Example sentences of "which [noun sg] is [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Central government attempts to control local authorities by : a ) carefully regulating the amount of money which they can spend locally , and b ) scrutinizing the way in which money is actually spent . |
| 2 | Clegg ( 1976 ) maintains that power within unions is concentrated at the level at which bargaining is typically conducted ( although this is not the only influence ) , so that ‘ industry bargaining concentrates power at the centre [ and promotes integrated , bureaucratic union government ] , whereas bargaining at lower levels disperses it to the regions or branches ’ ( p. 54 ) . |
| 3 | Although cerebral organisation in adolescence may be characterised by greater functional plasticity than is the case among adults , the picture after left hemispherectomy is essentially one of gross linguistic impoverishment in which comprehension is better preserved than expressive speech . |
| 4 | The task is now to create a new ‘ culture of education ’ in which curriculum is better supported and understood by the community . |
| 5 | A recent study of long-term fraud in the United Kingdom ( Levi 1981 ) also documents how companies are set up with the deliberate intention of using them to obtain goods on credit for which payment is never intended to be made . |
| 6 | Food could be turned into energy via respiration , in which glucose is either derived from food or from photosynthesis . |
| 7 | The principal way in which characterization is thus exploited in Dame Sirith lies in the use of formulaic language , in particular in the use of terms appropriate to the romance of fin amour . |
| 8 | Which pickup is best suited to this guitar ( one that fits under the bridge saddle ) and what standard of sound can I expect ? |
| 9 | If anything Britten outdoes his models by the pointedness of his treatment , in which irony is constantly heightened into a more specific symbolism . |
| 10 | In the absence of information about land tenure , which archaeology is poorly equipped to examine , the location and inter-relationship of the farms can be assessed in terms of soil , geology , height , aspect and proximity to water . |
| 11 | We see here the way in which battle is often joined between theist and atheist . |
| 12 | This is a situation in which multi-directional migration supersedes conquest as the mode in which metaphor is best understood . |
| 13 | A review should be held to examine the extent to which mobility is actually required in the jobs held by staff . |
| 14 | A more frequent cause for the return of documents unserved is the expiry of the time-limit , to which attention is specifically drawn by an entry in the Summary of the Document to be Served . |
| 15 | Team — Shows which team is currently displayed . |
| 16 | Definitions of pollution are bound up with the process by which pollution is formally brought to light and identified . |
| 17 | But class is not the only basis on which education is differentially packaged . |
| 18 | This atmosphere of making changes only slowly and of preferring a tried and tested ‘ free ’ source of power to more efficient engine-driven plant can be savoured at Lockyer 's Mill , Clapton , near Crewkerne , Somerset , a mill of 1864 in which grain is still milled commercially by water power provided by the River Axe ( Plate 42 ) . |
| 19 | Very simply , these terms cover a process by which evolution is internally directed . |
| 20 | These are the two basic ‘ classes ’ ; in addition there is the ‘ upper class ’ , which designation is generally restricted to the hereditary aristocracy and rich rentiers . |
| 21 | In a society in which achievement is highly valued , and where people compete for jobs in an apparently open market , people may feel a sense of failure if they admit they have ended up in a job with which they are dissatisfied . |
| 22 | It will be a world in which individuality is better respected and social consciousness is more mature . |
| 23 | This is the first of er two lectures on the American presidency and erm I want to begin just by putting the presidency in , in context erm thus far I hope it 's clear that the American pol political system is one in which authority is firstly limited by the constitution in which authority dispersed by the by virtue of the separation of powers . |
| 24 | It is up to the practitioner to decide which stance is best suited to a particular purpose . |
| 25 | The public relations worker studies these differences , called " profiles " , so that she knows which paper is best suited for her information to get the best response . |
| 26 | between those areas in which most industry is controlled by organizations based outside that area ( such as Scotland , Wales , the North and those areas in which control is mainly found within that area ( the South East ) . |
| 27 | He must not only master their content but be prepared to haggle away those items he finds unacceptable in acrimonious negotiations which may last many hours and in which ignorance is ruthlessly exposed . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , as railways past prepared to renew their acquaintance with York 's tourist hordes , railways present and future are planning to divert a few onto the TransPennine service into which Teesside is now linked . |
| 29 | This and the long duration of the eclipse at low frequency require that this material extends well beyond the pulsar and of course the companion 's Roche lobe , the region within which matter is gravitationally bound to the star . |
| 30 | ‘ Matter is poured into our universe from some other and entirely extraneous spatial dimension so that to a denizen of our universe they appear as points at which matter is continually created . |