Example sentences of "which [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But anyway , if it were working properly , the ‘ Cube 's ‘ clip ’ light would only come on when you were actually overdriving the input stage , which is not as helpful as the Trace Acoustic version , which lights up green and occasionally flashes red to tell you when you 've got the input level exactly right . |
| 2 | It follows the company 's jobs-for-life Rover Tomorrow deal signed earlier this year , which ruled out compulsory redundancies . |
| 3 | They were fed up with three-door cars , which ruled out one of three they considered at the time — the Vauxhall Nova , although this is now available in five-door . |
| 4 | Legislation had been passed , at the height of the bubble , to stop the creation of new joint-stock companies , which ruled out one of the ways in which the British had organized their expansion overseas , Walpole , the Prime Minister who picked up the pieces after the collapse , was first of all concerned to make sure that the King and his government did not run into any more trouble , which meant a programme of no new taxes , no wars , no new assertion of authority , and much less expansion than either before or after . |
| 5 | It was other evidence which ruled out this model . |
| 6 | The complication has been that because last year 's trading profits were lower than expected we did n't have any taxable profits against which to claim back this A C T so as this would be the first year in which taxable profits would arise unless we 'd not been unless we 'd been able to find some other way of dealing with it the A C T which we pay would not have been recoverable till January ninety five . |
| 7 | Since the sixth century , the Benedictine monks of Europe had evolved a uniquely Western spirituality , which centred round these disciplines . |
| 8 | The iceberg is the result of a rapid rise in vehicle theft by young persons which goes back some time . |
| 9 | The first task was to finish putting together the ‘ Darlington Drinker ’ , a local magazine which goes out five or six times a year to pubs around the area . |
| 10 | Leigh is sitting in the sunshine in Spain , taking a break from filming a new series of his BBC TV drama Kinsey , which goes out next month . |
| 11 | We 're giving away 120 tickets to see the band live on their UK tour which kicks off next month . |
| 12 | The spatial differentials are , however , most marked at the local scales which pick out residential clusters with distinctive social mixes . |
| 13 | The team plan to develop classifications of socio-economic circumstances which pick out those most ( and least ) at risk of death or low birthright . |
| 14 | The tenant should be careful also not to agree a too restrictive period of time in which to carry out remedial works . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's a bit like blackmail , especially the part which points out all the money raised would be spent in their hospital . ’ |
| 16 | The blue water which tumbled down formal cascades fell through several levels but the lowest level fed into the highest . |
| 17 | It is better by far for the patient to have a week or so in which to mull over all that has occurred and everything he or she has learnt about the past . |
| 18 | There are recordings which back up such an assessment — principally the comparative versions listed above . |
| 19 | Perhaps it was this legal background which encouraged Howard to enter into a formal agreement with Henrietta which laid down that ‘ to prevent altercations about those little matters which he had observed to be the chief grounds of uneasiness in families — he should always decide ’ . |
| 20 | On the one hand there was the central government and its economic ( and taxation ( plans which laid down broad policy and investment strategy ; on the other hand was the ‘ club ’ of often just two traditional suppliers of equipment . |
| 21 | Suffice it to say that , in the absence of a sufficiently ‘ mature ’ , well-educated civil society in Siberia , Speranskii sought to design a structure of bureaucratic agencies and offices in which power was vested in institutions rather than personalities , which took full cognizance of individual regions ' peculiar human and material needs and circumstances ( both Russian and native ) , and which laid down proper codes of administrative procedures , legal practices and economic policies . |
| 22 | The developing round peas produce a vital molecule , called starch-branching enzyme , which builds up complex starch molecules from sugar . |
| 23 | The bag struck the paving , bounced , and now the boy caught it and peeled away the bag to reveal a football which he struck in a high , curling shot which ricocheted off the wall slightly to the left of a priest who had emerged from the large church which dosed off one end of the piazza . |
| 24 | They should also make us determined to prevent the conditions which bring out this aspect of our nature . |
| 25 | Mines would be grouped into seven holding companies to force profitable pits to support loss-makers , which made up two-thirds of the 63 mines . |
| 26 | The largest increase was in those to European Community ( EC ) countries , which made up 41.4 per cent of the total . |
| 27 | We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it . |
| 28 | An epidemic which wiped out hundreds of dolphins in the Mediterranean last year seems to have reappeared . |
| 29 | Condemned as cowards , deserters , they were shot by their own side in a war which wiped out much of a generation . |
| 30 | Roderick O'Sullivan , who has carried out research for programmes such as Channel Four 's Fragile Earth , said he was concerned that a mystery disease which wiped out half the swan population at the bay last winter had re-emerged . |