Example sentences of "[v-ing] to which [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They suggested that pupil results should be presented as an attainment profile and that for each subject there should be a very small number of ‘ profile components ’ which reflected the variety of knowledge skills and understanding to which a study of the subject gave rise . |
| 2 | This finding is inconsistent with the conclusions of various surveys of job satisfaction in industry , according to which a feeling of excessive pace is a potent cause of dissatisfaction . |
| 3 | Thus the system of exogamy prevailed , according to which a bride had to be obtained from another clan , ‘ bride-price ’ and dowry being given according to an agreement between the parents . |
| 4 | He denied the Aristotelian claim that all motion requires a cause and in its place proposed a circular law of inertia , according to which a moving object subject to no forces will move indefinitely in a circle around the earth at uniform speed . |
| 5 | It follows from the foregoing that Community law lays down a principle according to which a member state is obliged to make good the damage to individuals caused by a breach of Community law for which it is responsible . |
| 6 | She distinguishes between those models that treat hemisphere specialisation as absolute , according to which a given function can only be performed by a particular hemisphere , and those that regard specialisation as relative . |
| 7 | Gender is a grammatical distinction according to which a noun or pronoun is classified as either masculine or feminine in some languages . |
| 8 | Thus for increasing exposure a rise in the reading could be due either to new material seen or to the phenomenon that we have called spreading , i.e. the effect according to which a subject is seen as larger merely because of a longer exposure . |
| 9 | Thus , in addition to the basic meaning of ‘ constitution ’ — a document containing , at the very least , a code of rules setting out the allocation of functions , powers and duties among the various agencies and officers of government — there is a wider meaning of constitution , according to which every democratic state has a constitution . |
| 10 | Around it they had developed a rigid code of honour — Shen-sei-go — which contained the principles according to which every Manchu male was expected to live and die . |
| 11 | Pound has no recourse to that staple of anti-Russian propaganda in every generation ( some of it was being aired in these years in Eliot 's Criterion ) according to which the Russian is ‘ asiatic ’ , outside the confines of Europe . |
| 12 | Partly , though , it shows the degeneration of a world view according to which the conventionally ‘ romantic ’ tropics , strangely remote world of the ‘ breadfruit , banyan , palmleaf ’ have become a place |
| 13 | He was powerfully addicted to conspiracy theory , according to which the group was continually under surveillance by the Special Branch and MI5 , while concentration camps were being prepared to incarcerate the militants as the capitalist crisis deepend . |
| 14 | Although Descartes advocated a broadly ‘ mechanical philosophy ’ , according to which the material world was to be understood in terms of matter and motion , he was not a standard corpuscularian or atomist . |
| 15 | At times this anti-realism took the form of an extreme nominalism , according to which the words ‘ man ’ and ‘ triangle ’ are general only in that they are used of a number of different things . |
| 16 | Indeed , just as Berkeley 's immaterialism foreshadows the phenomenalist theory of perception developed by the so-called Logical Empiricists of this century , so his view , according to which the aim of science is not to provide explanations of nature 's regularities but only to arrive at concise and useful descriptions of them , foreshadows their instrumentalism . |
| 17 | At the adjourned session of the Essex ‘ Justice Seat , on 4 October 1634 , Sir John Finch produced the Forest Eyre roll of 1277 , according to which the bounds of the forest of Essex were sworn to be ‘ from Bow Bridge to Catway Bridge in length , and in breadth from the river of Thames to Stanstreet ’ — that is , the whole of the country south of ‘ Stanstreet ’ ( or Stanestreet ) was declared to be Forest . |
| 18 | What can be said , however , is that this sense of an ultimate monotheism according to which the gods are recognised to be manifestations of a single absolute reality is deeply woven into the religious tradition of Hindus . |
| 19 | The original position seems to presuppose not just a neutral theory of the good , but a liberal , individualistic conception according to which the best that can be wished for someone is the unimpeded pursuit of his own path , provided it does not interfere with the rights of others . |
| 20 | Horoscopic astrology , according to which the positions of the planets at the time of birth determines the fate of the individual , did not develop until much later . |
| 21 | Instead of the old concept of teaching , according to which the teacher , possessed of superior powers and superior knowledge , attempted to pass on to the more able of his pupils that non-practical culture which would most benefit them personally , a new class-room communication should be envisaged . |
| 22 | It was this Council , consisting of members nominated by the Secretary of State himself , who issued the National Criteria according to which the new examination should be conducted , and who continue to approve all the particular subject criteria , which must be finally approved by the Secretary of State . |
| 23 | The aim of this Council was presumably to rationalize post-16 vocational provision , and establish criteria according to which the various existing qualifications may be accredited in a uniform way . |
| 24 | George Corner recalls an article in the Baltimore Sun of many years ago , according to which the heart and lungs are perfectly respectable , the liver not quite , the spleen dubious and the kidneys definitely vulgar . |
| 25 | To do this , we make use of the Phillips relationship according to which the rate of wage inflation depends inversely on the unemployment percentage . |
| 26 | The terms of this argument repeat exactly those of the critical debate about univocal meaning , according to which the only alternative to the idea that history has a single meaning must be that it has none at all . |
| 27 | Important though these issues are , Derrida 's major contribution has been his insistence that history is a metaphysical concept according to which the meaning of history always amounts to the history of meaning . |
| 28 | Following Althusser 's suggestion that a historical problematic might be altogether invisible even to experiencing subjects , in The Order of Things Foucault analyses what he provocatively calls ‘ the historical a priori ’ according to which the knowledges of grammar , natural history and wealth , and their epistemic replacements , philology , biology , and political economy , were structured . |
| 29 | The failure of such tensions to overturn or revolutionize the social structure has rested in the way in which individuals have been socialized and the fundamental norms according to which the society operates . |
| 30 | They were closely integrated into the emerging central paradigm of social evolution , according to which the level of sophistication of these objects was held to symbolize the place of such peoples as a kind of fossil record of social development from the primitive to the civilized ( Steadman 1979 ; Chapman 1985 ) . |