Example sentences of "[noun] which [vb mod] [verb] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is likely that this will change as LaserGo , the authors of GoScript , are due to introduce a special card which will contain its own processor and memory capable of running the program . |
| 2 | The republicans , in other words , were keen to push the civil rights agitation further and to use it to build a radical coalition which would set its sights , eventually , on a united Ireland . |
| 3 | But sources close to the Vienna talks said that the most difficult issue remained opposition by Kuwait to an OPEC quota which would limit its build up in production in the aftermath of the Gulf war . |
| 4 | Thus while it is young , the vine 's efforts are directed towards extending its root system , after which it concentrates on forming the structure of branches which will bear its flowers and fruit . |
| 5 | For 1993 , LVMH 's objective is to continue to improve its operational efficiency in conditions which are likely to continue to be difficult , and to pursue investment opportunities which will underpin its long-term development strategy . |
| 6 | If I owe a client a duty to increase the value of his investment portfolio then if I fail to take action which could enhance its value I am positively harming my client 's interests . |
| 7 | Targeting the financial and telecommunications markets , Ontos is currently prototyping new technologies which will allow its object environment to hook up Sybase or Ingres as back-end database servers . |
| 8 | MIPS expects a number of its OEMs to pick up the new ARCsystems including CDC , Tandem and government integrator AT&T Federal Systems Advanced Technologies which will put its System V/Multi-Level Secure Unix on the boxes . |
| 9 | Reports suggest that things are happening on Palm Island which may change its future . |
| 10 | Because we want the debate to be a real one , we published with the Bill the draft immigration rules which will follow its successful passage , so those rules can be discussed at the same time as the Bill and , if and where necessary , improved . |
| 11 | For myself and Eileen as we move on to a ministry which will have its own surprises in the days ahead , we hope that we can lead our beloved Church on . |
| 12 | For that statement to be anything but trivial , there would have to be situations in which an individual was faced with a choice between an act which would promote its own reproductive success and that wou wou would injure its reproductive success , but promote that of the group , shall we say by foregoing eating something , by not fighting with another member of the group , by not mating with a female , whatever it may be . |
| 13 | Thus it is currently carrying out an environmental audit which will guide its policies in future on such matters as the use of energy , water purification , and fertilisers . |
| 14 | Earlier , prices for North Sea oil closed 19 cents higher at $18.15 a barrel in expectation that the delegates would overcome opposition by Kuwait to accepting OPEC quotas which would curb its build-up of production after the Gulf war . |
| 15 | Sun Microsystems Inc is reported to be readying new 3D graphic accelerators which will replace its impotent low-end GS and GT boards , further ammunition in its campaign against graphics leader Silicon Graphics Inc . |
| 16 | This is because it is only the school and its daily managers who can assess what it can afford — and what it has to afford — to do in terms of staff time and money and because it is the school which has , in the end , to initiate any assessment of the type of community assistance which will provide its partners with the benefits they seek . |
| 17 | We , too , should be grateful to Elizabeth ; not only did she have the foresight to bequeath a will for posterity to read , she also had the good taste — so rare in the family , alas — to be buried beneath a headstone which would retain its legibility over the years . |
| 18 | A bolt thrower is a powerful weapon which can hurl its bolt through several ranks of troops , piercing each warrior in turn . |
| 19 | The British scientists behind the mission — one possible name for it is Exspect — believe it will-become an international project , a move which will decrease its cost and lead to an earlier launch . |
| 20 | The State can never be indifferent to the creation of a power or powers which may rival its own . |
| 21 | The UK remains exceptionally centralized in its fiscal affairs , with the Treasury and its ministers opposed to all changes which would release its grip ( Heald , 1983 , p. 203 ) . |
| 22 | A statement on Cuba expressed " profound concern " over the country 's current situation and future and , reflecting a compromise , offered Latin America 's help in achieving " justice , freedom , democracy , respect for human rights and free and open economic development " if President Fidel Castro introduced political , economic and social changes which would allow its reacceptance into the OAS . |
| 23 | Indeed , the situation might actually be worse than the classical neurosis because at least in that case the chief symptoms of the disorder , for instance , neurotic anxiety , present themselves as definite psychopathic factors , whereas in an externalized , acted-out neurosis the symptoms may be reality factors that arise because of maladaptive behaviour which may mask its irrational , compulsive nature . |
| 24 | Emotions drive the horse into behaviour which will increase its chances of survival . |
| 25 | Sometimes samples are taken of the natural life found in stream beds to construct a biotic index of the watercourse which will indicate its cleanliness by the kind of life the water will support . |
| 26 | Apart from Browne 's announcement that BP was increasing its North Sea investment by almost 10 per cent over the next three years , Shell outlined a scheme to spend £100 million refurbishing the Dunlin platform which will extend its economic life well into the next century . |
| 27 | The Supreme Soviet also resolved on Oct. 25 to send a delegation of observers to the USSR Supreme Soviet 's Soviet of the Republics [ see below ] , noting that it was inexpedient for Ukraine to take part in inter-republican structures which could entail its forming part of another state . |
| 28 | Of course there would be some non-contentious business , perhaps quite a lot ; but even then , there must also be the reservation that nothing should be disclosed by the one group to the other which might prejudice its case when the business was contentious . |
| 29 | I 'm totally against the development which would spoil its natural beauty ’ . |
| 30 | The Silence of the Lambs has epigraphs from Donne 's Devotions and the First Book of Corinthians and other allusions which will ensure its place on reading lists , at least in America . |