Example sentences of "which [vb base] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this process is combined with lateral shifting of the river the result will be terraces which are not paired ( Fig. 9.7 ) and which converge downstream towards the mouth of the river ( Fig. 9.8 ) . |
| 2 | This umbrella term covers a large number of different therapies , which concentrate strongly on the ‘ wholeness ’ of a person and their potential for good . |
| 3 | Undoubtedly the strangest of Sulawesi 's amazing fauna , the babirusa , a species of pig with four tusks , two of which curve backwards over the head . |
| 4 | Thus in the yellow part of the Sun 's rainbow band there are two dark lines which correspond exactly to the two bright yellow lines of sodium , and we can prove that there is sodium in the Sun . |
| 5 | The report recommended a number of wide-ranging changes to company reporting , many of which correspond closely with the recommendations put forward in the UK by Sir Ron Dearing . |
| 6 | We can distinguish broadly between the intention of knowing , and the intention of doing , which correspond roughly to the conventional distinction between pure and applied . |
| 7 | My companions hurried on , desperate to get their hands on the seven hundred thousand pounds in gold which lay somewhere under the tree 's shadows . |
| 8 | Kubitsky was bringing his rifle to bear on a target which lay somewhere in the direction of the grove of trees on the river bank to Rostov 's rear , but before he could open fire three more arrows took him in the chest and he fell over backwards without a sound . |
| 9 | Mosquito netting : both doors have mosquito nets which unzip independently of the door flaps . |
| 10 | There is no way you can dig around major roots and there , therefore , is another situation in which you are forced to rely on the rabbits being bolted , recognising that you can not thereafter kill those which remain behind in the system . |
| 11 | We assume that at some critical r-value , r* , there is a homoclinic orbit like that shown in Fig. 6.1a , and consider , for r-values close to r* , whether or not there are any trajectories which remain forever within the regions B U 5 U T. Providing that we choose B , 5 and T to be small enough , with r close enough to r* , and that we are only concerned with the topology of trajectories , it is permissible to regard the flow within B as linear , and to think of the map which takes points in the discs D and D " to points in the discs E and E " as a linear transformation . |
| 12 | However , looking more closely at Fig. 6.5b , we see that in the cases and there is no chance that there are any trajectories which remain forever within the region of interest except for the homoclinic orbit itself at r = r* ; for all other trajectories the modulus of the a-coordinate increases on each pass through the top of B and so all trajectories eventually wander out of the region of validity of our analysis ( and , in fact , spiral into C1 or C2 ) . |
| 13 | During all this growth dodder obtains its nourishment from the host through numerous absorptive organs called haustoria which develop all along the coiled regions of the vine on the inner surface in contact with the host . |
| 14 | The complicated nature of this debate is also shown by the fact that analysis of General Household Survey data for 1974 by Klein and Collins reached results which disagree somewhat with the findings reported so far . |
| 15 | As the oldest trunks fall over , they are replaced by new shoots which appear continually around the base of the tree . |
| 16 | Words which appear early in the lists were remembered more easily as the subjects had more opportunity to rehearse these after being read than the rest of the words in the list . |
| 17 | Words which appear late in the list are remembered easily when recall is immediate as they are resident in short-term memory which has not had a chance to decay . |
| 18 | There is a sad inevitability about the battles which wage continuously over the future of the wilder uplands of Scotland . |
| 19 | Early potatoes grow well on light sandy soils which warm quickly in the spring . |
| 20 | The beetles protect theirs by turning the front pair into stiff thick covers which fit neatly over the top of the abdomen . |
| 21 | Both " obscenity " and " indecency " are defined by reference to vague and elastic formulae , permitting forensic debates over morality which fit uneasily into the format of a criminal trial . |
| 22 | First offerings include Speed Spats and a Speed Slipper , respectively fairings which fit aft of the aircraft 's main- and nose-wheel wells , flap hinge fairings called Speed Splitters are being developed . |
| 23 | Thus it is only the specializing groups which fit easily into the familiar category of an open or plural society . |
| 24 | All are compact devices which fit easily in the pocket ; they are comparatively robust but , since they are radio-type equipment , they must be handled fairly carefully . |
| 25 | There are a few preliminaries to be seen to before the construction can begin ; these are the winding of inductors L1 , L2 , L3 and the mounting details of the switching transistor TR1 and the flyback diode D1 on small heatsinks which attach directly to the board . |
| 26 | The corridor was in the embrace of a deep silence which spread right across the dark garden court below and beyond the open verandah which ran along all four inward-looking walls of the house on the first floor , on to which the bedrooms opened . |
| 27 | According to Commons research , this may be the origin ‘ of the weekend , which spread eventually to the public life of most of the world . ’ |
| 28 | The killer was not starvation , but typhus which spread quickly in the overcrowded and insanitary conditions . |
| 29 | Unlike the greenhouse gases , which spread evenly across the globe , sulphur dioxide 's effects are short-lived and regional . |
| 30 | A study of the fine structure of a spherulite shows that it is built up of fibrous sub-units , growth takes place by the formation of fibrils which spread outwards from the nucleus in bundles , into the surrounding amorphous phase . |