Example sentences of "which [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | a part payment of money , which is made so that the seller will not sell the goods to anyone else : You must pay a deposit to the hotel if you want them to keep a room free for you compare earnest(1) 3 an act or action of depositing : The rate of the river 's deposit of mud is about one inch a year deposit account n. a bank account which earns interest and usu. from which money can be taken out only if advance notice is given . |
| 32 | As Simmel and every subsequent commentator on this work has stressed , The Philosophy of Money is not intended primarily as a treatise on money as an economic form , but as an examination of the increasingly abstract nature of human relations , for which money provides a symbol and an instrument . |
| 33 | The rise of science , and of technological rationality with which it is closely associated , provides the basis for this reduction of human relations from qualitative to quantitative forms , of which money is the dominant model . |
| 34 | That is , it provides data on what government consumes rather than data about what government does or about the purposes for which money is spent . |
| 35 | It stresses inputs rather than outputs by providing data on what government consumes instead of data about what government does or the purposes for which money is spent . |
| 36 | It is not however necessary to decide the point in the present case , and in any event cases of this kind are generally the subject of statutory régimes which legislate for the circumstances in which money so paid either must or may be repaid . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Thus the Treasury had to give permission for all borrowing undertaken by a local authority , not merely in total but for each project for which money was borrowed . |
| 39 | Immigration , like emigration , is a process in which money is no less important than principles or laws , and often sounder than either of them . |
| 40 | They are all shapes and colours , innocent beneficiaries of the global joke which money keeps cracking . |
| 41 | What is being alleged here is that NBFIs create assets which are in some close measure substitutes for money and which have their own advantages , interest perhaps or long-term capital gain , which money does not have . |
| 42 | One of the men was passing round a big china bowl into which money was being thrown , and as Sabine watched Marie-Christine began , with raucous and vociferous encouragement from the men , to lift her skirt demurely and reveal more and more of one shapely leg . |
| 43 | Does the Minister not recognise the dangers of fragmenting the health service and destroying the planning framework ; the cost of ever-increasing bureaucracy ; the reduction in choice for the doctor ; the fear that this is a road that leads to a two-tier system in which money comes first and the Health Service is relegated to a safety-net , fallback provision ? |
| 44 | The majority of such theories are concerned only with those economies in which money does not play an essential role . |
| 45 | This project aims to discover whether similar results can be established for an economy in which money has a more significant function . |
| 46 | Dr Linebaugh has suggested that much so-called criminal activity on the part of working people was identified in the process of transformation of the wage from a form in which money constituted a substantial part of the wage to one based wholly on it . |
| 47 | These reforms affected the manner in which money was involved in campaign funding with wide-ranging implications on the US electoral system . |
| 48 | No precise functional relationship was posited between the level of aggregate demand and the pressure on money-wages : it was simply feared that a stated and credible commitment to the objective of full employment might foster an atmosphere in the wage bargaining process in which money wages could run out of control . |
| 49 | Debate was confined to the purely theoretical properties of the income expenditure model in which money wages and prices were allowed to go into free fall in the presence of general unemployment . |
| 50 | In order to understand their significance and the ways in which money supply can be controlled , it is first necessary to look at the various types of account in which money can be held and at the various financial institutions involved . |
| 51 | In order to understand their significance and the ways in which money supply can be controlled , it is first necessary to look at the various types of account in which money can be held and at the various financial institutions involved . |
| 52 | In practice it is difficult to predict the precise amount by which money supply will expand if there is an increase in banks ' liquidity . |
| 53 | This financial crowding out , as it is called , could be offset to some extent by an increase in the speed at which money circulates — the velocity of circulation . |
| 54 | An increase in money supply will not necessarily have much effect on spending ; instead people may simply increase their holdings of idle speculative balances , with a corresponding decline in the speed with which money circulates ( V ) . |
| 55 | I 've been particularly impressed today to learn how people come here every year , particularly for this meeting and of all the various ways in which money can be raised . |
| 56 | And this time the thieves grabbed items which money ca n't replace . |
| 57 | The efficiency with which money performs its functions is greatly dependent upon the stability of its purchasing power . |
| 58 | Among their feudal ancestors however the long time during which estates used to continue in the same family sufficiently demonstrated the general disposition of people to live within their income . |
| 59 | Age discrimination in retirement and social security are the main foundation on which discrimination against older people is based . |
| 60 | Aidan Chambers ( 1983 , p. 103 ) notes that ‘ Wide , voracious , indiscriminate reading is the base soil from which discrimination and taste eventually grow ’ . |