Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 .
2 It is the official authority ‘ traditionally ’ associated with management , which goes down the scalar chain .
3 Such work makes an association between psychological writing and apparently non-psychological narrative forms , which points up the ubiquitous but usually denied role of these forms in psychological discourses.i
4 Despite some early lows ( ‘ Coming On Strong ’ ) , The Shamen string together a powerful set which plays up the rockier side of their pop equation .
5 It now makes sense to join the rest of the world by paying for what we use , say experts Kent Meters in Luton , Bedfordshire , a firm which turns out a million meters a year — and sells them abroad .
6 In addition there is a small credit and information branch , CDMS , and a printing operation which turns out the eight million pools coupons played each week by aspiring millionaires-to-be .
7 These terms are all very descriptive , since the material which accumulates around a Strombolian vent does indeed look rather like boiler slag , but it is more correctly called scoria , and the cones which build up around the vent scoria cones .
8 And while the performance of the Alpine is in the supercar league , the cost of using it , in terms of comfort , running costs and fuel economy , is definitely not — which holds out the enticing prospect of accomplishing long , fast continental journeys in great comfort and 25 mpg economy .
9 This is an acquired skill which develops over a long period .
10 An outstanding example of this type of narrative is Vargas Llosa 's Conversation in the Cathedral , which pivots around a four-hour conversation between two characters , the whole novel being made up of dialogue and narrative units generated in waves by the central conversation , as the two men 's review of their past lives sparks off inner thoughts and recollections and conjures up other conversations and dramatized episodes .
11 A different approach is to inhibit the hormone which starts off the female sexual cycle .
12 A catalyst is a substance which speeds up a chemical reaction but remains chemically unchanged at the end of that reaction .
13 The robot will roam nuclear-weapons facilities , scouring concrete surfaces with a gadget like a sand blaster which shoots out a pressurised stream of dry-ice pellets .
14 However , we can illustrate the most important features by considering just two types of motion , each of which occurs over a significant sub-range .
15 Of these the most useful is Magnify which blows up the selected area by up to eight times .
16 A second application which cuts out the 18 starter and retirement homes is recommended for approval .
17 This huge chamber is reached by a short spiral staircase which leads up a few feet beyond the gallery door in room 64 .
18 One of the very first of them was Rossini 's Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra , which revolves around a real enough subject : the execution of what might now be called political prisoners .
19 Stencil , in short , pursues a quest the absurdity of which rules out the modernist option of structuring by myth .
20 One of the functions of the external stimulus is to promote an entry of external calcium , often mediated by InsP 3 , to give the primer calcium ( Ca 2+ ) which charges up the internal stores .
21 China , which takes over the British colony in 1997 , refuses to bless the undertaking — and thus open the way for private financing of part of it — until it has wrung several concessions from the British .
22 China , which takes over the British colony in 1997 , has flatly rejected two plans .
23 The poetic purpose of Genette 's Narrative Discourse is curiously complemented by his study of Proust 's A la recherche du temps perdu which takes up a good portion of the book .
24 And tomorrow night we look at the work which takes up a third of the RSPCA 's time , dealing with farmers and their livestock .
25 Body language is with us night and day but something else which takes up a fair amount of time in our lives is travel .
26 So that second verse is one which takes up the traditional Jewish prejudices and turns them upside down , one by one .
27 For this reason , adultery should be seen for what it has become , an act of sexual conduct which takes on a symbolic character if offensive to the other partner .
28 Shakespeare 's play has an arranged duel which miscarries , and which takes off a divided , gambling man who has wondered whether or not it might be better to end his life .
29 The kind of novel learning environment that is characteristic of the pilot CPVE schemes now being implemented , which breaks down the traditional barriers of subjects , compartmentalized lessons and didactic teaching , may well spread rapidly into other areas of the school 's work .
30 The building , which faces west , lies below a turn in the Sacred Way which zigzags up the steep site to the temple , on a little terrace just above the south wall of the sanctuary .
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