Example sentences of "which strikes [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the remaining varieties , red kidney beans are the most widely known , being a vital ingredient in chilli con carne , which strikes me as being second only to ham , egg and chips on the standard pub menu ! |
| 2 | Senior officers on the Russian submarines are paid a supplement in US dollars these days — $7 a day while they are at sea , which strikes me as an astonishing fact . |
| 3 | ‘ A very large beetle ’ , she will say , as if she would n't have bothered me about a smaller one ; or ‘ The steps were slippery ’ ; or merely ( which strikes me as cryptic to the point of tautology ) , ‘ Something nasty ’ . |
| 4 | The first thing which strikes one is the speed with which bodies are expected to respond or to change . |
| 5 | Quite often something one had thought perfectly uncontroversial or even almost too insultingly obvious to include in one 's cooking instructions arouses readers to a pitch of rage and scorn which strikes one as very much out of proportion to the offence committed . |
| 6 | Thus the lack of balance which strikes anyone looking at a thoroughly drained , treeless landscape is reflected in a lack of honest balancing in the books and ledgers which lie behind that landscape . |
| 7 | The aspect of the disease statistics of the twentieth century which strikes us most is the tremendous rise , particularly since the Second World War , in the incidence of all chronic diseases , which prove more and more difficult to treat despite the vast array of modern pharmaceutical drugs now available . |
| 8 | And of course it is the whole modernity of the image which strikes us as revealing , and reflects the fluidity in Rey suggested above by ‘ G … ’ in the Courrier des spectacles ( 1800 ) : he ‘ hardly any longer lets us perceive that he holds a baton ’ . |