Example sentences of "which [vb -s] most of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sulphur effect , therefore , could be one reason why the northern hemisphere , which produces most of the world 's sulphur pollution , has not warmed despite the release of greenhouse gases . |
| 2 | The increases of £2.15 or £3.45 that have been announced for next April are not enough in terms of the basic state pension , which supplies most of the income for the majority of our pensioners . |
| 3 | The Labour candidate in Southend East , which contains most of the town itself , is Graham Bramley , a teacher originally from Accrington . |
| 4 | In fact M42 is only the brightest part of a vast nebular cloud which covers most of Orion , but I have never been able to see the rest of it with binoculars . |
| 5 | The S&P500 index , which covers most of the largest 500 firms quoted on the NYSE , accounts for roughly 80% of the market value of all shares quoted on the NYSE . |
| 6 | C. For a country such as Britain , which has most of its people living in towns and working in industry and trade , it is necessary to have good communications ( roads , railways , air transport , ports , post and telephones ) . |
| 7 | This can lead to a vicious circle , in which important communication is filtered out by power-seekers so that the structure ( which causes most of the problems ) is reinforced in order to flush out the filtered information , thereby making the filtering worse . |
| 8 | Energy consumption in the member states of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD — which groups most of the industrialized countries ) is set to rise by 30 per cent over the period 1990-2010 , according to a report by the International Energy Agency . |
| 9 | The updated version of the old Poor Law , which sustains most of today 's welfare professionals , depends for its continuity on such counsels of despair . |
| 10 | The value of corporate silence is considerable , both for its own sake and as a foil to the busyness which marks most of our worship . |
| 11 | FIPRESCI is a world-wide critics ' organisation which includes most of the leading and distinguished writers on film among its members . |
| 12 | This means that any work of copyright protected under the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 is also protected in all the countries which are members of these conventions which includes most of the major developed countries . |
| 13 | On Sunday , the racing starts with the Support class followed by the first Open race , then the second 125–200cc , the 600cc , the Junior ( 250–350–400cc ) followed by the second Classic race , and the Enkalon Grand Final which sees most of the riders on the line and McCallen out to repeat his win of last year . |
| 14 | Even ignoring its importance as a local employer , to say that a sector which earns 15 per cent of GDP , which finances most of the small business start-ups in Scotland , which provides capital for companies great and small , which finances pensions and insurance for thousands of Scots , as well as backing for a quarter of the UK 's institutional funds , does nothing to help the economy , is to carry ideology to the point of folly . |
| 15 | Also important is the new Office of Standards in Education ( OFSTED ) , which subsumes most of the activities of the former Her Majesty 's Inspectorate . |
| 16 | The hypothesis is based on the observation that fish oil contains large quantities of eicosapentanoic acid ( EPA ) that is structurally similar to arachidonic acid , but metabolised by 5-lipoxygenase to leukotriene B 5 , which lacks most of the proinflammatory properties of leukotriene B 4 . |
| 17 | Wessex and Yorkshire are thought possible targets for Compagnie Generale des Eaux and Southern could eventually fall prey to Saur , which owns most of the private water companies in its area . |
| 18 | Duales System Deutschland ( DSD ) , which collects most of Germany 's recyclable household waste , has been asked by the government to extend its operation to industrial waste . |
| 19 | BAT Industries , which exports most of its cigarettes , was up 17p to 973p . |
| 20 | Its design is based on that of the station at Gravelines in Northern France which exports most of its production to Southern England via the Channel interconnector . |
| 21 | Because of the high frequency of operation , there can be considerable r.f. radiation from this part of the circuit and for that reason those components involved , shown in the broken lines on the circuit diagram , are screened under a diecast aluminium box which eliminates most of the RF1 ( radio frequency interference ) . |
| 22 | Flake food floats on the water 's surface , which suits most of our fish . |
| 23 | Most teams will probably be quite satisfied completing the route Concrete Chimney , which spends most of its length studiously avoiding the feature after which it was named . |
| 24 | A patio which spends most of the day in the shadow has called for ingenuity and imagination , as Gill Page discovered in michael Blood 's bijou garden … |
| 25 | But the richly spotted leaves of the pulmonaria have expanded gracefully to make a dense ground cover which hides most of the remains of the daffodils . |
| 26 | Notwithstanding the spread size , the critical factor for any borrower is fluctuations in LIBOR which determines most of a loan 's interest cost . |
| 27 | And if this seems an exaggeration then we might refer to the aims of a document entitled ‘ Information skills in the secondary curriculum ’ which was the result of the recommendations of a working group sponsored by the British Library and the Schools Council , and which embodies most of the current thinking on user education in schools . |
| 28 | The programs run within the Parallel Operating Environment , which retains most of the features of the standard AIX/6000 Motif-based interface . |
| 29 | In Powys , the HLCA payment would be either £28/LU or £42/LU for sheep ( £44.50/LU for cows ) in the ‘ severely disadvantaged ’ zone which occupies most of the county . |
| 30 | In societies close to subsistence levels , there may be relatively little outside the ‘ world of work ’ , which occupies most of their individuals ' time and energy . |