user who is the manager of a module referenced by the DC , any user who is the manager of a package which references directly a module referenced by the DC , and any user asked to approve the package through which the DC was activated . |
| 25 | If 4000 records are stored in 5000 addresses then only one algorithm in every will achieve this , which rules out a search for a perfect randomizing algorithm on a trial-and-error basis . |
| 26 | The most clearly appealing of the latest recruits to this rapidly-changing tapestry of new writing is The Newtonian Casino ( Thomas A Bass , Longman , 12.90 ) , which reveals how a group of brilliant young physicists raided Las Vegas with computers hidden in their shoes . |
| 27 | She says her husband has another business — which takes up a lot of time . |
| 28 | The allocation of labour to particular activities in the contract programme is a skilled task which requires both a knowledge of what is to be done as well as the likely outputs of the people employed . |
| 29 | I 've loved twice in my life ( which seems quite a lot to me ) , once happily , once unhappily . |
| 30 | The network has established a newsletter ( Observations ) which appears twice a year and a database listing the names , addresses and research interests of members . |