Example sentences of "[art] [noun] which [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although moral philosophers tend to treat aesthetics as a poor relation of their own discipline , it is in aesthetics that we arrive at the central problem of evaluating the activities which we pursue without thought of serving a purpose , in particular the one traditionally regarded as not merely good in itself but in some mysterious way improving to the agent , the contemplation of beauty . |
| 2 | Tourism is a distinctive type of recreation which involves the movement of people , on a temporary basis , to destinations beyond their usual residence and the activities which they then pursue . |
| 3 | On occasion , the need to separate and the guilt about it may be the focus of work ; more often , it will be to validate and confirm the spouse or partner in the activities which they are performing . |
| 4 | Signals are thought to have evolved by the gradual modification of the activities which they resemble , as they were performed by the animals ' successive ancestors . |
| 5 | Subject to paragraphs 5 and 6 below , the Funding Council shall have the power — ( a ) to acquire , hold and dispose of land and other property ; ( b ) to enter into contracts , including contracts for the employment of staff for the purposes of the discharge of their functions ; ( c ) to invest any sums not immediately required by the Funding Council for the purpose of their carrying on any of the activities which they have power to carry on ; and ( d ) to accept gifts of money , land or other property and apply it to , or hold or administer it in trust for , the purpose of the discharge of any of their functions . |
| 6 | Some communications are obvious by their very nature or by the response which they elicit — the alarm calls of some creatures which other species automatically recognize , for instance . |
| 7 | However , the principle in Williams v Singer can not be taken too far and Lord Sands in Reid 's Trustees v IRC made the point that if the trustees were actually to receive the income which they were bound to pay over to the beneficiaries they will not avoid an assessment on themselves . |
| 8 | I am utterly unable to understand how the retention by the trustees in their own hands of a portion of the income which they receive in order to pay lawful claims upon the fund , and charges which probably the lady herself would have had to pay or get paid for her , if she were resident in New York , and which the trustees will have to account for fully , can change the " origin or parentage " of the residue of the income received , lodged with the bankers of the beneficiaries . |
| 9 | I am utterly unable to understand how the retention by the trustees in their own hands of a portion of the income which they receive in order to pay lawful claims upon the fund … can change the " origin or parentage " of the residue of the income received [ and ] lodged with the bankers of the beneficiary . |
| 10 | Thus , the purpose of a rent review clause is not to revalue the original bargain between the parties , but to give the landlord the income which he would have got , on the terms on which he would have let , if he had had the property in hand on the rent review date . |
| 11 | In my view these characteristics serve only to require the court to be more than ever cautious before concluding that Parliament really intended to exclude one of the immunities which I have listed ; and as I have suggested , the words of the Act of 1987 admit of no doubt . |
| 12 | The immunities which he does say the Director is wrongfully seeking to infringe are the second and third in the list , which protect the citizen from being compelled to answer questions on pain of punishment ; and these are not concerned specifically with the question whether the citizen has or has not been charged with an offence . |
| 13 | The opportunity which he seized turned out to his own detriment . |
| 14 | The main importance of the controversy in the history of the Church of England was in the opportunity which it gave Andrewes to assert to Rome that ‘ Our appeal is to antiquity — yea even the most extreme antiquity . |
| 15 | His eyes were fixed on the forms which he was signing and stamping as fast as he could go . |
| 16 | Although I joined the company only two and half years ago , the contracts which we had then had a two day , three day price on them . |
| 17 | Certainly Wordsworth is not consistent in the terminology which he uses to name the non-human ‘ Presences ’ : the 1798–9 version seems animistic , with its references to ‘ Beings of the hills ’ , ‘ Powers of earth ’ , ‘ Genii of the springs ’ and so on . |
| 18 | But her own internal stresses — her anxiety over Between the Acts which she had just finished , and the fear that she had lost the power to write — closed in on her as that unmitigable depression , her companion of old , took final hold . |
| 19 | When a badger is foraging , especially for the earthworms which it loves , it will stuff its nose into the earth and vegetation and make a noise like a pig rooting . |
| 20 | It is characteristic of the novel that climate and vegetation should count for no less than its comedy of manners , in which the Jewish businessman Harry de Tunja plays an enjoyable part , and that neither of these two elements , so far as they can be distinguished from the rest of the novel , should count for less than the opinions which they help to convey . |
| 21 | Erm reference has been made er a couple of times to the appendix which I attached to my submission , that 's the map and the schedule of strategic constraints , I feel I ought not to let it pass without some comment . |
| 22 | It is wholly admirable that this country can provide research facilities and educational expertise to overseas students , but the value of their work to this country may consist solely of the funding which they bring with them , the esteem in which they hold this country 's institutions when they have returned home , and their subsequent contacts and consultancies . |
| 23 | It is wholly admirable that this country can provide research facilities and educational expertise to overseas students , but the value of their work to this country may consist solely of the funding which they bring with them , the esteem in which they hold this country 's institutions when they have returned home , and their subsequent contacts and consultancies . |
| 24 | The word ‘ new ’ actually means opportunity , the possibility of the removal of a constraint , the possibility of achieving competitive advantage , the possibility of moving faster in the direction which we have set . |
| 25 | I must say that the way the discussion has gone this morning , is n I would say , slightly disappointing because there is some attempt to make a positive contribution , but at the moment it 's not necessarily pointing us quite in the direction which we would hope to go . |
| 26 | Mr Grigson , is that moving in the direction which you wished to get an answer to your question ? |
| 27 | This should make the model start to move in the direction which it is pointing or stop the rotation . |
| 28 | If he makes a will , as most men do , it is almost certain that he will set apart a considerable proportion for the saying of masses ; if he should neglect to do so , and in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries it is regarded as almost a sin to die without making a will , the Church ought to make the provision which he has failed to make for his soul . |
| 29 | In the euphoria of getting through the first night , Charles had forgotten how much concentration that effort had taken , and found it difficult to get back the rhythm of his lines with the A.S.M. The sleepless night and the excesses which it had incorporated did not help , either . |
| 30 | However , the problem at the cognisance level is to describe how a history of activity ( that is , intentional changes in informational content ) results in the conceptions which we have about our mental life . |