Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The paramount mistake has been that the intelligence of the individual has been permitted to be clouded by childhood teaching to such an extent that he has been persuaded that the religious writings came from some other source which renders them inviolate .
2 For example , the Trabant 's bodywork is a combination of cotton and plastic , which renders it rustproof .
3 And it is precisely its predictability which renders it impotent .
4 The conservative critique thus argues that the type of order which liberalism envisages ‘ tends to produce a sort of mindless hedonism which renders it defenceless against more vital tyrannies ’ .
5 ‘ If A delivers goods to B on sale or return and B having received them immediately delivers them to C on sale or return , the reasonable time in the one case must , I think , be co-extensive with that in the other case and if that reasonable time elapses and C brings back the goods to B and B takes them back to A , everybody is acting within his rights , and it appears to me that property never passes … if under like circumstances A delivers goods to B and B delivers them to C in each case on sale or return and the reasonable time be , let us say , 14 days , and C after four days sells the goods or elects to buy the goods , I think property will have passed , because C will have done an act which renders it impossible for B to return the goods to A. ’
6 Whether or not the act is criminal is immaterial , since it is the explicitness of depiction which renders it obscene .
7 Crib-biting is typical of a vice , by definition a bad habit which renders it liable to decline in health .
8 However , where such measures are adopted by a qualified majority , Article 100A(4) provides that ‘ a Member State which deems it necessary to apply national provisions on grounds of major needs referred to in art .
9 Students should be advised to keep a " Difficulties Diary " in which they note those items , both phonological and grammatical , which causes them particular difficulty .
10 every time is just compare sources which bores me stupid .
11 We share His life through the water of baptism which washes us clean and brings new growth into our lives .
12 The sun on our backs and bright crystals biting into our feet , the printed pain of a sharp finger edge cutting across the joyful soft warmth of the wind ; the loving immediacy of experience which hurls us free from the containment of assessment , order and code .
13 The answer is to send the light down a pipe which guides it round corners .
14 Proposals made by way of change to a deposit copy have a relatively stronger affect against emergence , owing to the lesser public consultation which attends them prior to the enquiry stage .
15 does a bit of cycling he said which keeps him fit
16 The blubber which keeps them warm in the water acts as an overly-effective insulator on land , and they can literally cook in their own fat if they are not kept cool .
17 After an inept start , Rangers battled belligerently to achieve the result they sought which keeps them abreast of Marseille , who defeated Club Brugge 3-0 in France .
18 They appear to survive simply because they are businesses , and it is their commercial structure alone which keeps them alive .
19 However , the latest frames have a galvanised coating which keeps them rusts-free .
20 The bulb is placed in the narrow neck of the glass which keeps it dry .
21 It is this general systematic approach which keeps it distinct from the application areas of computing .
22 Even if you rarely stretch the G 's exceptional 2.9-ton towing limit , or test the new drivetrain which keeps you mobile even if only one wheel has any grip , at least you can savour the high , commanding view every time you slip behind the wheel .
23 What superlatives , comparatives and ordinals do is to pick some entity out of its extraction set by giving a property which identifies it relative to membership in that set .
24 All the same , the gap year is a crazy British system , which sets you free to travel when you have so much else to learn , and then leaves you pinned to your desk for ever after .
25 When have they ever had a reasonable pay deal which puts them level with the private sector ?
26 The realisation that this is a racist society , a society which wishes them dead for the colour of their skin , accentuates their loneliness , and their isolation in turn makes it harder for them to fight against racism .
27 There are people who know that they have experienced deep within themselves a reality which gives them simple and overwhelming certainties about the real goals of human existence and which transforms their lives .
28 In the case of other products ( e.g. agricultural produce ) which are not manufactured , the producer is the person who carries out an industrial process ( e.g. freezing ) which gives them essential characteristics .
29 He would later describe the king as " one of the most brilliant statesman I have ever been privileged to meet , with a fantastic memory and a third eye which gives him great sensitivity and extraordinary perception . "
30 This will include : ( i ) the mother ; ( ii ) the father if he was married to the mother when the child was born ; ( iii ) the father , if he was not married to the child 's mother when the child was born but he has since married her or now has a residence order , a court order which gives him parental responsibility or a formal parental responsibility agreement made with the mother in accordance with s4(2) of the Act ; ( iv ) a guardian of the child which in this context means a testamentary guardian appointed in accordance with s5 of the Act ; ( v ) anyone who holds a custody or residence order relating to the child ; ( vi ) a local authority which has a care order in respect of the child ; ( vii ) anyone who has been granted an emergency protection order ; ( viii ) in the case of an adopted child , the adopters in place of the natural parents .
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