Example sentences of "which is [verb] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point Herrnstein 's ‘ anti-hereditarians ’ are trying to make deals , not with the obvious genetic roots of an individual 's intelligence , but , first , the exact meaning of this thing we call ‘ intelligence ’ and , secondly , the impossibility of separating and then quantifying the amount of intelligence which is inherited and the amount which is subject to change . |
| 2 | ‘ Which is to say that the idea of being married to him offends you ? ’ |
| 3 | Further ( 7 ) the causal circumstance is dependently necessary to the effect , which is to say that the effect dependently necessitates the circumstance . |
| 4 | So we find , for example , that men are like grass renewed in the morning but withered by the time of evening ( I 's 90.5 ) ; their days are like grass which is gone when the wind ( as here ) passes over it ( 103.15–16 ) ; the " son of man who is made like grass " is parallel to " man who dies " ( Isa 51.12 ) . |
| 5 | A further source of variation is generational position , with some changes occurring in the type of support which is given and the direction in which it flows over each person 's life course . |
| 6 | Laughter is the same language the world over , and the sense of pride and group identity which is engendered when a group tells another about who it is and where they came from is a critical factor in the cementation of the group and fostering of indigenous skills . |
| 7 | Fitting the water softener is a matter of breaking into the rising main and ‘ teeing ’ one pipe off to the softener and another from it ; a third pipe connecting the two tees contains a by-pass valve which is shut when the water softener is in use and open when it is not . |
| 8 | I rather think that they are concentrating on the main task which is to see that the children are properly provided for . |
| 9 | Designing the placement programme is a question of understanding the process which is operating and the effect this is having as the experience proceeds . |
| 10 | The price paid is that the air in the lung is saturated with water vapour , which is lost when the animal breathes out ( although some will be retained in the nasal passages if the air is cooled down before it leaves ) . |
| 11 | To test the possibility that the axons normally display a glial mitogen on their surface ( as has been suggested for axons in the peripheral nervous system ( PNS ) ) , which is lost when the axons degenerate and are phagocytosed after transection , we studied the effect of transection on mitosis in postnatal optic nerves of C57B1/6 and C57B1/6-WLD mice . |
| 12 | A term used in psychology , meaning the form which is lost when the parts are examined in detail without reference to their relationship to the whole . |
| 13 | The traveller in Philips 's poem delights in a magical illusion , a pleasing unreality , which is mourned when the ice falls away . |
| 14 | This permanently uncompresses a hidden or system file that is unmovable under normal usage ( like Compaq 's HIBRN8.DAT , which is produced when the Compaq LTE goes into sleep mode , to restore the machine to life exactly where it was when it shut down ) . |
| 15 | Example 1 shows the incident log file which is produced when the procedure GENERATE_ROOT_PACKAGE is called by user USER 1 with invalid data . |
| 16 | Modules under development have an appended letter ( development code ) which is removed when the modules are approved ; e.g. development module 2.1A is approved as 2.1 . |
| 17 | Before grapes are allowed the full AOC status of Champagne , the vines from which they come , whether situated in a virgin vineyard or an old one just replanted , must attain their ‘ third leaf ’ , by which is meant that the plants , having produced foliage for the third time , will be three years old . |
| 18 | Further EEC evidence comes from studies of the contingent negative variation ( CNV ) — a negative waveform in the EEC which is elicited when a warning stimulus is given , shortly followed by an imperative stimulus which requires the subject to make a response . |
| 19 | The Solution is equipped with an audible alarm which is emitted when the ascent speed exceeds 10 metres per minute , when the dive becomes a decompression dive and when the decompression ceiling is reached . |
| 20 | The amount of preparation which is required before the program can be used is important . |
| 21 | The Disciplinary Code in Schedule 1 to the Police ( Discipline ) Regulations 1985 contains an offence of ‘ improper disclosure of information ’ , which is committed where a member of a police force without proper authority communicates to any person , any information which he has in his possession as a member of a police force . |
| 22 | Fellatio ( kissing , licking or sucking a man 's penis ) is risky if semen or pre-cum ( a light fluid which is secreted before a man ejaculates ) gets into cuts or sores in the mouth . |