Example sentences of "which [pron] [vb -s] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is by no means true that an ad which everyone notices is necessarily good — it may be noticed for reasons which are totally irrelevant to the strategy . |
| 2 | The word ‘ natural ’ will still be allowed , says the Ministry of Agriculture 's Food Advisory Committee , for ‘ single foods of a traditional nature to which nothing has been added and which have been subjected only to such processing as to render them suitable for human consumption . |
| 3 | And in fact , if the argument above is sound , to conceive of a knee other than yours hurting in the way in which yours hurts is to conceive of it as hurting you . |
| 4 | There has been , over the course of this century , an increase in the number of elderly people , in the levels of pension available from private funds and the state , and in the number of people leaving work , voluntarily or through redundancy , before the accepted retirement age ( which itself has been failing ) . |
| 5 | Janet 's bedroom is painted pink , which she says is ‘ how it 's always been , I ca n't be bothered to repaint it ’ . |
| 6 | in this er first floor flat which she says is quite nice . |
| 7 | The economic dependence to which she refers is not a facet of marriage as such , but a facet of marriage in which the wife is not employed . |
| 8 | The way in which she copes is a real test of her understanding . |
| 9 | Petunias are raised in the greenhouse , but not the striped or edged sorts which she feels are just a little too bright for her garden . |
| 10 | She believes that the more placid Protestant religion to which she belongs is infinitely better , because it provokes fewer emotions , but calms the soul . |
| 11 | But , whilst she 's hiding , Anna sees the stranger bathe in a stream which she knows is contaminated with radio-active fallout . |
| 12 | Despite the tempting offer , Stephanie decided that working in Northampton House for Rentokil , which she 's been doing since August 1991 , was definitely preferable to Tunisia . |
| 13 | Donna Landry , however , takes a different view of this passage , which she believes is purely satirical , ‘ … a riot of comically conspicuous consumption that wastes resources in order to satisfy human greed ’ [ Landry , 109 ] . |
| 14 | A YOUNG mother has hit out after being offered a council house with a garden which she claims is in a dangerous state . |
| 15 | She rarely takes the babies into the garden because of the sewage , which she claims is a regular feature of the small sandy beach in North Queensferry . |
| 16 | This weekend she has another opportunity to show her talent , and a special throw which she has been perfecting , when she competes in the British Open at Crystal Palace . |
| 17 | Moya , a seemingly relaxed woman in her forties , described her attacks , which she has been having for 20 years , as ‘ an enormous blackness and fear , like being held under water ’ . |
| 18 | Vic knows what it is : a book entitled Enjoy Your Menopause , which one of Marjorie 's friends at the Weight Watchers ' club has lent her , and which she has been reading in bed , without much show of conviction , and falling asleep over , for the past week or two . |
| 19 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
| 20 | It is not covered by the rules which she has been taught . |
| 21 | Bartels has been credited with helping Steffi , 23 , over the past two years in which she has been plagued by illness and unhappiness . |
| 22 | Crews are fairly divided according to age and experience , and all 130 competitors had to raise £14,850 for their berth — Justine is jointly sponsored by Price Waterhouse and Blackburn-based accountancy firm Porter Matthews and Marsden , for which she has been working . |
| 23 | When a woman looks in the mirror , she sees the totality of her being : because of the social brainwashing to which she has been subjected , the mirror seems to tell her more than it can tell a man . |
| 24 | From 9 January to 10 February she has invited many of the artists with which she has been closely associated during those years to show . |
| 25 | We might compare this ethical relation to Cixous ' remarks about the need to love the other or Kristeva 's recent preoccupation with love which , from this perspective , hardly involves the sudden apostasy of which she has been accused , but rather as for Levinas consists of a way of formulating a ‘ responsibility for the Other , being-for-the-other ’ . |
| 26 | Germany must now reject the alien influence of Romance culture , to which she has been subservient , and develop her full creative potential ; and for this purpose , Hellenism , as an educational and cultural force in our society , is more necessary than ever . |
| 27 | It is significant that the huge grants of land and serfs to noble favourites and officials , for which she has been so much blamed , followed the first partition of Poland in 1772 . |
| 28 | May I join the Prime Minister — and , I am sure , the whole House — in sending good wishes to Her Majesty , and in expressing the admiration that I know is felt throughout our country , the Commonwealth and , indeed , the wider world for the wisdom , strength and dedication that Her Majesty has invariably shown throughout the four decades in which she has been our sovereign ? |
| 29 | AFTER a total of 36 years ' service in the nuclear industry — during which she has been personal secretary to no fewer than three chairmen — Dorothy Ashurst has retired . |
| 30 | Here the unconscious mind takes the more specific form of Christabel 's sexuality and sexual desires , which she has been taught by her upbringing to disregard , and even to suppress , seeing them as the dark and evil side of human nature . |