Example sentences of "which the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It would be hard to overstate the contempt with which the lower-middle class were viewed . |
| 32 | The entertainments manager wants to hear Frank sing and gears up for a rip-roaring session , at which the hapless hero launches into ‘ Early One Morning ’ — echoes of the audition Crawford did as a child for Benjamin Britten 's production of The Turn of the Screw . |
| 33 | Paul Walsh floated in a dangerous cross which the hapless Robinson diverted into his own net with a powerful diving header any striker would have been proud of . |
| 34 | Like all essentialisms it assumes an obvious , definable , homogeneous essence ( British culture ) into which the hapless migrant might be inducted , given a suitable dose of English and an undiluted diet of the official school curriculum . |
| 35 | The ‘ design for living ’ shown by a species is the outcome of this selective process and is related not at all to any eventuality that may arise but to the set of conditions , the ‘ niche ’ , to which the evolutionary process has confined the species . |
| 36 | It is the time during which the evolutionary process was producing the human form as it now is , and laying down the pattern from which man , in remote retrospect , can now extract the necessary information on which to lay the foundation of the concept of the Created God , and to understand how he must develop that concept . |
| 37 | The Baltic Red group , to which the Danish Red belongs , is mainly based on the German Angeln type and includes the Estonian Red , the Latvian Brown , and derivatives such as the Bulgarian Red , Romanian Red and the Red Steppe of the USSR . |
| 38 | A second example involves an argument by means of which the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahé claimed to have refuted the Copernican theory a few decades after the first publication of that theory . |
| 39 | Another difficulty arising from having to use conditions rather than legal agreements concerns the length of time for which the reserved areas can be safeguarded . |
| 40 | A provision may be a substantive rule : it may be optional ; illustrative ; mandatory ; or procedural ( a means by which the substantive rules are to be implemented ) . |
| 41 | ( 6 ) what was interesting was that little Richard came home from his Toronto school with his Newfie jokes the content of which the substantive content was identical to Irish jokes which my son comes home with from Edinburgh schools |
| 42 | The head of department , for example , depicted the library project as something which had to be seen as a specific development in the context of a GRIDS exercise in which the broad range of curricular provision came under consideration . |
| 43 | It appears far below , framed by near-vertical cliffs on both sides of a vast hollow into which the narrow road plunges in a series of sharp zigzags . |
| 44 | Large areas of basically rectangular fields around which the narrow lanes wind are cut obliquely by Roman roads . |
| 45 | ‘ The five codes create a kind of network , a topos through which the entire text passes ( or rather , in passing becomes text ) ’ ( p. 20 ) . |
| 46 | Ellen Solomon and Walter Bodmer first pointed out that the variation in human gene sequences represented a powerful new mapping tool , which laid the basis for studies that led to the human genome project ( in which the entire genome will be mapped , characterised functionally , and eventually sequenced ) . |
| 47 | The degree to which the entire godhead is evoked as a unitary spiritual conception depends upon the circumstances . |
| 48 | The final chapter of this book , written by John Channon , comprises both a brief survey of the course of the Revolution and Civil War in Siberia , and , drawing on the work of a number of Soviet historians and also western experts such as Evan Mawdsley , Norman Pereira and Jon Smele , an analysis of the horrendously complex , bloody and confused antagonisms with which the entire territory was racked . |
| 49 | The holder of this visiting professorship could then live here for a year and deliver one or two open lectures at which the entire university might once again have the experience of being assembled in congregation . |
| 50 | John Pain ( flying P3731 ) : ‘ This was a brawl with some 15 CR 42s in which the entire flight got mixed up some miles out to sea at about 18,000 feet between St. Paul 's Bay and Sliema . |
| 51 | A major problem that arose at an early stage was the reconciliation of the local authority 's requirements for one car-parking space per flat with the DoE 's refusal to fund a scheme in which the entire ground floor would be used for parking . |
| 52 | This was the production ceiling , a limit within which the entire organization was to contrive to hold its aggregated output , with every member adhering to its own assigned individual quota . |
| 53 | They are like Cuvier 's heel-bone , a minute particle of the whole from which the entire anatomy of the terrestrial animal can be reconstructed . |
| 54 | This fire officer , however , refused to allow the use of a sizeable proportion of the props , around which the entire show was structured ; and , although the Prince and Princess of Wales were arriving in one and a half hours ' time along with five Cabinet ministers , and the cast would have no time to rehearse without the props they relied upon , he was not to be budged . |
| 55 | He took part in the ensuing operation at Santa Cruz in April , in which the entire plate fleet was destroyed . |
| 56 | Characterising the individual speaker 's topic as ‘ what I think we 're talking about ’ incorporates both that element which the conversational analyst tends to abstract as the ‘ topic of conversation ’ for the participants ( 'What we 're talking about' ) and the individual speaker 's version ( 'I think' ) , as he/she makes a conversational contribution . |
| 57 | The worst form of inter-group conflict is what is called a ‘ win-lose ’ conflict , in which the competing groups all seek to win and in which there can in fact be only one winner . |
| 58 | There is a six-year Statute of Limitations which relates to the period from the date at which the competing claim was first asserted ( not at the time the work of art was stolen nor the date of subsequent sale ) . |
| 59 | The council called for " an end to the consequences of the Gulf war " , affirmed the " unity and security of Iraqi national soil " and condemned the " intervention to which the fraternal people of Iraq " were being exposed . |
| 60 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |