Example sentences of "[noun pl] which [pers pn] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall the project aims to contribute to the understanding of structural solutions devised by firms to manage the uncertainties and risks which they face in purchasing and using new technologies . |
| 2 | Addressing the 12 heads of government at the start of the Strasbourg summit , Mr Enrique Baron , the Spanish Socialist who is Lord Henry Plumb 's successor as president of the parliament , urged the leaders to go all the way towards full European union provided it is ‘ based on the characteristics which we share in common — those of parliamentary democracy ’ . |
| 3 | Seen in historical and anthropological perspective , perhaps the most interesting aspect of the contemporary preoccupation with childrearing is that today we are self-consciously concerned with the possible psychological consequences of the methods which we use in bringing up our children . |
| 4 | Constitutions are infected with dynamism ; they will develop , willy-nilly , and if the necessity for development becomes obvious to courts , as to other law-creating agencies of the constitution , and the steps which they take in consequence come to enjoy widespread acquiescence , it is pointlessly academic in the worst sense to argue that such steps are , in some technical sense , wrong . |
| 5 | These worms have a similar food-gathering strategy to the more familiar filter-feeding tubeworms , but instead of the feathery heads of fanworms have long , sticky tentacles which they wave in the current or drag over the substrate in search of food particles which are then carried back to the mouth as the tentacles are drawn in . |
| 6 | … a particular account of the soil , productions , mountains and lakes which I observed in my journey thither … but I have lately heard that Reeves is taken by the French . |
| 7 | He put on his raincoat and hat , opened the case and found the steel-rimmed spectacles which he carried in there for safety . |
| 8 | The banks will typically seek to restore their liquidity by drawing down some of their funds which they keep in the form of call or short term deposits with the discount houses . |
| 9 | The boy ransacked his father 's stores for old guns , shields and spears which we hung in the entrance hall . |
| 10 | Although by 1086 the Barton estate had been split up into a number of manors , of which only one was still in the hands of the king himself , there can be little doubt that before the Conquest the Anglo-Saxon kings had had here an estate of some seven thousand acres which they kept in hand for their own supplies . |
| 11 | But the political solutions which he advocated in the 1930s were not so . |
| 12 | The duels between these two groups were fought with knives which they carried in small scabbards on their belts , and it was only some time later that the rival school 's knockout tactics were discovered . |
| 13 | Trade unions had been growing throughout the nineteenth century but they were still without those distinctive legal privileges which they acquired in 1906 . |
| 14 | On a fine spring morning the three grandsons got up early and went out to look at the bee-hives which they kept in the forest . |
| 15 | Fortunately she had a chaise longue which opened and was full of rugs which they used in the garden in the summer . |
| 16 | I remember the books which I read in that time with a great love . |
| 17 | Moreover , ‘ we know not , and can not know , anything of bodies but the sensations which they excite in us ’ . |
| 18 | It went against all biological sense to suggest that the receptors and the elaborate physiological adaptations which they set in motion had no purpose , or had evolved in response to taking opium . |
| 19 | Darwin delighted in the exquisite adaptations which he saw in living creatures , as Paley and other natural theologians had done before him : contemplating fossils ( or nature generally ) could bring pleasure or pain depending on one 's temperament and state . |
| 20 | He also considered an argument based on freedom of speech , but rejected it for reasons which I consider in the next section of this judgment . |
| 21 | Officers showed us two-and-a-half thousand Russian icons which they seized in two swoops on illegal exporters . |
| 22 | The kinds of activities which we had in mind were problem-solving and investigations , collaborative writing , reading and discussion about books and poems in pairs and groups , group picture or collage making , group construction tasks , group activities on the computer : the sorts of activities whose value is widely accepted and which might be included in the repertoire of any teacher , regardless of differences in overall teaching style . |
| 23 | Unlike the other activities which we describe in this section , there was no outsider initiative , input or audience in relation to the efforts of this school 's staff . |
| 24 | It is a striking fact that in mania the adult with his manifold potentialities of action and reaction reproduces the uninhibited instinctual manifestations which we observe in the euphoria of the satiated suckling . |
| 25 | It seemed to create that relationship , that tension between the audience and the performers which you got in a theatre , in a music-hall , but not usually in a cinema . |
| 26 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
| 27 | Eventually he built up a collection of bells which he played in time to the tunes he would play on his harmonium . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , this would be to empty the term of most of the meanings which it carries in actual discourse . |
| 29 | Erm , many of you will also have seen Jean-Claude at previous meetings which he attended in the capacity as to Michel . |
| 30 | Not only does it discredit the emphasis on ‘ partnership ’ between Central Government and the faith communities which has been highlighted by the recent establishment of the Inner Cities Religious Council ( and re-emphasised at the meetings which you attended in Bradford on May 21st and Kirklees on October 27th ) but it also means that church and other faith communities will be less likely to play their full part in the implementation of other aspects of Government policy such as the forthcoming Community Care changes which will require the use of local premises , volunteers etc . |