Example sentences of "which [vb base] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In that case the necessities which account for what is constant in foreign policy are those of the conceptual logic of the explanatory theory . |
| 2 | Heelas has also given a survey of the different attempts at defining aggression , and the main theories which account for it ( Heelas 1982 , 1983 ) . |
| 3 | Indeed , his examples repay study since they seem to run counter to traditional interpretations which concentrate upon his theoretical comments . |
| 4 | Consequently contradictory demands are placed on schools and colleges ; for example , girls are allowed to study physical science in school , but are also channelled into subjects such as home economics which instil in them their future role as wives and mothers . |
| 5 | Darwin had himself studied some of these plants , verifying that they do actually consume the flies which land in their pitchers or on their leaves and get caught there , and finding that it was apparently to nitrogenous compounds that the plants responded . |
| 6 | In other words , provided that the liquidity trap is not reached and that investment remains sufficiently responsive to interest rate reductions , falling prices could conceivably establish levels of expenditure and real income which correspond to their full employment values , E * ; and Y * ; respectively . |
| 7 | ‘ Every system of production tends to discover punishments which correspond to its productive relationships ’ ( 1939 : 5 ) . |
| 8 | As Bukharin pointed out : ‘ The limits to the applicability of these categories will become instantly clear if we define the basic conditions of existence for the real relationships which correspond to them ( i.e. , to these categories ) . ’ |
| 9 | Deaf to my shouts , he remains hypnotized by the contents of his viewfinder , which unfold before him as if on a giant cinema-screen on Oscar night , where he is an enraptured member of the audience , completely disembodied from this temporal peril . |
| 10 | A number of economists and politicians have recently proposed that British workers be paid wage rates which change with their employers ' profitability . |
| 11 | Primary heat modified soils are alkali soluble soils which change from their characteristic greasy texture on heating when they harden and darken . |
| 12 | None of which is helped by the unruly belches of guitar and stacks of sonic crockery which crash around her with alarming frequency … |
| 13 | This is one of the many books which address the snobbery of the English , which flash at their readers the lawns of country houses , the baize of gambling-tables , which tell tales of those virtuosos of ostentation and disregard who have in common a contempt for commonness , for the middle class ; and it could be said of such books that their chief resource is the eccentricity which has long amounted to a convention of upper-class life . |
| 14 | In so far as society is divided into different interests , of which labour and capital are the prototypical examples , it may well be that some interests have more control than others over the development of representations which accord to their perspective and thus their interests . |
| 15 | Neither do they have the sort of plans and features which accord with our earlier ideas of what a Saxon village should look like . |
| 16 | He will be enmeshed for his own good in the electric wires which bring with them life-giving energy to make the farm fertile . |
| 17 | You know as the result of a fire the , the amount of money and goods that er are destroyed in the fire erm chemicals erm have come on the scene which bring with it their own particular dangers and risks from fire and from erm from the toxic effects of chemicals and the endanger to the environment . |
| 18 | The people who created the Garotter 's Act , together with the gentlemen who egged them on from the sidelines helping to fashion the vocabulary of objections to penal reform which remain with us to this day , were thus the same men whose blunted moral sensibilities enabled them to preside over this magnanimous process of ‘ civilisation ’ without turning a hair . |
| 19 | Only group 5 did not propose the following pattern : ( i ) The relative rigidity of this pattern can be explained by reference to the cohesive chains which develop through it . |
| 20 | Avoiding mixtures is a good idea at first as it enables you to identify any foods which disagree with your baby to try again later . |
| 21 | Fascinated by the white pines that grow like weeds round Concord , on one memorable occasion he goes after their cones , which grow on their topmost branches : |
| 22 | As they finish , the double red hawthorn Crateagus rosea flore pleno , so old its gnarled trunk has multiplied into a mini forest , will be out , with the lilies of the valley which grow beneath it . |
| 23 | The most brightly coloured parts of the sea slug , which therefore attract most attention , are the papillae — hair-like structures which grow from their backs and which have arranged on their surfaces groups of stinging cells known as nettle-cells or nematocysts , which explode at the slightest touch , discharging a barbed , whip-like structure . |
| 24 | The Director of the Serious Fraud Office has decided to investigate suspected offences which appear to her to involve serious or complex fraud . |
| 25 | ( 5 ) The Director may — ( a ) institute and have the conduct of any criminal proceedings which appear to him to relate to such fraud ; and ( b ) take over the conduct of any such proceedings at any stage . … |
| 26 | ( 3 ) The Director may by notice in writing require the person under investigation or any other person to produce at such place as may be specified in the notice and either forthwith or at such time as may be so specified any specified documents which appear to the Director to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation or any documents of a specified description which appear to him so to relate ; and — ( a ) if any such documents are produced , the Director may — ( i ) take copies or extracts from them ; ( ii ) require the person producing them to provide an explanation of any of them ; ( b ) if any such documents are not produced , the Director may require the person who was required to produce them to state , to the best of his knowledge and belief , where they are . |
| 27 | In Albert v. Lavin the question posed for the House of Lords was ‘ whether a constable who reasonably believes that a breach of the peace is about to take place is entitled to detain any person without arrest to prevent that breach of the peace in circumstances which appear to him to be proper . ’ |
| 28 | ’ unless such allegations go to a matter in issue ( including the credibility of the witness ) which is material to his lay client 's case and which appear to him to be supported by reasonable grounds . ’ |
| 29 | The legislation requires the secretary of state to prepare a schedule of monuments which appear to him to be ‘ of national importance ’ . |
| 30 | VISCOUNT CAVE L.C. : No doubt there is an absolute unconditional obligation binding the police authorities to take all steps which appear to them to be necessary for keeping the peace , for preventing crime , or for protecting property from criminal injury ; and the public , who pay for this protection through the rates and taxes , can not lawfully be called upon to make a further payment for that which is their right … |