Example sentences of "which [vb -s] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Wales , the ‘ derwyn corp ’ , is the name given to a large , ghostly bird which flies around a house where there is sickness , stopping only to tap loudly at a window if the patient is to die . |
| 2 | Another 6a is Afin que nul ne meure , which goes up a very dramatic section of cliff to the right of the famous Pichenibule . |
| 3 | This is a view which goes back a long way , at least as far as the time of the Radcliffe Report in 1960 . |
| 4 | It is the official authority ‘ traditionally ’ associated with management , which goes down the scalar chain . |
| 5 | ( A slot meter may not be practical , for example , with a gas central heating boiler which goes out every time the money runs out and needs to be re-lit when more money is put in the meter . |
| 6 | Consultant pathologist Dr John Ryan said she was more susceptible to the cold because of a condition called hypothyroidism which slows down the body 's metabolism . |
| 7 | However , when searching for a particular route from the ‘ z ’ , a linear search must be employed to establish whether it exists or not , which slows down the search time compared with the 26-way tree where all 26 routes are allocated . |
| 8 | An additional plus for the Anatom is its lining , which has in-built Antibac , an antibacterial system which slows down the growth of bacteria on the skin , an unusual but welcome concept in shoe technology . |
| 9 | A system of transitional payments is in operation , which slows down the effects of these changes on current claimants . |
| 10 | But it is possible to describe the commonalities between these feminist psychologies , in a way which points up the importance of the associative approach for feminist psychology in general . |
| 11 | Such work makes an association between psychological writing and apparently non-psychological narrative forms , which points up the ubiquitous but usually denied role of these forms in psychological discourses.i |
| 12 | Second , we also promote good health : in 1992 the BMA published ‘ Cycling : Towards Health and Safety ’ ( OUP ) , which points out the health benefits of cycling , and they have since issued the leaflet ‘ Bike for your Life ’ , which has been distributed to all GP 's . |
| 13 | Second , we also promote good health : in 1992 the BMA published ‘ Cycling : Towards Health and Safety ’ ( OUP ) , which points out the health benefits of cycling , and they have since issued the leaflet ‘ Bike for your Life ’ , which has been distributed to all GP 's . |
| 14 | Second , we also promote good health : in 1992 the BMA published ‘ Cycling : Towards Health and Safety ’ ( OUP ) , which points out the health benefits of cycling , and they have since issued the leaflet ‘ Bike for your Life ’ , which has been distributed to all GP 's — a copy of this is enclosed . |
| 15 | Winters to freeze your marrow and a spring wind — the fen blow they call it — which whips up the peat and chokes your lungs like smog . |
| 16 | To help her find the area of the floor , Emancia imagines a line which splits up the room into two rectangles . |
| 17 | Despite some early lows ( ‘ Coming On Strong ’ ) , The Shamen string together a powerful set which plays up the rockier side of their pop equation . |
| 18 | It is followed by a sentence of seven verbal phrases dependent on one main verb " is " which builds up a sense of being actively extended " lufand — thynkand — desirand — anedande — syngand — byrnand " yet also paradoxically " restand " . |
| 19 | Examples are La Male Honte , noted already , and Les deux Anglois et l'anel , " The two Englishmen and the anel " , which turns around a joke based on an Englishman 's inability to make a[g]nel ( lamb ) distinct from a[s]niel ( young ass ) in his attempt to speak French . |
| 20 | It now makes sense to join the rest of the world by paying for what we use , say experts Kent Meters in Luton , Bedfordshire , a firm which turns out a million meters a year — and sells them abroad . |
| 21 | In addition there is a small credit and information branch , CDMS , and a printing operation which turns out the eight million pools coupons played each week by aspiring millionaires-to-be . |
| 22 | These terms are all very descriptive , since the material which accumulates around a Strombolian vent does indeed look rather like boiler slag , but it is more correctly called scoria , and the cones which build up around the vent scoria cones . |
| 23 | Below the vernier is an illuminated mute button which shuts down the output socket sited on the far right , so when the tuner is put in line between the guitar and amp it mutes the signal after the tuner , for silent tuning on stage . |
| 24 | Street Scene is the climax of this quest , an opera that speaks with the accents of Broadway , but which holds up a typically critical and compassionate mirror to the face of his adopted city . |
| 25 | After a three-day crisis meeting , the Communist Party Central Committee revealed an ‘ action programme for renewal ’ which holds out the prospect of free elections , a democratic coalition government and parliamentary investigations into malpractices and abuses of power . |
| 26 | And while the performance of the Alpine is in the supercar league , the cost of using it , in terms of comfort , running costs and fuel economy , is definitely not — which holds out the enticing prospect of accomplishing long , fast continental journeys in great comfort and 25 mpg economy . |
| 27 | Play them in order and make sure that your thumb , which holds down the root of the G chords , also deadens the A string … |
| 28 | The analysis is also considerably weakened by the empiricism of their notion of ‘ direct , immediate experience ’ , which writes out the significance of the complex interpretive frameworks through which events , processes and facts are constructed . |
| 29 | This is an acquired skill which develops over a long period . |
| 30 | An outstanding example of this type of narrative is Vargas Llosa 's Conversation in the Cathedral , which pivots around a four-hour conversation between two characters , the whole novel being made up of dialogue and narrative units generated in waves by the central conversation , as the two men 's review of their past lives sparks off inner thoughts and recollections and conjures up other conversations and dramatized episodes . |