Example sentences of "which [vb base] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two key aspects of government emphasized in the Crossman diaries are the difficulties facing a minister with departmental responsibilities who tries to take an overall view of government policies as a whole , and the related tendency for ministers to take narrowly departmental views which sabotage interdepartmental co-operation . |
| 2 | Walks are scheduled to take place all over the country taking routes which highlight various problems which have arisen from landowners denying access to the countryside . |
| 3 | Several theoretical positions have been developed to analyse local politics , broadly grouped into those which highlight local autonomy , and those which stress the role of national government and non-local determinants of change . |
| 4 | VMAP reports will give an indication of response/turnaround times for certain transactions , and these may be useful for showing trends which highlight potential problems . |
| 5 | I am grateful to the BBC and independent TV stations for regular broadcasts which highlight conservation matters . |
| 6 | Speakers were asked to address such questions as : the possibility of delineating a discrete and distinctive popular culture ; the usefulness of conceiving culture as discourse or as an arena of social change ; the forces which engender long-term changes in popular culture . |
| 7 | Many of these management structures and processes have long histories — quality circles and Japanese corporate practice are two trends which influence current thinking in business management aspirations , expectations and structures . |
| 8 | It examines some of the factors which influence industrial buying and purchase behaviour . |
| 9 | Something about the factors which influence multi-nat location decisions . |
| 10 | Biotechnology has an extremely wide range of applications in agriculture , among which are crop improvement , biological control of pests and the enhancement of nitrogen fixation , all of which influence environmental quality . |
| 11 | Cognition theories , which emphasise internal functions such as perception and understanding and see learning in terms of the organisation of mental connections which influence future performance . |
| 12 | At work here are what Ashworth calls the ‘ ingrained attitudes ’ — which could equally well be termed ideologies — which influence sentencing decisions . |
| 13 | Firstly , managers involved in R & D investment decisions will be interviewed to seek their views on factors which influence these decisions and whether they are affected by the way this investment is accounted for . |
| 14 | It also outlines the company 's intention to participate in committees which influence legislative developments affecting packaging in the environment . |
| 15 | There are bound to be factors other than visible qualifications which influence this . |
| 16 | The example shows how a system which can be in one of two states can be simulated , and how the results of these simulations can be used to gain some understanding of system behaviour and of the controls which influence this behaviour . |
| 17 | For any effective right of tax-diversion would require legislation to set up a Peace Tax Fund ; to prescribe the uses to which tax resources diverted into the fund might be put ; and to authorise the Inland Revenue Commissioners to take into account a person 's conscientious beliefs in determining which account that person 's taxes should be paid into . |
| 18 | This is best explained , not by suggesting that they do not have interests in common or that they are satisfied with things as they are , but by attending to the crushing significance of those ideas in society which preach that to be poor is an individual 's own fault and reflects his or her lack of preparedness to study and train , to work hard , to postpone having a family , or what have you . |
| 19 | This is a powerful explanation because it succeeds in linking the fact of there being a restriction on sexuality in religions which preach brotherly love to all mankind , especially Christianity , Islam and Buddhism . |
| 20 | Yet though woodlands are primarily a timber crop from which the owner is entitled to benefit , two principles have been laid down which qualify this . |
| 21 | This has included an assessment of the availability of transport fleets South Africa for use in Mozambique and Lesotho , which lack private trucking capacity . |
| 22 | One of the lessons to be drawn from the study of early-twentieth-century imperialism is the extraordinary durability of policies and programmes which lack all possibility of being realised . |
| 23 | Given the terms " subject " and " content " , which lack close definitions , it would perhaps be yet more audacious to speak of logical or conceptual dependency . |
| 24 | In addition , the fact that women are less mobile than men and more confined to the home means that they are less likely to be exposed to situations which lack effective informal social controls . |
| 25 | At the beginning of the year , the Dutch government bowed to consumer pressure and banned all imports of tropical hardwood from countries which lack effective forestry management schemes . |
| 26 | This may be an extreme example , but subject fields which lack good bibliographical control of thesis literature , or whose research is conducted transnationally , are likely to exhibit similar problems . |
| 27 | The company is aiming squarely at the market targeted by 3Com Corp with its boundary router : small outposts of large organisations , which lack local network support . |
| 28 | First , one begins to question the need for frequent rote regurgitation of words which lack intrinsic interest . |
| 29 | Kovalenko concluded that it was ‘ highly improbable that the five ASEAN countries , which lack adequate political , economic and military strength to force the imperialist powers to withdraw from Southeast Asia and thus make it possible for its people independently to determine their future , will be able to solve this question on their own ’ . |
| 30 | Thus jobs which involve social interaction with other workers are generally more satisfying than socially isolated work ; monotonous , repetitive work is more likely to be linked with job dissatisfaction than more varied work ; jobs which involve responsibility and the ability to organize work time and work methods are generally preferred over those which lack these qualities , and so forth . |