Example sentences of "which [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In cases of this kind ( which rarely come before the Court of Appeal except on appeal against sentence ) , the last act of the provoker , even though minor in itself , may be placed in the context of the previous provocation , and may itself be treated as sufficient to show that the loss of self-control was ‘ sudden and temporary ’ . |
| 2 | After about 20 years of critical success which rarely translated into public acclaim , his new novel , Affliction ( Picador , £12.95 ) , has hit big in the US . |
| 3 | Chalmers 's form has been quite a contrast to last season , when he was often indecisive in his play and tended to look for gaps which rarely existed before passing or kicking . |
| 4 | It is an unstructured corpus of independent observations which rarely go beyond what seems to have happened in the past . |
| 5 | This in turn does n't help his voice , which rarely breaks from a rather lazy-sounding , aspirant Jack Nicholson-style Californian croak . |
| 6 | The major difference which appears from the beginning is that sign language does not require voice and therefore allows the possibility of a mixing of two language codes , something which rarely occurs in the spoken situation . |
| 7 | It 's a whirlwind ride which rarely lingers for more than a minute on individual songs until we reach the '90s and the Zoo TV extravaganza . |
| 8 | Widdicombe ( 1986 , vol. 1 , table 2.1 ) revealed that in 1985 the proportion of councils in party political control had risen to 84 per cent , hence in ‘ many , perhaps most … councils the party group ’ which rarely figures on organization charts — ‘ has become the focus of political decision ’ ( Alexander , 1982a , p. 97 ) . |
| 9 | The lowest shrub of all the sorts here mentioned is the Scotch Rose which rarely grows above a foot high , so that this must be placed among other shrubs of the same growth , which should have a moist soil and a shady situation . |
| 10 | True to recent form Omagh conceded a first-half goal , and late in the game two more , as the Crues won a match which rarely rose above the mediocre . |
| 11 | All records were of single birds which rarely stayed for more than a day . |
| 12 | Italy is of course the country where anything is possible , but legitimate concern has been expressed at the way in which the young Florentine judge has seen fit to take upon herself a role which properly belongs to the competent institutional authorities that of evaluating the appropriateness and the implementation of a particular restoration project . |
| 13 | The duty arises from the real concern that management may benefit from an opportunity which properly belongs to the company and its shareholders . |
| 14 | But there is Marxist work on the origins and on typologies of art which properly belongs in this first division . |
| 15 | The people , or " the masses " , had usurped powers and functions which properly belonged to government and the state . |
| 16 | Instead , bloated catalogues bulged with inferior stock and works which properly belonged in the routine day sales and had been promoted in order to provide ballast for the smarter evening sessions . |
| 17 | Their value for the reader lies in enlarging or changing our perceptions , in helping us to break out from a deadening routine ; in short , the carnivalesque : ‘ The prophets of extremity put up a distorting mirror against our world — but one which properly attended to , can tell us something about that world , and about the possibilities of changing it , or changing ourselves . ’ |
| 18 | Such a girl is being asked to behave in many ways like an adult ( mother ) in that she is being asked to carry out the nurturing and supervisory procedures which properly belong to adulthood and , traditionally , to motherhood in particular . |
| 19 | KPMG Peat Marwick will not assume the responsibility which properly rests with the directors for the fair disclosure of information ( including financial information ) in investment advertisements ( including prospectuses , listing particulars , offer documents , Information memoranda and information circulars . |
| 20 | They packed a protest meeting , which most remember to this day . |
| 21 | Accurate copies might be made , but there is in addition a category of interpretive copy , where the artist copies those elements which most appeal to him . |
| 22 | Indeed it was precisely the industries which most benefited from this R and D ( aerospace , electronics ) which maintained their world lead most effectively . |
| 23 | Once we have put aside such relatively easy observations as the tendency or requirement for long or complex adjective phrases to occur postnominally , there are two fundamental questions which badly need to be asked about the grammar of postnominal attributives : ( a ) What is the difference in effect or value obtained by the speaker who uses postnominal position when prenominal position is equally grammatical ? ( b ) Why is it that some adjectives ( and some adjective phrases ) can occur quite easily in postnominal position while others , apparently comparable , are limited to prenominal position ? |
| 24 | THE ULTIMATE teen movie , a sharp-edged black comedy which mercilessly swipes at adolescent angst , peer pressure , consumerism , and that old favourite , the generation gap . |
| 25 | The effect of jitter in a digital system is to reduce precision , clarity , stereo imagery and that curious and almost indefinable property normally described as ‘ timing ’ and which loosely translates into a feeling that the musicians are not all on the same wavelength . |
| 26 | • These days she 's pretty much engaged in an acting career , although she did turn up in John Waters ' Hairspray in 1988 to render Barbara Lynn Ozen 's title song , which duly appeared on the soundtrack album . |
| 27 | Unfortunately he found like others that even eminence in science did not automatically bring emolument , and in 1863 he contemplated moving to Manchester ; but Samuelson then came up with the proposal of producing a new Quarterly Journal of Science , which duly appeared in January 1864 under the editorship of Crookes and Samuelson . |
| 28 | In February 1974 the original lessee assigned the lease to the second defendant , a company , which duly entered into the required covenant directly with the landlord . |
| 29 | The Committee accepted the prototypes first , which duly arrived in January 1934 and were placed on display in Talbot Square ( Opposite ) . |
| 30 | GUIDING deputies with a firm hand , President Gorbachev yesterday got his way at the opening session of Congress , which duly voted against a proposal by the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko to discuss the Communist Party 's monopoly of power . |