Example sentences of "which [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Methods which expressly reflect the term structure of interest rates or the market value of liabilities were rejected mainly on grounds of complexity . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Such intrusions , which rarely attain the dimensions of batholiths , are known as lopoliths and their layered structure tends to lead to the formation of series of outward-facing scarps as they are exposed by erosion . |
| 4 | It is an unstructured corpus of independent observations which rarely go beyond what seems to have happened in the past . |
| 5 | Current thinking is that the chromosome of E. coli meets all the microbe 's ordinary domestic needs , which rarely change , and that plasmid-borne information comes into play only when the microbe encounters a stress — a changed nutrient , an antibiotic or competitor . |
| 6 | I have always been impressed with the quality of the precedents contained in the Encyclopaedia , which rarely let us down , despite the intricacies of the subject matter , and it comes as no surprise to me to find that so many firms seem to be basing their standard form agreements and leases on Forms 14 and 29 . |
| 7 | Small companies , which rarely re-organize , thrive on personal contacts . |
| 8 | The vagina , like the mouth , ears , or any other orifice open to the outside world is , as a matter of course , populated by many microorganisms , most of which rarely cause problems and give their host little reason to be aware of their presence . |
| 9 | Rural councils have found themselves hamstrung by the centralized control of local authority expenditure ( particularly during the periods of economic stagnation and crisis ) and , in the case of housing , by the imposition of cost yardsticks which rarely take account of the peculiar difficulties which many rural councils face from the heavier costs incurred in housing provision in remote areas . |
| 10 | Is it not ironic that the Government are introducing the Bill at a time when virtually all the political parties — parties which rarely find common ground , as we have tragically and sadly witnessed over the years — see eye to eye in opposing the scheme ? |
| 11 | It relates more particularly to parish churches , which rarely have single-sex choirs in these days . |
| 12 | Responding to the needs of people who live on their own — and some 36 per cent of people over 65 do — could increase sales on many items , notably food items , which rarely attract single householders because the goods are currently only available in large , wasteful quantities unless they are convenience foods . |
| 13 | For example , the common dissolution of isolated evaporite minerals forms isolated , secondary pore spaces ( Fig. 5.36c ) which rarely enhance the effective porosity of a sediment . |
| 14 | These include works by Vermeer , Cuyp , Jacob van Ruisdael and Saenredam , many from Scottish country house collections which rarely lend . |
| 15 | It is we , however , who have to work out the connections of similarity and contrast between the expressions in the groups A to L , which thereby become representative of something more general , which could not be expressed by simply adding together the literal senses of the words . |
| 16 | Females tend to remain in their natal units , which thereby increase gradually in size . |
| 17 | It is these states , bound to the Soviet Union by geography , dependency and military weakness which properly form the ‘ Soviet Empire ’ , and whose contribution to Soviet power we shall now examine . |
| 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 | Attempts to make the arts accountable by submitting them to forms of assessment which properly belong elsewhere may actually make them appear wanting by looking for inappropriate forms of proof . |
| 20 | In the recounting of this story , several objects are referred to for which most sign languages do not have already existing signs . |
| 21 | The best ingredients of each culture are selected which most express his values and purposes for humankind . |
| 22 | They packed a protest meeting , which most remember to this day . |
| 23 | It is a fact that the issues and situations of conflict which most unsettle , pressurise and perplex us have their roots deep within our inner selves . |
| 24 | I now turn to the question of transport , one of the aspects which most worry the people of Scotland . |
| 25 | Families are the major socialization contexts for individuals in most societies , being the milieux in which most obtain their basic values . |
| 26 | It is this later Holiday which most recognise and her admirers point to her last years as her most compelling . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | If it is indeed the case that time is used least economically in those subjects to which most time is allocated ( see Table 4.1 ) , should not schools , LEAs ( and indeed the NCC and DES ) took afresh at their assumptions about how much time these subjects ( that is , the National Curriculum core subjects ) really need ? |
| 29 | However , we also found an inverse relationship between time and efficiency : time was sometimes used least effectively in those subjects to which most time was allocated . |
| 30 | International studies confirm Crossman 's criticism : they place Britain no higher than sixteenth in the league table of countries which most enjoy freedom to publish . |