Example sentences of "which we [vb base] the " in BNC.

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1 The Committee considers that " true education " is most readily and completely available through the works of English literature , while also emphasizing its difference from mere " book learning " : " Books are not things in themselves , they are merely the instruments through which we hear the voices of those who have known life better than ourselves " .
2 An excellent example , for which we know the explicit intention of the inventors , is the London School of Economics coat of arms which has a beaver as key figure .
3 ( b ) Suppose we have a matrix B of which we know the reciprocal
4 Asking questions to which we know the answer is a useful exercise because it formalises in answer form what we may have only held vaguely before : " Why are we doing this ? "
5 Yeah in other words yeah , we we you 're gon na complain and to not send them a cheque you give them two free seats which we know the cost of that is is minimal .
6 The images that we make are not themselves beautiful , they are only the cages in which we trap the living birds and butterflies of beauty .
7 Their father owns the buildings and fields in which we keep the horses .
8 That is the means by which we control the operations of our secret services .
9 Can it be justified to send to prison people too poor to pay fines — and there are more such persons during times of economic crisis — not only when the original crime of which they were convicted did not warrant a prison sentence , but when their crime is trivial in the extreme in comparison with corporate crimes which we lack the political will to tackle directly by socialist remedies ?
10 A few months later came the California Motion Picture Corporation 's Salvation Nell , in which we follow the adventures of a young girl from the New York tenements , where her drunken father kills her mother and where all her associates are drunks or wasters , through to happiness in the arms of a Salvation Army major .
11 The in-can system , for which we hold the patent , won The Queen 's Award for Technological Achievement in 1991 — the first time that this award has been given to a brewer .
12 Certain infallible rules have been established , and we carry on an unvarying routine in which we apply the same theory to the same cases . ’
13 There is just one problem , which is that the way in which we conceptualize the processes we are studying influences the way we study the brain .
14 This is the direction in which we feel time passes , the direction in which we remember the past but not the future .
15 They are the thermodynamic arrow , the direction of time in which disorder increases ; the psychological arrow , the direction of time in which we remember the past and not the future ; and the cosmological arrow , the direction of time in which the universe expands rather than contracts .
16 The order in which we put the various parts of England under the local government commission 's microscope will be for the Government to decide .
17 Moral rules form the yardstick against which we evaluate the rules of any particular activity .
18 A further problem about this role is the criteria by which we evaluate the information and material .
19 This definition suggests that public law in a broad sense ( not confining ourselves to the law of judicial review ) concerns the activities of governmental bodies , by which we mean the legislature , the departments of central government and the very large number of bodies and agencies which can be described as offshoots of these departments ( these are often called ‘ fringe bodies ’ ) , courts and tribunals , local government , and , perhaps , the police .
20 Suffice it to say that we think that at least one important human right can be described as a right — belonging equally to each human individual — to maximum ‘ positive freedom ’ , by which we mean the ability of people to make effective choices about their lives .
21 The low register of the flute , by which we mean the notes between and including is very rich and beautiful and has been much exploited by composers , especially those of the French school .
22 The form of report with which we are dealing we have termed the ‘ corporate report ’ , by which we mean the comprehensive package of information of all kinds which most completely describes an organization 's economic activity …
23 This must be the decade in which we raise the standard of all our public services , up to and beyond the best we see today .
24 Their use of the word ‘ consciousness ’ refers to the system of meaning through which we apprehend the world , as well as the ideas , opinions and beliefs which we are aware of holding .
25 So we 've got iron ore obviously from which we get the iron .
26 The ‘ ideal ’ , therefore , forms the benchmark by which we judge the efficacy , honesty , and impartiality of the press in contemporary Britain .
27 But let me show you exactly what we I 'll I 'll bring in to being the list of businesses which we invite the golf club to forward to us .
28 In such reciprocating systems , the magnitude of causal effect of X on Y or Y on X depends strictly on the exact time at which we conduct the survey .
29 ‘ Eternity is not endless time , nor infinity endless space ; they are the entirely different mental categories through which we perceive the unfallen world . ’
30 Okay having said that , that all of those things are important when we answer the telephone , and the way in which we answer the telephone , what are the things that you find annoying on the telephone , what annoys you ?
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