Example sentences of "which [noun] [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The Law Society 's presentation of the duty solicitor scheme and its public reception is important as an illustration of the way in which solicitors wish to be seen , in order to legitimate the way in which they operate .
2 Today The Law Society announced the launch of a major new campaign to support businesses and promote the range of legal services which solicitors offer to them .
3 The strategy could not make , nor sustain if it could , the ceteris paribus conditions such as the idea of a perfect vacuum in which objects fall at a constant rate of acceleration whatever their size and shape .
4 Exceptions would be certain Loranthaceous and Viscaceous seeds , which birds remove from their bills by brushing them through bark crevices , or the passage of seeds through an animal to germinate in its dung .
5 It may even happen that you arc able to choose where your kitchen will be , in which case bear in mind the following criteria .
6 In practice , finding which operators apply to some node is often a substantial part of the searching process .
7 The other factors which employers take into account ( self-presentation , attitude to work , interest in the job , family background ) are seen as independent from education .
8 Several models for determining which cases deserve to be re-examined suggest themselves .
9 The training is of recording which sub-patterns occur or which patterns occur within the tuple .
10 Parkin secondly criticises the use which functionalists make of evidence which seems to indicate a consensus about the prestige ranking of occupations .
11 Thunder rolled over and round them from every direction so that Trent had the sense of being in the interior of an enormous drum on which giants beat from all sides .
12 Our decision to give the Commissioners of Inland Revenue responsibility for overseeing the work reflected our understanding of the demand in Scotland for consistency in the way in which taxes operate throughout Great Britain .
13 The survey looked at which cities cater for cyclists and covered everything from parking facilities to potholes .
14 As I learned more of missionary work all over the world , I began to realise that there had to be a tremendous effort to help undernourished people to grow their own food for themselves , a task which is still tragically unfinished , and will remain so until the nations of the world , rich and poor , combine together to sacrifice a meagre percentage of their gross national product , which experts calculate to be necessary to abolish hunger in a generation .
15 Indeed the Us/Them opposition itself , which Fipa perceive as one between Settlers and Strangers , is culturally ‘ played down ’ in favour of the continuing process , by which as a deliberate matter of social and State policy , outsiders are incorporated into the society .
16 This has profound implications for the way in which religions talk about God .
17 One of the things which religions have in common , as John Taylor , the then Bishop of Winchester , noted , is " the capacity for categorical assertion " : " It is the nature of religious experience to put into the believers ' hands a key which is absolute and irreducible .
18 ‘ This says something for the era in which projects have to be approved by television , ’ he told me .
19 This technique shows the entities most likely to be mentioned by the reader and , hence , indicates which entities predominate for various reasons .
20 The characteristics of the controlled authority are in some ways those of the classic bureaucracy , in which rules provide for all cases of need .
21 From Ricardo , Marx took the idea that the value at which products exchange in a market is proportional to the labour time required to produce them .
22 Such a system might have much more to offer in the way of conflict-resolution than the present system of customary principles as a loose framework within which states enter into negotiations .
23 This chapter reviews the research evidence which sheds light on the-economic circumstances of mothers in low-income households .
24 In a sweeping review of the various domains by which proteins bind to DNA , Aaron Klug ( MRC , Cambridge ) revealed the diversity of structures that have evolved to meet the requirements of physical stability and evolutionary flexibility imposed by the need to recognize only a tiny fraction of the binding sites available in an entire genome .
25 Our principle concern in this section of the chapter will be factors which affect the kind of syntactic form which speakers use on a particular occasion .
26 In a more explicitly theoretical paper , Lavandera ( 1982 ) presents the general argument that syntactic variation can be studied only at a superficial level if the analytic method does not take account of the use which speakers make of variation for stylistic and discourse purposes ; frequently they exploit subtle differences in meaning of the kind which ( for example ) Weiner and Labov deliberately simplify .
27 The accommodation model deals with the adjustments which speakers make with respect to each other in a particular encounter , but it can not explain the " base line " of behaviour which each individual brings to that encounter , i.e. the speaker 's own norm , which is itself somehow related to the community 's norm .
28 It seems that these patterns are maintained by insider knowledge depending on the extent to which speakers belong to relatively close-knit groups .
29 We do not know for certain what the total membership of any such set is , how many items belong to it , or the extent to which speakers vary in assigning items to the set .
30 He probably moved to London in 1290–1 , and in 1291–4 was in charge of making the Cheapside Eleanor cross , of which fragments survive in the Museum of London .
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