Example sentences of "which [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other words , we shall be exploring the cognitive and affective factors which influence how children of different ages ( 5 , 8 and 11 year-olds ) understand and make decisions about secrecy . |
| 2 | ‘ But I do believe there is some common ground : the parties who would be talking all reject violence ; they all support devolution in some form , on a basis which involves both sides of the commmunity ; and they all acknowledge the importance of the relationship between Northern Ireland and the Republic . ’ |
| 3 | It came up with a complex route which involves both endocytosis and fusion . |
| 4 | The result is a set of absurdly over-stylised set pieces , most of which lack either suspense or emotional credibility , or both . |
| 5 | England 's batting in this Test has been as dodgy as the plate of prawns which ruled out captain Graham Gooch . |
| 6 | The second radial design from Horkstow is slightly smaller than the Orphic arrangement , although it is bordered by a very wide strip of eight-strand guilloche which renders both panels of approximately equivalent dimensions . |
| 7 | There was a long-standing tradition of professionalism , which centred around jockeys and pugilists for the most part . |
| 8 | There was an undercurrent of curiosity which centred around Yuan 's presence . |
| 9 | In March , the Picture department , when pushed , warily quoted Canaletto 's world record of £1.2 million to the press , while Daniel and Cyrus was put ‘ in the Mantegna league ’ , which translated as £7–8 million . |
| 10 | This is both the ‘ dear deceit ’ which goes back centuries and the curse peculiar to modern-day society . |
| 11 | Equally , dogmatic insistence that self-regulation as such is either wholly admirable or wholly obnoxious ignores the complexity of existing regulatory systems , which defy simply classification . |
| 12 | Silver plants usually have a thick coating of felty fur which slows down evaporation . |
| 13 | And indeed , it 's a novel which offers not salvation through erm a recognisable religion , but rather something like salvation through art . |
| 14 | He was hostile to the joint-stock company as a medium through which to carry on business enterprise . |
| 15 | We feel quite sure that , if you have followed this technique carefully , you have a much clearer mental framework within which to carry out studies of bending moment and shear force than you had before . |
| 16 | The first has been fighting a ( largely losing ) battle against social condemnation of " stealing other people 's homes " ; the second has been the mechanism by which to carry out government 's policies to protect some short-term occupiers ( tenants , with exclusive possession ) but not others ( licensees ) . |
| 17 | If the Policyholder was unaware of the faulty roof or did not have reasonable time in which to carry out repairs , then it is in order to deal with the claim for the damage to the internal decorations and/or contents but not the repairs to the roof , which the Policyholder should have carried out as soon as possible . |
| 18 | Edinburgh is an excellent centre in which to carry out research in the history of art . |
| 19 | A back trouser pocket is the easiest pocket both to pick , and from which to lose either money or a wallet . |
| 20 | The total Community Charge arrears at 31 March 1993 as reported to the Council were £148m which represents over 10% of the total liabilities for the 4 years of Community Charge . |
| 21 | In practice , of course , such com- prehensiveness becomes impossible , and this provides fertile ground for opportunism or for sellers to try to over-protect themselves against risk which drives up prices . |
| 22 | That communal release of euphoria across Blackheath results from the combination of the final arrival of ‘ the Moment ’ , plus the increase in energy which easing down training will have brought . |
| 23 | We have looked at the attachment of motorists for their cars , the increasing use of heavy lorries , and the reasons why governments are reluctant to impose taxes which push up inflation and weaken an important manufacturing industry . |
| 24 | But in any event , in the way shown above , this concentration on squeezing the largest possible instalment payments into the confines of a weekly budget based on weekly pay-packets leaves the deep pitfall that people then have no leeway to cope with unexpected or higher-than-usual expenses which crop up 12m . |
| 25 | You die a thousand casual deaths — with none of that intensity which squeezes out life … and no blood runs cold anywhere . |
| 26 | At the other extreme are those species like sika , Pere David 's deer and wapiti , which eat mainly grass and live in open environments . |
| 27 | The universities , which award both degrees and Dip.HEs are almost exclusively concerned with validating courses in the colleges and institutes of higher education and the only polytechnic courses which are university-validated are some of those which offer the Postgraduate Certificate in Education or in-service courses for teachers . |
| 28 | In 1898 the rigidly enforced ‘ code ’ of practice which laid down curriculum guidelines for elementary schools ( Standard 1 to 7 ) was abolished . |
| 29 | The first parliamentary Acts concerning housing in the nineteenth century were Public Health Acts , which laid down requirements as regards sanitation and public safety . |
| 30 | Burton was in his Valhalla : a company largely of men , a chosen few , who could endure ancient and god-like debauches , sing old songs , recite the enduring poetry of the race spin yarns which threaded together truth and fiction in a seamless flow of talk — while outside there was world war and the danger of war to which they were all headed and of which they were all unafraid . |