Example sentences of "which is the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interpretation is the heading which is the most wide-ranging of the three elements , including questions of form or style , but perhaps additionally considering the work 's historical background , and technical , thematic or other questions , including the artist 's biography . |
| 2 | Which is the greatest of these great men who differ so much from one another ? |
| 3 | the figure is much destroyed from the waist down ; but the noble torso , and especially the head , express that compassion and humility which is the great achievement of Buddhist art . ’ |
| 4 | He is the designer and subtle manipulator of modernism , which is the single most important and influential theory of modern art . ’ |
| 5 | Which is the one that has litost — a form of self-pity — and what does he mean by ‘ unbearable lightness of being ’ ? |
| 6 | I tried not to think about it , which is the only thing to do in such a situation . ’ |
| 7 | Which is the hot condition of their blood , — |
| 8 | The protestant version has variants as to how pure this church is or whether it remains sinful , but the evangelical version which is the basic one in the North of Ireland opts absolutely for ‘ Jesus Saves ’ ; the community , no longer medium of salvation , tends to take on a visible , earthly role , an occasion of grace and a support for religious ‘ this-worldly ’ activity . |
| 9 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 10 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 11 | The three most popular mixes in catering are 18/10 , which is the most expensive , 18/8 and 13/0 . |
| 12 | The most common way of cheapening the cost is to reduce the amount of nickel , which is the most expensive of the three metals in EPNS . |
| 13 | And they ask me for hardly any rent , which is the other nice thing about it . ’ |
| 14 | My 18-year-old son has transformed it , miraculously in such a short time , into a garden which is the envy of neighbours . |
| 15 | In this account , Lévi-Strauss uses the ‘ hero 's journey ’ to self-analysis in the field as a means of achieving or engendering knowledge ( see also Caplan 1988 ) ; emphasizing that it is the journey to self-awareness itself , and not the arrival , which is the most important aspect of the rite de passage . |
| 16 | It is useful to know which is the likely response to your committed attack and that is one way of finding out . |
| 17 | Curiously , she was of Irish descent , a Roman Catholic , and so they grew up influenced by her form of Christianity , which is the dominant religious influence in Montreal . |
| 18 | According to Jewish calculation , the year of Leonard 's birth was 5694 , in the month of Tishri ( the biblical name is Ethanim ) , which is the first month of the religious year with several of the most important religious festivals in it : New Year 's Day itself ; the 10 Days of Penitence prior to Yom Kippur ( the Day of Atonement ) ; and the pilgrimage festival known as Succoth , also known as the Feast of Booths ( or Tabernacles or Ingathering ) which is a harvest festival , an especially colourful and joyous one traditionally , in which the priestly activities in the Temple climaxed . |
| 19 | In Judaism they were venerated — which is the position they obtain in Leonard 's writing . |
| 20 | It is this question which is the ultimate one ; the others are a screen to hide modern man from his real self , as T.S . |
| 21 | It is possible to break down fat to use as energy when you are training , but it is essentially glycogen which is the energy source . |
| 22 | An informant is not required to register a death which is the subject of a coroner 's inquest , but the coroner 's officer may inform the relatives when the coroner has issued his inquest certificate to the registrar so that the relatives can obtain any death certificates from the registrar . |
| 23 | But it is not always easy to decide which is the more appropriate , nor how the two ways mentioned can lead to other versions . |
| 24 | In that little exchange which is the entire Drunks fragment the ‘ loose end ’ idea undercuts the moral and every other aspect of the matter , and once again there 's a link with journalism , this time Dostoevsky 's own . |
| 25 | Raskolnikov is young , preoccupied and merely puzzled — ‘ young , abstract and therefore cruel ’ , the severe voice of the novel descries him elsewhere — but the reader attends in tragic wonder , for he understands that Marmeladov has indeed nowhere to go , a nowhere which is the finality of his loose end , at once in character , at once personal to the selfish selfless rationale of one man 's marriage and his other circumstances , personal to his ‘ destitution ’ or ‘ extremity ’ or ‘ misère ’ ( nishcheta , which he is careful to distinguish from his poverty ) , and at the same time an objective and transpersonal theme running through all Dostoevsky 's work . |
| 26 | What he really wants is a business of the inside and outside of his head , in this case of his ‘ alone ’ juxtaposed with the authorial ‘ loneliness and estrangement ’ : a rich relationship , not a flat contradiction or dead end , a relationship which evokes and nurses a distinction established as far back as The Double , between false solitude ( ‘ loneliness and estrangement ’ ) and true solitude which is the obverse of true society and meaningless without it . |
| 27 | To ask them , and equally ( or even more ) to wave them away absentmindedly like circling insects , is to greet the novel , to respond to its personality which is the same thing as the tonal area colonized by the novelist for his present purpose . |
| 28 | The book is a stampede , faithful to its title and its Epigraph which is the story of the Gadarene swine possessed by devils and rushing into the lake of Galilee and drowning themselves . |
| 29 | This boredom rotates upon a frivolous-menacing , frenetic-slack , comic-terrible axis which is the book 's living principle . |
| 30 | In this way the desired object has been achieved in the form of a signal variation which is the function of the external magnetic field strength . |