Example sentences of "which [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experience showed , he said , that the proportion which debts recovered bore to the cost of the court proceedings was less than one in twenty , and so a burden on trade and business . |
| 2 | These ‘ duty orders ’ were to be brought in to match the varying rates at which authorities became ready to take on such responsibilities . |
| 3 | In a study of which authorities had developed more sophisticated budget systems and corporate organisation , Greenwood et al . |
| 4 | About 100 students from Zimbabwe University carried placards denouncing Dr Richard Gladwell McGown who was charged in a Harare court last week in connection with experiments in pain control which authorities say killed five patients . |
| 5 | The Law Society 's presentation of the duty solicitor scheme and its public reception is important as an illustration of the way in which solicitors wish to be seen , in order to legitimate the way in which they operate . |
| 6 | This approach does not place the emphasis upon the problems with which solicitors do deal , but upon those with which they could deal . |
| 7 | Today The Law Society announced the launch of a major new campaign to support businesses and promote the range of legal services which solicitors offer to them . |
| 8 | Whether this pattern of usage of solicitors is evidence of a restricted perception of the sorts of matters with which solicitors deal or of a failure of people to approach solicitors knowing that they could help is unclear . |
| 9 | Is the Minister further aware that there has been an enormous erosion of confidence in the reliability and roadworthiness of buses since deregulation , especially in south Wales during a period in which monopolies have been created as stronger firms capture weaker ones and cowboy fleets undercut the operations of firms that are much more conscientious and safety conscious ? |
| 10 | Stretching our imaginations , we can surely create a story which might contain this sequence , just as we could , in fact , create fanciful circumstances in which knights kill teaspoons , and girls ride houses . |
| 11 | Yet the tradition of the Germanic tribes was that judgement should be pronounced by the whole body of freemen , by all the ‘ suitors ’ , all those who had the right and duty of regular attendance at the court ; and the jurisdiction of the old royal and popular courts was cut across here , there and everywhere by the numerous feudal courts erected in increasing numbers on the basis of royal grant or mere usurpation from the ninth century onwards , and in the eleventh and twelfth by the appearance of borough courts and town courts of various kinds and courts which merchants set up to handle their own problems , which could hardly be handled by the warrior president or the yokel suitors of a popular court . |
| 12 | Group profits slumped by 40 per cent to £16.9 million last year , of which houses contributed three-quarters and development , a quarter . |
| 13 | As noted , structuring does not merely involve routine tasks but also often requires complex financial engineering , in which houses based in London have developed considerable expertise over the years . |
| 14 | Repairing the grade two listed building , which houses Shocks Hardware Stores at Leominster in Herefordshire , could cost as much as ( 100,000 ) a hundred thousand pounds . |
| 15 | In this chapter some of the ways in which palaeontologists determine the way fossil animals lived are described , reanimating the dead fragments to build up a living creature . |
| 16 | However , the policy has not been unequivocally successful , and it is interesting to note which contracts have turned out to be successes and which failures . |
| 17 | Finally , it must be recognised that adjustment may be less than instantaneous , both because production processes take time and because the presence of transactions costs and other risks leads to a world in which contracts exist and expectational errors have real effects . |
| 18 | The strategy could not make , nor sustain if it could , the ceteris paribus conditions such as the idea of a perfect vacuum in which objects fall at a constant rate of acceleration whatever their size and shape . |
| 19 | There have been fierce debates over the differences between objects as sign and as symbol , and over degrees of iconicity , most of which can be reduced to levels of abstraction involved in the process by which objects become vehicles of meaning ( see Lyons 1977 for survey ) . |
| 20 | He shows us the modifications which objects thought to be inanimate impose on each other … |
| 21 | This is an injustice which prisoners see all too clearly . |
| 22 | They form a barrier that isolates the sea surface from the atmosphere and reflects away solar radiation , but they are also important biological habitats , supporting a distinctive microbiota , providing shelter for planktonic animals , and forming a floating platform on which birds settle and seals breed . |
| 23 | Exceptions would be certain Loranthaceous and Viscaceous seeds , which birds remove from their bills by brushing them through bark crevices , or the passage of seeds through an animal to germinate in its dung . |
| 24 | Trees in which birds have nested and which provide shade for cattle are also avoided , and trees that are unattractive or have fallen down by themselves are likewise unsuitable for icon making . |
| 25 | Between the bouts of keen pain a curious life took possession of his brain , a life in which kings and queens floated on the water and white-clad saracens rode up and down before a cage in which was a crowned lion , and then , suddenly , the cage was empty and the saracens were knights in armour and the water on which they rode was a mountain like a tree in which birds nested and which burst into flames and was the phoenix ; and somewhere was the Holy Grail for which he reached out in vain , and a jewelled sword , and a unicorn that spoke but said nothing . |
| 26 | He is expected to cite aspects of the deal under which Spurs signed £2.1million striker Teddy Sheringham as an example of Venables ' unsuitability . |
| 27 | Anderton , who has yet to score in the League , has missed the last five matches in which Spurs have extended an unbeaten run to seven games while beating the likes of Liverpool and Blackburn . |
| 28 | A Letter of Licence , by which creditors agreed to postpone claims , brought only temporary respite and did not remove the evil day . |
| 29 | A succession of rescheduling deals , known by the places — Toronto , Trinidad — in which creditors dreamt them up , have been proposed in recent years . |
| 30 | The Financial Statement 's key aim is to save much of that time by use of an agreed system in which creditors have trust and confidence . |