Example sentences of "which [pron] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing just how comprehensive a work this is , with factory serial number , date of registration , date of next C of A expiry , owner's/operator 's name and probable base all listed , I can only surmise that the note-scribblers/pocket memo mumblers — many of whom seem not to have the slightest knowledge or interest in the type of aeroplane on which the letters are painted — are performing the latter-day equivalent of the sacred ritual which I and many others who have long since outgrown it once enacted in John W.R. Taylor 's ABC of Civil Aircraft Makings . |
| 2 | His assassination early in 1947 was a tremendous tragedy , which I and many others still mourn . |
| 3 | I have even dreamed as Marie Romanov ; a nightmare in which I and all my family were taken down into a cellar and shot . |
| 4 | For a long time I never realised how badly paid and overworked I was , but what made me feel bad in those days was the rudeness and lack of respect with which I and other Asian women were treated by the supervisors . |
| 5 | But what has saddened me especially was the repeated rumour which I and some friends heard in the 1950s and early 1960s : that Leslie 's plane had been brought down not by the storms nor by enemy action , but by human error on our own side . |
| 6 | Q : As an avid reader of What Personal Computer , I 'm writing in desperation regarding a serious problem which you or one of your readers may be able to help me with . |
| 7 | In thanking the groups , Hasan Kaker said : ‘ The continuous pressure which you and other human rights organizations brought to bear on the Kabul government ultimately resulted in my release … |
| 8 | When Simon pressed and won his claim for an assistant inspector to supervise the national vaccination scheme in 1871 , the current permanent secretary , Ralph Lingen , issued a general warning in the accompanying minute : ‘ I do not know who is to check the assertion of experts when the government has once undertaken a class of duties which none but such persons understand . ’ |
| 9 | It is scarcely possible , in the face of this legislation , to maintain that ‘ rights ’ are a privilege with which none but human beings can be invested ; for if some animals are already included within the pale of protection , why should not more and more be so included in the future ? ( 1922 : 5 ) |
| 10 | Later , in June 1989 , it was reported that she was proposing to the Lord Chancellor that the Children Bill should reverse a decision which she and other members of the Court of Appeal had felt obliged to make excluding hearsay evidence . |
| 11 | When pornography star Linda Lovelace gave up her seedy career and wrote an exposé of the porn business , she related an episode in which she and another man watched a porn movie with Davis . |
| 12 | Paktar is co-ordinating a " do-or-drown " protest , in which she and local villagers will risk submersion rather than lose their land . |
| 13 | Inactivation of the X chromosome is random so that the early embryo is made up of a mixture of cells in which one or other of the X chromosomes is inactivated . |
| 14 | He points to the way in which the law has developed from a maze of individual sets of circumstances in which one or other of the prerogative writs would lie to a general principle under which courts will review decisions on the three grounds of illegality , irrationality and procedural impropriety : see per Lord Diplock in Council of Civil Service Unions v. Minister for the Civil Service [ 1985 ] A.C. 374 , 410 . |
| 15 | At various points in this book I have referred to such agents — among them nations , dynasties , social classes , elites of diverse kinds , generational , ethnic and cultural groups — and we have now to examine more closely their role in political life and especially the conditions under which one or other of them has a predominant influence . |
| 16 | Even if no exact values can be assigned , such evaluation allows the definition of a ‘ break even ’ point beyond which one or other treatment is uniformly preferable . |
| 17 | Within this " quantitative paradigm " ( see Romaine 1982 ) , it is assumed that variability is inherent in language and " variable rules " give the best account of the frequency with which one or other variant is used within a particular group . |
| 18 | The next possibility is that this new once-a-week frequency is the level at which one or both of you unconsciously feels happiest with sex . |
| 19 | These are families , often with children , in which one or both of the parents have been married previously . |
| 20 | Service may be effected on the solicitor : ( 1 ) if by delivering the document at , or sending it by first-class post to the solicitor 's address for service , service by post is deemed to have been effected at the time the letter would have been delivered in the ordinary course of post ( s 7 of the Interpretations Act 1978 ) : or ( 2 ) where the solicitor 's address for service includes a numbered box at a document exchange in a county court , and the document is left at that exchange or at an exchange which transmits daily to the first exchange , it is then deemed to have been served on the second day after the day on which it was left , but any day on which the court office in which one or both exchanges is situated is shut shall not be taken into account ( Ord 1 , r 3 ; Ord 2 , r 5(1A) ; Ord 7 , rr 1(1) ( b ) , 1(3) , and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 21 | Without them , many of the ecological processes upon which we and other organisms knowingly or unknowingly depend , would soon grind to a halt . |
| 22 | It is true that the qualities of an object are only the various ways in which we or other minds are affected by it , and these affections are not the same in different objects , except in the sense in which the word same stands for exact similarity . |
| 23 | The national body representing France 's 450 auctioneers , La Chambre Nationale des Commissaires-Priseurs français , is hoping for a response this month or early April to charges of unfair competition which they and Belgian colleagues brought against Britain with the EC Commission last December . |
| 24 | The local Age Concern group or Old People 's Welfare Council group may be able to tell you about special services in your area , which they or other groups run . |
| 25 | Suddenly Alexei remembered Tarvaras as he had first seen it — a revolving holographic projection suspended in the viewing well of the briefing amphitheatre of an Imperial survey vessel , the Simonova — off which he and five other humans had been marooned over twelve standard years earlier . |
| 26 | I interviewed Place in a midget submarine in Portsmouth dockyard similar to the one in which he and two other men had travelled up the long fjord in northern Norway at the head of which Tirpitz lay , cut their way through the nets surrounding her and laid charges beneath her hull which , when they exploded an hour later and Place was a prisoner-of-war on board her , put the ship out of action for six months . |
| 27 | Werner Bischof died young : he was only 38 when the Jeep in which he and two companions were travelling plunged into a gorge in the Andes on May 16 1954 . |
| 28 | He had picked up on his travels that the future history of Earth was not the progressive revolution which he and many others had imagined . |
| 29 | Yeltsin assured the miners that the transfer had been part of the pact which he and eight other republican leaders had signed with USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev a week earlier [ see p. 38129 ] . |
| 30 | Redknapp spent the best part of six months recovering from serious head and leg injuries after the horror crash near Rome involving a mini-bus in which he and ex-Aston Villa star Tiler were travelling . |