Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He was elected Right Hand Man to the Duns Reiver which involves taking part in Border festivals as far afield as Langholm , and Lanark . |
2 | Early feedback from bankers at the 90-minute City meeting is that the plan , which involves splitting debt into two categories , was ‘ greeted respectfully ’ . |
3 | Weaving or ‘ laying-in ’ on the knitting machine uses a main yarn which knits stocking stitch and a second yarn which is knitted in front of or behind the knitted stitches , forming a surface pattern . |
4 | Dittany when dried is greyer than malotira , although the leaves are similarly furry like so much of the vegetation , which needs to conserve moisture in the hot atmosphere , and the tea made from it has a muskier , more soothing quality . |
5 | In the case of the Stommeln Synagogue , located in Pulheim-Stommeln in the extreme west of Cologne , an unusual exhibition venue has been created which has excited attention with its sensitive presentation of single works by Jannis Kounellis and Richard Serra . |
6 | Jazz here is ‘ about fidelity , about the sole real art there is , about what one must be true to , come hell or high water ; what must be done to the point of collapse ( Škvorecký 1980 : 8 , 20 ) ; and in Škvoreck ý's; own Czechoslovakia , the persecution in the mid-1980s of the ‘ Jazz Section ’ — which has supported rock and punk as well as jazz — confirms the subversive potency and ‘ alternative ’ status , still , of this music . |
7 | We know all about that , ’ said Mr Heath , referring to the headquarters of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre , which has collected evidence of Nazi war criminals . |
8 | The Museum is a registered Charity with no public funding and Mick Miller , Finance Trustee , said : ‘ This sponsorship is a very generous gesture and we are delighted that this has come from an enterprising local company which has pledged support for our activities for the next three years . ’ |
9 | Such acts come as no surprise from a Government which has implemented measure after measure in a similar vein since 1979 . |
10 | The concept of mixed race , which has become part of conventional social work language , is misleading because it causes confusion in the minds of transracial adopters . |
11 | To meet such objections Ross developed a very useful concept which has become part of the regular stock in trade of moral philosophers , the concept of a prima facie duty . |
12 | The nightmare of childhood lived daily by orphan children in Romania is another example of a state of dreadful innocence abused by adults which is too painful to comprehend and yet which has become part of the domain of childhood as understood in Britain , just as images of the abuse of children by adults are also part of our daily reference to the violent world of childhood . |
13 | It points to truth which has become wisdom born of experience : This is Rolle 's version of 1 Corinthians 13:2 : And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries , and all knowledge , and if I should have all faith , so that I could remove mountains , and have not charity , I am nothing . |
14 | A magnolia which has become world renowned and is given pride of place at Lanhydrock is M. ‘ Albatross ’ ( cylindrica × veitchii ) . |
15 | First , however , we consider briefly what may happen further upstream , partly to illustrate how the long memory comes about and partly to make a link with earlier discussions of wakes ; i.e. we look at the ‘ intermediate wake ’ , ( intermediate to the ‘ near wake ’ immediately behind the obstacle and the ‘ far wake ’ which has become self-preserving ) . |
16 | God Akhenaten was his prophet and in fact claimed to be the son of God his son and er all other religions were persecuted and er , so what in Ancient Egypt was that the traditional polytheism which was rampant was persecuted by there was only one god and as Andrea says , even proscribe the word gods in , in the plural , you know the , you know the er feminist thought police would try and rule out certain words you 're not allowed to use like chairman which has become chairperson or something like that |
17 | The productivity of Buenos Aires-1 , which had been drilled , tested and suspended , was reduced dramatically once it had been completed and put on production — a fact which has challenged production teams . |
18 | The striking apple green Gresley designed A3 Pacific loco sees its boiler ticket expire in the autumn after a hugely successful seven years which has reinstated steam — as a regular site on national metals . |
19 | ( Note that " recreolisation " can also mean the development of a new Creole language from an existing one which has undergone pidginisation for a second time . |
20 | The painting , which has undergone restoration lasting three years without being moved from its place in the Salle des Fëtes housing Italian Renaissance works , was ripped in five places on 3 June , although the Louvre kept the information secret for a fortnight . |
21 | Thanks to Inheritance Tax which has replaced capital transfer tax , lifetime gifts ( in contrast to money left in a will ) will normally escape the taxman . |
22 | The ‘ eternal commentary ’ or ‘ double ’ is absorbed in a one-way continuous-feed process which has replaced dialogue . |
23 | Family allowances were never introduced at the level recommended by the Beveridge Plan , and the level of child benefit , which has replaced family allowances , remains less than is necessary to meet family needs . |
24 | Cocaine , which has replaced heroin as the drug of concern in America , and has thus been extensively researched , works on nerves that use the neurotransmitter dopamine . |
25 | Taking a counter-example , the success of a project reported by Veblen ( 1978 ) for an area in western Guatemala was attributed to the institution of communal forest holdings , or ejido , which has favoured preservation of the forests of Totonicapan . |
26 | We are paying the price , indirectly , for the reunification of Germany , which has fuelled inflation and pushed up German interest rates to the highest levels since the war . |
27 | Looking back , this extraordinary sequence of events carries all the hallmarks of the institutional deception which has fuelled mistrust of the nuclear industry . |
28 | She urges the excellence and dignity of courage , a glittering idea which has dazzled mankind from age to age and animated sometimes the housebreaker and sometimes the conqueror . ’ |
29 | And John Grierson persistently praised Hitchcock for putting ordinary people on to the screen , while attacking Asquith for making films that reflected ‘ a leisure-class England which has lost contact with fundamentals , with the toiling earth and the men who go with it . ’ |
30 | Does he also agree that one state which does not meet the generally accepted criteria for recognition is the federal state of Yugoslavia , which has lost control of its own army ? |