Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] which [verb] their " in BNC.

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1 People with haemophilia were at risk of HIV infection before October 1985 , because they regularly received injections of contaminated blood products which help their blood to clot ( Factor VIII and cryoprecipitate ) .
2 The only casualties I hear of are a couple of pleasure boats which dragged their moorings and were damaged on the shore .
3 Theoretically , the sulphonamide block could be by-passed if ready-made folic acid were available , but in practice microbes which make their own folic acid are unable to take it up from outside .
4 Some of the former private enterprise managers ( notably E. H. E. Woodward on the Central Authority and Harry Randall at the London Board ) had seen from the beginning that proper decentralisation required that the Boards relate capital expenditure to revenue-earning potential in order to retain direct control of their financial viability ; and outside commentators were sometimes surprised that the Boards ' decisions on capital expenditure to meet statutory obligations were made quite separately from the revenue estimates which determined their profitability .
5 What they found was that the river bottom invertebrates which spend their larval stages among the gravel and pebbles on the riverbed plummeted in numbers immediately after the inundation .
6 Choreographers have to create dance movements which make their response to the music visible before the performers can communicate the music .
7 A long-held belief has been that decorated cremation pottery , at least , was a product of specialist workshops which traded their wares ( Myres 1969 ) .
8 After the A453 and its attendant petrol station it is again worth paddling to lock 11 which is set between a container terminal and a sportsground lined with poplar trees which shed their downy white seed onto the canal in profusion at this time of year .
9 Nevertheless , despite the growth of the disability movement and the struggles of disabled people to control the decision-making processes which shape their lives , little attention has been given to the say that young disabled people have in controlling their education .
10 This , then , is a central paradox which underpins the dilemmas facing professionals and parents at Ashdown : the argument for the participation of disabled students in the decision-making processes which shape their lives and education is largely pursued in the school by able-bodied professionals .
11 She smiled at the decent , hard-working housewives like Sairellen Thackray — too busy to smile back at her — who were scouring their doorsteps with pumice stone and polishing their door-knockers ; waging war to the death — their own , quite likely — against soot from the mill chimneys which attacked their washing lines ; against foul air and foul water which attacked the bodies of their children ; against bad housing , bad weather , a spell of bad trade when a reduction in a husband 's wages could cause their whole , grimly constructed edifice to crumble .
12 If we can treat any piece of conversational data as a process in which two or more participants speak within the topic framework , we should also find in their contributions elements which characterise their own personal ‘ speaker 's topics ’ .
13 The Fund 's overseas director Mike Aaronson said on Aug. 29 that there was " a shameful degree of infighting between UN agencies which pursue their own interests " .
14 Last May he said he wanted to see the TV soap opera banned because ‘ children learn nothing from these junk programmes which dull their senses making teachers ’ jobs even harder . ’
15 They have also built ‘ levadas ’ — irrigation channels which supply their crops with water from the wetter northern region — and these are what attract tourists year after year .
16 It should be remembered , however , that in a dynamic market where demand and supply conditions are continually changing , it is extremely difficult for firms to find the price and output levels which achieve their objectives .
17 In our search for the ideal occupational therapy we have examined motorised objects ( boring , according to the hens ) and water pumps which moisten their dry food ( more fun ) .
18 just over one-third of IMF countries have exchange rate policies which permit their currency to change in value against others according to market forces .
19 17 are binding on us and , if the cases in which security over property has been given are set to one side , there are no counter authorities which weaken their authority , save , perhaps , Chaplin & Co .
20 Representatives of 37 island countries which fear their survival is threatened by rising sea levels as a result of global warming are planning a joint strategy .
21 For example organisations which define their markets differently will behave differently towards them .
22 Beyond Kom Ombo the mighty west bank , miles wide in Middle Egypt , shrank to a line of palm trees which tossed their heads and leaned towards the south .
23 These discussions will include representatives from supply and end-user companies which gain their competitive edge from putting advanced information technology into their products .
24 Source of funds Member countries have to make capital subscriptions which reflect their IMF quotas .
25 Indeed , for all firms there must exist output levels and profit margins which maximise their profits .
26 But these just some of the thousands of pirate discs which find their way into homes all over Britain .
27 But these just some of the thousands of pirate discs which find their way into homes all over Britain .
28 It was primarily concerned with the control mechanisms in systems and with communication processes which determine their successful operation , and part of its mathematical basis is found in information theory ( Holt-Jensen , 1981 ) .
29 In that country they first appeared in the mid-thirteenth century , groups of men who , under the leadership of enterprising leaders , contracted ( hence the name condottiere which they were given ) with individual city states which lacked their own armies but had the funds necessary to pay them , to guard their territory and maintain a measure of order .
30 The flash RAM card can be used as a type of electronic hard disk , consisting of non-volatile RAM chips which retain their memory when you turn the power off .
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